June 4, 1959 (8 pages)

Entered December 5, 1926, as second class mintter at tie post office at Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Adjudicated a legal newspaper November 6, 1951, in Nevada County : Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Superior Court, Decree No. 10023. FEATHER IN WHOSE BED? It frequently_happens that our mutual concern over inflation degenerates into a “let’s-you-and-him-fight” sort of attitude. We can convince ourselves that OUR contributions to spiraling costs are most reasonable, but the other fellow’s are obviously untenable. , Having delivered ourselves of that small confession of shared human frailty, we bodly venture into a brief discussion of one position we sincerely think all facts demonstrate to be not only untenable but, even from the standpoint of selfinterest, unwise. That is the so-called practice of featherbedding. In the parlance, featherbedding means the creation of jobs not necessary to the efficient performance of a service. In railroading, for instance, it takes the form of insistance upon 1919 measurements of the work day, despite 1959 standards of technology. For example, four decades ago steam trains used to make about 100 miles in an eight hour day. Today, diesels can hurtle that distance im two hours. However, a day’s pay still is required for the old day’s mileage, despite the shorter hours. For example, the 16-hour trip between New York and Chicago today requires not two days’ pay for each engine crew member, but NINE! This, and other devices such as charging a full day’s pay for 2 few minutes of extra work under certain conditions, all contribute to the cost problems that bedevil the railroads. And what costs the railroads, costs the shippers, and the purchasers of those shipments. It also adds to the weakening of a major bulwark of national security. The defense for featherbedding is that it.creates more Merry Solaro, Joyce. Beitz, ‘Betty. ‘ A Burcham, Barbara — and Karen Blake. . . : ‘Clothing: Christine Rossi and Marianne Kennedy. Farm Mechanica: LeRoy Crow. 'rde, Robert Rickard, Bob Moore, and Michael Elisworth. Farm Mechanics ‘Tea:n: Donald Frazer and Billy Bursill. Livestock: Debra Davis. Team: Chery! Forgarty and Frank Mil~ hous. ‘ream: Sharon Ousley and Judy “Pugh: Team Pamela Stortz and Sandra Stortz.* Activities: Richard Veale. Other Agriculture: Janet Toy. man, ‘Phyllis Butz, ess, Zoann seg Friends of the Sutter family will be happy to learn that Al was able to come home from the hospital, where he spent several weeks following a heart attack. The Dudley family , reunion, which was held at the summer home of Willis Dudley, near Lake City, last Saturday, May 30, was a great success. The day-was perfect for the occasion; the food was . plentiful and delicious, featuring barbecued beef and pork; and a goodly crowd assembled, numbering 111 persons aitogether. Ineluded in this number were the four Dudley brothers, Clyde, Willis, Louie, and Elmo, and their wives; their cousins, Lloyd and Paul Dudley, and Faye Pem-. Veterans admitted to VA ‘hospitals for treatment of nonservicet connected conditions are entitled to thig travel at government expense only if they affirm under oath that they cannot afford to pay the cost of the travel and if prior travel authorization from the hospital has been obtained. Questions-Answers . Q. I am a service-disabled veteran drawing extra compensation because I have a 17-year-old son. He has just enlisted in the Marines. Will the extra payments The first salaried fire department in the United States was established at Cincinnnati in April, 1853. NUGGETS By GERALD WALLACE, J.D. Striped: bass have long been one of California’s top-ranking sport fish. jobs. But that claim becomes unconvincing in the light of the fact that largely because of mounting costs the railroads have in the past 12 years had to drop more than a half million jobs. More thousands will be lost if conditions continue as they are. A realistic approach to this problem by the rail unions would be a major contribution to the national economy and security and to their own members. It would, in effect, be turning a feather bed into a feather in their caps. The California State Division of Highways this week was charged with “gross negligence” in delaying the installation of guard rails and other safety devices on state highways and freeways. It pays to deal through real estate brokers. Phe law ~ holds them to a high degree of reSponsibility which protects their clients and everyone connected with -transactions which they This was illustrated in a case decided by the California Supreme Court on March 12, 1959. continue, since he has not yet broke,” several aunts, — uncles, reached the age of 18? A, The extra payments may not be continued after he joins the Marines: Once your son is in service, he can no longer be considered a