March 14, 1973 (12 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed. Mar. 14, 1973 Post Office cuts collection boxes Have you noticed that the number of mail collection boxes in Nevada City has been, drastically reduced? Cliff Ramos, officer in chargé of the local post office, has explained the reason why they have been pared-down from about a dozen to three. ‘i Basically the reasons are the federal government’s present economy kick and according’ to federal criteria Nevada City had an over abundance of collection boxes.: The three ing “boxes : are located near the National Hotel, Dr. B.W. Hummelt’s office and the SPD Store. Ramos . anticipates the consolidation. will go even further and the two Broad Street boxes will be combined into one which will be on Broad Street, possibly near the Button Works. ~ Statistically the government criteria is one collection box for each 1.5 mile area. By this criteria Nevada City has been overstocked. Local tests revealed which collection boxes are handling the most mail and those low on the totem pole in the test were the first to go. Those lowest on the scale handled an average of from 4 to 9 pieces of mail daily: The post office is planning on placing a drive-up collection box in front of the post office. Withdrawal of some boxes is an attempt to improve service at the local office, Ramos said. For instance the.man hours involved in serving the pickup boxes can be better used in handling mail more efficiently at.the main office. “We are trying so hard to economize by pinching pennies that if anybody sneezes it could put us out of balance,” Ramos said. The pinch is even harder since ~ the local office lost four ‘‘highly trained”’ employes through ~etirement in the last year. Two employes have replaced the four 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY 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, 1960. Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two -Yeors . $5.00 _ Member of COUNTT NUGGET . CALIFORNIA REWSPAPER {_PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION aulimminiemmaemmamim tact ee ee who retired. The loss of men long familiar with the work and people is severely felt, Ramos said, The replacement of four by two also is a problem, he said.” The “Old automatically knew where people have moved and where to . put incorrectly addressed mail. ‘With ew employes unfamiliar with local people and ways this is far more difficult, he said. The public’s cooperation in correct addressing is more, important than ever for efficient Service, Ramos said. He pledged the best possible service to the people of Nevada City and reiterated cooperation in correct addressing is one of the ‘essential ingredients of helping post office employes help you. Tough CHP auto theft standards The California Highway Patrol will coordinate tough statewide emphasis against vehicle thefts through a new program designed to cut the theft rate and boost the number of stolen vehicles recovered, Commissioner Walter Pudinski announced. A federal grant of $1,250,000 was approved by the California Council on Criminal Justice to fund additional CHP positions and equipment for the 16-month program, which begins with a four-month organizational phase and moves into tactical _ Operation July 1. Pudinski said a Highway Patrol study of vehicle theft by an independent consultant “revealed an average 8 percent ,annual rise in thefts while the i vehicle recovery rate was dropping from 90 to 80 percent in a three-year period. “Vehicle thefts now total one I of every six FBI index crimes in ‘the state. California, with more than 140,000 thefts annually, has the third highest per capita theft rate in the nation. Motorcycle ‘thefts have grown most rapidly. Vehicle theft is costing Californians over $100 million every year.” The Patrol will add 41 uniformed personnel, bringing to just below 90 the number assigned to auto theft statewide. Inspector B.R. Smith heads the project, which will represent a total investment of $1 two thirds millions including budgeted Patrol funds. , Pudinski said ‘‘vehicle theft is largely confined to urban areas, meaning that local police and sheriff’s departments have primary responsibility for curbing it. timers” ° a +. a. i (Ready MS ewe me By Fay M. Dunbar First let’s get my mistakes corrected. Miss Brenda West, age 6 years is not, as I originally thought, the youngest person in Rough and Ready with a March birthday. Proud grandmother Helen Avery (her own words) reminds me that Miss Sarah Agnes Gregor was just 2 years old on March 2. Brenda, by comparison, you are quite a grown up young lady. That should be some compensation. R&R Faith and begorra it’s that time again, Next Saturday you will have to get out the old green buttoniere, take your shillelagh stick and go walking into the fields hunting four leaf clover or the Leprechauns will be after ye. Too bad the good Bishop Patrick, who did it originally in 432 AD, can’t come back and bring Christianity into Ireland again. R&R: ~ Last Wednesday the Newcomers Lyric Ensemble met at the home of Mrs. K.D. (Helen) Beatie of Rough and Ready for a belated Christmas Party. The group was snowed out in December but the fates must have kept this in mind for WedneSday was an exceptionally beautiful day. The ladies have met together for luncheon and a song fest each since 1968. There were 20 of the Ensemble present including one longtime member, Mrs. Cora Rice, whose health makes: it impossible for her to sing with them