June 6, 1973 (12 pages)

My neighbor has two large dogs, one is a Golden retriever and the other a beautiful black Lab. They are young and full of all kinds of funny tricks and notions. All day long they ramble over a large yard full of exciting obstacles.rock gardens, wood piles, bushes and shrubs and ‘various buildings.with big shade trees affording them comfortable resting places out of the sun or rain. Their’s is a life of almost perpetual motion until nightfall, when they. are safely sheltered in-the basement with old army cots to sleep on. Their humans feed them downstairs, from separate plates containing identical rations. The dogs pounce upon their food and each eats just about half on his’n’her plates; then, according to my they’re not missing any goodies! Or something like that.you tell us. f Some worthy sage has said “good driving is cooperative, not competitive; it is better to out-stripped than outlived.” Since that doesn’t sound much like poetry it must be the whole truth.because it is a well-established fact that a great deal of just common courtesy goes flying out the window on the driver’s side, once the “‘average”’ driver gets in behind the wheel nowadays. Some of the capers that drivers pull off with great elan, in our present-day high-powered buggies, would puzzle the smartest shrink in the business. I met up with a couple of examples yesterday that very nearly frizzled my wig permanently. In the first instance, I was starting a legal 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Co. 95959 Telephone 265-2559. ' PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 8Y NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City,: . California. Adjudicated . a legal newspaper of ] general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 4960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: “One Year . $3.00 Two Yeors . $5.00 _ Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET . eo 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., June 6,1973 “Notes off the Cuff” By. P. L. left turn into Pine off Broad Street when a vehicle being operated like a beserk yo-yo came right at me up Broak out of a parking place at the corner. The male driver managed to . slither about the intersection, almost at right angles to himself, and nearly met an oncoming truck head-on, before he could square himself with the landscape and continue up the street. Later ‘in the afternoon, as I was going out South Auburn in Grass Valley.at a very slow rate of speed because of having just stopped for a gaggle of school kids who were taking their time crossing the street.a big blue station wagon roared out of a private driveway right in front of me into a swinging left turn that took his car up onto the curbing and almost completely across the street onto the wrong side, before he could gain control of the wagon -and continue on his merry way. As I glanced back, I saw him scatter another bunch of little innocent children like a covey of quail, less than a_half-block away. There’s nothing very relaxing about going for a drive these days.one almost feels like arranging for the funeral before turning on the ignition. Remember the good old days when you could go out in the family car for a long, rambling drive and come home feeling just great? I do, but the memory grows fainter with each passing day. Red Cross swim program scheduled Tje Red Cross summer swim program starts June 18 at the Grass Valley pool. . Students must be six years old or first graders to participate. Registration will take place at 9 ‘S\for water safety for Western ‘Nevada County Red Cross reported, at the Memeorial Park ‘club house. ‘ Included in the swim program will be instruction for beginners, advanced beginners, inThe local Red Cross is asking for donations to help defray costs of the swim program. Anyone wishing to help may call Mrs. Fore at 273-6697. Classes for the Nevada City ‘pool will be July 3 19 with registration at 9 a.m. June 30 at Seaman’s Lodge. The Nevada City pool will be closed on Mondays. BT eww = By Fay M. Dunbar. “June is bustin’ out all over” and so are our wonderful kids. About 30 of them had lunch at the Mexican Villa last Monday. They were celebrating, “‘bustin’ out” of Tim Huff’s Spanish class, with a luncheon of Spanish foods. Arnold Solis, owner of the Villa, loves kids too. He arranged a Spanish type plate with tacos, rice and beans for them. The whole thing was topped off with an American Ice Cream cone and a Mexican Pinata party on the lawn back of the Villa. Solis was also impressed with the kids’ instructor. Besides arranging for the lunch he also arranged for a caravan of. parents for transportation, and then even offered to help defray some of Arnold’s expenses which were more than he charged