June 10, 1965 (28 pages)

C96T ‘Eg ouNL***I0B3nN AuNOD epeAeN’** ~A _ NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the communities of Nevada gg Nap Vi Meg Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, ea Mooney chy Sweetlend, ig om Omega, French Corral, Rough and R. , Graniteville, North = Juan, North B Bleors field, eng ron Relief Hili, Washington, ‘ent, Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, ill, Peardale, Summit Ci ‘alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime K. 5 hicago P Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Sailor oe oe Fp Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bearden Hill, Scotch Hill, Nort Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brendy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hun’ Wii tio Val, soo inden Flan cues Birchville, hoille, Me corde Pies Fin, Gracy Flat,” emington Hill, Anthony House, D: Delirium Tremens. $9 jue Volume 39 Number 23 Show Goes On July 4th Plans Are plished Thursdays, Nevada City June 10, 1965 State Is Asked To Finish Freeway And Fix Colfax Highway *3T1eD ‘6 Stabilized Grass Valley's July 4th plans, which have had some ups and downs in recent weeks, moved ahead again a bit Monday after a meeting of the Chamber's celebration committee in the Chamber office. One of the time honored money making gambits for chambers of commerce is the selection of a queen. The queen is sponsored by a local organization, she and the sponsoring organization sell the tickets giving the holder an opportunity towin a variety of prizes. The queen candidate with the most ticket sales to her credit becomes the queen andthe chamber reaps the financail benefits of the sales, It has worked well in the past and even this year there seems to be no shortage of queen candidates, but there has been a universal shortage of sponsoring organizations, With the July 4 weekend just three weeks away, the situation was becoming just short of desperate so Chamber president Earl Covey called his celebration lieutenants together late yesterday afternoon to see what could be done, Bob Harrison, one of the queen committee chairmen, said he had made some inquiries and promised that he would have at least three sponsoring organizations and three candidates by the beginning of next week, William George, Jr., reported he would have one band for the July 5 parade and it was also announced that there was a good possibility that there would be three visiting bands from the Sacramento area, Itwas also announcedthat Manzanita Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West and Quartz Parlor of the Native Sons would combine for the dedication of a plaque on Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Grass Valley on July 4, The church, built in 1858, isthe oldest Episcopal Church structure in the state, The dedication ceremonies have been scheduled for 1 p,m. Covey was optimistic about the whole celebration and announced parade plans were going well, cooperation from the merchants was good and the Chamber was moving ahead with its plans for a big celebration. Another planning meeting has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Chamber office, WILLARD WARREN (left) Highway Engineer for District II, and Earl Covey, president of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, dis" cuss the freeway situation at the annual California Chamber of Commerce highway meeting held Tuesday night in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. Speedy completion ot the Grass Valley-Nevada City freeway was given top priority by Nevada City and Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce officials Tuesday night at the annual State Chamber highway meeting held in the Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Buildmg» Widening and straightening Colfax Highway from Grass Valley to the Bear River Bridge was moved up from the long term planning category to that of projects for surveys, designs and commencement of rights of way acquisition, The Press Is Given A Look At Huge New PG&E Hydro-Electric Project Up North By. Don Hoagland ‘In an atmosphere of first class accommodations and friendly frolic, representatives of the press from all over Northern California joinedwith executives of Pacific ICONTRAST--A PG&E engineer is dwarfed by the Gas& Electric Gompany last week to inspect that firm's largest current hydro-electric project. The project is the $100 million McCloud -Pit Project on the McCloud and Pit Rivers and Iron penstocks carrying water from the new Pit 7 Dam to drive the turbines of Pit 7 Powerhouse at the dam's base on the Pit River. PG&E's largest single hydroelectric project, The McCloud-Pit development, includes four major dams , 10 miles of tunnels and three powerhouses. Canyon.Creek in Shasta County. Newspaper publishers and editors, radio andtelevision station Owners and commentators and magazine publishers were carried by car, plane and bus from as far south as the lower San Joaquin Valley and as far north as Ukiah to meet PG&E's special luxury train for the tour north. The cost of the project is huge, but sois its scope, It will create four new major dams, three new power plants, add 330,000 kilowatts to PG&E's generating capacity and open up miles and miles of new lake shoreline to the recreationist in Shasta County. The new project, although designed primarily for power generation will also provide new flood control benefits, If these had been available last year during the floods in the north, the