leyal member of your houseshold for purposes extra compensation payments. Q. I have cousins, j;children and grandchildren, and just good friends. The idea of signing a register was suggested, and a makeshift one was made from a large paper sack split down the sides, which proved none too long for the list of names. Some of the guests remained overnight, camping out the ged to leave A broker in Los Angeles made. my GI life insurance dividends in sleeping bags since the house THE SAME OLD SONG The public power choir, under the baton of Senator Clair Engle, is singing its song again in Washington—the one_on the cracked long-play record titled: “The Heck With Economy—To Spend is the Living End.” Cue for the current rendition was a Senate Reclamation subcommittee hearing on the proposal to link California and Pacific Northwest transmission systems so that Northern California can make use of surplus Bonneville Dam power. The subcommittee has before it an offer by Pacific Gas and Electric Company to build the necessary transmission lines and to purchase the Bonneville power to replace steam generated pow er. "proposal of course, met with ate opposition from Maestro Engle. He insists that federal funds be used to build the power lines so that users already favored with tax-subsidized “cheap” power can get more. _. Something tells us the Senator’s the taxpayers’ “top 40.” TAPPING THE TAX BARREL Progress of the proposal to increase the State income tax poses a question in.the minds of many a Californian: have we so nearly reached the bottom of the tax barrel that we must again resort to a levy which on several counts already song will hardly. make . department’’*last’ A’ The charges were made by Ritz Miller, Los Angeles traffic expert, based on his continuing study of traffic fatalities throughout the state. “It is highly suspicious,” Miller declared, “why a certain clique in the state highway department is continuing to delay the installation of guard rails on freeway divider strips while the needless slaughter goes on and on.” To document his charges, Miller pointed out that the state allocated $290,000 to the highway ugubt, nine’ months ago, to install steel beam guard rails on a section of the Hollywood and Santa Ana Freeways in Los Angeles, and yet bids for the work have not even been requested from contractors. Miller, who has devoted the last eight years to photographic and statistical research into Califonnia traffic hazards, . accused the state highway engineers of being “under some eastern influence” in delaying the guard rail installation. secret profits at the expense of a purchaser, and the court held him. liable. The facts were summarized this way: “Plaintiffs did not learn until after they had purchased the property that Taggart had never been given a listing “by Sunset Oil Company and never intended to present plaintiff's offers of $4,000 and $5,000 per acre. Instead, he presented his own offer of $4,000 per acre, which Sunset accepted. He falsely represe: to plaintiffs abet the property was $5,000 per sere because he imtended to purchase the property from Sunset himself and résell it to plaintiffs at a profit of $1,000 per acre.” The court affirmed a judgment of $72,092, representing $1,000 per acre secret profit and also $36,000 exemplary damages against the broker. Chief Justice Gibson said: “As a real estate broker, Taggart had the duty to be honest and truthful in his dealings. The evidence on. credit with the VA. Wil I contnue to get premium-due notices? A. Yes. Dividend credits are used only to prevent lapse of a policy. Premium notices are not suspended where there are dividend credits. Q. Recently I changed the list of beneficiaries of my GI insurance policy. Must I inform the former beneficiaries of my action. A. No. You have the Reig: to change beneficiaries at any fime, their’ consent or” I edge. is still under construction. ‘Fred E. Butz and wife were guests at the Robert A. Oates home near Town Talk last Thursday evening in honor of Fred’s ‘60th birthday. NEVADA CITY SCHOOL TRUSTEES TO MEET A meeting of the Nevada City school trustees is called for Junel 9 1959, by the president of the}. board, Alton Davies. The Beanie. will be held at 8 room .2.in. the Nevada City Elementary School Building. Q. I am going to school quartertime under the Korean GI Bill. « what rate am I using up my GI training settlement? A. VA considers that you are using your training entitlement at quarter-time rate. For example, if your course lasts for a year, you will have used up one-quarter of a year’s entitlement, or three months. Q. I’m a Korean veterans with a GI term insurance policy with am going to have to sell my home bought with a GI loan. Must the loan be paid off in full before I can sell? A. Not necessarily. The buyer may assume your GI loan as well as all liability, if he is wiling, if your payments are up to date, and if VA determines the new buytr is a_ satisfactory credit risk. Q. I have a dental condition For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the astonishing . gia 4 to shrink hemorrhoids an in — tg ‘ soltesia & pain, reduction © on E se place. Most amazing of all — results were so re ough that sufferers made astonishing statements like “Piles have ceased to be a problem!” The secret is a yo healing substance (Bio-Dyne*)— covery of a world-famous research institute. This substance is now available in suppository or ointment form called Preparation H.