for the lunch. Ali this Seems to prove Mr. Solis’ contention that Huff is _ definately a dedicated teacher. Each May I come to the conclusion that too much hustle and hubub is just too much! Then ,June comes along and makes May seem like a time. June has been so busy this year that, Fenn dones and Chet Mell who are cochairmen or the awards dinner for the Historical Society originally scheduled for June 2, asked that it be postponed, probably August. What with graduation, homeocmings, and vacations all at one time there just weren’t any dinner arrangement available. The society skips summer meetings. Next scheduled event is an Excursion on Saturday July 7 to Coloma State Historic Park. The hubub reached its peak with the weekend of May 20. There were 8 big local events overlapping each other. The weekend of June 9 has horsemen’s Trail Ride, Guys and Dolls production at the Fairgrounds, School Days at the Malakoff the the Homecoming celebration, and in Rough and Ready there will be an Antique Bottle Show and Auction. Members of the Anitque Bottle Club of America will participate in the Bottle Auction at the Rough and Ready Grange Hall on Saturday and Sunday June 9 and 10. ABCA is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs and Federation Members may participate. Anyone may buy bottles. The auction starts Saturday June 9 at 1 p.m. and with a brief respite for eating and sleeping, 5:30 p.m. Saturday ‘till 10 a.m. Sunday, will continue until 2 p.m. Sunday June 10. All this fun was organized by Joe Kelly, son-in-law of our own Lisetta Scheave, who is Western Region Coordinator for FOHBC. The ladies of the Grange will serve dinner for the Malakoff Diggins’ Homecoming Day is Sunday June 10. The celebration is to begin Saturday night with a Square Dance in the old North Bloomfield School house which has been lately acquired by State Parks and is being restored. Desks will not be in place this year due 273-2934 to the square danding. Camping and picnic space is available. Sunday will be an all day: affair with bands, a parade, dedication of the School house. and of the Gazebo which was donated by a real live Countess. Her father worked at the Malakoff. A full day of fun is. scheduled. Bring your. Picnic basket or eat hamburgers. The Malakoff has no cafes or groceries. Olive Robinson stopped by to let me know I had made another boo-boo. Seems the National Geographic article, which will include a bit about the “‘last cattle drive’’ will be titled Sierra Gold. Olive mentioned Sierra and Nevada Counties to me simply because their cattle drive began in Nevada County and ended in Sierra County. You learn something new every day they say. Ilearn a lot of new things each day and still want more. Mr. Apple.of Grass Valley has just finished a story. I had the privilege of reading it, before the publisher, and found it most interesting. From it I learned the name oi a method of described to me by our lets neighbor Manuel Frank many years ago. Manuel didn’t discuss it by name but apparently this name was in common usage among early day miners. He did explain how they stored water for several days then released it all at once to get a big force down Squirrel Creek. Then they followed the water down the course and worked all the new ground exposed. Early day miners called this, storage and volume release of water through a particular channel, “shooting’’. This was the method that was in use when Asa Fippin found the Nugget with the pick marks and went back the next day and dug out . the other part.It’s a true story that almost sounds like fiction. You will see this portrayed in Saga of the Rough and Ready Pioneers on Secession Day June 24 right here in Rough and Ready very near the spot where the actual event occurred. My apologies to the residents of French Corral. I have been saying the Teacher’s Desk given to the newly restored North Bloomfiled School at the Malakoff Diggins’ State Historic Park was from the North San Juan School. It old landmarks that we are losing so rapidly. Especially the French Corral School, the North San Juan Scheol, even our Rough and Ready School. It’s a bit late now for the old Creamery in Penn Valley. The Ron Bowens who really hated to see it go have preserved the Cupalo but that’s about all that is left. The Buttermaker’s Cottage is not a bit dramatic but it will have to be the Walle Cent ay ft Oe Said of Pose eya ou’ Dairy industry that flourished there in the late 1800’s. We were all saddened by the death last Thursday of Mr. Ivory Alton Creegan, early day resident of this area. Mr. Creegan has been ill . for some time. He and his wife Winifred were members of the Rough and Ready Grange. Winifred says remembrances may be sent for a Memorial Seat in the Old Nevada Theater in Al’s name.

