July 23, 1975 (8 pages)

New eee 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., * July 23, 1975 California Count : ® e y Kristi Ottoman MOSES SCHALLENBERGER Not everyone in that first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada got over the mountains before winter. It was late in October when the little caravan approached the summit. The skies threatened snow at any time and the men knew the heavier wagons couldn’t possibly get over the top before winter set in. Three men volunteered to spend the winter there in the mountains near Donner Lake to guard the wagons and bring them down in the spring. One of them was an 18-year-old boy, ‘Moses Schallenberger, who scoffed at his family’s fears. There would be two older men with him, he protested, and the country was full of game. He would be in no danger. Within a couple days the men completed a crude log cabin, just as the clouds unleashed the full fury of winter. First storms never last long the men told each other. Any day they expected the storm to break so they could hunt for their winter’s supply of meat. Several weeks later the snows eased up a little and the men ventured out with their rifles. They returned from their hunt empty-handed. Each hunting trip after that showed the same results. All game had disappeared from the mountains. Reluctantly they came to the decision to try to make it over the mouritains to Sutters Fort. Their only alternative was starvation. The first day they hiked fifteen miles across deep, soft snow. By nightfall Moses, who had been sick, was exhausted and writhing in pain. At daybreak it was clear that he could not continue. Over the protests of his companions he turned back toward the cabin. Moses hunted every day he could but always returned to the lonely cabin with nothing. He was resigned to starve to death when ee eye caught a glitter of metal from one of the wagons — ‘steel ps! His first day’s reward was a coyote.:It tasted awful, but it was the first food he had eaten in three days. Three days later Moses caught a couple foxes. His traps averaged a fox every couple days and with a sure supply of food coming in Moses concentrated on the passing of days. Rummaging through the wagons he found crates of books __ intended for his brother-in-law’s library. He read all night and slept most of the day to make time go quicker. : At the end of every day he would make a notch on a stick. One day when his notched stick showed it was nearing the end of February he spied a figure coming thr the woods. “Indians,” he thought. Swinging his rifle to his shoulder, he muttered, ‘They won’t get me without a fight.” His first sound of a human voice in thfee months was a ringing, “What do you think you’re doing with that gun?”’ He recognized the voice of his friend Dennis Martin coming back to recover the body. IRS advice for turck owners If a truck, truck-tractor or bus is registered in your name the IRS has some advice for you. You may owe Highway Use Tax. Notices of possible delinquency are being mailed NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 telephone 265-2559. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. _ Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Years _. $5.00 to many such northern California registrants. The IRS has matched its highway use tax records with California registration records to identify these potential nonfilers and under-reporters.* Delinquent taxpayers identified by this method are being sent notices of deficiency. Cases in which there is no response or insufficient response by taxpayers will be assigned to IRS agents for investigation. Taxpayers -who receive a notice of potential liability are urged to complete the appropriate sections of the notice and return it to the IRS and not wait to be contacted. By doing so they may avoid additional penalties and interest. — — following vehicles which use public highways trucks weighing 13,000 pounds or more, truck-tractors of 5,500 pounds or more, and buses that have a gross weight of more than 26,000 pounds. The amount of tax assessed on the number of ’ axles and weights of vehicles. IRS Publication 349, “Federal Highway Use Tax on Trucks, Truck-Tractors and Buses,”’ furnishes detailed information on the subject and is available free at all IRS offices. ; Rough . By Fay I seem to know a Ibt, of excellent cooks. I don’t know if it’s the reason for or the result of being fat. Our neighbor Mrs. Willis (Alice) Perry is one of the best. Her specialty is luscious pastries. This particular recipe of hers, that she says we may share, is a pie without the usual pastry. It’s called Crustless Coconut Pie. Even without the crust it’s not exactly a diet item. Bake it in a well