* At all d counters—money back guarantee. ee 1as been proved economically unsound? It is a simple matter of fact that a comparatively smail pércentage of the total return from income taxes is derived froin the high i income brackets. Increasing the levies inthose connected to injuries in service but for which I am not entitled to_receive compensation. Is there any deadline in my case for applying for outpatient dental treatthe letters “RS” before the policy number. I understand I may now exchange it for another term policy which will cost me a great “Why are they conducting long, drawn-out tests on various other types of divider barriers,” the traffic expert demanded, “when is clearly sufficient to support a finding that Taggart violated this duty. . Courts award exemplary damages to discourage ap. for sale on June 16 consists of brackets is the least productive way to boost income tax returns. On the other hand, the surplus earnings of people and business in the higher brackets have traditionally supplied a vitally important portion of the investment capital that ‘has made it possible for American industry to expand and develop asithas. A confiscatory tax on that source of investment capital is a dangerous damper to incentive—a danger that is very real to everyone who earns a living through wages or investment, or depends upon someone who does. -And that pretty well covers all of us. : What of the alternatives of higher income taxes? The sales tax is much maligned because it iS a “consumer” tax, although it is rather difficult to determine just who ISN’T a consumer. Yet as a nation we have hardly began to tap it as a revenue source. According to a survey made by U.S. News and World Report, the United States derives less than one sixth of its total income from excises and direct taxes. In England the percentage is 45 per cent: In France, 70 percent. In Italy, 76 percent. In Germany, 80 percent. _ Obviously, the federal government has preempted the income tax as its main source of revenue. Is it too fanciful to suggest that in view of the actual depth of the tax barrel the States might make a considerable contribution to their own and the nation’s economic welfare by turning from the income tax altogether, in favor of other sounder and more potentially fruitful levies? 3 Public Auctions By Highway Div. miles north of Colfax. The minimum bid is $350 with a minimum deposit of $219.40, including recording fee of $4.40. Approximately 1.53 acres loeated on the northeasterly side of U. S. 40. Minimum bid is $100 and minimum deposit is $104.40, which also includes recording fee of $4.40. On June 18 the following: property will be put up forsale: Cabin formerly owned by John Hoving, located southwest corner of intersection. of _Norden Drive and Sierra Drive at the east end of eee Lake. Minimum bid is $40. And a residence with upstairs and porch, formerly owned by The Division of Highways will eonduct three public auctions on property located on or near Highway U.S. 40 from June 16 to 18. The first items to be put up 1.89 acres located on the east side of Highway 49 approximately ‘two. miles south of Lime Kiln Minimum acceptable bid , With a minimum deand shed, lowest side fo Highhhird mile south of lime Kiln Road. table bid is $6,750. the existing type of guard rail barriers has been accepted and proven for years not only in California but clear across the nation?” He pointed out that San Francisco newspapers featured pictures only two months ago of a short strip of guard rail on Bayshore Freeway in San Francisco that had visually prevented 52 head-on crashes. Prior to the installation of that strip of guard rail divider in November, 1957, 13 persons were killed in head-on crashes there. Since that time there has been not a single headon crash, he said. “Every community in California has known death traps,” Miller said, “but Governor Brown and the highway engineers aren’t going to do anything until the people rise up and voice their protests.” Miller quoted from his testimoney before the state assembly interim committee on transportation and commerce, in November, 1955, in which he said “recently the highway department said it is building an experimental fence on the San Bernardino Freeway to prevent head-on collisions. I