March 16, 1960 (8 pages)

__the .rerouting-of the-project-Planning depts nays tone OS erenere “members is necessary. Resi: COUNTY _. COMBINED WITH THE Nevada County Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Do Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Li Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, berty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, , Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, , You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Rid Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ey Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omeg ge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou a, French Corral, Rough and Ready, pa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Hill, North Columbia, Columbia “Vol. 34 No.1] 10 Cents a Copy Priceless Heritage By Dean Thompson In the Citizen’s issue of March 9 was included a reproduction of a rare lithograph of Nevada City in the year 1863 from the historical collection of H. P. Davis; and a note by Davis on the Ott Assay Office. In this issue we reproduce a most accurate and interesting sketch map of the particular area -of Nevada City that has paramount historical significance; an area which, if plans for the freeway as presently projected are carried out, is doomed for annihilation. In The Nugget’s next issue of March 17, we will reprint this map and with it provide a comprehensive article by Davis emphasizing the historical significance of the area’ shown upon it and more particularly the old buildings, monuments and former sites of structures intimately associated with the early history of Nevada City. It is felt by Davis that, in connection with impending discussions of the hope for consideration by the powers that be of a plea for ed highway, such information as will be presented in Davis’ forthcoming article will influence others to give further material pertinent to this subject. To Nugget readers who, as we, most certainly are concerned in the preservation of this most precious heritage, we extend an invitation to send to The Nugget for reproduction in these columns any further mformation that they have bearing upon the subject of this article. , Sportsmen Trap Shoot The Nevada County Sportsmen will hold its first 1960 trap shoot Sunday, March 20. Members and general public cordially invited. The club and its ladies auxiliary have plans for improving facilities and offer; ing more recreational entertainment to members. Membership is increasing steadily but has not reached the stage where limiting } dents are invited to see the plant and consider the pleasure to be had by becoming a member. Activities are by no means limited to shooting but include both _ instructional and social events. The newly formed auxiliary offers a surance of enthusiastic support of all club efforts. : Lunch by the auxiliary will be available; some shotgun shells may be purchased at the shoot but it is advisable and more economical to bring your own. : To reach the trap shdot and club grounds, Highway 20-49 to Bergeman Funeral Home, Nevada City, turn uphill, and follow the directional signs, Capital Punishment Outlaw Is Defeated Governor Edmund G. Brown expressed regret during the week that his proposed bill to abolish capital punishment in California failed by one vote to foliow . S A---This little flat in California. river channels’ in revealed. “GOLD RUSH DAYS NEVADA CITY PREPARED BY MATHIS/OSBORN/WOODS 1960 Ah AB EOE RN HEE ERT ECT A EET G ET TBO , bisected by Main Street, spectacularlyrichin placer gold, was known in the.early days of 1849-1850 as "Deer Creek Dry Diggin's, “gne of . the richest placer deposits so £8 found C---Manzanita Cut, drift gravel mining was inaugurated. "FREEWAY" EXHIBIT FROM H. P. DAVIS’ HISTORICAL MAP OF NEVADA CITY ACCOMPANYING FIRST EDITION OF re NEVADA CiTy” dS Published Weekly — ere —FIRST STEPS te MYDRAULICKI a historic sites FIRST HABITATION OF WHITE MEM IN THIS VICINITY, OCT. ‘49 ; FIRST CABIN ON BROAD STREET, 1849 DRAMATIC HALL — FIRST HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT, 1849/50 . . i JENMY LIND THEATRE. 