greased 10 (or nine) inch pie plate. Mix the ingredients in the order given; 4 eggs, 1-1-3 cups sugar, 42 cup flour, % cup melted butter or margarine, 2 cups milk, 1% cups shredded coconut and 2 teaspoons vanilla. The mixture will be thin when poured into the Pan sake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. It sets as acustard and can be kept for several davs in the refrigerator-hopefully. They don’t last that long in my refrigerator. I expect it’s the flour that makes it possible to set up smoothly without using a pan of water as for custard pudding. * Another of Alices specialties is her garden. " Last Friday while working among the gladioli she came cg ae Mr f° a hornets’ nest. One got her on the back of the hand and it was painful but not too lasting fortunately. Willis has , a way of poisoning their nests. This is the second My Alma Mater “Ma Bell” keeps her retired employees well informed on what’s going on in the world-particularly the telephone world. Last week’s “Update,” my old area newspaper, carried two interesting items. The first was called functional accounting and the second was a humorous item that really kept me choking with laughter throughout. The writer, a telephone man, really goes for the belly Functional accounting appears to me to be just a better way of doing, because of the effeciency of new machines, what we did the hard way before I retired in 1956. We called itour report to AT&T. After Mr. Gifford and his boys analyzed our analysis they had a fair idea of waht was going on. Most of you won’t even remember Gifford. That was a long time ago. Our report provided percentage information on. the cost to the company of numerous company procedures. Ma Bell is very efficient when it comes to knowing where the profits or costs lie. I don’t happen to believe she should be itted to include in paid service for her subscribers Western Electric and Bell Labaratory costs or credits. Very wrong of me I guess. But I sure do bélieve that every telephone in the USA should be with one company. Ma Bell is efficient and having all service under one management would be efficient. One of my jobs was the prorating of charges on service provided by another company to Ma Bell and Ma Bell’s charges to them for use of her lines. It was a terrific job and must cost the subscriber a bundle. Ma Bell could do it better and cheaper. ‘ I think you would enjoy some excerpts from the humor bit. It appeared in the June issue, which I just read,. so that’s why it’s about Father’s Day. “It was anything but a typical Father’s Day weedend for us this year. Oh sure, 1 worked in the yard, painted some wroughtiron, cleaned the garage, hosed down the gutter, washed the patio, weeded but it wasn’t typical. After all, how many times on Father’s Day de ‘ou find out you’re going to be a father? “Well, Sunday was a blur. Everybody finally got around to saying ‘Happy Father’s Day to me. -I just hope I can handle this one a little better than before. I had a tough time during the first one. My wife had a breeze _ She didn’t even have morning sickness. [had it for six weeks—And along about the fifth month I couldn’t eat enough salami. And I had those terrible backaches all the time. “] used to get tired trying to keep up with her in the shopping mall and when we got home my feet were swelled twice their normal size. Boy, oh boy, do I remember the night it finally I got home. from work and stretched my neck as far as I could to kiss her and then sat “we were having spaghetti. I had just twirled about half of my plate on my fork. Our and Ready News Dunbar eyes met and believe me I knew. I swallowed that whole quarter pound spaghetti in one gulp. While I looked for the TV to turn it off, she went calmly about her business. We finally made it to the garage and backed out. She told me to close the door and I hopped out, turned on the garage light and-.” I am still laughing. Wish Dick Tripp, the telephone man who wrote that funny bit could write about our duck; I won’t do it justice. I heard horns honking on the highway Sunday morning but they honk often and I-didn’t pay any attention. Soon the telephone rang and it was Twylla Lemargie from the store. A tourist had stopped to tell her there was a traffic hazard on the highway-a brown duck was ambling down the middle of the road. With all my animals Twylla supposed it belonged to me. Mine are only cows, sheep, and one large beautiful black cat. I suspected the Abbotts right away.’I knew they had turkeys, chickens and geese but I hadn’t heard about any ducks. I called and we all-dashed out to see what we could see. Richard Abbott, who is home on vacation, rescued the “hazard”’. It was a goose. These city