July 28, 1971 (12 pages)

Start will 2 be within two weeks Undergrounding and the placement of 44 gaslights will start in Nevada City within two yea the council agreed Monay. d Howard Swearingen, manager of Pacific Gas and Electric Co, locally said "I see no trouble on our part, We can start-construction on time, the first part of August." The council heard Monday that the city's application for federal funds for a downtown improvement project has gone one step further by receiving a project number, "I feel we will be funded on this project," Mayor John Rankin said, The outcome of the request for funds does not hinder the underground project going ahead on schedule, the council and Swearingen agreed, Cement bases. need to be placed by the city, Swearingen said, for the gaslights so the exact type to be used must be determined, The councilmen agreed to visit Sacramento and possibly Marysville within the week to determine if types in use in those two cities should be ordered or ones demonstrated to the council last winter. The style and size of the base will vary by style of lamp, Swearingen said, so the council should decide "soon, very soon," what base will be needed. In other action Monday evening the council agreed that the city has no choice but to go with the county on disposal of solid wastes, City Manager Beryl Robinson Jr, and City Attorney William Wetherall were authorized to determine what will be required by the owner of the city dump property. before the dump can be abandoned, The county will request a one-year delay -on ‘the ‘state mandate to cease open burning by the end of this year, Rankin said, "As we will be going along with the county the city may also request. a delay" but he held little. hope that such a request would be granted the city. The. criteria for requesting such delays have not yet been set, Rankin said, The criteria would be determined in midAugust, Robinson reported on meetings he, Wetherall and Councilman Bob Paine have had recently with county personnel and Grass Valley council representatives, The county needs to know officially whether Nevada City and Grass Valley will go along with the county on disposal of solid wastes, Robinson said, The councilmen indicated individually they felt it was a necessary step but no official action was taken Monday, Paine was absent so the councilmen present agreed to wait until the next meeting before taking action, Robinson reported that the franchise garbage collector for Nevada City has indicated that the charge for collecting and hauling to the McCourtney Road site, proposed a a landfill disposal site, would be 50 per cent higher than at. present, The first item on the agenda was handled with dispatch, The council voted unanimously to apply to the federal government for ownership of George Calanan Park, the small park The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, July 28, 1971 9 NC to start undergrounding on the corner of Broad Street and Union Alley, adjacent to Alpha Hardware, The mayor was authorized to sign the application and forward it to the Office of General Services, : The Tahoe National Forest, ‘owner of the property for over 25.years, declared the land surplus and offered to sell it, The city indicated in its application that the land is now used and would continue to be used as a public park, Following a short executive (closed) session the council asked Wetherall to prepare a resoCowboy hurt at Penn Valley is doing well ‘Douglas Berens, the cowboy injured in the Penn Valley Rodeo in late April, is "coming along nicely," according to the secretary of the California Cowboy Association, A benefit rodeo was held at Los Molinos for Berens and he was able to judge some of the events, He is weak but out of the hospital and able to get around, Berens was thrown into a post from a bucking horse at the local rodeo and wasa patient at the Sacramento Medical Center for three weeks, Later he was transferred to a nursing home at Chico. He was unconscious for a while after the accident but no surgery was necessary, the secretary reported, Berens has been a participating cowboy in most rodeos held. in California, He makes his home in Red Bluff. Workshop receives proceeds A CHECK REPRESENTING the proceeds from the Welcome Wagon Club's steak-out is presented to Robert Grek for the Nevada County Community Workshop. Mrs. Ernest Martin (left) was chairman for the steak-out and Mrs, Gladys Harper is Welcome Wagon hostess for this area, The Gold Cities . chapter of WWC. held the affair to,raise funds, for the workshop. oe% lution concerning medical examinations for employes, The resolution, to be voted on at the August meeting, will require all incoming fulltime. salaried employes to. submit to a medicalexamination at the city's expense and all volunteer fire-men entering the department to do the same, The “*tesolution will further require ‘a medical examination, all at city expense, for all present -full time salaried employes. THE PHONE BOOTH A phone left off the hook—eit dent or on purpose—can calls from reaching you. signal when you’re trying to call someone can be annoying at the best of times, but her by accioptics urgent etting a busy the situation could be serious when someone’s trying to reach you in an emergency. Checking your phone now and then to make sure it’s hung up properly is good insurance against losing incoming calls. street address of a useful to you. At last count, there were somethin 124,000 pay phones in California. And now each one of them has an address card that tells you where it’s located. Knowing the like pay phone could come in handy—like when you’re reporting an emergency and need to give the exact address quickly. Or when someone is coming to get you and they ask where you’re calling from. These location cards are just one way we’ve tried to make our pay phones more 2 ett ot ©) Pacific Telephone G. 0. Hutchins Your Telephone Manager in ‘Nevada City x a aa I'd just like to remind you that dialing direct is the fast way to make a long distance phone call. And all you have to do to dial direct is dial the Area Code (if it's different from your own) plus the phone number of the person you're calling. To find Area Codes for the entire United States, just check the front pages of your phone book. Here in Grass Valley and Nevada City don't foret to dial "112", before dialing the Area Code. i 2 ua ae PEP BP FADIA Sh wa &—

