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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

March 14, 1973 (12 pages)

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nT@ALS BROTION (s#& PERI JDICALS 16-73 CAL. ST. LIBRARY $ AcTO. CAL. 95814 NUG NEVADA COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hilt, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Kemington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Wed. Mar. 14. 1973 Looking at Nevada County 10 years ago Easter Seal Society drive Exercise for Placer Nevada County is now your memory conducting ‘its annual drive. The Easter Seal Society of Cannisters for collection of contributions have been placed How good is your memory? throughout the business districts Does ‘‘only ten years ago ~’ education. Needed equipment is purchased for the individual and number had the effect of ‘‘casting shadows,’’ either behind or before themselves; as really seem like yesterday to of both counties. you or does it take a lot of head— The Easter Seal Society aids handicapped persons from inscratching to remember what happened then? fancy through old age who have Well..lots of things happened orthopedic problems and other just one brief decade ago in types of handicaps, through therapy . treatment and Nevada county, and a goodly loans of equipment, when indicated, are also made. disasterous results. The high their own organization. school board decided to sell Seven Hills School; and Nevada City turned down the proposed elementary school tax hike. February saw the Kentucky .where visitors are most welcome. The society president is Richard. Saladana and the Easter Seal Society headquarters for this area are situated near Auburn at the Newcastle Exceptional School and ’Rithmetic. Reed died. drive chairman, Daniel Higgins, District Attorney of Placer County. for 3 Preliminary plans _ Malakoff State Park were sent <:: to the County Board of Super: visors by the State Division of : Beaches and Parks in March. 6 » the following month-by-month In addition to financial notes taken from Nugget files of 1963 will no doubt prove. requests for contributions, In January the temperature residents are requested to make dropped to 11 degrees on the 12th referrals to the society. Hanand there fell upon this land 12 dicapped and not retarded cases inches of rain with pretty are eligible as the retarded have George Says: FOR LATEST AND GREATEST During that same month, a State : Advisory Committee proposed : that Highways 20 and 49, within Nevada County, be included in =: the California Scenic Highway = System. During April, 75 students representing 20 foreign coun=: ORR tries were visitors to our county; and 350 members of the ' California-Nevada RECREATIONAL VEHICLES seen hereabouts. Room 39 at the thrilling tour of the sights to be WESTERN NEVADA COUNTY HEADQUARTERS We are now Exclusive Dealer for STARCRAFT & COACHMAN . MOTORHOMES
MEIER Chev.-Olds ee ee Malakoff Park project. Ground was broken for the National Hotel was designated new County Courthouse Annex in July. Don Wasley became “Bob Paine Room’ when the Nevada City’s new fire chief. Clampers placed memorative plaque ek ee ee rr Se Railroad Historical Society were guests of the City of Nevada City on a We Are Your JERRY SNAPP, eighth grader at Lyman Gilmore School, won the sweepstakes award at the Nevada County Science Fair. Jerry’s exhibit is on the. count of a comon the The Governor signed a bill authorizing $3.5 million for a “recreation grant’? for N.I.D. begun in Nevada City. Ott’s civilized world in mourning the Museum opened its doors to an interested public. More than 200 untimely death by assasination of President John F. Kennedy, women attended the Capitol District Business Professional Women’s and con vention in Nevada City. historic hostelry. an May brough a compromise design for the Nevada City Freeway before the city council. It was approved jointly by that Narrow Guage Railroad trestle bank in Grass Valley, in Oc“fought the good fight’ for tober. More 4 100 business survival against progress but’ and professional people at body and the State. lost out in August. The brick In June, Mt. St. Mary’s Convent and School observed its c ntinnial. The Nevada City Council moved to purchase a Canada Hill site from the United Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. States for recreation and water Gross Valley — 273-9535 storage. The state legislature ‘MON. thru SAT. = 8 to oi voted the sum of $550,000 for the The old Nevada. County walls of St. Canice Church in Nevada City were given a covering coat of stucco. Wells Fargo returned to Nevada county, with a branch tended a “Small Cities Workshop” conducted by the University of California in Davis. In September, an 18-cent In November, the Branding county school tax was forced by Iron Cafe burned in Nevada the State. Restoration of the City. Nevada county joined the fabulous old Red Castle was nation and the rest of the in Dallas, Texas. December passed rather quietly, with national mourning still in force. Highlighting community activities across the county was the llth Annual Artists’ Fair in Nevada City. The County Board of Supervisors adopted a new county employees salary ordinance. Christmas came and went..and everyone turned towards_ the New Year of 1964 with tee for peace in Vietnam and over the rest of a troubled world. BY PHYLLIS L. SMITH