project would be much further ahead, The majority of the work on the main McCloud Dam was washed away by the flooding last year causing more than $1 million in damage to the project. Work is feverishly underway again on this site to complete this 235 foot high earth fill dam and although only about 40 feet of the embankment was in place last week, company officials firmly predict thatthe job will be completed this year, Newsmen on a project tour are always handed a sheaf of statistics, Thishappens because some newsmen like statistics, but it happens mostly because newsmen alwayscome up with a lot of questions about things which no one person could carry in their head, Sotheconstruction people (Continued on Page 6) About 40 Chamber and road officials from Nevada and Sierra Counties, the State Chamber and the Division of Highways attended the annual dinner meeting at which local road priorities are established for presentation by the California Chamber to the Highway Commission in August. District I11 Highway Engineer W. L. Warren reviewed the Cham ber recommendations of last year and their current status. Under projects for construction or rights of way allocations to permit prompt construction last year was the five mile’ freeway. A 3.5 mile section from Nevada City is currently under construction. Thesecond item in the top priority list last year was to straighten and improve Highway 49 from the top of the grade at the South Yuba through North San Juan. Warren said rights of way acquisition is now under way and designs are almost finished. Under the category for surveys, designs and commencement of (Continued on Page 28) Lou Hartman Takes Seat As New Supervisor Nevada County Supervisors heard a parade of department heads Monday as deliberations on the new budget continued. Supervisor Lou Hartman, appointed to the Third District seat last week by Gov, Brown, attended his first meeting. The board passed the following tentative budgets: SheriffCoroner, $207, 125 including one new deputy at the court house and four for Truckee; county jail, $15,459; Nevada City Constable, $2,642; Grass Valley constable, $3,860; Truckee. constable, $3, 735; juvenile hall, $22,443; probation department, $44, 469; agricultural commission ,$27,381; fish and game, $10,250; health department, $27,222; civil defense, $10,486; planning department, $20,121; public guardian, $4,058 and welfare, administration $170,022 and aid $1, 837, 000, Supervisors Don Blake and Lou Hartman were named to a committee to investigate the need for salary increases in the probation department. Public Guardian Nellie Kammerer asked that her position be changed to a full time job and Blake was named to investigate this request, £AVAQ}T 0384S “st 1e9 [BOTPot.s a3) uw Oo Ce uoy4 an

C96T ‘Eg ouNL***I0B3nN AuNOD epeAeN’** ~A _ NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the communities of Nevada gg Nap Vi Meg Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, ea Mooney chy Sweetlend, ig om Omega, French Corral, Rough and R. , Graniteville, North = Juan, North B Bleors field, eng ron Relief Hili, Washington, ‘ent, Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, ill, Peardale, Summit Ci ‘alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime K. 5 hicago P Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Sailor oe oe Fp Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bearden Hill, Scotch Hill, Nort Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brendy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hun’ Wii tio Val, soo inden Flan cues Birchville, hoille, Me corde Pies Fin, Gracy Flat,” emington Hill, Anthony House, D: Delirium Tremens. $9 jue Volume 39 Number 23 Show Goes On July 4th Plans Are plished Thursdays, Nevada City June 10, 1965 State Is Asked To Finish Freeway And Fix Colfax Highway *3T1eD ‘6 Stabilized Grass Valley's July 4th plans, which have had some ups and downs in recent weeks, moved ahead again a bit Monday after a meeting of the Chamber's celebration committee in the Chamber office. One of the time honored money making gambits for chambers of commerce is the selection of a queen. The queen is sponsored by a local organization, she and the sponsoring organization sell the tickets giving the holder an opportunity towin a variety of prizes. The queen candidate with the most ticket sales to her credit becomes the queen andthe chamber reaps the financail benefits of the sales, It has worked well in the past and even this year there seems to be no shortage of queen candidates, but there has been a universal shortage of sponsoring organizations, With the July 4 weekend just three weeks away, the situation was becoming just short of desperate so Chamber president Earl Covey called his celebration lieutenants together late yesterday afternoon to see what could be done, Bob Harrison, one of the queen committee chairmen, said he had made some inquiries and promised that he would have at least three sponsoring organizations and three candidates by the beginning of next week, William George, Jr., reported he would have one band for the July 5 parade and it was also announced that there was a good possibility that there would be three visiting bands from the Sacramento area, Itwas also announcedthat Manzanita Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West and Quartz Parlor of the Native Sons would combine for the dedication of a plaque on Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Grass Valley on July 4, The church, built in 