June 4, 1969 (12 pages)

Faro sae ie ae a ‘ i a) POLITE A 635.5 ¥V-F Wednesday, June 4, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget «3 ee Champion miné propertymay —" be purchased for NC school Nevada City’s new school may be constructed on the site of the former Champion Mine rather than Bureau of Management Land as planned previouslv. The shift is being made because the BLM property probably cannot be secured in time to make plans and build a school anytime soon, Supt. Dan Woodard Wednesday was authorized to pursue negotiations for prop at the old Champion Mine, for a new school site. This is now the Erickson property, owned by Axel and Jack Erickson of the Erikson Lumber Co, Nevada City school trustees learned from architect George Higgins that it would take three months before mining claims on the Bureau of Land Management property could be declared null and void, with the outcome not certain, "Three months for the mining claims and the status oftheChi. nese cemetery is also uncertain,” said H President Carl Early told the board that the cost of purchasing ‘some of the Erickson_property would be less than buil a road to. the BLM property, the original site proposed for a new schooL Bonds for a new school were approved by the voters in February, but the architect has not been able to draw final plans until the site is definite, The board also approved selling the Gold Flat School property to the Division of Highways for $67,650, Included in the resolution to sell the propei is the proviso that, the state continue to allow Nevada county to lease the buildings for special education classrooms until a new building has been completed, A separate building for the special education classrooms will be constructed along with Nevada City’s new school. Themoney from the Div. of Hwys, may be used to remodel the age Nevada City Elementary School, Woodard said, in answer to a question from a board member. In discussing the. Champion Mine proper for the new school site, ra than the BLM land, Early said that each citizens’ committee had placed it number one on their lists of recommended sites for a new school, Before Erickson Lumber Co. purchased the property it was in an estate and the school board was unable to nebaa for its purchase, Early Higgins offered a contract for the board's approval for his services in drawing plans for the new school at a rate of 7.8 per cent, With a large project, the rate is on a sliding scale he said; a small project would be at a flat eight per cent. R . The board had approved Higgins as athe architect over three beri ago, the first but no conct to pay him has yet been signed, NID’s busy directors finally OK 1969 budget About five months of the year have passed and Nevada Irrigation District directors have gotten around to approving their calendar year, 1969 operation7 pet amounting to $1,479,But ‘this has been a-busy period for NID what with Bureau of Reclamation and Davis-Grunsky loans long with a grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) -all for much needed water projects that should be of great benefit to ter WW Wall vs on! er W. W. Wells told the board the preliminary budget had been discussed in October, suggested it would be timely to approve the final version "as soon as possible," Several categories, of the budcaught the directors’ eyes expect to."" And Chairman Alex Ferreira wget rans: ted, , Jim McAdams, appointed to the board just afew months ago, pointed out that a budget only serves as a guide to regulate expenditures, adding, "I question some of the things init. But it's your et because you've had it longer Ihave," So, Brown moved for oval and approved the budget was, The final version differs somewhat from the pr one, and here are some of its characteristics: Total sserols costs, $838,574, about $94,300 higher than 1968; service and supplies, $403,010, compared with 1968's $322,526; capital costs, $129,200, about $9,000 more than the previous year, and reserves, $109,000, up $45,000 over last year. The entire NID work force has been busier than the much publicized cranberry merchant for many months. With voter approval in November of two loans totaling more than $8 million and the $1.2 million EDA grant, making the new andneeded projects possible, all hands have been concentra on the big construction season just starting. As one official "Wedidn't for; the final t, It just mae longer to get around Cited for fire escape Harold Fulghum ofGrass Valley was cited into Grass Valley Justice Court May 16 by Bill Bell, assistant state forest ranger of the California Division of Forestry, for violation of Section 4422 of the Public Resources Code, which makes ita misdemeanor to allow a fire to escape to lands of another, Fulghum was burning brush in the Rough and Ready area May 15 and allowed his fire to escape to property of another. Fulghum pled guilty before Judge Montre and was