thought after 20 or 30 years they would know how ‘to prevent them. Sort of stupid; why experiment? “Years ago, a 3,000-foot guard rail was put on the old Ramona Boulevard in Los-Angeles to prevent head-on collisions after eight were killed and 69 injured. Seventeen months after the guard rail was installed, they said no accidents had been reported.” Miller declared that apparently such evidence means nothing to the highway t, because they’ve been delaying for five 1 “The only way I know of getting action,” he added, “is for pression, fraud, or malice by punishing the wrongdoer. Such damages are: appropriate in cases like the presemt one, where restitution would have little or no deterrent effect.” COMPLETES. ARMY GENERAL SUPPLY COURSE Army Pvt. Thomas E, Whittingslow son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Whittingslow Grass Valley Calif. e6mpleted the eightweek general supply course May 22 at Fort Ord Calif. Whittingslow received instruction in the en nyse Army supply procedures and the preparation of supply records and forms. ye He ented th Any last November and 3 3 1 ing at the fo 2 The 22-ye id si 1954 graduaté of Nevada Union High School amd a 1958 graduate of the University of California-in Berkeley. He is @ member of Delta Tau Delta saa. deal less in premium payments. Will you please explain this? A. Since you have an “RS” Korean GI term policy, you have the righth to exchange it for another new type term policy with premiums costing twot-hirds less. ment? connected non-compensable dental conditions are disabilities may apply: at any time and receive as may treatments as are needed. A. ‘No. Veterans with serviceHowever, it is not renewable after you pass your 50th birthday, and must be converted to one of VA’s permanent plans before ‘then if you wish insurance protection. Q. I am taking courses under . the GI Bill which lead to a standard college degree. I understand there is a new requirement about reporting classroom absences. Does this affect me?Zemo Great for A. No. Since you courses lead. to a college degree you are exempt from. reporting monthly absences from class. Students not headed for a college degree or some professional goal must, however, now report classroom absences, using the special certification of training form for that} _ Q. ’m changing my job and Why do so many people ES . 7 from Nevada County stay 4 at the Fielding Hotel i ling ' San franc as and = ged A Top. tight

Entered December 5, 1926, as second class mintter at tie post office at Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Adjudicated a legal newspaper November 6, 1951, in Nevada County : Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Superior Court, Decree No. 10023. FEATHER IN WHOSE BED? It frequently_happens that our mutual concern over inflation degenerates into a “let’s-you-and-him-fight” sort of attitude. We can convince ourselves that OUR contributions to spiraling costs are most reasonable, but the other fellow’s are obviously untenable. , Having delivered ourselves of that small confession of shared human frailty, we bodly venture into a brief discussion of one position we sincerely think all facts demonstrate to be not only untenable but, even from the standpoint of selfinterest, unwise. That is the so-called practice of featherbedding. In the parlance, featherbedding means the creation of jobs not necessary to the efficient performance of a service. In railroading, for instance, it takes the form of insistance upon 1919 measurements of the work day, despite 1959 standards of technology. For example, four decades ago steam trains used to make about 100 miles in an eight hour day. Today, diesels can hurtle that distance im two hours. However, a day’s pay still is required for the old day’s mileage, despite the shorter hours. For example, the 16-hour trip between New York and Chicago today requires not two days’ pay for each engine crew member, but NINE! This, and other devices such as charging a full day’s pay for 2 few minutes of extra work under certain conditions, all contribute to the cost problems that bedevil the railroads. And what costs the railroads, costs the shippers, and the purchasers of those shipments. It also adds to the weakening of a major bulwark of national security. The defense for featherbedding is that it.creates more Merry Solaro, Joyce. Beitz, ‘Betty. ‘ A Burcham, Barbara — and Karen Blake. . . : ‘Clothing: Christine Rossi and Marianne Kennedy. Farm Mechanica: LeRoy Crow. 'rde, Robert Rickard, Bob Moore, and Michael Elisworth. Farm Mechanics ‘Tea:n: Donald Frazer and Billy Bursill. Livestock: Debra Davis. Team: Chery! Forgarty and Frank Mil~ hous. ‘ream: Sharon Ousley and Judy “Pugh: Team Pamela Stortz and Sandra Stortz.