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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

July 30, 1975 (8 pages)

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2 The Nevada County Nugeet Wed., July 30, 1975 Rough and Ready News _ CaliforniaCountry By’ Fav Dunbar I hope not too many of you have already to enhance the luau. The luau will be y ntatic . Democr ou tried Alice Perry’s crustless cocoanut pie of last served by the Nevada ‘C in Covert Idabel ‘with BEAVER HUNT : week’s column. At 300 degrees it would take a Central Commiettee Halstead, and tte Charlo , Brown Freddi . charge Beaver skins were prized by the Indians long before the Hudson long time to cook properly. That figure should in get you Mai Tais tol provide wil Dick Jones‘ bay and American fur trappers moved west. A beaver coat was have been 350. It would have been healthy but the mood for the festivities. valued highly by many warriors and the meat was a delicacy not very sweet. with only 1 one-third cups of of Hawaiian music. will be an afternoon Jt sugar. That figure should have been 1-%4 cups around Indian campfires. Edith McCoy will and n, Licht, Alice dwi Goo Don ~ Trapping was best done in winter and took the efforts of sugar. Sorry about-that! It really is delicious. sing-requested numbers, including the ‘‘Wedor ax ice,chisel everyone in the village. The tools were simple, an ic : language. hent hand Song,” .withaut The new Bitney Springs is beautiful; the and a stro sinewng net. guitar their with sing will They Conti Toni lves. and Maria themse outdid Lions Valley pond Grass Women and children walked along the banks of a of and real Hawaiian spirit. Leonard McQueen, a certainly deserve our thanks and maybe a bit thumping the ground with a stick until a hollow thud told anyone why will be home:and will entertain with tand ly, unders hopeful can’t I money. our a t for big enough burrow was under the ice. There a hole, jus : Check his ukelele. not. hope us Let it. g spoilin of think would through the frozen ground. The net was beaver, was dark. to p.m. 3 me to welcome, is Seems doing. Everyone are on what your kids pushed into the hole and hidden under the mud on the bottom. Two up is done in the hand holds were left on top of the ice on either side of the opening ; for the hunter to grab. While traps were being laid in all'the burrows that could be maybe most malicious mischief spirit of, how can we get at this thing. They don’t Darrin Woolever, age 12-years, who has been Spending the summer with his grandparents, the plan destruction just have too much curiosity _ Scott of Rough and Ready Road, will be Lichts and energy. returning home just in time to give Alice time to found, other hunters were busy at the beaver huts. At least one entrance to each hut had been found in the fall, before the pond iced Dorothy Darden’s suggestion that we don’t . practice her Hawaiian hand language a bit. a chop to matter simple a was it Now ce is sticks. ds with existen marked out ofir over, and rightgb feed our hummin I and me visit hole at each of these entrances and prepare the net. still They one. Conne Baer wants: me to remind all an important When a hunter was stationed at every burrow hole and over the haven't fed them for three years. They love our youngsters to register, now, for next year’s 4-H entrance to every hut in the pond, the signal was given. With axes silk tree (Albizia Juliabrissin). They sit more programs. Contact-either Nancy: Henderson or and chisels, Indians attacked the frozen walls yelling and and seem more relaxed in it than anywhere else. Conne, they are the adult co-leaders for the club screaming. Terrified beavers were captured as they swam franThey like the old-fashioned and very hardy for the 75-76 year. Don’t miss out on this tically from their homes over the waiting nets. Others were trapped Begonia (Trumpet Vine) ,and the wigela for program; 4-H is a real learning experience with as they swam to other huts or into the burrows, looking for a safe feeding. In my garden they also use the poker fun haven. If every burrow had been located, the beaver had no escape. pl i. Strange but they don’t seem t gladiol an and The Barnett children, the Cullen youngest, He was forced to come up for air sometime, or drown. It was. to care much for honeysuckle. Catherine Baer and her little niece and and possible to wipe out a whole colony with this method, though the Visantha and Christopher Gage are If you can’t refrain from feeding them use in s ved on dissol Indians never did. sugar po of as te 5% a; enjoying 4H camp this week. Christopher is this formul The mountain men who came after, using their steel traps, one cup boiling water and no coloring. Paint only two-years-old. were not so particular. In the short thirty-five years they held reign feeder or tie a bow or flower on it, if you . Mrs. Baer has just been installed as the 75-76 over the forests and streams of the west, the beaver population was must, but don’t use color. A strong sugar conthe of ing all but wiped out. harden fatal President. of Manzanita Parlor, Native tent in their food causes a the on fungus a rs of the Golden West. She was born in in s Daughte result honey g feedin liver; a causes ng in 1923 (said she didn’t mind-nice to Richmond tongue that is also fatal, and colori os. embry She is the daughter of Mr. and chick young). the so in be ities variety of deform Mrs. Reginald Steele. Conne attended schools in Much better to plant your garden full of Richmond and Berkeley and graduated in 1941. flowers that provide the nectar their miraculous She married Stanley Arlington Baer in. 1942. little bodies were designed to live upon. The Their first child, Susan, is now Mrs. Michael U.S.S. Dept. of Agri-Soil. on leaflet a Gage of Fairfield. The second child, Stanley e Servic conservation that would be ready to operate Arlington, is married and the couple make their Ahydro-electricic power plan’tt by 1978. plants birds love: It’s titled “Invite birds to your ne home in Grass Valley. Charles and Catheri at Rollins Reservoir may home” and is PA 940 published Dec. 1969. Soil The Tudor study showed a in life r his Mr. Baer lost are still at-home. be on tap for the Nevada that the Irrigation district conservation did have several others. Prope to moved infamily ct near The house
