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BET and TRI-COUNTY NEWS
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Garena Signs Many Bills Into Law;
Local School Districts Do Well
[ Governor Edmund G. Brown
last week signed more than 150
bills into law, including a $2,224,944,533 budget for the 1959-60
fiscal year which contained $636,500,000. in state aid for local school
districts.
The Governor cut $1,168,110
out of the budget as it was sent
to him by the State Legislature.
He reduced three items and
blue-penciled one other in its
*} entirety for a total of $668,110.
In addition, at the request. of
the University of California, he
blue-penciled $500,000 reappropriated from unspent 1958-59
a aa aetna socal llc incon
Sar Se Oh Sevage lat MS Tal
Groundbreaking for the $1,576,000 sewage treatment giaxtt
of the South Tahoe Public Utiltate rates
ity District will be-held July 7
More~ thek tirecraskiseg: “were. .
with State Treasurer Bert A,
Betts as speaker.
Secretary Earle Pankost of the
Popping this July 4th as Califop-. ~
nia POPulation exploded through
to a new all-time high of 15 mildistrict. said health officials of
California and Nevada and memlion people. California passed ‘the
growth landmark of 15million . .
bers of the county board. of: supervisors have been invited to
people on July 4th, according to
S. J. Arnold, general manager of
attend.
The construction contract has
been awarded to the firm of C.
Norman. Peterson, Inc., of Berkeley and Pankost said the facility
the statewide California Taxpayers Association.
On January 1, 1959, the association estimated the state pepulation at 14,784,00. During 1958,
D AT CAMP BEALE MAY 16-17
the state has responsibility in the
field, it will be carried out by
the Department of Veterans Af-.
fairs: The Governor left $209,240
in the budget for this item.
He said the $350,000 left in the
budget for county veterans service officers is the same level of
appropriation provided for this
item two years ago and “should
be sufficient to render adequate
service.”
Governor Brown said he left
money in the budget for mosquito *
abatement research and reports
but eliminated ‘subventions to
districts because they can handle
the problem as other sanitation
is scheduled for completion early
in 1961.
The treatment plant site is on
Johnson Road two miles south of
Highway 50..
Boy Scout Camp
excess of births over deaths and
immigration over emigration of
the state had a net gain from. funds which the Legislature had
earmarked for the purchase of a
university campus site at La Jolla.
problems are handled.
was blue-penciled because
The aecqueduct study ime &
Governor Brown said he took
the latter action because the university’ board of regents indicated it would take steps to purchase the site out of presently
available funds.’ .
“Il commend the members. of
the Legislature for one of the
Pahatsi Opened
“Camp Pahatsi, located in the
Soda Springs area on Kilborn
Lake, opened Saturday, July 4,
for the 29th year.
During recent weekends volunabout 1,200 per day. Continuation
of this rate of growth brought the
state to the 15 million levefabout
July 4th, Arnold stated.
At the time of the. 1950 census,
California had a population of
10,586,223. Growth to 15 million .
Department of Water Resources
said it is mot prepared at this
time to make the study. Governor
Brown pointed out that the preposed extension is not part of
the contemplated South Bay acqueduct, for which funds are in
Lieutenant Colonel Floyd R. Creasman. commander Beale Air Force Base: Senator Ed Johnteer groups have painted the. Tepresents a gain of over 44 son: Walt Butz, Nevada City: Supstvisor Wheat. {iviicc baducts ‘in the states. the budget. es
buildings inside and out, built. Million. If growth continues at] you Carp land: Bert See, president Nevada City Chamber nintoey.* Sona tial Brown said. By far the largest eS ee
new tent platforms, painted boats,. the same rate to April, 1960, Picttire are Jirh ef Commerce: Deputy Commander J. Brown. “However, after a thorough] the budget was that for state
-aid to local school districts.
It sets the apportionment figure per unit of average daily attendance at $201.10, up $7.73 from
the present figure of $193.37 per
unit. The figure had been sched-_
uled to si int to ope
his puget He Pointed oak . that
the resulting total a
of $636,500,000 is $24,300,000 over
(Continued on Page a.
