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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

July 4, 1973 (12 pages)

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4 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., July 4, 1973 Prospector’s dream THE PROSPECTOR'S DREAM is on display at Placer Savings and Loan in Grass Valley. This quartz gold specimen weighs 22 pounds and contains an estimated 54 ounces of gold. It is valued at about $20,000. The quartz gold came from one of the last major hard rock gold mines in operation, the 16-1 near Alleghany in Sierra county. Placer Savings is putting the gold on display as part of the decoration for the 4th of July celebration — and today is the first anniversary of the business in Grass Valley. Manager Chris Schaaf of the local branch displays the local quartz which will be locked up for safekeeping at night. Buck Owens starts at Music Circus SACRAMENTO Buck Owens, one of America’s most popular country western singers, will bring his Buckaroos, together with Susan Raye, Buddy Alan, and Tony Booth to the big Music Circus tent for a week, starting July 9th. Curtain time will be 8:30 Time > . CARL Rotate, Inflate and Inspect All 5 Tires for $1.88 RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO. ING. » singer-composer, nightly except for Sunday (July 15th) when there will be an early 7:30 curtain. Music Circus is located at 15th and H Streets. Buck Owens is well on his way to being an American legend — his rise from a boyhood in a sharecropper’s family, which traveled from Texas to Arizona to California, to a popular always spreading the gospel of country music, has made him a favorite entertainer with audiences all over the world for a quarter . century. Buck had his own radio show , when he was only 16, was married at 17 and a father at 18. In 1951, at the age of 20, Buck moved his family to Bakersfield where he formed a band called Schoolhouse Playboys. He spent many days sweating through California playing guitar with the band, and sometimes playing sax and trumpet. By the time he was 23 he realized he wanted to make country music his career and decided the best way to do it was to become a song writer as well. His first hit was Down On The Corner of Love. Later came his next hit, Under Your —Spell Again, and from then on his string of hit records is un‘matched, all performed with the same good-natured, sincere, twangy sensibility that made Buck such a big star. Buck’s success is a matter of hard work and lots of talent. Even more than that, however, it’s a matter of staying with the people, not getting away from the beat of the land. Buck sings about loneliness, and you know he’s felt it. His favorite hit is Together Again, because ‘‘most everyone, at one time or another, can associate himself with that song. As Buck sings ,about love and little things like private heartbreak, joy, and other commonplace events people everywhere all understand his song. Buck is known as country music’s best friend because he has helped the careers of many. artists who have gone on to become stars — like Merle Haggard, Freddie Hart, Red Simpson, and Susan Raye who will appear in Sacramento at Music Circus with Buck and the Buckaroos. Beale sets policy for Air Force personnel living on Beale are not unlike people everywhere; unwanted solicitors can be troublesome. To prevent unwanted solicitors from soliciting on base, the Air Force has set up this policy. According to Air Force regulations, solicitation is defined as selling or attempting to sell goods or services, including life insurance, motor vehicle liability insurance, mutual funds and _ securities. Solicitation in this context, means making an appointment for the purpose of selling. To solicit on Beale, a person must meet three conditions: First, the base commander must authorize it;: second, a solicitor must be invited by a base resident; and third, all persons authorized to sell or solicit must have an original letter bearing the personal Signature of the base commander. People wishing to solicit on affairs, bldg. 2432, and apply to solicit. The request to seli on
base will be sent to the base commander for approval. If approved, the following practices will be prohibited. —Making appointments with on base solictation or soliciting military personnel who are in an ‘‘on-duty”’ status. —Procurring or supplying (or attempting to procure or supply) rosters or listings to any person for the purpose of solicitation, direct or indirect. —Offering unfair or deceptive inducements to purchase or trade. ‘ --Using any manipulative, deceptive or fraudulent device, scheme or artifice, including misleading advertising and sales literature. —Soliciting recruits, trainees and transient personnel in a “mass” or “‘captive’’ audience. Solicitation by a military member of another member who is equal to or lower in grade, whether on or off duty, in or out of uniform, on or off a military installation at any time. --The distribution, or availability for distribution, of literature other than to the person being interviewed. To be invited by a resident, a solicitor must give a telephone number to the security police at one of Beale’s gates. The security police will call the party and verify the appointment. Three join resource conservation district Three new cooperators signed agreements with the Nevada County Conservation District in June indicating their interest to utilize technical assistance from the District in the sound application of conservation practices on their properties. Hugh Webber plans to use his 20 acres for dryland pasture and Christmas trees located-on Dog Bar Road. Five acres on Harmony Ridge Road will be used for a pond. and reforestation by Howard Sweat. 1200 students receive grants Some 1200 students at seven colleges within the Second Congressional District . will receive grants to continue their studies this fall. Among the colleges and students receiving grants are 99 at Sierra College for a total of $46,360. These are work-study grants which pay up to 80 per cent of the student’s expenses. Another 665 students will receive financial help through supplemental education opportunity grants with 57 students at Sierra to receive a total of $40,052. A third federal assistance program for college students goes to 756 students through the loan program. In this program 04 students at Sierra will be eligible for loans. An additional ten acres owned by Walter Porterfield and located on Blue Tent Road will be used for pasture. New Conservation Plans were completed for nine additional landowners in the District this month and several aspects -of engineering was provied to numerous cooperating landowners. The District, through their technical staff, also rendered assistance to California Division of Highways, Grass Valley and Nevada City Planning Departments. . In addition, the Board of Directors of the District have submitted a complete revision of the proposed Nevada County Conservation and Open Space Element of the general plan to Stanley. Mansfield, Nevada County Planning Director, Robert Long, Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, and Robert Caris, Chairman of the County Planning Commission. The revised conservation element_includes. consideration of the needs of people in their uses of our natural resources; a series of considerations and recommendations relating to agricultural land uses and theWilliamson Act; comments and recommendations for simplification of the element and inclusion of consideration of the experience of conservation practices developed through nearly 30 years of sustained service to local landowners and entities of local government.