any more. Members from Rough and Ready area were Mrs. Beatie our hostess and the Mmes. Fay Dunbar, Beulah Shearer, and Elaine Vogt. The Emsemble is preparing music for a guest appearance with the Grass Valley United Methodist Church Choir on Sunday March 18 and for their regular program at the Spring Hill Convalescent Home the third Wednesday of the month. The program at Spring Hill this month will feature music of ane and of dear old Erin. . R&R I hope you are all wondering what has happened at the creamery. Well it has almost slipped off its foundation. It is remembered by living local people as being there in 1892. County records include a deed from Simon Henry and Anna Marie Dikeman to the Penn Valley Creamery Association in 1898. Lyle White is still searching for earlier official records. Chester Loney told me a good creamery story. He has told me many other interesting stories of early days on other subjects which I will relate to you _when the subject is relevant. This creamery story is of seeing Tom Casey of Casey’s Corners (now Pegar’s Y) taking his cream to the old creamery in a Petaluma Cart. A Petaluma is a single horse cart with the entrance door at the rear. It holds up to three people. The incident he related was that, often in the spring when the little swale that runs through there would be deep with heavy rains, Mr. Casey would have to put the cream up on the seat to get it above the water. A lady from Lincoln, Mrs. Munson W. Church, wrote me of seeing them stir the cream with a wooden rake in an old tub. She believes the tub was tothe back of the creamery and on the second floor. To a child the huge built up area at the back (eye level to me) would look like a second floor to a child. This is where the cream came into the separator in later years. She wished us luck in our endeavor. Mrs. Church’s family were pioneers here in Nevada county, and well known from historical records, to we history nuts. It gives the job and my spirits a lift to have those with pioneer background give us these stories and especially when they are accompanied by their best wishes. Malcolm Hammill’s memories started this whole ball of . wax. Elza Kilroy’s motion at the historical society meeting got that ball rolling. Now Penn Valley people have begun to show an interest. _ Even our supervisors are giving us every break.” 273-2934 The effort must be destined for success. Our local newspapers seem to find it dull but Sacramento gave us a beautiful half page with pictures. If the restoration can be done it will cause a little slow up of progress at the Grass Valley Mining Museum but our membership meeting felt that if ‘local people were in: terested’’ enough to help and the cost was “‘not prohibitive’ we could get on with restoration of the old creamery. Leon Harte and Jim Abraham . of the sites and markers committee of the historical society working there last Sunday uncovered two rooms of the original Dikeman home still intact. They were enthusiastic about the development because they found it could be restored for very little and would be about 90 per cent of the original home. Back to having “slipped off its foundation.’’ It really has on one corner. The experts who looked at it last Sunday say it can still probably be saved. Money! Money! Money! and work! work! work!. Are you willing? I can’t imagine ever using the old Rough and Ready Blacksmith Shop as a good example of anything, the shape it is in, but it is. There would be a weed patch there if the chamber of commerce had not taken it in hand back in 1967. Mr. Phillips of our county building department is agreeable and when spring weather arrives, after a complete loss of a couple of years over a permit, the old shop is going to move again. Thanks to the foresight of the chamber it is still there to move forward. R&R Just met our newest neighbor. I’m referring to Grant ‘‘Red”’ Nelson. He has taken over Orin Brown’s lease at the service station. Orin has “gone fishin’” until work catches up with him again. Mr. Nelson’s wife Myra, and son Michael are living in the old Toll House chain of homes. They have taken the first one. The one that was built by George and Effie Howe for their first daughter to marry. Nelson has a sister living at Bull Run. This is where their interest in our Northern Mines area began. How anyone could love the weather we have just been through I can’t imagine but the family have fallen under _the spell of Rough and Ready charm. Son Michael is attending Ready Springs School. Myra Nelson was my ‘“‘get acquainted with your nieghbor” guest at the auxiliary meeting on Monday. R&R Don’t forget the regular meeting of the Rough and Ready Grange on Friday March 16. .The Grange ladies, Committee of Women’s Activities, will meet Tuesday March 20. R&R Mrs. Allen (Margaret) Brown hosted the literary section of the Nevada County Newcomers Club at her home on Prospector . Road at their regular first Monday of the month meeting. Dr. Eva Missner gave a review of the biography of Dr. Osler, the world famous Canadian, who was later to be Knighted for his achievements. Marguerite Spaite was cohostess for the day. Other members of the group from Rough and Ready were the Mmes. Constance Baer, Olyve Simmons, and Marian Wylie. Also members of this very interesting group are the Mmes. Martha Brisbane, Lois Howell and Margaret Frisbee. Contact Conne Baer, Lois Howell or Fay Dunbar before their next meeting if you would like to join this stimulating program. FAY M. DUNBAR 273-2934 BRIR

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed. Mar. 14, 1973 Post Office cuts collection boxes Have you noticed that the number of mail collection boxes in Nevada City has been, drastically reduced? Cliff Ramos, officer in chargé of the local post office, has explained the reason why they have been pared-down from about a dozen to three. ‘i Basically the reasons are the federal government’s present economy kick and according’ to federal criteria Nevada City had an over abundance of collection boxes.: The three ing “boxes : are located near the National Hotel, Dr. B.W. Hummelt’s office and the SPD Store. Ramos . anticipates the consolidation. will go even further and the two Broad Street boxes will be combined into one which will be on Broad Street, possibly near the Button Works. ~ Statistically the government criteria is one collection box for each 1.5 mile area. By this criteria Nevada City has been overstocked. Local tests revealed which collection boxes are handling the most mail and those low on the totem pole in the test were the first to go. Those lowest on the scale handled an average of from 4 to 9 pieces of mail daily: The post office is planning on placing a drive-up collection box in front of the post office. Withdrawal of some boxes is an attempt to improve service at the local office, Ramos said. For instance the.man hours involved in serving the pickup boxes can be better used in handling mail more efficiently at.the main office. “We are trying so hard to economize by pinching pennies that if anybody sneezes it could put us out of balance,” Ramos said. The pinch is even harder since ~ the local office lost four ‘‘highly trained”’ employes through ~etirement in the last year. Two employes have replaced the four 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY 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, 1960. Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two -Yeors .. $5.00 _ Member of COUNTT NUGGET . CALIFORNIA REWSPAPER {_PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION aulimminiemmaemmamim tact ee ee who retired. The loss of men long familiar with the work and people is severely felt, Ramos said, The replacement of four by two also is a problem, he said.” The “Old automatically knew where people have moved and where to . put incorrectly addressed mail. ‘With ew employes unfamiliar with local people and ways this is far more difficult, he said. The public’s cooperation in correct addressing is more, important than ever for efficient Service, Ramos said. He pledged the best possible service to the people of Nevada City and reiterated cooperation in correct addressing is one of the ‘essential ingredients of helping post office employes help you. Tough CHP auto theft standards The California Highway Patrol will coordinate tough statewide emphasis against vehicle thefts through a new program designed to cut the theft rate and boost the number of stolen vehicles recovered, Commissioner Walter Pudinski announced. A federal grant of $1,250,000 was approved by the California Council on Criminal Justice to fund additional CHP positions and equipment for the 16-month program, which begins with a four-month organizational phase and moves into tactical _ Operation July 1. Pudinski said a Highway Patrol study of vehicle theft by an independent consultant “revealed an average 8 percent ,annual rise in thefts while the i vehicle recovery rate was dropping from 90 to 80 percent in a three-year period. “Vehicle thefts now total one I of every six FBI index crimes in ‘the state. California, with more than 140,000 thefts annually, has the third highest per capita theft rate in the nation. Motorcycle ‘thefts have grown most rapidly. Vehicle theft is costing Californians over $100 million every year.” The Patrol will add 41 uniformed personnel, bringing to just below 90 the number assigned to auto theft statewide. Inspector B.R. Smith heads the project, which will represent a total investment of $1 two thirds millions including budgeted Patrol funds. , Pudinski said ‘‘vehicle theft is largely confined to urban areas, meaning that local police and sheriff’s departments have primary responsibility for curbing it. timers” °

a +. a. i (Ready MS ewe me By Fay M. Dunbar First let’s get my mistakes corrected. Miss Brenda West, age 6 years is not, as I originally thought, the youngest person in Rough and Ready with a March birthday. Proud grandmother Helen Avery (her own words) reminds me that Miss Sarah Agnes Gregor was just 2 years old on March 2. Brenda, by comparison, you are quite a grown up young lady. That should be some compensation. R&R Faith and begorra it’s that time again, Next Saturday you will have to get out the old green buttoniere, take your shillelagh stick and go walking into the fields hunting four leaf clover or the Leprechauns will be after ye. Too bad the good Bishop Patrick, who did it originally in 432 AD, can’t come back and bring Christianity into Ireland again. R&R: ~ Last Wednesday the Newcomers Lyric Ensemble met at the home of Mrs. K.D. (Helen) Beatie of Rough and Ready for a belated Christmas Party. The group was snowed out in December but the fates must have kept this in mind for WedneSday was an exceptionally beautiful day. The ladies have met together for luncheon and a song fest each since 1968. There were 20 of the Ensemble present including one longtime member, Mrs. Cora Rice, whose health makes: it impossible for her to sing with them any