July 29, 1965 (24 pages)

a ©2906 06 62 CS SOF OSSE egveus Town Talk All’s Well That Ends Well. Parking.Topless Controversy When Ruth Paine, Shirley Taylor and Sharon Fairclough opened the box office at the Nevada Theater last Week they sold most of the seats for the Marian Libbey Golden Days production within a few hours. Except, of course, there were no seats, and nobody was quite sure where seats would be obtained. Not only were people flocking to buy seats when there were no seats, but they were buying seats for a show that had not yet been written, Nevada City's faith in happy endings reached its high point when customers for tickets began asking the box office ladies whether they could go into the theater to look for their “seats, " Of course, said the ladies. So the customers would goin, survey what to ordinary mortals appeared to be an empty auditorium, and emerge all smiles. “Those are wonderful seats you have given us,” they would say, Now the seat problem has been solved, They will be obtained from Nevada Union High School and from the veterans hall in Nevada City. And Monday morning, Al Trivelpiece's script was completed. All it took was faith--and a bit of hard work. eess8 8 Nevada City's lady councilman, Carol Friedrich; is laid up for an indefinite periodsat Sierra Memorial Hospital with a condition called Myo carditis, Carol says it is know nasa dignified sort of ailment, but who would expect anything less of Carol? Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. ees ¢8 Somebody up at the courthouse seems to be taking a pretty broad view of what the county controller is supposed to control, You will remember that sometime back the supervisors turned the clerkauditor into the auditorcontroller, and the recorder into the clerkrecorder. The position of auditor controller was to be strictly a fiscal one, involving budgets and expenditures. But the controller was recently assigned the sensitive job of receiving and presenting to the supervisors their correspondence, He also runs tha courthouse switchboard and collects all mail from the county departments for mailing. And the controller's office runs the letter copying machine for the various departments, When the controller's office moved out of the clerk's office, the county clerk's set of law books went along too. Perhaps the next step is for the controller officially to assume the job of county counsel, ees 8 8 While Nevada City talks about parking and downtown beautification, Grass Valley is moving ahead on both fronts. Downtown merchants expect the new 66 car parking lot at the site,;of the old NID building to be completed this fall, There will be an entrance to the lot from the south side of Bank ‘St,, where three buildings have been bought by the city for the purpose, The city may or may not go ahead thereafter to turn the NID building into a new city hall, Present plans call for free parking in the new city lot. Leading downtown merchants are also cooperating on a program which may result in a city study of the possibility of turning Mill St. into a shopping mall, ‘complete with landscaping and general beautification, The historic arcade on the west side of the street would be retained. What's the secret of Grass Valley's progress? "All you need ~ is a spirit of cooperation among the businessmen and between the businessmen and the city council," says Fred Conway. Any other questions? sees: It was good enough for Grandpa--but is it good enough for us? That is the burning controversy before the Nevada City liberal arts com mission this week as it prepares for the weekend Golden Days. The item in dispute is Connie Rector's half nude picture, which has been proposed as a prop for a barroom scene, Right now it looks as if this Nevada City topless controversy will be decided by the requirements of historical authenticity. __ CRAYON CORWER I Like To Dance by Stanley Rose Mrs. Gable's First Grade Washington School WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK » Oxeye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Composite family. Much resembling some of our garden daisies, this large glistening white daisy with its center of yellow disk-flowers is a bright addition to our fields and waysides, As are so many of our wild flowers, this isa native of Eurasia and has been introduced into this pe sea An herbaceous plant one to 3 feet high, the branches are stiff and erect, sometimes forming a thick, rounded bush, They are found in fields and waysides in Northern California as far south as San Mateo County. Watch for them locally between Grass Valley and Auburn and in the fields along Marysville Highway below Bitney's Corners, Late bloomers, they appear in late July through September. Chrysanthemum means golden flower in Greek and refers to the bright yellow disk flowers rather than the white rays, erat ng MOSS Ghost Towns Are Turning Into Dumps Not