March 20, 1974 (8 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 20,1974 Note ; Ly oP. €. Right on! According to a n down in Stinnett, Texas, ‘‘what this country needs is the income of ’66, the prices of 36, the taxes of ’26 and the Spirit of °76.” Will wonders never cease?! Well do I remember when..the Young Women’s Christian Association was just about as straight-laced and square an institution as you could find anywhere on earth..but them days is gone forever it appears. At least down on the Monterey Peninsula they are. The latest attraction on the agenda of “cultural courses of instruction” being given at the YWCA of the Monterey Peninsula is a course in belly dancing! It’s all a part of the organized physical fitness deal that is so very “in” these days..and the instructor there is a former English teacher with a master’s degree in literature. She’s engaged in a whole new career for herself as the dance instructor and says she finds it both relaxing and figure According to the Johnsonburg Press..way back yonder. in Pennsylvania, ‘‘The lowly copper penny, the last United States coin with any intrinsic -value, is apparently about to go. Because of inflation and the demand for copper, the value of the metal is now worth more than the penny. During World War II, pennies were made of zinc-coated steel, but these were called in and destroyed. So it is planned that next year poor old Abe Lincoln, E Pluribus Unum Smith and all, will appear in alummum and there he will remain until aluminum, too, becomes more valuable than the penny. Then the Great White Father in Washington will probably reso to wampum!” . , In the California Vehicle Code there’s a section relating to the proper and legal way to make a right turn around a corner..i.e., you get your car as close to the right curb. as: possible, signal well in advance of your planned turn, watching for signal lights, etc. all the while, and then you go into your turn. Fine and dandy..I passed that question with flying colors when I recently renewed my driving license. Os But..putting it into practice a few days ago down in the big city of Roseville provided me with an “interesting’’ experience; to say the very least. I approached the intersection, watched the lights change, got as close to the curb as I could, signalled for more than a quarter block and then I sat, and I sat, andI sat! Finally, in frustration, I ‘‘beep-beeped”’ in a very mild, totally lady-like fashion on my horn at the cars up ahead of me in my u turn lane. All I got were some very dirty looks and a few rather questionable hand gestures from the drivers. Well, the lighteventually dawned.all those nice people were lined up waiting for a gas station a block up that street to open for business..maybe! I had a dickens of a time working my way out of that pinched parking situation and into another travel lane..and when I did, I got out of that scene but fast! I had gas! Man injured in fall A man was injured early‘Sunday when he fell out of a pickup truck on Colfax Highway. Samuel Leo Harris, 23, of NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years .. $5.00 Member of 1 CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Sacramento Was treated at Nevada Memorial Howard Freligh, 28, of Nevada City was the pickup driver, the California Highway Patrol reports, ‘ Kenneth Paul West Jr., 36, of Auburn ran his truck off Wolf damaged four mail boxes, the into jail and charged with The Eck Satsang Society will open discussion class on s Off The Cuff}$ Rough and Ready News By Fay At their . Secession Days meeting-— last Thursday the chamber completed plans for ~ Rough and Ready’s Secession from the Union on April 7. There will be dancing and poetry at the flagpole when the Flag of the Great Republic again stirs on the morning breeze. The program will conclude with a no host luncheon at the Villa. The group started work on the program for June 30. It will be much the same as last year but there is a tendency to move back a bit and have more programs for the young people as we did in 1967 and 1968. The Fire Department Auxiliary is very interested and plans some real fun for the kids. Perhaps even the old treasure hunt. F Our county clerk Mr. Ted Kohler published a list of deputy registrars just a short time ago. If you don’t remember the one nearest you just call the clerks office. I am one and as long as I have gasoline I will go any place to sign you up. R&R Mrs. James (Rusty) Cline of Bonanza Way called the other day. She was hunting organic fertilizer (of which I usually have loads). They are expanding their garden this year. Everyone seems to be adding more to their gardens. The Clines are adding a potato patch. It’s just a different kind of gold than citizens of Rough and Ready mined 100 years ago. ; R&R With 19 animals in my barn you would think there would be fertilizer enough to go around. Only problem is seven of my animals are babies. Yes five lambs and now two new calves. The first calf was born last Thursday morning. She is a darling little almost white (like her grandfather) heifer. The other baby arrived Sunday morning. Mama still keeps him way up on the hill. Yes I do think its him but she doesn’t want me too close. R&R. “Don’t