ordered to pay suppression costs of $247.25. Bizz propose ‘high timber yield fund’ WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressinan Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson has urged establish. ment of a “high timber yield fund" as a means of solving two companion problems, the meeting of the housing needs of a growing population and the needs for sustained timber growth. Testifying before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture, Congressman Johnson declared that with intensified forest management which would be provided by establishment of the National Timber Supply Act, the annual yield of our forests could be increased substantially without impairing other forest values. "There has been a tendency in recent years to assume that areas subject totimber management are thus lost to fish and wildlife values, recreation, watershed, and grazing," the Second District representative deeclared. "Our experience in California belies this assumption and I cannot urge too strongly that the committee act to reaffirm the mul*iple-use concept of National Forests while 2° .1e sametime sirengthening the ability of the Forest Service to management the commercial timberlands in its care for more maximum wood production." Congressman Johnson emphasized that increased timber yields are sought not through damaging harvesting, but intensified timber managemeat with heavy emphasis on regeneration of timber, reforestation, increased pruning and thinning, sale preparation, road construction, fertilization, and development of better seed stock, Representative. Johnson's~ proposal would not upset the _ traditional return of federal timber sale revenues to counties for road and school purposes, but instead would increase the participation of this fund in forest revenues. Cutrate park permits ready SACRAMENTO —The State Department of Parks and Recreation announced today that it is changing over to selling its annual day-use permits and Fish and Game news, calendar DFG REPORTS DUCK LOSSES, LAUNCHES BOTULISM CONTROLS Ray Arnett, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, reports that botulism control efforts have started with confirmation of the first waterfowl losses of the year in the San Joaquin Valley. Arnett and other DFG officials met this week with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to work out the possibility of alleviating losses in the Tulare Lake Basin of Kings County by additional levee construction at the Sand Ridge Reservoir. The Corps of Engineers, which has been cooperating with the DFG and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in mapping botulism control plans, said it will investigate the feasibility of building additional levees to eliminate "feather edges" on the reservoir. DFG wildlife biologists report ‘that shallow ponds with feather edges are especially prone to producing botulism situations, while ponds that are at least two feet deep at the edges lessen the possibility of the disease. A botulism control plan was developed at a meeting of the DFG, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps of Engineers, and concerned citizens in Hanford April 14, Similar advance planning was credited with saving some 200,000 ducks in a 1967-68 outbreak in the Kern River Delta which . killed approximately 60,000 birds. A program of picking up andtreatsick ducks saved about 6,000 birds, This year's surveillance began after the April meeting, and the first botulism of the year was confirmed by the DFG‘s wildlife laboratory on May 20. Initial losses of 50 ducks, shorebirds, and coots occurred at Buena Vista Lake in Kern County. The Sand Ridge Reservoir is being built cooperatively by the Corps of Engineers and landowners north of Buena Vista Lake to hold back some 63,000 acre-feet of water from the Tulare Lake Basin, where it is feared the heavy influx of water could break levees and spread uncontrolled water over several hundred thousand acres. DFG seeks levees to close in the proposed ''V" -shaped reservoir to create deeper water and eliminate feather edges. Control and surveillance efforts by the DFG and other agencies will continue, along with an accelerated effort of basic research by the DFG to determine how the botulism toxin is formed and transmitted. Botulism is caused by a common bacteria which lives in the soil, particularly in alkaline areas, As the bacteria grows, it gives off waste products. This toxin, taken in by ducks during feeding, causes the disease. Control methods include surveillance, herding of birds away from problem areas once an outbreak begins, pickup and treatment of sick birds, pickup and disposal of dead birds, and draining infected ponds where possible The Department of Fish and Game is seeking assistance of sportsmen, conservationists, and educators in developing a "conservation inventory'' of citizens' efforts. DFG Director Ray