1851/52 NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, 1854/63 DEER CREEK DRY DIGGING, 1849/50/51 SITE OF CALDWELL’S UPPER STORE, OCTOBER 1849 FIRST HOTEL, 1850 OTT’S ASSAY OFFICE WELLS-FARGO & CO., 1853 (MONUMENT) SOUT YUSA CANAL COMPANY, 1870 UNION HOTEL, 1863/1949 FIRE HOUSE, 1850 (NOW HISTORICAL MUSEUM) FIRST U.S. POST OFFICE, 1850 B---Here in Manzanita Ravine the éxistence of ancient, long buried auriferous California was first where hydraulic and Anthropology Lecture Dr. Homer G. Barnett, professor of anthropology, University of Oregon, will deliver a series of iectures on: anthropology on the €hico State campus March 22 and 23. © March 22 at 8 p.m. he will speak at a public leeture in the college Little “Messianic Movements: Native Religious mses to the Impact of Western ‘Civilization.” SR > ee . tival’s Theatre on the subject of Performance In Chico Oregon. Shak egpearean Festival fans and their friends will have an-opportunity to enjoy the performance of one of the Fesjeading performerdirectors in Chico March 21 when Philip ~Hanson will appear at theChico State College Little Theatre at 3:30-:p.m. in “Kings and 2 Clowns,” an unusual © : es man show which has : ane, + Dial Switching Phone Equipment Being Set Dial service for Grass Valley and Nevada City is a step closer With the installation of dial switching equipment now under way. Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins announced that work began today on the steel framework for the complex, dial equipment in Nevada City’s new telephone central office building. is ‘The installation job in Grass valley “began two weeks ago. The. work is being done by the Western’ Electric Company, manufacturing and installation arm of the Bell System, of which Pacific Telephone is a part, The cost ofthe combined project is $1,605,000. ~ The dial systems for Grass Valley and Nevada City will go into operation at the same time, this summer, ‘with July set tentatively as the menth. Simultaneously, subscribers in both exchanes will get modern, nationwide Direct Distance Dial' This will make it possible for subscribers to dial their own station-to-station. calls direct to 45 million teélePhones in 4,300 cities and tewns in the continental United States and Canada. Automatic equipment in Sacramento will keep recofds on all such calls for billing purposes, Hutchins said. ‘At the same time, extended service will begin between Grass Valley and Nevada City. This will mean that calls between the two exchanges will become like local calls, without tol charge. Nevada City’s new dia bililding is located at South) Pine and Spring Streets. The Grass Valley buildin is at 315 Colfax Avenue. Nevada City, Wedne sda y, March 16, 1960 . Council Backs. City Manager The Nevada City Council Monday night split on a motion to repeal the ordinance that established the Position of city manager. Mayor Bill Mullis cast the deciding vote which split the council 2-2, with Counciman Bruce McKenzie ab‘staining. The vote came on a motion by Councilman Jack Brickell. Brickell said he had heard much comment on the city managership form of government and felt the way to bring the comment to the fore was to call for abolishment of the office. Other councilmen’ deplored the fact that residents have not placed their ebjections, if.any, before the council at its monthly In other action, the council heard of plans for chlorination of the city’s water system. , Dr. McMartin Rites Today A shocked this afternoon at 2 o'clock will attend graveside ~funeral services in Greenwood Memorial Gardens for Dr. David McMartin, 37, who died suddenly Monday morning following a heart attack. The popular young doctor was born in Cheyenne, Wyd., reaad ‘in Merced, Calif., came to Grass Valley in 1952. One of his chief interests had been the planning and establishment of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. In reccegnition of this, the doctor’s wife, Peg, has asked that instead of floral tributes, friends may if they -desire contribute to a Dr. McMartin .Memorial Fund which will be used to purchase additional hospital equipment. Services are to be handled by Hooper & Weaver Mortuary, with Rev. Harry Leigh-Pink attending cleric: community . Surviving Dr. McMartin are' Mrs. McMartin; daughter, Patty, 14; son, Jimmy, age 7; parents, Rev. and Mrs. David McMartin, Redding, Rev. McMartin being the Presbyterian pastor at Redding; sisters, Mrs. Isabelle Hardy, Palo Alto; Mrs. Stephen Welch, Downey, and many close relatives. Governor Adds 10 Items To Legislative.Meet Governor Edmund G. _Brown added 10 new items during the week to the list cf subjects now before the Legislature for consideration in special session. Among the items are proposals to place a $300 million bond issue for school construction and a $400 million bond issue to continue: the Cal-Vet Home Loan Program on the June ballot. v Dial Phones Té Have Seven Digit Numbers A new type of -phoné _numbering _ will. bei duced in Grass Valley and Nevada City when dial service starts this summer. Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins said today that an “All Numeral Calling” system will be used for the new dial phones instead of the prefix names CRestview and ANdrews, which were previously announced. The new. numbering system was recently adopted for eventual nationwide use by the Bell System, of which Pacific Telephone is a part. Its use here will make Grass Valley and Nevada. City among the first places on the West Coast to get the new style phone numbers. Hutchins explained that under All Numeral Calling the first two digits will be numbers instead of letters of a prefix name. Instead of using the prefix name and numeral CRestview 3 to identify Grass Valley numbers, there* will be the code 273: All Grass Valley numbers will start with 273 and . Nevada City will use 265 ‘instead of ANdrews 5. These codes will be followed. by the four digits of the individual subscriber’s phone number, So a typical __ "Grass" Valléy number might look like this: 273-1999, and a Nevada City number would come out 265-1999. Hutchins said that Bell System studies have shown that All Numeral Calling results. in’ more . , accurate dialing and fewer wrong numbers. It also insures clearer understanding when a person tells his phone number to someone. He also said that because of rapid telephone growth in the United States, there is danger of a shortage of usable: prefix names to match up wit. the letters . and their corresponding © numbers on the phone dial. Under the all numeral setup: there will be more combinations available for assignment to cities. Hutchins repeated his re. minder to Grass Valley and Nevada subscribers ‘that the new dial numbers will be entirely different from present ones. This is worth keeping in mind for those who plan to order printing now which shows phone numbers. The new numbers will not be available: until the specail directory comes © out at dial time. : and traditions. Pictures." tions. bution. Notice Of Merger The sale of the Nevada County Nugget to the Nevada County Citizen, Inc., has resultedinthe merger of the two Nevada ~ City weekly newspapers. The 34 year old — “Nugget" name has beenr etained, as wellas many of the fine Nugget features At the same time, most Citizen features, — as wellas its livelytoneand high photo_ graphic standards, will be thoroughly in evidence. In short, herit the title "The Pager With The the Nugget will in: All paid subscriptions to the Nugget ; the Citizen are being honored, as well display, legal, and classified adv contracts. Subscribers to both will receive the Nugget forthe sun total months remaining in both subs The Citizen's Advertiser section incorporated in the combined fording its advertisers the ulation of any publicat: ‘County through its c

__the .rerouting-of the-project-Planning depts nays tone OS erenere “members is necessary. Resi: COUNTY _. COMBINED WITH THE Nevada County Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Do Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Li Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, berty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, , Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, , You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Rid Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ey Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omeg ge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou a, French Corral, Rough and Ready, pa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Hill, North Columbia, Columbia “Vol. 34 No.1] 10 Cents a Copy Priceless Heritage By Dean Thompson In the Citizen’s issue of March 9 was included a reproduction of a rare lithograph of Nevada City in the year 1863 from the historical collection of H. P. Davis; and a note by Davis on the Ott Assay Office. In this issue we reproduce a most accurate and interesting sketch map of the particular area -of Nevada City that has paramount historical significance; an area which, if plans for the freeway as presently projected are carried out, is doomed for annihilation. In The Nugget’s next issue of March 17, we will reprint this map and with it provide a comprehensive article by Davis emphasizing the historical significance of the area’ shown upon it and more particularly the old buildings, monuments and former sites of structures intimately associated with the early history of Nevada City. It is felt by Davis that, in connection with impending discussions of the hope for consideration by the powers that be of a plea for ed highway, such information as will be presented in Davis’ forthcoming article will influence others to give further material pertinent to this subject. To Nugget readers who, as we, most certainly are concerned in the preservation of this most precious heritage, we extend an invitation to send to The Nugget for reproduction in these columns any further mformation that they have bearing upon the subject of this article. , Sportsmen Trap Shoot The Nevada County Sportsmen will hold its first 1960 trap shoot Sunday, March 20. Members and general public cordially invited. The club and its ladies auxiliary