July 31, 1968 (8 pages)

2 The Nevado County we July 31, 1968 ” Caainbie of Commerce? What do you think of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce, its accomplishments and how it can be improved? ERNIE HARRIES, bank manager: "The chamber has done the job of advertising th county to the outside, but the county hasn't prepared for the influx of tourists, This, I believe, should be one of the functions of the chamber." y is FREDERICK LOCK, title company: "The Junior Chamber of Commerce has done more to publicize the county than the county chamber has, I don't believe the county chamber has gotten off its feet yet." MIKE FERRANTE, engineering consultant: "Great organization, but there's lots of room for improvement. We should have more ways of displaying Nevada county by attending more outside functions, The present budget should be doubled." DOWNEY CLINCH, president hardware company: "The chamber has done a job in certain areas, Dut what they should have is a group of 35-50 people trained in various rate structures--electrical, sewer, water, etc.--able to acquaint potential new businesses with the county's setup, and the chamber of commerce would be able to call 4 or 5 of these informed people to assist in this. The chamber also should have greeters to welcome visitors and take them around the area," LOWELL LOLMAUGH, jeweler: John Gallegos, chamber secretary-manager, has done the finest job anyone could ae done for our county. DICK WORTH, pharmacist: "The chamber has done a good job and could do more if it had more money." *90.*.aatatelatstatetetatetetatatetatateteteretetetetete’ nt eMetatatetaetereteratatereteretetetetetetaletetetererenererecerrecererererezerecezerezezezezezezecececececeseatee 6a ee ecesessceatatatetetetatetotatatetetetetetonetereresesecseenoreeeeetatetceatetats te ectetatatetatetatatatatsteteteh NEVADA CITY Max Min July 24 92 45 July 25 92 44 July 26 91 47 July 27 94 51 July 28 97 54 July 29 94 58 July 30 92 61 Rainfall to date -0Rainfall last year -0GRASS VALLEY Max Min July 24 89 52 July 25 88 51 July 26 90 55 July 27 93 58 July 28 98 63 July 29 94 67 July 30 92 66 Rainfall to date -0Rainfall last year -0ooooooow ecooooocorn ON OR Ses 6 et oe ee Eta ca i ge iti fADIGC ERT ANSI Te JAD We e@ JAD wren Mac’s mulligan LOCAL COMMENT: ‘‘Some of you folks think these hippies are dirty, but they’re not. I saw a whole bunch of them taking a bath the other day--in our drinking water.” + +/+ SOMETHING’S got to be wrong when the US has to cut its mail service. Congress gets the blame this time for ordering manpower back to the 1966 level, But the thought bugs me that every time we get a new postmaster general something happens--usually postal rates go up and service down, Getting to be almost a scientific law. +++ AS A GIANT FAN, I think about the only good thing about National League baseball this year is the position of the LA Dodgers. +++ THE VA’S GI loan program is in its 25th year and continuing its successes, If you’d like to have an idea about how prices have soared in the past quarter of century or. so, take a look at these figures: In the GI loan program at the start interest was limited to 4 per cent. The present rate is six and threequarters, The guaranty offered by VA in the geginning was $2,000 or 50 per cent, then $4,000 or 50 per cent, $7,500 or 60 per cent, and now $12,500 or 60 per cent, whichever is less, What’ll it be in the next few years?+++ IN ISRAEL they are using . a law respecter. tranquilizing drugs to get the cows to produce more milk, ’tis said. Or maybe to get them to forget those Arabian bullets occasionally flying around. +++ MONKEYS MAY be harvesting crops before the end of the next decade, according to the American Dairy Assn. of California.Don Smith, an Anaheim psychologist, is quoted as saying that he wants to’make farmers out of monkeys because ‘‘monkeys can do many things as well as, or better than, man,”’ Might as well try it, ‘cause some farmers say the government’s been making monkeys out of them for some time. And if the simians are so adept, maybe we’ll have government by monkeys one of these days. Now why did you say that’s already happening? +++ ‘THE OTHER DAY. 4a little girl was heard singing ‘‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy.’’ Turned out her birthday was only a few days off. She should go far, that one. +++ GUNMAN to victim: ‘‘Hand over your poke before I shoot you with this registered sixshooter.’’ Nice to be held up by a THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR reports that the average earner’s weekly pay reached a record $104.63 in April, However, rising prices more than offset the increase in take-home pay. Real net spendable earnUnderrated Chinese played major role in mining era By Rye Slye In the previous issue the author undertook to underscore at least in part, the great efforts of the Chinese who worked so diligently and honorably in the gold mines of the Washington district years ago. Here is more about these laborers who played an important role: From a "Register of Domestic Money Orders" issued at the post office in Washington, from order number 1 issued on August 21, 1892, to order number 3,500 on October 19, 1899: A "Chinaman" bought money orders and signed his name as Lur Sing; Ah Wing, Yet Chang, Tuck Lee, Suey Yet Chang, Tuck Lee, Suey Chung, Ah Juan, Wah Hang, Sang Lee, Ah Bang, Hee Kee, Mee Lee, Fung Chung, Ah Kate, Wong Kaug, Yet Chung, Ah Kate, Wong Kaug, Yet Cat Ah Woo, Ah Soon, Ah Lu, Ah Lin, Fong Chow, Yah Moon, Poo Soo Chine, Wing Ye Lung, Sam Sing, Chung Lee, Ah Sam, Ah Foo, Way Kee, Ah Tom, Gee We Lung.” Ranging in sums from one to 100 dollars these money orders were made out mostly payable to Chinese names in Nevada City, Sacramento and San Francisco. 