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PERIODICALS SECTION etiam etd
CAL. ST, LIBRARY
SACTO. CAL. 95814
_ NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET
Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Qmega,
French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La ‘Batr Meadows, Colas Ridge,
Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly
Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley,
Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore' s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony HOSE, Delirium Tremens,
v0 Cents A Copy Published “Wednesdays Nevada da City WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1971 -_ NUMBER 27 VOLUME 49
_Western Auto owners have many talents
PHYLLIS SMITH
Phyllis Smith
takes job as.
Nugget boss
There’s a new face in the
Nevada County Nugget office at
301 Broad Street in Nevada City.
It belongs to Phyllis L. Smith,
Miss Smith's office hours will
be from 8:30 a.m, until 5:30
p.m, on weekdays; and from 8:30
until 1 p.m, on Saturdays, during the summer months, A winter schedule will be announced,
"Phyl" was born into the
newspaper business as the eldest
of three daughters of a pioneer
publisher in Santa Clara coun_ ty; and has enjoyed several decades of experience on weeklies
in California primarily.
She will welcome phone calls
at 265-2471 regarding social
affairs and any other items of
general interest to Nugget subscribers and readers, Personal
visits are also invited, and area
advertisers may call upon her
for assistance in servicing their
space requirements,
Gallino to be
barbecue chef
The final meeting of the St.
‘Patrick's parish annual barbecue committee was held at the
parish hall,
The barbecue of beef with
Frank Gallino as"'Chef-de-Perfecte” will be ready to serve at
1 pm, “Aug. 1. This year a
_ multi-colored afghan will be awarded,
OWNERS OF THE Western Auto Store in Nevada City, Mr. and Mrs, Jerry Burke bring a
talented background to the Nevada City area, They enjoy Nevada City and the surrounding
area,
(Nugget Photo)
Nugget will publish
historical ‘City of Six’
The Nugget as part of its
historical. section will begin
printing "The City of Six", See
page 6 and 7,
This story of mining days in
Sierra and western Nevada county was written by Chauncey L,
Canfield in 1909, It relates the
hardships of mining as they used
to be and of fortunes made
during this golden era of our
history,
The Nugget encourages you to
keep these weekly articles, The
books of "The City of Six" are
rare, and unheard of,
Since its publishing in 1910,
_the book has not been copyrighted, An original copy was
given to The Mountain Messenger in 1968 by Eric Falconer,
an attorney at law who practices in San Francisco, and who
is a frequent visitor to Sierra
and Nevada counties,
The Nugget reprints the story
from the Mountain Messenter
files with _permission . of the
publisher,
When . space merits ras. in
this week's issue, The Nugget
will reproduce a page from its
old files, See page 5,
This will give our readers
a chance to take a look at advertising when a dollar was
worth a dollar, It will also reveal businesses and products
that have disappeared from today's market and will show the
difference in newspaper type
compared to modern day equipment,
These pages have been reduced to fit the present. day
size of today’s Nugget.
To furthey coverage of Nevada
county this week the . Nugget
has started five weekly columns
giving news items of surrounding areas, North San JuanNews,
Idabel Covert; Chicago ParkPeardale News, Pat Jones; Penn
Valley News, Ruth Milhous;
Washington News, Judith Stew.
art; Doings at Malakoff Diggins,
Dick Rohde,
Fay Dunbar will continue her
weekly . column, Rough and
Ready News,
No Greyhound
depot in NC
Nevada City is without its
Greyhound bus depot and freight
service until a downtown business applies and qualifies to
serve as a depot.
Passenger service into Nevada City will continue, but passengers are required to buy
tickets from the Grass Valley
depot or the bus driver, Freight
for Nevada City will have to be
picked up in Grass Valley.
Trueblood Automotive has
been the depot for the last three .
years, Bill Trueblood, owner,
said he "took over three years
ago aS a community service"
but now needs the space for his
own business, The contract expired on Friday.
These facts were revealed at
a luncheon meeting in the National Hotel, where concerned
local businessmen met with Dick
Stewart, Greyhound district
sales supervisor,
Stewart explained the company’s requirements, duties and
the commission basis on which
the agent would be paid, "Greyhound will be willing to work
‘with’ anyone taking over the de_
” mentary schools fC
She plays the organ, does oil
painting and loves to sew. He's
some kind of golf nut, goes fishing every chance he gets and
revels in any opportunity to pan
for gold,
Their Siamese cat, Mandy,
demands that they turn on the
air conditioning in their Olympia. Glade mobile home each
morning as they leave for their
place of business in Nevada
City. . . .the Western Auto
Associate Store at 228 Broad
St.
Jerry and Edythe Burke are
natives of California, Edy was
born in San Francisco and Jerry
calls: Ukiah his “old home
", Edy taught inthe ele-.
‘ontra Costa. .
and Monterey counties for five
years before she became a selfstyled "lady of leisure,"
After two decades -of activity
in various phases of the automobile busines in the Bay Area,
Jerry joined a Chrysler dealership in San Leandro where he
spent five years, He is affiliated with the Elks, is a 30year Mason and a member of
the Chamber of Commerce,
The Burkes are no strangers
to recreational travel, They've
been deep in the interior of
Mexico at least six times; know
the Hawaiian Islands, New Orleans and California’s attractions,
Now, working six days a week,
they are discovering the beauties of such areas as Alleghany,
Forest City and the historic
riverside village of Washington
on Sundays,
Jerry and Edy took over the
Western: Auto Store on March
1 of this year. In a little over
four months their warmth and
sincerity have a made a real
place for them in the community.
"We are in love with Nevada
county and find the people here
simply wonderful" was their
spontaneous reply to that same
old question!
pot as far as training is concerned," He said the job would
be ideal for a retired or semiretired person as it would take
about three hours a day and require no physical labor.
Interested persons are urged
to contact Gene Rial, president
of the Nevada City Chamber of
Commerce who will be in con‘tact with Greyhound officials,