have plans for improving facilities and offer; ing more recreational entertainment to members. Membership is increasing steadily but has not reached the stage where limiting } dents are invited to see the plant and consider the pleasure to be had by becoming a member. Activities are by no means limited to shooting but include both _ instructional and social events. The newly formed auxiliary offers a surance of enthusiastic support of all club efforts. : Lunch by the auxiliary will be available; some shotgun shells may be purchased at the shoot but it is advisable and more economical to bring your own. : To reach the trap shdot and club grounds, Highway 20-49 to Bergeman Funeral Home, Nevada City, turn uphill, and follow the directional signs, Capital Punishment Outlaw Is Defeated Governor Edmund G. Brown expressed regret during the week that his proposed bill to abolish capital punishment in California failed by one vote to foliow . S A---This little flat in California. river channels’ in revealed. “GOLD RUSH DAYS NEVADA CITY PREPARED BY MATHIS/OSBORN/WOODS 1960 Ah AB EOE RN HEE ERT ECT A EET G ET TBO , bisected by Main Street, spectacularlyrichin placer gold, was known in the.early days of 1849-1850 as "Deer Creek Dry Diggin's, “gne of . the richest placer deposits so £8 found C---Manzanita Cut, drift gravel mining was inaugurated. "FREEWAY" EXHIBIT FROM H. P. DAVIS’ HISTORICAL MAP OF NEVADA CITY ACCOMPANYING FIRST EDITION OF re NEVADA CiTy” dS Published Weekly — ere —FIRST STEPS te MYDRAULICKI a historic sites FIRST HABITATION OF WHITE MEM IN THIS VICINITY, OCT. ‘49 ; FIRST CABIN ON BROAD STREET, 1849 DRAMATIC HALL — FIRST HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT, 1849/50 . . i JENMY LIND THEATRE. 1851/52 NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, 1854/63 DEER CREEK DRY DIGGING, 1849/50/51 SITE OF CALDWELL’S UPPER STORE, OCTOBER 1849 FIRST HOTEL, 1850 OTT’S ASSAY OFFICE WELLS-FARGO & CO., 1853 (MONUMENT) SOUT YUSA CANAL COMPANY, 1870 UNION HOTEL, 1863/1949 FIRE HOUSE, 1850 (NOW HISTORICAL MUSEUM) FIRST U.S. POST OFFICE, 1850 B---Here in Manzanita Ravine the éxistence of ancient, long buried auriferous California was first where hydraulic and Anthropology Lecture Dr. Homer G. Barnett, professor of anthropology, University of Oregon, will deliver a series of iectures on: anthropology on the €hico State campus March 22 and 23. © March 22 at 8 p.m. he will speak at a public leeture in the college Little “Messianic Movements: Native Religious mses to the Impact of Western ‘Civilization.” SR > ee . tival’s Theatre on the subject of Performance In Chico Oregon. Shak egpearean Festival fans and their friends will have an-opportunity to enjoy the performance of one of the Fesjeading performerdirectors in Chico March 21 when Philip ~Hanson will appear at theChico State College Little Theatre at 3:30-:p.m. in “Kings and 2 Clowns,” an unusual © : es man show which has : ane, + Dial Switching Phone Equipment Being Set Dial service for Grass Valley and Nevada City is a step closer With the installation of dial switching equipment now under way. Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins announced that work began today on the steel framework for the complex, dial equipment in Nevada City’s new telephone central office building. is ‘The installation job in Grass valley “began two weeks ago. The. work is being done by the Western’ Electric Company, manufacturing and installation arm of the Bell System, of which Pacific Telephone is a part, The cost ofthe combined project is $1,605,000. ~ The dial systems for Grass Valley and Nevada City will go into operation at the same time, this summer, ‘with July set tentatively as the menth. Simultaneously,

subscribers in both exchanes will get modern, nationwide Direct Distance Dial' This will make it possible for subscribers to dial their own station-to-station. calls direct to 45 million teélePhones in 4,300 cities and tewns in the continental United States and Canada. Automatic equipment in Sacramento will keep recofds on all such calls for billing purposes, Hutchins said. ‘At the same time, extended service will begin between Grass Valley and Nevada City. This will mean that calls between the two exchanges will become like local calls, without tol charge. Nevada City’s new dia bililding is located at South) Pine and Spring Streets. The Grass Valley buildin is at 315 Colfax Avenue. Nevada City, Wedne sda y, March 16, 1960 . Council Backs. City Manager The Nevada City Council Monday night split on a motion to repeal the ordinance that established the Position of city manager. Mayor Bill Mullis cast the deciding vote which split the council 2-2, with Counciman Bruce McKenzie ab‘staining. The vote came on a motion by Councilman