Sumn
date of the next census, population will be approximately 16.3
million <This will represent a
growth of 4.7 million during the
decade, which compares with
growth during the preceding
decade from 1940 to 1950 of 3.7
million persons,
“Actually,” .Mr. Arnold -said;. ~:
. “the © state may already have
reached: the 15 million mark be-]
cause good business conditions
tend to accelerate in-migration
and conditions during the first
half of 1959 have been considerably better than those prevailing
rewired the camp, and completed
yj many other projects that will add
to the enjoyment and comfort of!
the campers. «. oe
: The junior staff has been hard
= at work since last Saturday erecting tents, installing the waterfront, painting, and getting the
camp . ready for the ae aie
campers from Troops 50, 29( 9
and 24.
Medical chkek-ins will be held
each Saturday with doctors from
the county medical group assisting under the direction of Dr.
Tom Rossitto of Auburn. Regisitem-by-item examination of the
budget iwth Director of Finance
Bert Levit and his staff. I concluded there were still areas in
which economies could be made,”
he declared.
“Accordingly, I reduced. veterans. claims and Tights @ield Bill)
. Propriations. ei county "veterans
4 service officers by $150,000, and
{appropriations for mosquito .
abatement by $209,000,” he said.
The Governor also deleted in
its entirety an item for $120,000
appropriated for surveys and
In the background are Tabe Bishop, supervisor,
Grass Valley: Dick Heather, then mayor of
Grass Valley, (Photo by John Woodworth, San
Francisco.)
It is expected that within the) feel will be a prehide to the elima
next few days the House and/. ination of the entire tax in the] The success of Assemblyman,
near future. The excise tax ap-. Paul J. Lunardi (DRoseville) in Senate will agree to reduce: the
excise “travel tax” from 10 to.$/ plies to railroads, buses and airguiding through the Legislature
The. transportation tax works~a
j durin gthe first half of 1958, er cent, lines, , ‘ng . study of the possibility of extend: tered nurses ‘will also be in at-7" «since it is axiomatic that in-. ~ F Shel oalied 5 ee ere © sae FONT th TO cand South Bay actendance each week. : ; : Along with many of my col; new precedent in local project . 428 “& Prop Mg
eee creased population requires addi-. jeagues from the western states, BOOKLET ISSUED ON water financing was lauded last . @Ueduct into San Mateo County.
Camping schraate toes 45 . tional and expanded government/1 have advocated that tle tax SHELTERS week by a top mountain count Of his reduction of the -Field : :
follows: services at all levels,” Mr. Arnold) sould .be eliminated entirely. ia ult of @ series of recent . water leader. ¥)Bill appropriation, Governor School bells will be ringing this __
First period: July 4 to 11. continued, “it becomes even more 3 age a ” Brown said he has always felt the ak le At
Brier
Second period: July 11 to 18.
Third period: July 18 to 25.
Fourth period: July 25 to August 1.
There will be plenty of room
for more Scouts each period; register with your scoutmaster.
Sutter Co. Gains
In Crop Values
Sutter Agricultural
sioner ‘T.-D. Urbahns has issuéd .
Commisimperative that all spending programs, regardless of. apparent
merit, be scrutinized closely to
determine their absolute necessity in order to avoid overburdening the taxpayer any further.”
Nevada County Lets
Airport Paving Job
The Board of Supervisors of
Nevada County voted 3-2. to
award Huntington Brothers a
028,985 contract for paving the
runway at the county airport.
Forester Promoted
particular hardship-on those of
us from the West who have to
travel great distances to reach
the major centers of population
in the mid-West and East. If the
House and Senate agree to the
proposed reduction it, will be a
step in the right direction, and I
To Be Supervisor
hearings by the respective committees of the House and Senate,
attention has been directed to the
public as to the dangers of fallout in the event there should be
made that there will be a fair
a nuclear attack. Presumption is
portion of our population to survive such an attack..