1962. the ri in and in feed accident st tractor i Di shrubs and trees not only could save anywhere from Rough and Ready in 1970. add beauty and protection to they birds future if they follow the advice ing terest a year on Conne has been an active member of the of a private firm that just $200,000 to $500,000 your home and soil. energy costs by building the “Attitled book a since she became a member of the Los hed the NDGW y on publis d stud has Sunset complete a facility at Rollins. Amigos Parlor in Walnut Creek in 1957. She ng birds to your garden.” It recommends tracti The engineering firm also served in that parlor as their president in 1969. Tudor Engineering, a well stated that P.G. & E. along . tubular or funnel shaped flowers in bright to , shades e orang and She is also a member of the Nevada County Past red ally in especi firm colors, known engineering with many other power firms Presidents Association. She attended the Native attract the hummers. California, reported to the in Northern would found s insect e minut Daughters Conference in Los Banos, California eat also rs The humme district’s Board of. Directors be interested in buying 3 in the throats of these flowers. They build their . in June of this year. Wednesday that with the “energy” from NID after they She is very proud of the work the Native costs of energy todav. it established their plant. nests (I should say she does-he may even take Daughters do in history and in children’s acanother mate) in trees or shrubs. Her nest is wo id be wise to build a plant Josph Weber, a P.G. & E. of size the about is g tivities. Proud also of the history room in the bowl shaped and the openin representitive at the meeting, ul powerf their of rate NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET stated Native Daughters’ retirement home in San rapid The dollar. a silver that ‘‘we’ll have to build of t amoun ous Francisco; an entire room is devoted to exlittle wings consumes an enorm 301 Broad Street or buy somewhere. Right and utes 10-min every tensive historical displays. about feed They energy. Nevada City, Co. now we're in a dilemma. of their bodies in sugar per weight the e consum We’re going to have. to 95959 Jim West, who won two top awards at the day. generate power somewhere, one 59 265-25 Teleph Discovery Fair in Placerville last week, Gold and it might be at Rollins, we Indulge yourself once in a while! It does has plans for doing it again each time the opjust don’t know.” things for your morale. I was raised to believe portunity presents. “Big Bertha and Little PUBLISHED EVERY The board of directors that that is a selfish attitude. Perhaps that is Martha,” his team of mares who drew the nowWEDNESDAY. BY listened to the Tudor study why I have waited so long to adda record player it famous covered wagon, will cooperate to please TY UN CO DA with great interest and told the NEVA to my home. I love the radio (FM) but often I . him. Little Martha is not called little because firm that all the ptssibilities doesn’t include enough of the particular music PUBLISHING CO. never she is small, though I think she is a tiny bit will be looked at before a final am interested in at the moment. They e tag pos ss cla ond Sec already smaller than Bertha, but because she is Bertha’s decision is made. . play enough Christmas music. I am own daughter. y, Cit da va Ne add. to at paid ming of some records I want drea The awards were for the top covered wagon In other NID_ business, California. Adjudicated After I returned from Hawaii last year my to make the 65-mile trip from Lake Tahoe ‘to ew sent me several beautiful really native Placerville and for the horse-drawn vehicle neph a legal” newspaper of Project, the ’ Yuba-Bear records. Last week I purchased a player to use division of the Gold Discovery Parade in reported on the outage repair general circulation by them. For several days now I have literally Placerville. Bertha and Martha and Jim will program that has been unthe Nevada County wallowed in Hawaiian music. Last night I even next be seen at our own district fair the end of nordistrict’s the derway at Superior Court, June 3, t sleep with it. The system turns itself off August. wento thern powerhouses and canals . all the records have played. The beautiful when 1960. Pretzer told the board that music brings back every minute of our lovely Decree No. 12,406. . work 00 Hawaiian visit. repair 0,0 almost $50in The kids next door have great fun. I used to done when the es: have been Rat ion ipt Subscr ian Hawai more to rd forwa g lookin I am think lambs must be the very cutest baby is completed. He also y Aug. 10 at Pioneer Park. animals; since the Abbotts have new baby goats One Year .. . $3.00 . Sunda on phere atmos that all the reservoirs A group of Democratic ladies, the Mmes. Fay -J am not so certain. Naturalists speak of the Two Years.. $5.00 be an re full and it should Dunbar, Evelyn Fuller, Charlotte Halstead, white tailed deer flying its flag. These four water year. »xeellent Conne Hamm, Marie Maxwell, Cora McMahon, babies, two beige and:two black, have the same _ Member of and Grace Miller, have been making leis and. type of tails. and they certainly hold. them . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER Classified ads work: -Hydro-electric plant considered for Rollins Bes “ye ae + PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . "eee ‘ ht they play. +: > up when . frangipani (Hibiscus) ' flowers for: extra ‘at-:: straig i ie a) a