* Activities: Richard Veale. Other Agriculture: Janet Toy. man, ‘Phyllis Butz, ess, Zoann seg Friends of the Sutter family will be happy to learn that Al was able to come home from the hospital, where he spent several weeks following a heart attack. The Dudley family , reunion, which was held at the summer home of Willis Dudley, near Lake City, last Saturday, May 30, was a great success. The day-was perfect for the occasion; the food was . plentiful and delicious, featuring barbecued beef and pork; and a goodly crowd assembled, numbering 111 persons aitogether. Ineluded in this number were the four Dudley brothers, Clyde, Willis, Louie, and Elmo, and their wives; their cousins, Lloyd and Paul Dudley, and Faye Pem-. Veterans admitted to VA ‘hospitals for treatment of nonservicet connected conditions are entitled to thig travel at government expense only if they affirm under oath that they cannot afford to pay the cost of the travel and if prior travel authorization from the hospital has been obtained. Questions-Answers . Q. I am a service-disabled veteran drawing extra compensation because I have a 17-year-old son. He has just enlisted in the Marines. Will the extra payments The first salaried fire department in the United States was established at Cincinnnati in April, 1853. NUGGETS By GERALD WALLACE, J.D. Striped: bass have long been one of California’s top-ranking sport fish. jobs. But that claim becomes unconvincing in the light of the fact that largely because of mounting costs the railroads have in the past 12 years had to drop more than a half million jobs. More thousands will be lost if conditions continue as they are. A realistic approach to this problem by the rail unions would be a major contribution to the national economy and security and to their own members. It would, in effect, be turning a feather bed into a feather in their caps. The California State Division of Highways this week was charged with “gross negligence” in delaying the installation of guard rails and other safety devices on state highways and freeways. It pays to deal through real estate brokers. Phe law ~ holds them to a high degree of reSponsibility which protects their clients and everyone connected with -transactions which they This was illustrated in a case decided by the California Supreme Court on March 12, 1959. continue, since he has not yet broke,” several aunts, — uncles, reached the age of 18? A, The extra payments may not be continued after he joins the Marines: Once your son is in service, he can no longer be considered a leyal member of your houseshold for purposes extra compensation payments. Q. I have cousins, j;children and grandchildren, and just good friends. The idea of signing a register was suggested, and a makeshift one was made from a large paper sack split down the sides, which proved none too long for the list of names. Some of the guests remained overnight, camping out the ged to leave A broker in Los Angeles made. my GI life insurance dividends in sleeping bags since the house THE SAME OLD SONG The public power choir, under the baton of Senator Clair Engle, is singing its song again in Washington—the one_on the cracked long-play record titled: “The Heck With Economy—To Spend is the Living End.” Cue for the current rendition was a Senate Reclamation subcommittee hearing on the proposal to link California and Pacific Northwest transmission systems so that Northern California can make use of surplus Bonneville Dam power. The subcommittee has before it an offer by Pacific Gas and Electric Company to build the necessary transmission lines and to purchase the Bonneville power to replace steam generated pow er. "proposal of course, met with ate opposition from Maestro Engle. He insists that federal funds be used to build the power lines so that users already favored with tax-subsidized “cheap” power can get more. _. Something tells us the Senator’s the taxpayers’ “top 40.” TAPPING THE TAX BARREL Progress of the proposal to increase the State income tax poses a question in.the minds of many a Californian: have we so nearly reached the bottom of the tax barrel that we must again resort to a levy which on several counts already song will hardly. make . department’’*last’ A’ The charges were made by Ritz Miller, Los Angeles traffic expert, based on his continuing study of traffic fatalities throughout the state. “It is highly suspicious,” Miller declared, “why a certain clique in the state highway department is continuing to delay the installation of guard rails on freeway divider strips while the needless slaughter goes on and on.” To document his charges, Miller pointed out that the state allocated $290,000 to the highway ugubt, nine’ months ago, to install steel beam guard rails on a section of the Hollywood and Santa Ana Freeways in Los Angeles, and yet bids for the work have not even been requested from contractors. Miller, who has devoted the last eight years to photographic and statistical research into Califonnia