Arnett explained that such a catalogue will help the DFG coordinate such projects and assist private groups in expanding their conservation efforts. A postpaid questionnaire addressed to the DFG is printed on the back cover of the current issue of the Department's bimonthly magazine, Outdoor California. In a letter addressed to conservationists, Arnett noted Governor Ronald Reagan's effort to involve the individual citizen — “the private sector" — in matters of basic concern to all the people of the state. "Because the DFG has the responsibility of protecting and managing these resources, Governor Reagan has asked us to seek your help in developing an inventory of all those activities in which you or your organizations have been involved which will contribute to this goal or effort," Arnett said. boat-launching permits ona calendar year basis rather than a fiscal year basis. As a result, purchasers will get a bargain this year--seven months for the price of six. . The permits will go on sale in the parks after June 1 for $5 each, half the price of a full year's permit, and will be good until the end of this year. On January 1, new permits will be good for the entire calendar year of 1970, The annual day-use permit may be used at all state park units where the regular 75-cent day-use fee is collected. However, the permit may not be used for camping or at state historic units and museums where-an entrance or guided tour fee is charged, The annual boat-launching permit is good for unlimited use of boat launching facilities at applicable state park units, with the exception of Lake Elsinore State Recreation Area in Riverside County. $ available at: @ The Sacramento Light Opera Association a oS 1419 H, Secremente $17.20 te $31.60 fer ail SINGLE TICKETS ‘ Pri.-Sot: 4.75 4.28 3.80 Opening week single tickets. 8.50 “75 4.00 Fri.-Sat. 6.00 8.28 4.80 Tickets also FOWLER TV & APPLIANCE 922 Lincoln Way, 885-6256 Auburn pRopUucee BY LEWIS & YOUNG Presented by The Sacramento Civic Theater Season and Single Tickets on Sale Civic Theater Box Office 441-3163 SAVE 20% ON SEASON TICKETS 9 shows ge 3h 19th SEASON OPENS MONDAY JUNE 16th June 16-June 22 LIBERACE aad the Trinided Tripell Steel Band June 23-June 29 THE SOUND OF MUSIC June 30-July 6 HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING July 7-July 13 (te be announced) 14-July 20 MY FAIR LADY July 21-July 27 STATE PAIR July 28-A 3 FUNNY GIRL Show BOAT a SPONSORED BY THE BEE, KFBK & KOVR

Faro sae ie ae a ‘ i a) POLITE A 635.5 ¥V-F Wednesday, June 4, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget «3 ee Champion miné propertymay —" be purchased for NC school Nevada City’s new school may be constructed on the site of the former Champion Mine rather than Bureau of Management Land as planned previouslv. The shift is being made because the BLM property probably cannot be secured in time to make plans and build a school anytime soon, Supt. Dan Woodard Wednesday was authorized to pursue negotiations for prop at the old Champion Mine, for a new school site. This is now the Erickson property, owned by Axel and Jack Erickson of the Erikson Lumber Co, Nevada City school trustees learned from architect George Higgins that it would take three months before mining claims on the Bureau of Land Management property could be declared null and void, with the outcome not certain, "Three months for the mining claims and the status oftheChi. nese cemetery is also uncertain,” said H President Carl Early told the board that the cost of purchasing ‘some of the Erickson_property would be less than buil a road to. the BLM property, the original site proposed for a new schooL Bonds for a new school were approved by the voters in February, but the architect has not been able to draw final plans until the site is definite, The board also approved selling the Gold Flat School property to the Division of Highways for $67,650, Included in the resolution to sell the propei is the proviso that, the state continue to allow Nevada county to lease the buildings for special education classrooms until a new building has been completed, A separate building for the special education classrooms will be constructed along with Nevada City’s new school. Themoney from the Div. of Hwys, may be used to remodel the age Nevada City Elementary School, Woodard said, in answer to a question from a board member. In discussing the. Champion Mine proper for the new school site, ra than the BLM land, Early said that each citizens’ committee had placed it number one on their lists of recommended sites for a new school, Before Erickson Lumber Co. purchased the property it was in an estate and the school board was unable to nebaa for its purchase, Early Higgins offered a contract for the board's approval for his services in drawing plans for the new school at a rate of 7.8 per cent, With a large project, the rate is on a sliding scale he said; a