Start will 2 be within two weeks Undergrounding and the placement of 44 gaslights will start in Nevada City within two yea the council agreed Monay. d Howard Swearingen, manager of Pacific Gas and Electric Co, locally said "I see no trouble on our part, We can start-construction on time, the first part of August." The council heard Monday that the city's application for federal funds for a downtown improvement project has gone one step further by receiving a project number, "I feel we will be funded on this project," Mayor John Rankin said, The outcome of the request for funds does not hinder the underground project going ahead on schedule, the council and Swearingen agreed, Cement bases. need to be placed by the city, Swearingen said, for the gaslights so the exact type to be used must be determined, The councilmen agreed to visit Sacramento and possibly Marysville within the week to determine if types in use in those two cities should be ordered or ones demonstrated to the council last winter. The style and size of the base will vary by style of lamp, Swearingen said, so the council should decide "soon, very soon," what base will be needed. In other action Monday evening the council agreed that the city has no choice but to go with the county on disposal of solid wastes, City Manager Beryl Robinson Jr, and City Attorney William Wetherall were authorized to determine what will be required by the owner of the city dump property. before the dump can be abandoned, The county will request a one-year delay -on ‘the ‘state mandate to cease open burning by the end of this year, Rankin said, "As we will be going along with the county the city may also request. a delay" but he held little. hope that such a request would be granted the city. The. criteria for requesting such delays have not yet been set, Rankin said, The criteria would be determined in midAugust, Robinson reported on meetings he, Wetherall and Councilman Bob Paine have had recently with county personnel and Grass Valley council representatives, The county needs to know officially whether Nevada City and Grass Valley will go along with the county on disposal of solid wastes, Robinson said, The councilmen indicated individually they felt it was a necessary step but no official action was taken Monday, Paine was absent so the councilmen present agreed to wait until the next meeting before taking action, Robinson reported that the franchise garbage collector for Nevada City has indicated that the charge for collecting and hauling to the McCourtney Road site, proposed a a landfill disposal site, would be 50 per cent higher than at. present, The first item on the agenda was handled with dispatch, The council voted unanimously to apply to the federal government for ownership of George Calanan Park, the small park The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, July 28, 1971 9 NC to start undergrounding on the corner of Broad Street and Union Alley, adjacent to Alpha Hardware, The mayor was authorized to sign the application and forward it to the Office of General Services, : The Tahoe National Forest, ‘owner of the property for over 25.years, declared the land surplus and offered to sell it, The

city indicated in its application that the land is now used and would continue to be used as a public park, Following a short executive (closed) session the council asked Wetherall to prepare a resoCowboy hurt at Penn Valley is doing well ‘Douglas Berens, the cowboy injured in the Penn Valley Rodeo in late April, is "coming along nicely," according to the secretary of the California Cowboy Association, A benefit rodeo was held at Los Molinos for Berens and he was able to judge some of the events, He is weak but out of the hospital and able to get around, Berens was thrown into a post from a bucking horse at the local rodeo and wasa patient at the Sacramento Medical Center for three weeks, Later he was transferred to a nursing home at Chico. He was unconscious for a while after the accident but no surgery was necessary, the secretary reported, Berens has been a participating cowboy in most rodeos held. in California, He makes his home in Red Bluff. Workshop receives proceeds A CHECK REPRESENTING the proceeds from the Welcome Wagon Club's steak-out is presented to Robert Grek for the Nevada County Community Workshop. Mrs. Ernest Martin (left) was chairman for the steak-out and Mrs, Gladys Harper is Welcome Wagon hostess for this area, The Gold Cities . chapter of WWC. held the affair to,raise funds, for the workshop. oe% lution concerning medical examinations for employes, The resolution, to be voted on at the August meeting, will require all incoming fulltime. salaried employes to. submit to a medicalexamination at the city's expense and all volunteer fire-men entering the department to do the same, The “*tesolution will further require ‘a medical examination, all at city expense, for all present -full time salaried employes. THE PHONE BOOTH A phone left off the hook—eit dent or on purpose—can calls from reaching you. signal when you’re trying to call someone can be annoying at the best of times, but her by accioptics urgent etting a busy the situation could be serious when someone’s trying to reach you in an emergency. Checking your phone now and then to make sure it’s hung up properly is good insurance against losing incoming calls. street address of a useful to you. At last count, there were somethin 124,000 pay phones in California. And now each one of them has an address card that tells you where it’s located. Knowing the like pay phone could come in handy—like when you’re reporting an emergency and need to give the exact address quickly. Or when someone is coming to get you and they ask where you’re calling from. These location cards are just one way we’ve tried to make our pay phones more 2 ett ot ©) Pacific Telephone G. 0. Hutchins Your Telephone Manager in ‘Nevada City x a aa I'd just like to remind you that dialing direct is the fast way to make a long distance phone call. And all you have to do to dial direct is dial the Area Code (if it's different from your own) plus the phone number of the person you're calling. To find Area Codes for the entire United States, just check the front pages of your phone book. Here in Grass Valley and Nevada City don't foret to dial "112", before dialing the Area Code. i 2 ua ae PEP BP FADIA Sh wa &—