My neighbor has two large dogs, one is a Golden retriever and the other a beautiful black Lab. They are young and full of all kinds of funny tricks and notions. All day long they ramble over a large yard full of exciting obstacles..rock gardens, wood piles, bushes and shrubs and ‘various buildings..with big shade trees affording them comfortable resting places out of the sun or rain. Their’s is a life of almost perpetual motion until nightfall, when they. are safely sheltered in-the basement with old army cots to sleep on. Their humans feed them downstairs, from separate plates containing identical rations. The dogs pounce upon their food and each eats just about half on his’n’her plates; then, according to my they’re not missing any goodies! Or something like that..you tell us. f Some worthy sage has said “good driving is cooperative, not competitive; it is better to out-stripped than outlived.” Since that doesn’t sound much like poetry it must be the whole truth..because it is a well-established fact that a great deal of just common courtesy goes flying out the window on the driver’s side, once the “‘average”’ driver gets in behind the wheel nowadays. Some of the capers that drivers pull off with great elan, in our present-day high-powered buggies, would puzzle the smartest shrink in the business. I met up with a couple of examples yesterday that very nearly frizzled my wig permanently. In the first instance, I was starting a legal 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Co. 95959 Telephone 265-2559. ' PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 8Y NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City,: . California. Adjudicated . a legal newspaper of ] general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 4960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: “One Year .. $3.00 Two Yeors .. $5.00 _ Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET . eo 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., June 6,1973 “Notes off the Cuff” By. P. L. left turn into Pine off Broad Street when a vehicle being operated like a beserk yo-yo came right at me up Broak out of a parking place at the corner. The male driver managed to . slither about the intersection, almost at right angles to himself, and nearly met an oncoming truck head-on, before he could square himself with the landscape and continue up the street.. Later ‘in the afternoon, as I was going out South Auburn in Grass Valley..at a very slow rate of speed because of having just stopped for a gaggle of school kids who were taking their time crossing the street..a big blue station wagon roared out of a private driveway right in front of me into a swinging left turn that took his car up onto the curbing and almost completely across the street onto the wrong side, before he could gain control of the wagon -and continue on his merry way. As I glanced back, I saw him scatter another bunch of little innocent children like a covey of quail, less than a_half-block away. There’s nothing very relaxing about going for a drive these days..one almost feels like arranging for the funeral before turning on the ignition. Remember the good old days when you could go out in the family car for a long, rambling drive and come home feeling just great? I do, but the memory grows fainter with each passing day. Red Cross swim program scheduled Tje Red Cross summer swim program starts June 18 at the Grass Valley pool. . Students must be six years old or first graders to participate. Registration will take place at 9 ‘S\for water safety for Western ‘Nevada County Red Cross reported, at the Memeorial Park ‘club house. ‘ Included in the swim program will be instruction for beginners, advanced beginners, inThe local Red Cross is asking

for donations to help defray costs of the swim program. Anyone wishing to help may call Mrs. Fore at 273-6697. Classes for the Nevada City ‘pool will be July 3 19 with registration at 9 a.m. June 30 at Seaman’s Lodge. The Nevada City pool will be closed on Mondays. BT eww = By Fay M. Dunbar. “June is bustin’ out all over” and so are our wonderful kids. About 30 of them had lunch at the Mexican Villa last Monday. They were celebrating, “‘bustin’ out” of Tim Huff’s Spanish class, with a luncheon of Spanish foods. Arnold Solis, owner of the Villa, loves kids too. He arranged a Spanish type plate with tacos, rice and beans for them. The whole thing was topped off with an American Ice Cream cone and a Mexican Pinata party on the lawn back of the Villa. Solis was also impressed with the kids’ instructor. Besides arranging for the lunch he also arranged for a caravan of. parents for transportation, and then even offered to help defray some of Arnold’s expenses which were more than he charged for