June 22, 1966 (20 pages)

NUGGET Q..Nevada County Nugget..June 22, 1966 COUNTY +@ aw GOLD POLES ARE NOT ENOUGH We were delighted to hear the Grass Valley merchants and the city fathers get behind the idea of painting Mill Street awning poles gold and creating the promotional concept of a "trail of gold" for the downtown area. This is a laudable step for at least two good reasons. First it indicates the merchants and the city dads are finally realizing the value of such promotional gimmicks. Secondly, it indicates that some people are finally willing to do something about it. But before the city merchants go plugging Mill Street on a piecemeal basis, it might be welltoask what happened to the mall concept. The city council last week told a merchant group they thought the "trail of gold" idea was a good one, but they could not contribute financially because they were committed to the Mill Street mall. Which raises fhe question of just whatever happened to the mall? A study of the mall idea with. parking facilities on both sides of the street was done some time ago by the city engineering firm of T. H. McGuire & Sons. Then the city dads votedthe same firm $2,500 for another study of the feasibility of creating a Mill Street mall. We think that promoting Mill Street is a good idea so is the idea to create a mall. We hope, when the engineer's report finally comes out TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Do you mind if I go back a few years to 1891? I am writing about the trolley cars we had between N.C. and G.V. Theyhad a hell of a time with them at first. They could hardly make it up Sacramento St. and one of them got stuck in front of Hieronemus Brewery. I don't know who was dry the car or the crew who were, as I remember, Frank Howard, motorman and Edward Skewes. I gave the conductor a hard time all the way from G.V. to N.C. I would get on the back end and Skewes would have the car stop and he would chase me off, but when the car started up again I was onit. I hada free ride toN.C. as far as the Plaza. They were afraid to go over the Broad St. bridge and I didn't blame them because the Commercial St. bridge went down after the Union Hotel bus just got over the end. Lused to like to ride the stages. . Going. down to Marysville the stage would stop at Smartville and the passengers had lunch. Iused to eat with the driver, his name was Jack Trainor. And many times I went with Tom Paine, I think he was one of the best in the country. Believe me you had to be good to take them curves on the Yuba and Looking down Commercial Street in January, 1933. the rest of the way there was no pavement in them days and the roads were narrow. But I enjoyed every minute of it. I always liked the wide-open spaces I guess that is what kept me looking younger than my years, I won't claim to 39, but I feel it at times. and the project is found feasible, that the merchants will then throw the support, and their money behind the program JOIN THE SIERRA CLUB NOW One of the most flagrant and vicious retaliations ever taken by government on a private organization was done last week by the Internal Revenue department on the Sierra Club for daring to oppose the government's stand on Grand Canyon dams. The Sierra Club, who have valiantly fought for preservation of our heritage of trees, rivers, clean air and conservation generally, placed ads inthe New York Times and the Washington Post, warning "Now Only You Can Save Grand Canyon From Being Flooded--For Profit, " and went on to explain their stand. The House of Representatives Interior committee has before it a bill which would dam and largely spoil sections of the Grand Canyon at Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon. The Sierra Club has many convincing arguments against these dams, which serve little purpose other than starting the ruin of Grand Canyon as it has been for milleniums. But someone inthe Federal government is determined that the club stand won't be heard, and sothreatens them by promising to investigate its tax-free status as a scientific and educational organization. The speed with which the notification was given to the Sierra Club headquarters in San Francisco is amazing --.24 hours after the ads appeared. We suggest that our readers help counter this move by joining the Sierra Club, if not now a member. ° Jack Bassett IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN ANOTHER LANDMARK DESTROYED In this fast moving world of ours, most of us find it necessary to hold on to some sort of guide post to keep us on the straight and narrow, There have to be a few things on which we can always ‘be certain, that are not subject to question, that we know as fact, Such things are our touchstones with reality, Yet progress, and the people promoting progress, insist on attacking these very bastions of reality and knocking them over as fast as people realize their importance, Take Grass Valley, if you will, as an example, Reality is important in Grass Valley, or used to be, In Grass Valley one could always be certain about a few things. It gave onea comfortable feeling. Among the list of Grass Valley certainties was a place called the Sunshine Grocery on Bennett Street. It was a well-known place tothe procrastinators, the bad planners and the people who stayed out late or got up early. It was a welcome haven for no matter what the holiday, no matter how sacred to veterans, labor leaders or religious sects, one could be certain that the Sunshine Grocery would be open and that it would open early and stay open late, It gave one a warm, secure feeling that as long as the Sunshine Grocery stood on the banks of old Wolf Creek one could never be deprived of the Sunday paper, a loaf of bread, his evening cup of coffee or the latest copy of Playboy, But, it seems that today we are bent on a frantic devotion to trivia and an almost suicidal mania for destroying the important, Late last week a self-propelled crane pulled off Main Street and on to Bennett, Behind it came a large dump truck, A few hours later