On this theory the Office of
Civil and Defense Mobilization
has published a booklet, “The
Family Fallout Shelter,” which
tells how to build a home shelter.
The booklet includes an excellent explanation of the danger
Placer Counties, to provide essential irrigation. water for the
area served by the district.
The. fact that the district obtained the loan establishes its
eligibility for an additional grant
The Lunardi bill qualifies the
South Sutter Water District for
a $1,260,000 loan from the state
toward financing a new and improved dam in the Bear River
Canyon, located at the site of a
present existing dam owned by
the Camp Far West Irrigation
‘District comprising Sutter and
prosecution of veterans claims is
propertly a federal function but
that the state should assume any
responsibility which properly belongs to it.
For. that reason, he left $298,350 in budget to permit the state
to continue its present contracts
with the various veterans organizations until January 1, 1960.
Thereafter, to the extent that
i
summer in Nevada
8:45 a.m. last Monday, July ‘6.
both the: Nevada City and Gold
Flat Elementary Schools started —
summer school programs. ey
curriculum includes i
in English,
and science. Classes are '
at 1:25 p.m, each day, leavin
the boys and girls plenty of time
in the afternoon for. swimming
and fishing.
$1] Out Of $11 Tax!
While the schools do not . ;
of $4,875,000 in federal funds for
the same. project:
Joseph Dewey, secretary=manager of the South Sutter Water.
District, declared that because of
Lunardi’s able handling of the
legislation “the door has been
opened on a new method of financing local water development
“. throughout the mountain county
area.”
Dewey said the Lunardi bill
will establish a workable pattern for financing of local projects in cooperation wtih state
development of the California
Water Plan.
. The board also voted to pay
$1,450 to-T. H. McGuire & Sgns
or 5 per cent of the accepted bid
for preliminary engineering.
Rough & Ready Man To
Leave Pearl Harbor :
Oral M. Wilson, chief gunner’s
mate, USN,-son of Mrs. Bessie
Wilson of Rough and Ready, and
husband of the former Miss Marion C. Fiorelli of Colfax, is
scheduled to depart from Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, tomorrow (July
10) aboard the destroyer escort
USS Fletched to begin a fiveof heavy concentrations of radioactive fall-out, and explains protective measures that can be taken
by families in Ser homes.
Harry D. Grace, who has been
assistant sucorvisor of the ShastaTrinity National Forests for the
past few years, is being transferred and promoted to the position of forest supervisor, Stanislaus National Forest, with headquarters at Sonora, California, ac-'
‘cording to Regional Forester
Chas. A, Connaughton. Mr. Grace
replaces Supervisor Russel P. McRorey, who is being transferred
to Portland; Oregon, regional
headquarters for the Northwest
Region. Mr. Grace’s transfer will
be effective July 12, 1959.
t
1 his annual report on farm crop
values for the calendar year 1958
showing a gain of $1,711,450 over
the total of the previous year.
The values, with prices based
on farm values rather than packed
or processed value, total $43,014,649.
The county’s all-time high was
in 1956. when the total was $49,380,820.
Urbahns reported increases in
truck and field crop values were
responsible chiefly for the raise.
Fruit and nut crops, with values
of slightly more than $14,000,000,
Louis Cosans, district su
tendent, is principal of
vada City Elementaryduring the summer sé
Returns To Calif.
Californians accpeted $1 in federal aid_last year for every $11 :
sent to Washington by way of . George Marquard is selachaen Gaal
tax collections’~The fiscal year. fifth and sixth grade teacher
1958 saw $6,753,950;000 paid in , ontar’
taxes from the.state with $611,-. Regular teachers in the distri
951,000 being returned through. involved in the program
one of severad grants-in-aid pro-. Mrs. Jean Pearson, who
grams. : fourth grade at Nevada Ci
In checking nine major grants. mentary; Mrs. Mary St
in-aid projects sponsored by the. teaches fi
federal government, the National at the Gold Flat-School, ;
Association of Manufacturers} Marjorie Cox, who
three and four at Gold
_ Arnold Thorsen, recently _re: A elected “Lunardi is serving his first . noted in a release last week that
remained practically the same for . jonth tour of duty with the US. Mr. Grace started his career Rasce ee Grass V; Flee nok x term in the Legislature,” Dewey. only two had direct importance. Visiting faculty
the last two years and nearly $5,-. Seventh Fleet in the Far East. . im 1934 as a fire lookout on the: ". Richard Heather, at the a noted, “and the very fact that} for Californians as a whole. Most . Rosemary Thibault, Niles
000,900) under:the 1958 revord. The Fletcher will operate in. Angeles National Forest. For sev4 as a freshman he was able tolof the funds went to individuals. first amd second
reorganization session recently.