small project would be at a flat eight per cent. R . The board had approved Higgins as athe architect over three beri ago, the first but no conct to pay him has yet been signed, NID’s busy directors finally OK 1969 budget About five months of the year have passed and Nevada Irrigation District directors have gotten around to approving their calendar year, 1969 operation7 pet amounting to $1,479,But ‘this has been a-busy period for NID what with Bureau of Reclamation and Davis-Grunsky loans long with a grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) -all for much needed water projects that should be of great benefit to ter WW Wall vs on! er W. W. Wells told the board the preliminary budget had been discussed in October, suggested it would be timely to approve the final version "as soon as possible," Several categories, of the budcaught the directors’ eyes expect to."" And Chairman Alex Ferreira wget rans: ted, , Jim McAdams, appointed to the board just afew months ago, pointed out that a budget only serves as a guide to regulate expenditures, adding, "I question some of the things init. But it's your et because you've had it longer Ihave," So, Brown moved for oval and approved the budget was, The final version differs somewhat from the pr one, and here are some of its characteristics: Total sserols costs, $838,574, about $94,300 higher than 1968; service and supplies, $403,010, compared with 1968's $322,526; capital costs, $129,200, about $9,000 more than the previous year, and reserves, $109,000, up $45,000 over last year. The entire NID work force has been busier than the much publicized cranberry merchant for many months. With voter approval in November of two loans totaling more than $8 million and the $1.2 million EDA grant, making the new andneeded projects possible, all hands have been concentra on the big construction season just starting. As one official "Wedidn't for; the final t, It just mae longer to get around Cited for fire escape Harold Fulghum ofGrass Valley was cited into Grass Valley Justice Court May 16 by Bill Bell, assistant state forest ranger of the California Division of Forestry, for violation of Section 4422 of the Public Resources Code, which makes ita misdemeanor to allow a fire to escape to lands of another, Fulghum was burning brush in the Rough and Ready area May 15 and allowed his fire to escape to property of another. Fulghum pled guilty before Judge Montre and was ordered to pay suppression costs of $247.25. Bizz propose ‘high timber yield fund’ WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressinan Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson has urged establish. ment of a “high timber yield fund" as a means of solving two companion problems, the meeting of the housing needs of a growing population and the needs for sustained timber growth. Testifying before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture, Congressman Johnson declared that with intensified forest management which would be provided by establishment of the National Timber Supply Act, the annual yield of our forests could be increased substantially without impairing other forest values. "There has been a tendency in recent years to assume that areas subject totimber management are thus lost to fish and wildlife values, recreation, watershed, and grazing," the Second District representative deeclared. "Our experience in California belies this assumption and I cannot urge too strongly that the committee act to reaffirm the mul*iple-use concept of National Forests while 2° .1e sametime sirengthening the ability of the Forest Service to management the commercial timberlands in its care for more maximum wood production." Congressman Johnson emphasized that increased timber yields are sought not through damaging harvesting, but intensified timber managemeat with heavy emphasis on regeneration of timber, reforestation, increased pruning and thinning, sale preparation, road construction, fertilization, and development of better seed stock, Representative. Johnson's~ proposal would not upset the _ traditional return of federal timber sale revenues to counties for road and school purposes, but instead would increase the participation of this fund in forest revenues. Cutrate park permits ready SACRAMENTO —The State Department of Parks and Recreation announced today that it is changing over to selling its