the Sunshine Grocery, that ray of light in the darkness for so many, was merely a pile of broken sticks and masonry to be later unceremoniously scooped up and hauled away in the dump truck, We assume this act of progress was done to make way for the pone which we have been told is coming to Grass Valley some ay. i Is there nothing sacred anymore? e*ee2ss WHILE THE CALIFORNIA population is soaring, the cow count in the state is dropping, but not so the milk production, The Dairy Council of California tells us while the number of cows dropped from 790,000 a year ago to a 783,000. Californians are now using record amounts of milk and milk products, The reason for all of this is that the fewer cows are giving more* milk, Good for you, Elsie! «+»Don Hoagland NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST Nevada City is fortunate in having two of the leading cities of the state pulling for the completion of the Ukiah to Tahoe state highway. One of the projects of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce this year is the cross state route. --Jan, 10, 1927. eeee#ss District Attorney Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, San Francisco, announced his candidacy for attomey general of California. His announcement was accompanied by a slashing attack on the incumbent attorney general. Heis serving his second term as San Francisco district attorney. He received more than one million votes when he ran for attorney general in 1946, ..Feb, 24, 1950 eeesees First steps for formation of a Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce were taken last week at a meeting of 35 young businessmen and employees at city hall, Marvin Haddy, operator of the Shell super station, was named temporary Chairman and Alvin Trivelpiece, Bee correspondent was named temporary secretary. --7Feb, 17,1950 eee2ess CAMPTONVILLE--One of the many winter occupations of this section is trapping and a goodly number of local people are engaged in the annual search for fur bearing animals, There seem to be many animals in the woods this season and they are coming out better since the breaking of the freezing spell and the moderate rain. ~~ Jan. 10, 1927

NUGGET Q...Nevada County Nugget...June 22, 1966 COUNTY +@ aw GOLD POLES ARE NOT ENOUGH We were delighted to hear the Grass Valley merchants and the city fathers get behind the idea of painting Mill Street awning poles gold and creating the promotional concept of a "trail of gold" for the downtown area. This is a laudable step for at least two good reasons. First it indicates the merchants and the city dads are finally realizing the value of such promotional gimmicks. Secondly, it indicates that some people are finally willing to do something about it. But before the city merchants go plugging Mill Street on a piecemeal basis, it might be welltoask what happened to the mall concept. The city council last week told a merchant group they thought the "trail of gold" idea was a good one, but they could not contribute financially because they were committed to the Mill Street mall. Which raises fhe question of just whatever happened to the mall? A study of the mall idea with. parking facilities on both sides of the street was done some time ago by the city engineering firm of T. H. McGuire & Sons. Then the city dads votedthe same firm $2,500 for another study of the feasibility of creating a Mill Street mall. We think that promoting Mill Street is a good idea so is the idea to create a mall. We hope, when the engineer's report finally comes out TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Do you mind if I go back a few years to 1891? I am writing about the trolley cars we had between N.C. and G.V. Theyhad a hell of a time with them at first. They could hardly make it up Sacramento St. and one of them got stuck in front of Hieronemus Brewery. I don't know who was dry the car or the crew who were, as I remember, Frank Howard, motorman and Edward Skewes. I gave the conductor a hard time all the way from G.V. to N.C. I would get on the back end and Skewes would have the car stop and he would chase me off, but when the car started up again I was onit. I hada free ride toN.C. as far as the Plaza. They were afraid to go over the Broad St. bridge and I didn't blame them because the Commercial St. bridge went down after the Union Hotel bus just got over the end. Lused to like to ride the stages. .. Going. down to Marysville the stage would stop at Smartville and the passengers had lunch. Iused to eat with the driver, his name was Jack Trainor. And many times I went with Tom Paine, I think he was one of the best in the country. Believe me you had to be good to take them curves on the Yuba and Looking down Commercial Street in January, 1933. the rest of the way there was no pavement in them days and the roads were narrow. But I enjoyed every minute of it. I always liked the wide-open spaces I guess that is what kept me looking younger than my years, I won't claim to 39, but I feel it at times. and the project is found feasible, that the merchants will then throw the support, and their money behind the program JOIN THE SIERRA CLUB NOW One of the most flagrant and vicious retaliations ever taken by government on a private organization was done last week by the Internal Revenue department on the Sierra Club for daring to oppose the government's stand on Grand Canyon dams. The Sierra Club, who have valiantly fought for preservation of our heritage of trees, rivers, clean air and conservation generally, placed ads inthe New York Times and the Washington Post, warning "Now Only You Can Save Grand Canyon From Being Flooded--For Profit, " and went on to explain their stand. The House of Representatives Interior committee has before it a bill which would dam and largely spoil sections of the Grand Canyon at Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon. The Sierra Club has many convincing arguments against these dams, which serve little purpose other than starting the ruin of Grand Canyon as it has been for milleniums.