folk!! Strange thing tho’ it was not one of the Abbott’s geese. Now Abbott is searching for the owner of it. Typical exciting Sunday in the country. My oh my how our kids do grow up. The babies of our arrival in this area are now graduating from college and getting married. The young ones of my 4H days are raising families. Some are out in the regular working world. . Don Burkard popped in last Saturday to do me for the census Nevada county is conducting to bring itself up to date with the terriffic iel Beatie has completed his stint at Chico State and is getting married Aug. 10 to Anne Marie Wells of Nevada City. Erickson of Nevada City next January. Carol Ann is just completing her nursing school at, Chico State. ; Among the older folk Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frame of Rough and Ready Road have a new baby girl born July 10. 4-H is my true love for the kids. I was thrilled that such a large group 10 delegatesfrom Nevada county attended the ‘‘Citizenship 75 Training Program” in Washington D.C. Rough and Ready’s own Kathy Walker was one of them. Special focus this year was placed on their great American heritage. Kathy was also a medalist winner in the sheep category. Susan Henderson and Rhene Walker were also medalists in sheep. Susan was the county medalist winner. Susan will attend the state leadership conference at Davis as a delegate. Theresa Small was the county medalist winner in clothing. Theresa also won the Bank of America award to help her with the cost of attending the 4-H state leadership conference at Davis in August. She was selected to represent Nevada county 4-Hers statewide as 1975-76 Nevada County All-Star. Last, but certainly in an_ interesting category, Catherine Baer was medalist winner for her vegetable garden. She also won a silver seal award for her 4-H year’s total performance. Rough and-Ready Club received the gold seal for its total performance in 4-H work for the past year. Theresa was chosen to make the 4-H clover leaf tray presentation to Marian Ghidott for her outstanding contributions to 4-H this year. Lee Lemargie is in my category. He is fres home from another week at the hospital. Lee’ problem now is his heart; it’s demanding a lot 0 care. Don’t forget the Grange social event ne: Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall. will be a fun evening and it’s open to the pub

New eee 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., * July 23, 1975 California Count : ® e y Kristi Ottoman MOSES SCHALLENBERGER Not everyone in that first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada got over the mountains before winter. It was late in October when the little caravan approached the summit. The skies threatened snow at any time and the men knew the heavier wagons couldn’t possibly get over the top before winter set in. Three men volunteered to spend the winter there in the mountains near Donner Lake to guard the wagons and bring them down in the spring. One of them was an 18-year-old boy, ‘Moses Schallenberger, who scoffed at his family’s fears. There would be two older men with him, he protested, and the country was full of game. He would be in no danger. Within a couple days the men completed a crude log cabin, just as the clouds unleashed the full fury of winter. First storms never last long the men told each other. Any day they expected the storm to break so they could hunt for their winter’s supply of meat. Several weeks later the snows eased up a little and the men ventured out with their rifles. They returned from their hunt empty-handed. Each hunting trip after that showed the same results. All game had disappeared from the mountains. Reluctantly they came to the decision to try to make it over the mouritains to Sutters Fort. Their only alternative was starvation. The first day they hiked fifteen miles across deep, soft snow. By nightfall Moses, who had been sick, was exhausted and writhing in pain. At daybreak it was clear that he could not continue. Over the protests of his companions he turned back toward the cabin. Moses hunted every day he could but always returned to the lonely cabin with nothing. He was resigned to starve to death when ee eye caught a glitter of metal from one of the wagons — ‘steel ps! His first day’s reward was a coyote.:It tasted awful, but it was the first food he had eaten in three days. Three days later Moses caught a couple foxes. His traps averaged a fox every couple days and with a sure supply of food coming in Moses concentrated on the passing of days. Rummaging through the wagons he found crates of books __ intended for his brother-in-law’s library. He read all night and slept most of the day to make time go quicker. : At the end of every day he would make a notch on a stick. One day when his notched stick showed it was nearing the end of February he spied a figure coming thr the woods. “Indians,” he thought. Swinging his rifle to his shoulder, he muttered, ‘They won’t get me without a fight.” His first sound of a human voice in thfee months was a ringing, “What do you think you’re doing with that gun?”’ He recognized the voice of his friend Dennis Martin coming back to recover the body. IRS advice for turck owners If a truck, truck-tractor or bus is registered in your name the IRS has some advice for you. You may owe Highway Use Tax. Notices of possible delinquency are being mailed NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 telephone 265-2559. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. _ Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years _. $5.00 to many such northern California registrants. The IRS has matched its highway use tax records with California registration records to identify these potential nonfilers and under-reporters.* Delinquent taxpayers identified by this method are being sent notices of deficiency. Cases in which there is no response or insufficient response by taxpayers will be assigned to IRS agents for investigation. Taxpayers -who receive a notice of potential liability are urged to complete the appropriate sections of the notice and return it to the IRS and not wait to be contacted. By doing so they may avoid additional penalties and interest. — — following vehicles which use public highways trucks weighing 13,000 pounds or more, truck-tractors of 5,500 pounds or more, and buses that have a gross weight of more than 26,000 pounds. The amount of tax assessed on the number of ’ axles and weights of vehicles. IRS Publication 349, “Federal Highway Use Tax on Trucks, Truck-Tractors and Buses,”’ furnishes detailed information on the subject and is available free at all IRS offices. ; Rough . By Fay I seem to know a Ibt, of excellent cooks. I don’t know if it’s the reason for or the result of being fat. Our neighbor Mrs. Willis (Alice) Perry is one of the best. Her specialty is luscious pastries. This particular recipe of hers, that she says we may share, is a pie without the usual pastry. It’s called Crustless Coconut Pie. Even without the crust it’s not exactly a diet item. Bake it in a well greased 10 (or nine) inch pie plate. Mix the ingredients in the order given; 4 eggs, 1-1-3 cups sugar, 42 cup flour, % cup melted butter or margarine, 2 cups milk, 1% cups shredded coconut and 2 teaspoons vanilla. The mixture will be thin when poured into the Pan sake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. It sets as acustard and can be kept for several davs in the refrigerator-hopefully. They don’t last that long in my refrigerator. I expect it’s the flour that makes it possible to set up smoothly without using a pan of water as for custard pudding. * Another of Alices specialties is her garden. " Last Friday while working among the gladioli she came cg ae Mr f° a hornets’ nest. One got her on the back of the hand and it was painful but not too lasting fortunately. Willis has , a way of poisoning their nests. This is the second My Alma Mater “Ma Bell” keeps her retired employees well informed on what’s

going on in the world-particularly the telephone world. Last week’s “Update,” my old area newspaper, carried two interesting items. The first was called functional accounting and the second was a humorous item that really kept me choking with laughter throughout. The writer, a telephone man, really goes for the belly Functional accounting appears to me to be just a better way of doing, because of the effeciency of new machines, what we did the hard way before I retired in 1956. We called itour report to AT&T. After Mr. Gifford and his boys analyzed our analysis they had a fair idea of waht was going on. Most of you won’t even remember Gifford. That was a long time ago. Our report provided percentage information on. the cost to the company of numerous company procedures. Ma Bell is very efficient when it comes to knowing where the profits or costs lie. I don’t happen to believe she should be itted to include in paid service for her subscribers Western Electric and Bell Labaratory costs or credits. Very wrong of me I guess. But I sure do bélieve that every telephone in the USA should be with one company. Ma Bell is efficient and having all service under one management would be efficient. One of my jobs was the prorating of charges on service provided by another company to Ma Bell and Ma Bell’s charges to them for use of her lines. It was a terrific job and must cost the subscriber a bundle. Ma Bell could do it better and