traffic hazards, . accused the state highway engineers of being “under some eastern influence” in delaying the guard rail installation. secret profits at the expense of a purchaser, and the court held him. liable. The facts were summarized this way: “Plaintiffs did not learn until after they had purchased the property that Taggart had never been given a listing “by Sunset Oil Company and never intended to present plaintiff's offers of $4,000 and $5,000 per acre. Instead, he presented his own offer of $4,000 per acre, which Sunset accepted. He falsely represe: to plaintiffs abet the property was $5,000 per sere because he imtended to purchase the property from Sunset himself and résell it to plaintiffs at a profit of $1,000 per acre.” The court affirmed a judgment of $72,092, representing $1,000 per acre secret profit and also $36,000 exemplary damages against the broker. Chief Justice Gibson said: “As a real estate broker, Taggart had the duty to be honest and truthful in his dealings. The evidence on. credit with the VA. Wil I contnue to get premium-due notices? A. Yes. Dividend credits are used only to prevent lapse of a policy. Premium notices are not suspended where there are dividend credits. Q. Recently I changed the list of beneficiaries of my GI insurance policy. Must I inform the former beneficiaries of my action. A. No. You have the Reig: to change beneficiaries at any fime, their’ consent or” I

edge. is still under construction. ‘Fred E. Butz and wife were guests at the Robert A. Oates home near Town Talk last Thursday evening in honor of Fred’s ‘60th birthday. NEVADA CITY SCHOOL TRUSTEES TO MEET A meeting of the Nevada City school trustees is called for Junel 9 1959, by the president of the}. board, Alton Davies. The Beanie. will be held at 8 room .2.in. the Nevada City Elementary School Building. Q. I am going to school quartertime under the Korean GI Bill. « what rate am I using up my GI training settlement? A. VA considers that you are using your training entitlement at quarter-time rate. For example, if your course lasts for a year, you will have used up one-quarter of a year’s entitlement, or three months. Q. I’m a Korean veterans with a GI term insurance policy with am going to have to sell my home bought with a GI loan. Must the loan be paid off in full before I can sell? A. Not necessarily. The buyer may assume your GI loan as well as all liability, if he is wiling, if your payments are up to date, and if VA determines the new buytr is a_ satisfactory credit risk. Q. I have a dental condition For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the astonishing . gia 4 to shrink hemorrhoids an in — tg ‘ soltesia & pain, reduction © on E se place. Most amazing of all — results were so re ough that sufferers made astonishing statements like “Piles have ceased to be a problem!” The secret is a yo healing substance (Bio-Dyne*)— covery of a world-famous research institute. This substance is now available in suppository or ointment form called Preparation H.* At all d counters—money back guarantee. ee 1as been proved economically unsound? It is a simple matter of fact that a comparatively smail pércentage of the total return from income taxes is derived froin the high i income brackets. Increasing the levies inthose connected to injuries in service but for which I am not entitled to_receive compensation. Is there any deadline in my case for applying for outpatient dental treatthe letters “RS” before the policy number. I understand I may now exchange it for another term policy which will cost me a great “Why are they conducting long, drawn-out tests on various other types of divider barriers,” the traffic expert demanded, “when is clearly sufficient to support a finding that Taggart violated this duty. . Courts award exemplary damages to discourage ap. for sale on June 16 consists of brackets is the least productive way to boost income tax returns. On the other hand, the surplus earnings of people and business in the higher brackets have traditionally supplied a vitally important portion of the investment capital that ‘has made it possible for American industry to expand and develop asithas. A confiscatory tax on that source of investment capital is a dangerous damper to incentive—a danger that is very real to everyone who earns a living through wages or investment, or depends upon someone who does. -And that pretty well covers all of us. : What of the alternatives of higher income taxes? The sales tax is much maligned because it iS a “consumer” tax, although it is rather difficult to determine just who ISN’T a consumer. Yet as a nation we have hardly began to tap it as a revenue source. According to a survey made by U.S. News and World Report, the United States derives less than one sixth of its total income from excises and direct taxes. In England the percentage is 45 per cent: In France, 70 percent. In Italy, 76 percent. In Germany, 80 percent. _ Obviously, the federal government has preempted the income tax as its main source of revenue. Is it too fanciful to suggest that in view of the actual depth of the tax barrel the States might make a considerable contribution to their own and the nation’s economic welfare by turning from the income tax altogether, in favor of other sounder and more potentially fruitful levies? 