But someone inthe Federal government is determined that the club stand won't be heard, and sothreatens them by promising to investigate its tax-free status as a scientific and educational organization. The speed with which the notification was given to the Sierra Club headquarters in San Francisco is amazing --.24 hours after the ads appeared. We suggest that our readers help counter this move by joining the Sierra Club, if not now a member. ° Jack Bassett IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN ANOTHER LANDMARK DESTROYED In this fast moving world of ours, most of us find it necessary to hold on to some sort of guide post to keep us on the straight and narrow, There have to be a few things on which we can always ‘be certain, that are not subject to question, that we know as fact, Such things are our touchstones with reality, Yet progress, and the people promoting progress, insist on attacking these very bastions of reality and knocking them over as fast as people realize their importance, Take Grass Valley, if you will, as an example, Reality is important in Grass Valley, or used to be, In Grass Valley one could always be certain about a few things. It gave onea comfortable feeling. Among the list of Grass Valley certainties was a place called the Sunshine Grocery on Bennett Street. It was a well-known place tothe procrastinators, the bad planners and the people who stayed out late or got up early. It was a welcome haven for no matter what the holiday, no matter how sacred to veterans, labor leaders or religious sects, one could be certain that the Sunshine Grocery would be open and that it would open early and stay open late, It gave one a warm, secure feeling that as long as the Sunshine Grocery stood on the banks of old Wolf Creek one could never be deprived of the Sunday paper, a loaf of bread, his evening cup of coffee or the latest copy of Playboy, But, it seems that today we are bent on a frantic devotion to trivia and an almost suicidal mania for destroying the important, Late last week a self-propelled crane pulled off Main Street and on to Bennett, Behind it came a large dump truck, A few hours later the Sunshine Grocery, that ray of light in the darkness for so many, was merely a pile of broken sticks and masonry to be later unceremoniously scooped up and hauled away in the dump truck, We assume this act of progress was done to make way for the pone which we have been told is coming to Grass Valley some ay. i Is there nothing sacred anymore? e*ee2ss WHILE THE CALIFORNIA population is soaring, the cow count in the state is dropping, but not so the milk production, The Dairy Council of California tells us while the number of cows dropped from 790,000 a year ago to a 783,000. Californians are now using record amounts of milk and milk products, The reason for all of this is that the fewer cows are giving more* milk, Good for you, Elsie! «+»Don Hoagland NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST Nevada City is fortunate in having two of the leading cities of the state pulling for the completion of the Ukiah to Tahoe state highway. One of the projects of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce this year is the cross state route. --Jan, 10, 1927. eeee#ss District Attorney Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, San Francisco, announced his candidacy for attomey general of California. His announcement was accompanied by a slashing attack on the incumbent attorney general. Heis serving his second term as San Francisco district attorney. He received more than one million votes when he ran for attorney general in 1946, ...Feb, 24, 1950 eeesees First steps for formation of a Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce were taken last week at a meeting of 35 young businessmen and employees at city hall, Marvin Haddy, operator of the Shell super station, was named temporary Chairman and Alvin Trivelpiece, Bee correspondent was named temporary secretary. --7Feb, 17,1950 eee2ess CAMPTONVILLE--One of the many winter occupations of this section is trapping and a goodly number of local people are engaged in the annual search for fur bearing animals, There seem to be many animals in the woods this season and they are coming out better since the breaking of the freezing spell and the moderate rain. ~~ Jan. 10, 1927