City Clerk Lois Goldsberry
Swore in Thorsen and also Councilman Jay Myers for another
term. Councilman Jack Hodge
was elected asisstant mayor.
Heather thanked the city department heads and praised the
city clerk and Police Chief Frank
Knuckey. ce
Although Sutter is considered
in the Peach Bowl of the World,
it was field crops and -not fruit
production which led the local
values. Field crop returns totaled
$18,294,058. .
G.V. Rotary Club
Installs New Staff
eral. years he worked seasonal
jobs in fire prevention and suppression work. After graduating
from Utah State Agricultural College with a degree in forestry he
received a. professional forester
appointment. He served as assistant district ranger, district ranger,
and ‘staff fire control office be-'
fore going to the assignment of
in the form of welfare payments . vada City Elementary
or veterans’ benefits. lyn Keith from Ma
The two public a were . ‘ . C
highway construction and. mainsenanee Gad agricultural conservCity; M Mrs. teleee:
ation, Highway development .also. Valley School —
received far and away the second . grade;; Mrs. Kitty Bagley,
largest monetary share, $132,273,-. at the Nevada Union Hig!
346 ,of any of the nine programs}has the sumz
which constituted 74 per cent of. grade
obtain this substantial financial
assistance for his district is a
testimonial to his ability. :
“The voters of the Sixth Assembly District chose wisely when
they. sent Lunardi to Sacramento. bh
The state funds will come from
the California Water Fund or
}from proceeds of a bond issue
Japanese waters as a unit of the
fleet’s anti-submarine warfare
hunter-killer group, and will also
take part in various training exercises with other units.
“Ports of call scheduled by the
vessel will includé Japan, the
Philippines, Kong Kong and TaiNevada City Man New
ee eee authorized by the Legislature/ total federal assistance spent at/tary; .
C5 Bee gah J. Best bee gets ©. Serving In Western Pacific Eldorado, Sea ed mor Hi ede ‘Grass V for development of statewide. state levels last year. 4 teacher in the
i oe ee “ff oe moia hSasta~ a water projects. Terms of the loan} Largest share of the District,
ceeding Wayne. Brown, Nevada} Walter J. Packwood, chiéf aviNe Forests. Proj g money ‘can has
will be negotiated by the state
and the South Sutter Water District.
Lunardi said he has had “comwent to old age assistance,
startling $132,969,946. Keres, The sun
tural conservation claimed the! will conc
least amount of grant money with : :
ation machinist’s mate, USN, of
Nevada: City, with Helicopte
Anti-Submarine Squadron . g.
County sheriff, at installation
ceremonies condutted by John
Lee, governor-elect of District
No. 519. ‘ serving in the Western Pacific lete and effective cooperation” . $3,015,227.
Shirley Brattin was masta of} as a unit of the US. Sel °U. S. Senators Thomas. Veterans’
] ceremonies. Fleet. See Buchel and Clair Engle and Con-. fj
More .than 80 Rotarians and}. The flagship f t]. gressmen. Harold ‘T. “Bizz” Johnwives attended the installation in. mander urier Divis son and John Moss, who are. ming
H . Bret Harte Inn:
ie Other 1959-60 officers included ;
: Wayne Brown, vice president;
Verne Jonés, secretary-treasurer,
ype Bit Georse: Harold Hedman, . ; a
working out arrangements fot the
ses. federal grant toward finar
the project. ae oe
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