so long ago it waspossible to drive through the mining country and in the numerous ghost towns visualize life there before the turn of the century, Many beautifully weathered old buildings stood almost as they were when their owners moved away, Today vandals have almost completely destroyed these interesting relics and what one usually finds, where a town once stood, is a scene resembling the county dump. Among the worst culprits are . the bottle hunters. Of course this is not to say that all bottle collectors are vandals, As originally conceived and still practiced by many decent and conscientious people, collecting and displaying beautiful or interesting old bottles, some of them tinted violet bythe desert sun, isa genteel hobby similar to collecting stamps or antique spoons, Howeverthe monetary value of antique bottles has now reached the point where hunting them has become a serious business, somewhat akin to the original mining for minerals, with much the same ruthlessness and disregard for aesthetic values, This kind of collecting is strenuous work. Most of the valuable bottles that were just lying around have long since been picked up and now it is necessary to dig for them, pry up floors, tear down walls, As an example of the lengths to which these hinters will go, take Rawhide, Nevada, some 60 miles east of Fallon via U.S, 50. A few years ago one of the best preserved and largest of Nevada's ghost towns, it was a mecca for photographers, history buffs and plain sightseers. Today, thanks to the bottle hunters, you will not find a Single building intact, with the exception of one or two houses that have been taken over and somewhat renovated by squatters. Cans, old bedsprings and all the usual detritus left by the great American litterbug are scattered everywhere, Abandoned mine shafts which had been used as tin can dumpshave been dug out and their contents strewn in all directions, these old dumps being rich mines of bottles, What has happened to Rawhide is happening to many California ghost towns as well--Forest in Sierra County, Copperopolis and Jennie Lind in Amador County, for instance. Weare pleased that at least-one of Nevada County's old mining towns, North Bloomfield, is to be protected as a part of the Malakoff State Park anda ranger will be on duty to guard it from unscrupulous diggers for treasure of all kinds, ; 3 ° a 8 * : @ : S96T ‘6% Aqng:: "2083nN Aiuno5 epeaon’** . = July 29, 1965. . Newena Conneuc cee

a ©2906 06 62 CS SOF OSSE egveus Town Talk All’s Well That Ends Well.. Parking..Topless Controversy When Ruth Paine, Shirley Taylor and Sharon Fairclough opened the box office at the Nevada Theater last Week they sold most of the seats for the Marian Libbey Golden Days production within a few hours. Except, of course, there were no seats, and nobody was quite sure where seats would be obtained. Not only were people flocking to buy seats when there were no seats, but they were buying seats for a show that had not yet been written, Nevada City's faith in happy endings reached its high point when customers for tickets began asking the box office ladies whether they could go into the theater to look for their “seats, " Of course, said the ladies. So the customers would goin, survey what to ordinary mortals appeared to be an empty auditorium, and emerge all smiles. “Those are wonderful seats you have given us,” they would say, Now the seat problem has been solved, They will be obtained from Nevada Union High School and from the veterans hall in Nevada City. And Monday morning, Al Trivelpiece's script was completed. All it took was faith--and a bit of hard work. eess8 8 Nevada City's lady councilman, Carol Friedrich; is laid up for an indefinite periodsat Sierra Memorial Hospital with a condition called Myo carditis, Carol says it is know nasa dignified sort of ailment, but who would expect anything less of Carol? Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. ees ¢8 Somebody up at the courthouse seems to be taking a pretty broad view of what the county controller is supposed to control, You will remember that sometime back the supervisors turned the clerkauditor into the auditorcontroller, and the recorder into the clerkrecorder. The position of auditor controller was to be strictly a fiscal one, involving budgets and expenditures. But the controller was recently assigned the sensitive job of receiving and presenting to the supervisors their correspondence, He also runs tha courthouse switchboard and collects all mail from the county departments for mailing. And the controller's office runs the letter copying machine for the various departments, When the controller's office moved out of the clerk's office, the county clerk's set of law books went along too. Perhaps the next step is for the controller officially to assume the job of county counsel, ees 8 8 While Nevada City talks about parking and downtown