more. Members from Rough and Ready area were Mrs. Beatie our hostess and the Mmes. Fay Dunbar, Beulah Shearer, and Elaine Vogt. The Emsemble is preparing music for a guest appearance with the Grass Valley United Methodist Church Choir on Sunday March 18 and for their regular program at the Spring Hill Convalescent Home the third Wednesday of the month. The program at Spring Hill this month will feature music of ane and of dear old Erin. . R&R I hope you are all wondering what has happened at the creamery. Well it has almost slipped off its foundation. It is remembered by living local people as being there in 1892. County records include a deed from Simon Henry and Anna Marie Dikeman to the Penn Valley Creamery Association in 1898. Lyle White is still searching for earlier official records. Chester Loney told me a good creamery story. He has told me many other interesting stories of early days on other subjects which I will relate to you _when the subject is relevant. This creamery story is of seeing Tom Casey of Casey’s Corners (now Pegar’s Y) taking his cream to the old creamery in a Petaluma Cart. A Petaluma is a single horse cart with the entrance door at the rear. It holds up to three people. The incident he related was that, often in the spring when the little swale that runs through there would be deep with heavy rains, Mr. Casey would have to put the cream up on the seat to get it above the water. A lady from Lincoln, Mrs. Munson W. Church, wrote me of seeing them stir the cream with a wooden rake in an old tub. She believes the tub was tothe back of the creamery and on the second floor. To a child the huge built up area at the back (eye level to me) would look like a second floor to a child. This is where the cream came into the separator in later years. She wished us luck in our endeavor. Mrs. Church’s family were pioneers here in Nevada county, and well known from historical records, to we history nuts. It gives the job and my spirits a lift to have those with pioneer background give us these stories and especially when they are accompanied by their best wishes. Malcolm Hammill’s memories started this whole ball of . wax. Elza Kilroy’s motion at the historical society meeting got that ball rolling. Now Penn Valley people have begun to show an interest. _ Even our supervisors are giving us every break.” 273-2934 The effort must be destined for success. Our local newspapers seem to find it dull but Sacramento gave us a beautiful half page with pictures. If the restoration can be done it will cause a little slow up of progress at the Grass Valley Mining Museum but our membership meeting felt that if ‘local people were in: terested’’ enough to help and the cost was “‘not prohibitive’ we could get on with restoration of the old creamery. Leon Harte and Jim Abraham . of the sites and markers committee of the historical society working there last Sunday uncovered two rooms of the original Dikeman home still intact. They were enthusiastic about the development because they found it could be restored for very little and would be about 90 per cent of the original home. Back to having “slipped off its foundation.’’ It really has on one corner. The experts who looked at it last Sunday say it can still probably be saved. Money! Money! Money! and work! work! work!. Are you willing? I can’t imagine ever using the old Rough and Ready Blacksmith Shop as a good example of anything, the shape it is in, but it is. There would be a weed patch there if the chamber of commerce had not taken it in hand back in 1967. Mr. Phillips of our county building department is agreeable and when spring weather arrives, after a complete loss of a couple of years over a permit, the old shop is going to move again. Thanks to the foresight of the chamber it is still there to move forward. R&R Just met our newest neighbor. I’m referring to Grant ‘‘Red”’ Nelson. He has taken over Orin Brown’s lease at the service station. Orin has “gone fishin’” until work catches up with him again. Mr. Nelson’s wife Myra, and son Michael are living in the old Toll House chain of homes. They have taken the first one. The one that was built by George and Effie Howe for their first daughter to marry. Nelson has a sister living at Bull Run. This is where their interest in our Northern Mines area began. How anyone could love the weather we have just been through I can’t imagine but the family have fallen under _the spell of Rough and Ready charm. Son Michael is attending Ready Springs School. Myra Nelson was my ‘“‘get acquainted with your nieghbor” guest at the auxiliary meeting on Monday. R&R Don’t forget the regular meeting of the Rough and Ready Grange on Friday March 16. .The Grange ladies, Committee of Women’s Activities, will meet Tuesday March 20. R&R Mrs. Allen (Margaret) Brown hosted the literary section of the Nevada County Newcomers Club at her home on Prospector . Road at their regular first Monday of the month meeting. Dr. Eva Missner gave a review of the biography of Dr. Osler, the world famous Canadian, who was later to be Knighted for his achievements. Marguerite Spaite was cohostess for the day. Other members of the group from Rough and Ready were the Mmes. Constance Baer, Olyve Simmons, and Marian Wylie. Also members of this very interesting group are the Mmes. Martha Brisbane, Lois Howell and Margaret Frisbee. Contact Conne Baer, Lois Howell or Fay Dunbar before their next meeting if you would like to join this stimulating program. FAY M. DUNBAR 273-2934 BRIR