annual day-use permits and Fish and Game news, calendar DFG REPORTS DUCK LOSSES, LAUNCHES BOTULISM CONTROLS Ray Arnett, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, reports that botulism control efforts have started with confirmation of the first waterfowl losses of the year in the San Joaquin Valley. Arnett and other DFG officials met this week with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to work out the possibility of alleviating losses in the Tulare Lake Basin of Kings County by additional levee construction at the Sand Ridge Reservoir. The Corps of Engineers, which has been cooperating with the DFG and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in mapping botulism control plans, said it will investigate the feasibility of building additional levees to eliminate "feather edges" on the reservoir. DFG wildlife biologists report ‘that shallow ponds with feather edges are especially prone to producing botulism situations, while ponds that are at least two feet deep at the edges lessen the possibility of the disease. A botulism control plan was developed at a meeting of the DFG, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps of Engineers, and concerned citizens in Hanford April 14, Similar advance planning was credited with saving some 200,000 ducks in a 1967-68 outbreak in the Kern River Delta which . killed approximately 60,000 birds. A program of picking up andtreatsick ducks saved about 6,000 birds, This year's surveillance began after the April meeting, and the first botulism of the year was confirmed by the DFG‘s wildlife laboratory on May 20. Initial losses of 50 ducks, shorebirds, and coots occurred at Buena Vista Lake in Kern County. The Sand Ridge Reservoir is being built cooperatively by the Corps of Engineers and landowners north of Buena Vista Lake to hold back some 63,000 acre-feet of water from the Tulare Lake Basin, where it is feared the heavy influx of water could break levees and spread uncontrolled water over several hundred thousand acres. DFG seeks levees to close in the proposed ''V" -shaped reservoir to create deeper water and eliminate feather edges. Control and surveillance efforts by the DFG and other agencies will continue, along with an accelerated effort of basic research by the DFG to determine how the botulism toxin is formed and transmitted. Botulism is caused by a common bacteria which lives in the soil, particularly in alkaline areas, As the bacteria grows, it gives off waste products. This toxin, taken in by ducks during feeding, causes the disease. Control methods include surveillance, herding of birds away from problem areas once an outbreak begins, pickup and treatment of sick birds, pickup and disposal of dead birds, and draining infected ponds where possible The Department of Fish and Game is seeking assistance of sportsmen, conservationists, and educators in developing a "conservation inventory'' of citizens' efforts. DFG Director Ray Arnett explained that such a catalogue will help the DFG coordinate such projects and assist private groups in expanding their conservation efforts. A postpaid questionnaire addressed to the DFG is printed on the back cover of the current issue of the Department's bimonthly magazine, Outdoor California. In a letter addressed to conservationists, Arnett noted Governor Ronald Reagan's effort to involve the individual citizen — “the private sector" — in matters of basic concern to all the people of the state. "Because the DFG has the responsibility of protecting and managing these resources, Governor Reagan has asked us to seek your help in developing an inventory of all those activities in which you or your organizations have been involved which will contribute to this goal or effort," Arnett said. boat-launching permits ona calendar year basis rather than a fiscal year basis. As a result, purchasers will get a bargain this year--seven months for the price of six. . The permits will go on sale in the parks after June 1 for $5 each, half the price of a full year's permit, and will be good until the end of this year. On January 1, new permits will be good for the entire calendar year of 1970, The annual day-use permit may be used at all state park units where the regular 75-cent day-use fee is collected. However, the permit may not be used for camping or at state historic units and museums where-an entrance or guided tour fee is charged, The annual boat-launching permit is good for unlimited use of boat launching facilities at applicable state park units, with the exception of Lake Elsinore State Recreation Area in Riverside County. $ available at: @ The Sacramento Light Opera Association a oS 1419 H, Secremente $17.20 te $31.60 fer ail SINGLE TICKETS ‘ Pri.-Sot: 4.75 4.28 3.80 Opening week single tickets. 8.50 “75 4.00 Fri.-Sat. 6.00 8.28 4.80 Tickets also FOWLER TV & APPLIANCE 922 Lincoln Way, 885-6256 Auburn pRopUucee BY LEWIS & YOUNG Presented by The Sacramento Civic Theater Season and Single Tickets on Sale Civic Theater Box Office 441-3163 SAVE 20% ON SEASON TICKETS 9 shows ge 3h 19th SEASON OPENS MONDAY JUNE 16th June 16-June 22 LIBERACE aad the Trinided Tripell Steel Band June 23-June 29 THE SOUND OF MUSIC June 30-July 6 HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING July 7-July 13 (te be announced) 14-July 20 MY FAIR LADY July 21-July 27 STATE PAIR July 28-A 3 FUNNY GIRL Show BOAT a SPONSORED BY THE BEE, KFBK & KOVR