2K A few "A Chinaman" reached the Washington District very early in the 1850's, He first worked for Caucasian miners or worked over the gravel-and did very well--that the Caucasian gold-seekers passed up as being "poor." As gravel claims became “worked out" and hardrock mining came in, he worked in the tunnels side by side with the Caucasian miner, always for 30 to 40 per cent less pay and doing the harder work--mucking. "A Chinaman" formed companies, taking up or leasing mining gorounds from Caucasian owners. In groups, they located good timber and cut lagging and posts to sell to Caucasian miners. (It is suggested that you read "China Gold" by Theresa A. Sparks. This book seems to be the only written record of Chinese mining activity in the Washington district.) ings (take-home pay in 1957-59 dollars) dropped 13 cents to $77.64 for a worker with three dependents. Noting the development, ‘‘Washington Report,”’ official publication of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said that unless Congress and the Administration agree on a plan to combat inflation, real spendable earnings (purchasing power) will continue to decline, The Chamber further commented: ‘‘Odd — Pay goes up, but we take a pay cut.’’ Don’t forget the surtax, as if you can, Convention time Every four years we are treated, if that's the right word, to political conventions that point up that even the serious people involved in selecting candidates like the carnival atmosphere so reminiscent of the long, long ago. But there is a feeling throughout the land that the time has come to change the format, to eliminate the signs and ballyhoo on the convention floor and get down to faster and less kidlike work. Whether more serious conduct out in the open for everyone to see would signify the selection of more capable candidates is subject to,debate. But it would be interesting to see if cutting out the antics would be effective.’ Of course we don't expect such a change to take place this year. It is too late for that. But it might be worth considering four years from now. But as one wily politician points out when we discussed the change with him several years ago: ''The ballyhoo and noise are just decorations, The real work is still done in 'the smoke-filled rooms." If he's right about that, then there's no need for a floor show. Just settle. it behind closed doors, and then tell the people what has been decided. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, $01 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5.00. 1987 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION

2 The Nevado County we July 31, 1968 ” Caainbie of Commerce? What do you think of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce, its accomplishments and how it can be improved? ERNIE HARRIES, bank manager: "The chamber has done the job of advertising th county to the outside, but the county hasn't prepared for the influx of tourists, This, I believe, should be one of the functions of the chamber." y is FREDERICK LOCK, title company: "The Junior Chamber of Commerce has done more to publicize the county than the county chamber has, I don't believe the county chamber has gotten off its feet yet." MIKE FERRANTE, engineering consultant: "Great organization, but there's lots of room for improvement. We should have more ways of displaying Nevada county by attending more outside functions, The present budget should be doubled." DOWNEY CLINCH, president hardware company: "The chamber has done a job in certain areas, Dut what they should have is a group of 35-50 people trained in various rate structures--electrical, sewer, water, etc.--able to acquaint potential new businesses with the county's setup, and the chamber of commerce would be able to call 4 or 5 of these informed people to assist in this. The chamber also should have greeters to welcome visitors and take them around the area," LOWELL LOLMAUGH, jeweler: John Gallegos, chamber secretary-manager, has done the finest job anyone could ae done for our county. DICK WORTH, pharmacist: "The chamber has done a good job and could do more if it had more money." *90.*.aatatelatstatetetatetetatatetatateteteretetetetete’ nt eMetatatetaetereteratatereteretetetetetetaletetetererenererecerrecererererezerecezerezezezezezezecececececeseatee 6a ee ecesessceatatatetetetatetotatatetetetetetonetereresesecseenoreeeeetatetceatetats te ectetatatetatetatatatatsteteteh NEVADA CITY Max Min July 24 92 45 July 25 92 44 July 26 91 47 July 27 94 51 July 28 97 54 July 29 94 58 July 30 92 61 Rainfall to date -0Rainfall last year -0GRASS VALLEY Max Min July 24 89 52 July 25 88 51 July 26 90 55 July 27 93 58 July 28 98 63 July 29 94 67 July 30 92 66 Rainfall to date -0Rainfall last year -0ooooooow ecooooocorn ON OR Ses 6 et oe ee Eta ca i ge iti fADIGC ERT ANSI Te JAD We e@ JAD wren Mac’s mulligan LOCAL COMMENT: ‘‘Some of you folks think these hippies are dirty, but they’re not. I saw a whole bunch of them taking a bath the other day--in our drinking water.” + +/+ SOMETHING’S got to be wrong when the US has to cut its mail service. Congress gets the blame this time for ordering manpower back to the 1966 level, But the thought bugs me that every time we get a new postmaster general something happens--usually postal rates go up and service down, Getting to be almost a scientific law. +++ AS A GIANT FAN, I think about the only good thing about National League baseball this year is the position of the LA Dodgers. +++ THE VA’S GI loan program is in its 25th year and continuing its successes, If you’d like to have an idea about how prices have soared in the past quarter of century or. so, take a look at these figures: In the GI loan program at the start interest was limited to 4 per cent. The present rate is six and threequarters, The guaranty offered by VA in the geginning was $2,000 or 50 per cent, then $4,000 or 50 per cent, $7,500 or 60 per cent, and now $12,500 or 60 per cent, whichever is less, What’ll it be in the next few years?