cheaper. ‘ I think you would enjoy some excerpts from the humor bit. It appeared in the June issue, which I just read,. so that’s why it’s about Father’s Day. “It was anything but a typical Father’s Day weedend for us this year. Oh sure, 1 worked in the yard, painted some wroughtiron, cleaned the garage, hosed down the gutter, washed the patio, weeded but it wasn’t typical. After all, how many times on Father’s Day de ‘ou find out you’re going to be a father? “Well, Sunday was a blur. Everybody finally got around to saying ‘Happy Father’s Day to me. -I just hope I can handle this one a little better than before. I had a tough time during the first one. My wife had a breeze _ She didn’t even have morning sickness. [had it for six weeks—And along about the fifth month I couldn’t eat enough salami. And I had those terrible backaches all the time. “] used to get tired trying to keep up with her in the shopping mall and when we got home my feet were swelled twice their normal size. Boy, oh boy, do I remember the night it finally I got home. from work and stretched my neck as far as I could to kiss her and then sat “we were having spaghetti. I had just twirled about half of my plate on my fork. Our and Ready News Dunbar eyes met and believe me I knew. I swallowed that whole quarter pound spaghetti in one gulp. While I looked for the TV to turn it off, she went calmly about her business. We finally made it to the garage and backed out. She told me to close the door and I hopped out, turned on the garage light and-.” I am still laughing. Wish Dick Tripp, the telephone man who wrote that funny bit could write about our duck; I won’t do it justice. I heard horns honking on the highway Sunday morning but they honk often and I-didn’t pay any attention. Soon the telephone rang and it was Twylla Lemargie from the store. A tourist had stopped to tell her there was a traffic hazard on the highway-a brown duck was ambling down the middle of the road. With all my animals Twylla supposed it belonged to me. Mine are only cows, sheep, and one large beautiful black cat. I suspected the Abbotts right away.’I knew they had turkeys, chickens and geese but I hadn’t heard about any ducks. I called and we all-dashed out to see what we could see. Richard Abbott, who is home on vacation, rescued the “hazard”’. It was a goose. These city folk!! Strange thing tho’ it was not one of the Abbott’s geese. Now Abbott is searching for the owner of it. Typical exciting Sunday in the country. My oh my how our kids do grow up. The babies of our arrival in this area are now graduating from college and getting married. The young ones of my 4H days are raising families. Some are out in the regular working world. . Don Burkard popped in last Saturday to do me for the census Nevada county is conducting to bring itself up to date with the terriffic iel Beatie has completed his stint at Chico State and is getting married Aug. 10 to Anne Marie Wells of Nevada City. Erickson of Nevada City next January. Carol Ann is just completing her nursing school at, Chico State. ; Among the older folk Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frame of Rough and Ready Road have a new baby girl born July 10. 4-H is my true love for the kids. I was thrilled that such a large group 10 delegatesfrom Nevada county attended the ‘‘Citizenship 75 Training Program” in Washington D.C. Rough and Ready’s own Kathy Walker was one of them. Special focus this year was placed on their great American heritage. Kathy was also a medalist winner in the sheep category. Susan Henderson and Rhene Walker were also medalists in sheep. Susan was the county medalist winner. Susan will attend the state leadership conference at Davis as a delegate. Theresa Small was the county medalist winner in clothing. Theresa also won the Bank of America award to help her with the cost of attending the 4-H state leadership conference at Davis in August. She was selected to represent Nevada county 4-Hers statewide as 1975-76 Nevada County All-Star. Last, but certainly in an_ interesting category, Catherine Baer was medalist winner for her vegetable garden. She also won a silver seal award for her 4-H year’s total performance. Rough and-Ready Club received the gold seal for its total performance in 4-H work for the past year. Theresa was chosen to make the 4-H clover leaf tray presentation to Marian Ghidott for her outstanding contributions to 4-H this year. Lee Lemargie is in my category. He is fres home from another week at the hospital. Lee’ problem now is his heart; it’s demanding a lot 0 care. Don’t forget the Grange social event ne: Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall. will be a fun evening and it’s open to the pub