Jack Brickell. Brickell said he had heard much comment on the city managership form of government and felt the way to bring the comment to the fore was to call for abolishment of the office. Other councilmen’ deplored the fact that residents have not placed their ebjections, if.any, before the council at its monthly In other action, the council heard of plans for chlorination of the city’s water system. , Dr. McMartin Rites Today A shocked this afternoon at 2 o'clock will attend graveside ~funeral services in Greenwood Memorial Gardens for Dr. David McMartin, 37, who died suddenly Monday morning following a heart attack. The popular young doctor was born in Cheyenne, Wyd., reaad ‘in Merced, Calif., came to Grass Valley in 1952. One of his chief interests had been the planning and establishment of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. In reccegnition of this, the doctor’s wife, Peg, has asked that instead of floral tributes, friends may if they -desire contribute to a Dr. McMartin .Memorial Fund which will be used to purchase additional hospital equipment. Services are to be handled by Hooper & Weaver Mortuary, with Rev. Harry Leigh-Pink attending cleric: community . Surviving Dr. McMartin are' Mrs. McMartin; daughter, Patty, 14; son, Jimmy, age 7; parents, Rev. and Mrs. David McMartin, Redding, Rev. McMartin being the Presbyterian pastor at Redding; sisters, Mrs. Isabelle Hardy, Palo Alto; Mrs. Stephen Welch, Downey, and many close relatives. Governor Adds 10 Items To Legislative.Meet Governor Edmund G. _Brown added 10 new items during the week to the list cf subjects now before the Legislature for consideration in special session. Among the items are proposals to place a $300 million bond issue for school construction and a $400 million bond issue to continue: the Cal-Vet Home Loan Program on the June ballot. v Dial Phones Té Have Seven Digit Numbers A new type of -phoné _numbering _ will. bei duced in Grass Valley and Nevada City when dial service starts this summer. Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins said today that an “All Numeral Calling” system will be used for the new dial phones instead of the prefix names CRestview and ANdrews, which were previously announced. The new. numbering system was recently adopted for eventual nationwide use by the Bell System, of which Pacific Telephone is a part. Its use here will make Grass Valley and Nevada. City among the first places on the West Coast to get the new style phone numbers. Hutchins explained that under All Numeral Calling the first two digits will be numbers instead of letters of a prefix name. Instead of using the prefix name and numeral CRestview 3 to identify Grass Valley numbers, there* will be the code 273: All Grass Valley numbers will start with 273 and . Nevada City will use 265 ‘instead of ANdrews 5. These codes will be followed. by the four digits of the individual subscriber’s phone number, So a typical __ "Grass" Valléy number might look like this: 273-1999, and a Nevada City number would come out 265-1999. Hutchins said that Bell System studies have shown that All Numeral Calling results. in’ more . , accurate dialing and fewer wrong numbers. It also insures clearer understanding when a person tells his phone number to someone. He also said that because of rapid telephone growth in the United States, there is danger of a shortage of usable: prefix names to match up wit. the letters . and their corresponding © numbers on the phone dial. Under the all numeral setup: there will be more combinations available for assignment to cities. Hutchins repeated his re. minder to Grass Valley and Nevada subscribers ‘that the new dial numbers will be entirely different from present ones. This is worth keeping in mind for those who plan to order printing now which shows phone numbers. The new numbers will not be available: until the specail directory comes © out at dial time. : and traditions. Pictures." tions. bution. Notice Of Merger The sale of the Nevada County Nugget to the Nevada County Citizen, Inc., has resultedinthe merger of the two Nevada ~ City weekly newspapers. The 34 year old — “Nugget" name has beenr etained, as wellas many of the fine Nugget features At the same time, most Citizen features, — as wellas its livelytoneand high photo_ graphic standards, will be thoroughly in evidence. In short, herit the title "The Pager With The the Nugget will in: All paid subscriptions to the Nugget ; the Citizen are being honored, as well display, legal, and classified adv contracts. Subscribers to both will receive the Nugget forthe sun total months remaining in both subs The Citizen's Advertiser section incorporated in the combined fording its advertisers the ulation of any publicat: ‘County through its c