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July 9, 1959 (6 pages)

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ee July 6 ...... 91 JUSS occa Oe 2 ow wn we nnnes eee BET and TRI-COUNTY NEWS GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK. CHEROKEE, MOONEY “LD, HUMBUG, RELIEF HILL. WASHINGTON, ND, ' BLUE TENT, LaBARR bet BO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL. LIBERTY HILL. SAILOR FLAT. LAKE CITY, a QUAKER HILL. wy : UMB UMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT. SEBASTOPOL, . July 7 3. soe ature WILLO ALLEY. ! FLAT, REMINGTON HILL. ANTHONY IONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. auiy : og 82 54 ake cacmenereetaranearecneere ee PSPS EE ee OP ics Sacked dein 33rd Year, No. 28 ee Nevada City Coker Valley, Rain last year....;... 72.16 $3.00 Par Yani ‘er_Year—Single i ant i Cents SRE SS EGE ea 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 7a OR FALSE xg