+++ IN ISRAEL they are using . a law respecter. tranquilizing drugs to get the cows to produce more milk, ’tis said. Or maybe to get them to forget those Arabian bullets occasionally flying around. +++ MONKEYS MAY be harvesting crops before the end of the next decade, according to the American Dairy Assn. of California.Don Smith, an Anaheim psychologist, is quoted as saying that he wants to’make farmers out of monkeys because ‘‘monkeys can do many things as well as, or better than, man,”’ Might as well try it, ‘cause some farmers say the government’s been making monkeys out of them for some time. And if the simians are so adept, maybe we’ll have government by monkeys one of these days. Now why did you say that’s already happening? +++ ‘THE OTHER DAY. 4a little girl was heard singing ‘‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy.’’ Turned out her birthday was only a few days off. She should go far,

that one. +++ GUNMAN to victim: ‘‘Hand over your poke before I shoot you with this registered sixshooter.’’ Nice to be held up by a THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR reports that the average earner’s weekly pay reached a record $104.63 in April, However, rising prices more than offset the increase in take-home pay. Real net spendable earnUnderrated Chinese played major role in mining era By Rye Slye In the previous issue the author undertook to underscore at least in part, the great efforts of the Chinese who worked so diligently and honorably in the gold mines of the Washington district years ago. Here is more about these laborers who played an important role: From a "Register of Domestic Money Orders" issued at the post office in Washington, from order number 1 issued on August 21, 1892, to order number 3,500 on October 19, 1899: A "Chinaman" bought money orders and signed his name as Lur Sing; Ah Wing, Yet Chang, Tuck Lee, Suey Yet Chang, Tuck Lee, Suey Chung, Ah Juan, Wah Hang, Sang Lee, Ah Bang, Hee Kee, Mee Lee, Fung Chung, Ah Kate, Wong Kaug, Yet Chung, Ah Kate, Wong Kaug, Yet Cat Ah Woo, Ah Soon, Ah Lu, Ah Lin, Fong Chow, Yah Moon, Poo Soo Chine, Wing Ye Lung, Sam Sing, Chung Lee, Ah Sam, Ah Foo, Way Kee, Ah Tom, Gee We Lung.” Ranging in sums from one to 100 dollars these money orders were made out mostly payable to Chinese names in Nevada City, Sacramento and San Francisco. 2K A few "A Chinaman" reached the Washington District very early in the 1850's, He first worked for Caucasian miners or worked over the gravel-and did very well--that the Caucasian gold-seekers passed up as being "poor." As gravel claims became “worked out" and hardrock mining came in, he worked in the tunnels side by side with the Caucasian miner, always for 30 to 40 per cent less pay and doing the harder work--mucking. "A Chinaman" formed companies, taking up or leasing mining gorounds from Caucasian owners. In groups, they located good timber and cut lagging and posts to sell to Caucasian miners. (It is suggested that you read "China Gold" by Theresa A. Sparks. This book seems to be the only written record of Chinese mining activity in the Washington district.) ings (take-home pay in 1957-59 dollars) dropped 13 cents to $77.64 for a worker with three dependents. Noting the development, ‘‘Washington Report,”’ official publication of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said that unless Congress and the Administration agree on a plan to combat inflation, real spendable earnings (purchasing power) will continue to decline, The Chamber further commented: ‘‘Odd — Pay goes up, but we take a pay cut.’’ Don’t forget the surtax, as if you can, Convention time Every four years we are treated, if that's the right word, to political conventions that point up that even the serious people involved in selecting candidates like the carnival atmosphere so reminiscent of the long, long ago. But there is a feeling throughout the land that the time has come to change the format, to eliminate the signs and ballyhoo on the convention floor and get down to faster and less kidlike work. Whether more serious conduct out in the open for everyone to see would signify the selection of more capable candidates is subject to,debate. But it would be interesting to see if cutting out the antics would be effective.’ Of course we don't expect such a change to take place this year. It is too late for that. But it might be worth considering four years from now. But as one wily politician points out when we discussed the change with him several years ago: ''The ballyhoo and noise are just decorations, The real work is still done in 'the smoke-filled rooms." If he's right about that, then there's no need for a floor show. Just settle. it behind closed doors, and then tell the people what has been decided. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, $01 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5.00. 1987 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION