July 22, 1965 (20 pages)

Theater Gala..Local CATHERING Moss Talent..The Summit Birds Are A Cautious Bunch Two hours after tickets for the arts commission enterprise is to Nevada Theater Centennial Gala popularize its goal of acquiring July 31 performance went on sale the historic Nevada Theater for Monday--at-the box office, most year-around public use, including of the downstairs seats had been a permanent summer theater sold, Babe Childers can't figure operated by ‘the University of out why. The best seats in the California at Davis. house are upstairs, he says, and to have a good time. once upon atime he had the lipstick smudges to prove it. se¢8 8 ees County &@ That, and 8 school superintendent Ed Fellerson's annual reports of 8 In this age of widely used chemical poisons, expanding areas of concrete and attendant decrease of natural food, our feathered friends need all the supplementary rations we can offerthem. However, attracting boat w birds to home and garden is a bit more complicated than heavy shrubbery or at the base of the ads in Audubon magazine large trees will often lure birds would lead us to believe. too timid to approach a feeder. Purchasing, erecting and stockMuch more important, we have. ing bird feeders and drinking found, is the creation of an erfacilities are steps in the right vironment attractive to bird life. direction. Scattering baby-chick When we moved onto our unscratch-feed on old stumps, under tamed wilderness of second-growth forest and brushland seventeen Lillian Mal years ago, we found few birds in residence. Year by year, as we have replaced brush with orchard, Mrs, Dorothy Sanders, who exhumed a valuable wardrobe of average daily. attendance in the elementary schools give a good costumes and Liberal Arts Commission produc tion, hasin the collection a dress which belonged once to Olyvia clue to population trends, Total average attendance was up five toseven percent last. year. Grass Valley and Nevada City gained DeHavilland, a former pupil of “less than one percent. Penn have set larger crops each year, hers, and another dress belonging Valley gained about 25 percent. to Bette Davis. The guessing goes on about who will be wearing which dress. Washington and North San-Juan were down. Pleasant Ridge will eee#ses students fromthe Alta Sierra area. creasing bird population. The first sprinklers playing on new ly planted clover were spotted by vagrant robins who zoomed down to attack surfacing worms and have been with us ever since. : old finery for the The cast of real-life local characters appearing in the centennial production numbers, appropriately, one hundred. In fact, so many talented and civic minded people will be working on stage and behind the scenes that, it looked for a time as if there would be nobody the audience. left for Nevertheless, sell-outs seem to be in the offing, along with one of the happiest occasions in Nevada City history. e®e¢ 8 @ The purpose of the giant liberal CAROUSEL WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK 8 Hors d'oevres and cocktails Western tanagers raised their under the moonlight, followed by young in the weeping willow tree overhanging the berry patch and soon acquir’ed purple-stained breasts as colorful as their red heads. Finches set up housekeeping in the lilacs lining the drive, handy to ripening mullein heads and orchard grass, Hummers took over the trumpet alightsupper. It sounds like the French Riviera, but Saturday night it all took place on Grouse Ridge in Nevada County. Butthe moonlight part was an accident. Dr.” Robert Hume andhis wife Harriet had brought their jeep station wagon for day excursions to the higher elevations. Saturday, with flowers, torch lilies, bergamots Don and Sharon Fairclough in the e*e¢ 8 and pentstemons, Walt Barrett, chief scribe of the @ur ubiquitous sparrows, juncoes, select green lush mountain meadows for their abode. In their robins, flickers and towhees. lovely dress of blue to purplish pink, the colorful masses may be , This yearthe little brook trickglimpsed from afar, they are so brilliant and abundant. Flowers ling into the frog pond damned son and ‘Marge Kopp will open July 16 in The Phoenix gallery in Auburn. The gallery is open commerce voted to call the new Summit." The chamber, along stalks. Wednesday and Saturday from with many western Nevada County because one of the five stamens is sterile and often a dense hairs. for the artists will be held from groups, had seemingly supported the name of "Elisha Stevens Pass," 7 to 10 p.m. July 16. in honor of the greatest although least-known pioneer of the fa mous; to 8100 foot elevations in our California Mountains, Penstemons are very scarce on the Atlantic coast, however it was a Virginia trans -Sierra wagon route. Barrett botanist who founded the genus nearly two centuries-ago. says in his column of last week, of this scarcity “Every once ina while some ambitious scribe comes forth with Western National Parks where their beauty is muielsly recognized. July 22 .A four-night run of Calderon de la Barca’s “A House With Two Doors" begins tonight in Freeborn Hall on the Davis campus of the University of California, Curtain time is. 8:15 p.m. doubtedly pleased that the Truckee-Donner chamber of are tubular, one-half inch long and are arranged-in-erowded whorls Interstate 80 high point “Donner sensible, " Barrett insists, because the pass is already named Donner--and why change such a Fire Department will be held from 1to3 p.m. in the home great name? economics building attheNevada cluding the County District Fair Grounds, A door prize will be available. Tickets may be purchased in Grass Valley, from members of the fire department or at the door. point out that the new summit is two miles north of Donner Summit, and they ask, what is very sensible about putting the same name ontwocompletely separate locations? August 26 through 29 -.-The 23rd Annual Nevada County District Fair will be held at the fairgrounds southwest of ambitious in the pheasant we hear calling. Blooming from May through August they are common hom 4600 A living forest and garden con stantly filled Because Easterners are quickly attracted/to them in our CRAYON CORWER ¢@3e6h6UmhmUchemUlUS Naming one summit after the unfortunate Donners is bad enough, they say. The least we include a carnival, fairway, free other after the true pioneer of the region, the man who brought through a wagon party two full .-.The Grass Valley Motorcycle years before the Donner rhubarb, with nary a hitch--the unsung, Club will hold its second race at hook -nosed, truly sensible Elisha the Nevada City Airport. Stevens, y f VA /"“Christopher Robin Rescues Winnie -The-Pooh" by Eunice Hoyle : / with birdsong is a rich bonus payment for those aching backs and tired muscles which have been with us through the years of work at Seven Cedars. scribes cando, they add, is to name the shows and the usual display of local arts and crafts, products and livestock of the area, August 8 ee with Penstemon means five stamens. Supporters of Elisha Stevens in The event will Grass Valley. Beardstongue is a name sometimes applied to pensteémons Such suggestions are not "very July 25 up by the old narrow -gauge railroad bed has brought us a handful of blackbirds. Our new irrigated pasture should lure a meadow lark ortwo andit might possibly bring towards the top of one to two foot stems. Long narrow leaves .2’ to 4 inches long appear opposite each other on the stiff unbranching the suggestion that the name of Donner Summit be changed." .-A roast beef dinner for the benefit of the Watt Park Volunteer flock of bluebirds now supplement Meadow Penstemon, Penstemon oreocharis, Figwort family. Away from the clamor of transient voices, these little flowers 8 July 16 through August 11 ..A two man show of the works of Nevada City artists Loana Bee An open reception Grosbéaks, lazuli buntings, hermit thrushes, chi€kadées and an occasional Sierra Sun in Truckee, is un 2 to 4p.m. here. Berrying shrubs providing tasty food for the in 8 back seat, the day turned into moonlight, thankstoan old local tradition--vapor lock. perennials, new birds have dropped in, looked things over and decided to nest and raise families be way up this year, with 25 new eee turf, masses of shrubbery and Mrs. Patterson's 4th Grade Nevada City Elementary School gee ee. on). 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Theater Gala...Local CATHERING Moss Talent...The Summit Birds Are A Cautious Bunch Two hours after tickets for the arts commission enterprise is to Nevada Theater Centennial Gala popularize its goal of acquiring July 31 performance went on sale the historic Nevada Theater for Monday--at-the box office, most year-around public use, including of the downstairs seats had been a permanent summer theater sold, Babe Childers can't figure operated by ‘the University of out why. The best seats in the California at Davis. house are upstairs, he says, and to have a good time. once upon atime he had the lipstick smudges to prove it. se¢8 8 ees County &@ That, and 8 school superintendent Ed Fellerson's annual reports of 8 In this age of widely used chemical poisons, expanding areas of concrete and attendant decrease of natural food, our feathered friends need all the supplementary rations we can offerthem. However, attracting boat w birds to home and garden is a bit more complicated than heavy shrubbery or at the base of the ads in Audubon magazine large trees will often lure birds would lead us to believe. too timid to approach a feeder. Purchasing, erecting and stockMuch more important, we have. ing bird feeders and drinking found, is the creation of an erfacilities are steps in the right vironment attractive to bird life. direction. Scattering baby-chick When we moved onto our unscratch-feed on old stumps, under tamed wilderness of second-growth forest and brushland seventeen Lillian Mal years ago, we found few birds in residence. Year by year, as we have replaced brush with orchard, Mrs, Dorothy Sanders, who exhumed a valuable wardrobe of average daily. attendance in the elementary schools give a good costumes and Liberal Arts Commission produc tion, hasin the collection a dress which belonged once to Olyvia clue to population trends, Total average attendance was up five toseven percent last. year. Grass Valley and Nevada City gained DeHavilland, a former pupil of “less than one percent. Penn have set larger crops each year, hers, and another dress belonging Valley gained about 25 percent. to Bette Davis. The guessing goes on about who will be wearing which dress. Washington and North San-Juan were down. Pleasant Ridge will eee#ses students fromthe Alta Sierra area. creasing bird population. The first sprinklers playing on new ly planted clover were spotted by vagrant robins who zoomed down to attack surfacing worms and have been with us ever since. : old finery for the The cast of real-life local characters appearing in the centennial production numbers, appropriately, one hundred. In fact, so many talented and civic minded people will be working on stage and behind the scenes that, it looked for a time as if there would be nobody the audience. left for Nevertheless, sell-outs seem to be in the offing, along with one of the happiest occasions in Nevada City history. e®e¢ 8 @ The purpose of the giant liberal CAROUSEL WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK 8 Hors d'oevres and cocktails Western tanagers raised their under the moonlight, followed by young in the weeping willow tree overhanging the berry patch and soon acquir’ed purple-stained breasts as colorful as their red heads. Finches set up housekeeping in the lilacs lining the drive, handy to ripening mullein heads and orchard grass, Hummers took over the trumpet alightsupper. It sounds like the French Riviera, but Saturday night it all took place on Grouse Ridge in Nevada County. Butthe moonlight part was an accident. Dr.” Robert Hume andhis wife Harriet had brought their jeep station wagon for day excursions to the higher elevations. Saturday, with flowers, torch lilies, bergamots Don and Sharon Fairclough in the e*e¢ 8 and pentstemons, Walt Barrett, chief scribe of the @ur ubiquitous sparrows, juncoes, select green lush mountain meadows for their abode. In their robins, flickers and towhees. lovely dress of blue to purplish pink, the colorful masses may be , This yearthe little brook trickglimpsed from afar, they are so brilliant and abundant. Flowers ling into the frog pond damned son and ‘Marge Kopp will open July 16 in The Phoenix gallery in Auburn. The gallery is open commerce voted to call the new Summit." The chamber, along stalks. Wednesday and Saturday from with many western Nevada County because one of the five stamens is sterile and often a dense hairs. for the artists will be held from groups, had seemingly supported the name of "Elisha Stevens Pass," 7 to 10 p.m. July 16. in honor of the greatest although least-known pioneer of the fa mous; to 8100 foot elevations in our California Mountains, Penstemons are very scarce on the Atlantic coast, however it was a Virginia trans -Sierra wagon route. Barrett botanist who founded the genus nearly two centuries-ago. says in his column of last week,

of this scarcity “Every once ina while some ambitious scribe comes forth with Western National Parks where their beauty is muielsly recognized. July 22 ..A four-night run of Calderon de la Barca’s “A House With Two Doors" begins tonight in Freeborn Hall on the Davis campus of the University of California, Curtain time is. 8:15 p.m. doubtedly pleased that the Truckee-Donner chamber of are tubular, one-half inch long and are arranged-in-erowded whorls Interstate 80 high point “Donner sensible, " Barrett insists, because the pass is already named Donner--and why change such a Fire Department will be held from 1to3 p.m. in the home great name? economics building attheNevada cluding the County District Fair Grounds, A door prize will be available. Tickets may be purchased in Grass Valley, from members of the fire department or at the door. point out that the new summit is two miles north of Donner Summit, and they ask, what is very sensible about putting the same name ontwocompletely separate locations? August 26 through 29 -.-The 23rd Annual Nevada County District Fair will be held at the fairgrounds southwest of ambitious in the pheasant we hear calling. Blooming from May through August they are common hom 4600 A living forest and garden con stantly filled Because Easterners are quickly attracted/to them in our CRAYON CORWER ¢@3e6h6UmhmUchemUlUS Naming one summit after the unfortunate Donners is bad enough, they say. The least we include a carnival, fairway, free other after the true pioneer of the region, the man who brought through a wagon party two full .-.The Grass Valley Motorcycle years before the Donner rhubarb, with nary a hitch--the unsung, Club will hold its second race at hook -nosed, truly sensible Elisha the Nevada City Airport. Stevens, y f VA /"“Christopher Robin Rescues Winnie -The-Pooh" by Eunice Hoyle : / with birdsong is a rich bonus payment for those aching backs and tired muscles which have been with us through the years of work at Seven Cedars. scribes cando, they add, is to name the shows and the usual display of local arts and crafts, products and livestock of the area, August 8 ee with Penstemon means five stamens. Supporters of Elisha Stevens in The event will Grass Valley. Beardstongue is a name sometimes applied to pensteémons Such suggestions are not "very July 25 up by the old narrow -gauge railroad bed has brought us a handful of blackbirds. Our new irrigated pasture should lure a meadow lark ortwo andit might possibly bring towards the top of one to two foot stems. Long narrow leaves .2’ to 4 inches long appear opposite each other on the stiff unbranching the suggestion that the name of Donner Summit be changed." .-A roast beef dinner for the benefit of the Watt Park Volunteer flock of bluebirds now supplement Meadow Penstemon, Penstemon oreocharis, Figwort family. Away from the clamor of transient voices, these little flowers 8 July 16 through August 11 ...A two man show of the works of Nevada City artists Loana Bee An open reception Grosbéaks, lazuli buntings, hermit thrushes, chi€kadées and an occasional Sierra Sun in Truckee, is un 2 to 4p.m. here. Berrying shrubs providing tasty food for the in 8 back seat, the day turned into moonlight, thankstoan old local tradition--vapor lock. perennials, new birds have dropped in, looked things over and decided to nest and raise families be way up this year, with 25 new eee turf, masses of shrubbery and Mrs. Patterson's 4th Grade Nevada City Elementary School gee ee. on). [a A Sequels 10@aKk Talk Tasker O9 Town OE SEOCES COO CE 14 S96L ‘3% Atnf** *3988ny AruN05 BPeAON ©9306 06 6a eecpeosee PSSDS OH