beautification, Grass Valley is moving ahead on both fronts. Downtown merchants expect the new 66 car parking lot at the site,;of the old NID building to be completed this fall, There will be an entrance to the lot from the south side of Bank ‘St,, where three buildings have been bought by the city for the purpose, The city may or may not go ahead thereafter to turn the NID building into a new city hall, Present plans call for free parking in the new city lot. Leading downtown merchants are also cooperating on a program which may result in a city study of the possibility of turning Mill St. into a shopping mall, ‘complete with landscaping and general beautification, The historic arcade on the west side of the street would be retained. What's the secret of Grass Valley's progress? "All you need ~ is a spirit of cooperation among the businessmen and between the businessmen and the city council," says Fred Conway. Any other questions? sees: It was good enough for Grandpa--but is it good enough for us? That is the burning controversy before the Nevada City liberal arts com mission this week as it prepares for the weekend Golden Days. The item in dispute is Connie Rector's half nude picture,

which has been proposed as a prop for a barroom scene, Right now it looks as if this Nevada City topless controversy will be decided by the requirements of historical authenticity. __ CRAYON CORWER I Like To Dance by Stanley Rose Mrs.. Gable's First Grade Washington School WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK » Oxeye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Composite family. Much resembling some of our garden daisies, this large glistening white daisy with its center of yellow disk-flowers is a bright addition to our fields and waysides, As are so many of our wild flowers, this isa native of Eurasia and has been introduced into this pe sea An herbaceous plant one to 3 feet high, the branches are stiff and erect, sometimes forming a thick, rounded bush, They are found in fields and waysides in Northern California as far south as San Mateo County. Watch for them locally between Grass Valley and Auburn and in the fields along Marysville Highway below Bitney's Corners, Late bloomers, they appear in late July through September. Chrysanthemum means golden flower in Greek and refers to the bright yellow disk flowers rather than the white rays, erat ng MOSS Ghost Towns Are Turning Into Dumps Not so long ago it waspossible to drive through the mining country and in the numerous ghost towns visualize life there before the turn of the century, Many beautifully weathered old buildings stood almost as they were when their owners moved away, Today vandals have almost completely destroyed these interesting relics and what one usually finds, where a town once stood, is a scene resembling the county dump. Among the worst culprits are . the bottle hunters. Of course this is not to say that all bottle collectors are vandals, As originally conceived and still practiced by many decent and conscientious people, collecting and displaying beautiful or interesting old bottles, some of them tinted violet bythe desert sun, isa genteel hobby similar to collecting stamps or antique spoons, Howeverthe monetary value of antique bottles has now reached the point where hunting them has become a serious business, somewhat akin to the original mining for minerals, with much the same ruthlessness and disregard for aesthetic values, This kind of collecting is strenuous work. Most of the valuable bottles that were just lying around have long since been picked up and now it is necessary to dig for them, pry up floors, tear down walls, As an example of the lengths to which these hinters will go, take Rawhide, Nevada, some 60 miles east of Fallon via U.S, 50. A few years ago one of the best preserved and largest of Nevada's ghost towns, it was a mecca for photographers, history buffs and plain sightseers. Today, thanks to the bottle hunters, you will not find a Single building intact, with the exception of one or two houses that have been taken over and somewhat renovated by squatters. Cans, old bedsprings and all the usual detritus left by the great American litterbug are scattered everywhere, Abandoned mine shafts which had been used as tin can dumpshave been dug out and their contents strewn in all directions, these old dumps being rich mines of bottles, What has happened to Rawhide is happening to many California ghost towns as well--Forest in Sierra County, Copperopolis and Jennie Lind in Amador County, for instance. Weare pleased that at least-one of Nevada County's old mining towns, North Bloomfield, is to be protected as a part of the Malakoff State Park anda ranger will be on duty to guard it from unscrupulous diggers for treasure of all kinds, ; 3 ° a 8 * : @ : S96T ‘6% Aqng:: "2083nN Aiuno5 epeaon’** . = July 29, 1965. . Newena Conneuc cee