3 Public Auctions By Highway Div. miles north of Colfax. The minimum bid is $350 with a minimum deposit of $219.40, including recording fee of $4.40. Approximately 1.53 acres loeated on the northeasterly side of U. S. 40. Minimum bid is $100 and minimum deposit is $104.40, which also includes recording fee of $4.40. On June 18 the following: property will be put up forsale: Cabin formerly owned by John Hoving, located southwest corner of intersection. of _Norden Drive and Sierra Drive at the east end of eee Lake. Minimum bid is $40. And a residence with upstairs and porch, formerly owned by The Division of Highways will eonduct three public auctions on property located on or near Highway U.S. 40 from June 16 to 18. The first items to be put up 1.89 acres located on the east side of Highway 49 approximately ‘two. miles south of Lime Kiln Minimum acceptable bid , With a minimum deand shed, lowest side fo Highhhird mile south of lime Kiln Road. table bid is $6,750. the existing type of guard rail barriers has been accepted and proven for years not only in California but clear across the nation?” He pointed out that San Francisco newspapers featured pictures only two months ago of a short strip of guard rail on Bayshore Freeway in San Francisco that had visually prevented 52 head-on crashes. Prior to the installation of that strip of guard rail divider in November, 1957, 13 persons were killed in head-on crashes there. Since that time there has been not a single headon crash, he said. “Every community in California has known death traps,” Miller said, “but Governor Brown and the highway engineers aren’t going to do anything until the people rise up and voice their protests.” Miller quoted from his testimoney before the state assembly interim committee on transportation and commerce, in November, 1955, in which he said “recently the highway department said it is building an experimental fence on the San Bernardino Freeway to prevent head-on collisions. I thought after 20 or 30 years they would know how ‘to prevent them. Sort of stupid; why experiment? “Years ago, a 3,000-foot guard rail was put on the old Ramona Boulevard in Los-Angeles to prevent head-on collisions after eight were killed and 69 injured. Seventeen months after the guard rail was installed, they said no accidents had been reported.” Miller declared that apparently such evidence means nothing to the highway t, because they’ve been delaying for five 1 “The only way I know of getting action,” he added, “is for pression, fraud, or malice by punishing the wrongdoer. Such damages are: appropriate in cases like the presemt one, where restitution would have little or no deterrent effect.” COMPLETES. ARMY GENERAL SUPPLY COURSE Army Pvt. Thomas E, Whittingslow son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Whittingslow Grass Valley Calif. e6mpleted the eightweek general supply course May 22 at Fort Ord Calif. Whittingslow received instruction in the en nyse Army supply procedures and the preparation of supply records and forms. ye He ented th Any last November and 3 3 1 ing at the fo 2 The 22-ye id si 1954 graduaté of Nevada Union High School amd a 1958 graduate of the University of California-in Berkeley. He is @ member of Delta Tau Delta saa. deal less in premium payments. Will you please explain this? A. Since you have an “RS” Korean GI term policy, you have the righth to exchange it for another new type term policy with premiums costing twot-hirds less. ment? connected non-compensable dental conditions are disabilities may apply: at any time and receive as may treatments as are needed. A. ‘No. Veterans with serviceHowever, it is not renewable after you pass your 50th birthday, and must be converted to one of VA’s permanent plans before ‘then if you wish insurance protection. Q. I am taking courses under . the GI Bill which lead to a standard college degree. I understand there is a new requirement about reporting classroom absences. Does this affect me?Zemo Great for A. No. Since you courses lead. to a college degree you are exempt from. reporting monthly absences from class. Students not headed for a college degree or some professional goal must, however, now report classroom absences, using the special certification of training form for that} _ Q. ’m changing my job and Why do so many people ES . 7 from Nevada County stay 4 at the Fielding Hotel i ling ' San franc as and = ged A Top. tight