1858, isthe oldest Episcopal Church structure in the state, The dedication ceremonies have been scheduled for 1 p,m. Covey was optimistic about the whole celebration and announced parade plans were going well, cooperation from the merchants was good and the Chamber was moving ahead with its plans for a big celebration. Another planning meeting has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Chamber office, WILLARD WARREN (left) Highway Engineer for District II, and Earl Covey, president of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, dis" cuss the freeway situation at the annual California Chamber of Commerce highway meeting held Tuesday night in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. Speedy completion ot the Grass Valley-Nevada City freeway was given top priority by Nevada City and Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce officials Tuesday night at the annual State Chamber highway meeting held in the Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Buildmg» Widening and straightening Colfax Highway from Grass Valley to the Bear River Bridge was moved up from the long term planning category to that of projects for surveys, designs and commencement of rights of way acquisition, The Press Is Given A Look At Huge New PG&E Hydro-Electric Project Up North By. Don Hoagland ‘In an atmosphere of first class accommodations and friendly frolic, representatives of the press from all over Northern California joinedwith executives of Pacific ICONTRAST--A PG&E engineer is dwarfed by the Gas& Electric Gompany last week to inspect that firm's largest current hydro-electric project. The project is the $100 million McCloud -Pit Project on the McCloud and Pit Rivers and Iron penstocks carrying water from the new Pit 7 Dam to drive the turbines of Pit 7 Powerhouse at the dam's base on the Pit River. PG&E's largest single hydroelectric project, The McCloud-Pit

development, includes four major dams , 10 miles of tunnels and three powerhouses. Canyon.Creek in Shasta County. Newspaper publishers and editors, radio andtelevision station Owners and commentators and magazine publishers were carried by car, plane and bus from as far south as the lower San Joaquin Valley and as far north as Ukiah to meet PG&E's special luxury train for the tour north. The cost of the project is huge, but sois its scope, It will create four new major dams, three new power plants, add 330,000 kilowatts to PG&E's generating capacity and open up miles and miles of new lake shoreline to the recreationist in Shasta County. The new project, although designed primarily for power generation will also provide new flood control benefits, If these had been available last year during the floods in the north, the project would be much further ahead, The majority of the work on the main McCloud Dam was washed away by the flooding last year causing more than $1 million in damage to the project. Work is feverishly underway again on this site to complete this 235 foot high earth fill dam and although only about 40 feet of the embankment was in place last week, company officials firmly predict thatthe job will be completed this year, Newsmen on a project tour are always handed a sheaf of statistics, Thishappens because some newsmen like statistics, but it happens mostly because newsmen alwayscome up with a lot of questions about things which no one person could carry in their head, Sotheconstruction people (Continued on Page 6) About 40 Chamber and road officials from Nevada and Sierra Counties, the State Chamber and the Division of Highways attended the annual dinner meeting at which local road priorities are established for presentation by the California Chamber to the Highway Commission in August. District I11 Highway Engineer W. L. Warren reviewed the Cham ber recommendations of last year and their current status. Under projects for construction or rights of way allocations to permit prompt construction last year was the five mile’ freeway. A 3.5 mile section from Nevada City is currently under construction. Thesecond item in the top priority list last year was to straighten and improve Highway 49 from the top of the grade at the South Yuba through North San Juan. Warren said rights of way acquisition is now under way and designs are almost finished. Under the category for surveys, designs and commencement of (Continued on Page 28) Lou Hartman Takes Seat As New Supervisor Nevada County Supervisors heard a parade of department heads Monday as deliberations on the new budget continued. Supervisor Lou Hartman, appointed to the Third District seat last week by Gov, Brown, attended his first meeting. The board passed the following tentative budgets: SheriffCoroner, $207, 125 including one new deputy at the court house and four for Truckee; county jail, $15,459; Nevada City Constable, $2,642; Grass Valley constable, $3,860; Truckee. constable, $3, 735; juvenile hall, $22,443; probation department, $44, 469; agricultural commission ,$27,381; fish and game, $10,250; health department, $27,222; civil defense, $10,486; planning department, $20,121; public guardian, $4,058 and welfare, administration $170,022 and aid $1, 837, 000, Supervisors Don Blake and Lou Hartman were named to a committee to investigate the need for salary increases in the probation department. Public Guardian Nellie Kammerer asked that her position be changed to a full time job and Blake was named to investigate this request, £AVAQ}T 0384S “st 1e9 [BOTPot.s a3) uw Oo Ce uoy4 an