the lunch. Ali this Seems to prove Mr. Solis’ contention that Huff is _ definately a dedicated teacher. Each May I come to the conclusion that too much hustle and hubub is just too much! Then ,June comes along and makes May seem like a time. June has been so busy this year that, Fenn dones and Chet Mell who are cochairmen or the awards dinner for the Historical Society originally scheduled for June 2, asked that it be postponed, probably August. What with graduation, homeocmings, and vacations all at one time there just weren’t any dinner arrangement available. The society skips summer meetings. Next scheduled event is an Excursion on Saturday July 7 to Coloma State Historic Park. The hubub reached its peak with the weekend of May 20. There were 8 big local events overlapping each other. The weekend of June 9 has horsemen’s Trail Ride, Guys and Dolls production at the Fairgrounds, School Days at the Malakoff the the Homecoming celebration, and in Rough and Ready there will be an Antique Bottle Show and Auction. Members of the Anitque Bottle Club of America will participate in the Bottle Auction at the Rough and Ready Grange Hall on Saturday and Sunday June 9 and 10. ABCA is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs and Federation Members may participate. Anyone may buy bottles. The auction starts Saturday June 9 at 1 p.m. and with a brief respite for eating and sleeping, 5:30 p.m. Saturday ‘till 10 a.m. Sunday, will continue until 2 p.m. Sunday June 10. All this fun was organized by Joe Kelly, son-in-law of our own Lisetta Scheave, who is Western Region Coordinator for FOHBC. The ladies of the Grange will serve dinner for the Malakoff Diggins’ Homecoming Day is Sunday June 10. The celebration is to begin Saturday night with a Square Dance in the old North Bloomfield School house which has been lately acquired by State Parks and is being restored. Desks will not be in place this year due 273-2934 to the square danding. Camping and picnic space is available. Sunday will be an all day: affair with bands, a parade, dedication of the School house. and of the Gazebo which was donated by a real live Countess. Her father worked at the Malakoff. A full day of fun is. scheduled. Bring your. Picnic basket or eat hamburgers. The Malakoff has no cafes or groceries. Olive Robinson stopped by to let me know I had made another boo-boo. Seems the National Geographic article, which will include a bit about the “‘last cattle drive’’ will be titled Sierra Gold. Olive mentioned Sierra and Nevada Counties to me simply because their cattle drive began in Nevada County and ended in Sierra County. You learn something new every day they say. Ilearn a lot of new things each day and still want more. Mr. Apple.of Grass Valley has just finished a story. I had the privilege of reading it, before the publisher, and found it most interesting. From it I learned the name oi a method of described to me by our lets neighbor Manuel Frank many years ago. Manuel didn’t discuss it by name but apparently this name was in common usage among early day miners. He did explain how they stored water for several days then released it all at once to get a big force down Squirrel Creek. Then they followed the water down the course and worked all the new ground exposed. Early day miners called this, storage and volume release of water through a particular channel, “shooting’’. This was the method that was in use when Asa Fippin found the Nugget with the pick marks and went back the next day and dug out . the other part.It’s a true story that almost sounds like fiction. You will see this portrayed in Saga of the Rough and Ready Pioneers on Secession Day June 24 right here in Rough and Ready very near the spot where the actual event occurred. My apologies to the residents of French Corral. I have been saying the Teacher’s Desk given to the newly restored North Bloomfiled School at the Malakoff Diggins’ State Historic Park was from the North San Juan School. It old landmarks that we are losing so rapidly. Especially the French Corral School, the North San Juan Scheol, even our Rough and Ready School. It’s a bit late now for the old Creamery in Penn Valley. The Ron Bowens who really hated to see it go have preserved the Cupalo but that’s about all that is left. The Buttermaker’s Cottage is not a bit dramatic but it will have to be the Walle Cent ay ft Oe Said of Pose eya ou’ Dairy industry that flourished there in the late 1800’s. We were all saddened by the death last Thursday of Mr. Ivory Alton Creegan, early day resident of this area. Mr. Creegan has been ill . for some time. He and his wife Winifred were members of the Rough and Ready Grange. Winifred says remembrances may be sent for a Memorial Seat in the Old Nevada Theater in Al’s name.