worry, 95 per cent of your worries never happen and you can’t do anything about the other five per cent anyway” is the theme of a new paperback by Olive Richards Tardiff titled “How to Live Happily With Your Retired Husband. She is really trying to answer this problem and lists the Ten Commandments as one helpful solution. R&R— I was pleased to receive an interesting letter from a reader last week. He didn’t think I was entirely right “but gave me credit for being headed in the right direction. He is not only a reader but also a thinker. Grand isn’t it. Thanks Mr. Priest. I am sending a letter with more information than I can include here. R&R I’m a retired telephone employe so because ~ of Ma Bell’s interest in us (she checks up now and again to see if we’re starving) I get lots of interesting facts about the telephone. When I read this one about President Rutherford B. Hayes I picked up my ears. He signed the mining patent that was issued to the Portuguese Mining here in Rough and Ready in 1867. We own. a tiny piece of it. “The first telephone installed in the White House (no bugs) was December 1, 1878. It was placed in a booth outside the executive office and since the President didn’t use the phone very often an aide answered the few calls that did come in and usually spoke for him. This was the way things were until 1929 when President Hoover realized the necessity for having a telephone on his desk. Washington D.C. has the most telephones per capita of anywhere in the world. 128.1 for every 100.people to be exact. The national average in the USA is 62.76 telephones per 100 people and the worldwide average is only 8.2 per 100. Southfield, Michigan is next to Washington D.C. with 1 cpg aap agement “Ny Attend worship services this week Gide Durbar 124.1 per 100. The U.S. is a runaway leader with 131,021,000 telephones of the worlds 312 million. Japan comes second with 34,021,155 and the United Kingdom is third with 15,570,904.” R&R Rough and Ready still had some farmer line telephone service when we came in 1956. We were fresh from Los Angeles and the funny old telephone and the strange numbers like 52J11 and the fact: we had to answer on a certain ring, ours was three, was quite a lark. It was several years before it became our turn to get a single line service and a new telephone. For the old timers here it was a vast improvement. They had started in the early 1900s with the true farmer lines. A subscriber built and maintained a magneto operated, system. The old Rough and Ready service was part of a group of lines and companies self owned and maintained and each working under its own contract with Pacific Telephone and-Telegraph. PT&T provided intercompany service and long distance connections among other services. Mr. George Hutchins of PT&T has mentioned several of the line or company names such as Buckeye Rural Co., Casey Rural Co., and Penn and Pleasant Valley Rv-al Company. These were operating back in 1927. Charges too were from the old days like the lines. The monthly charges made per contract user were from 50 to 75 cents per month. The lines were fastened to trees and fence posts. Everyone contributed time and labor to help with the maintenance so the overall charge to the subscriber usually ran $1. per month. Toll charges had to be paid directly to the telephone company office on West Main Street in Grass Valley. Nevada City had its own central office and operated in the same way. Most rural services grew this way but it seems strange that in an area that had the first long distance line in the world — the French Corral line with connections for hydraulic mining for about 60 miles along the San Juan Ridge — other services could move so slowly. Their service was old fashioned too. Different neighbors have told me of their experiences. It happened that Mrs. Paull and Mrs. Bixler were on separate lines. Mrs. Bixler found it easier, when she wanted to talk tosomeone on Mrs. Paull’s line, to walk across the road and use her telephone than to try to make the connection. Another story is that neighbors often signaled one another to answer their telephones because it was so difficult to make the connection. Sometime around 1900 a toll station was established by PT&T at the Rough and Ready Hotel. Primarily this old toll service was to provide service to the people traveling to and from Beale. This was during World War I. When the hotel was torn down in 1947 this old phone was tied to a telephone pole where it stayed, with no protection from the weather, for about five years until Rough and Ready became big enough to become part of the national system in 1952-53. We still had this company supplied farmer line service when we came here with a great insufficiency of lines to supply proper service to the new homes back on Rough and Ready Road and the Wildwoodarea. The Van Johnsons and the Al Moniz and others way back in the hinterland didn’t find much comfort in the trials of these rude beginnings. It is interesting to look back to these beginnings and note the enormous progress made. Subscribers of these rural telephone companies even had to provide their own telephone instruments. Mrs. Paull had a huge old wall phone which her father Dan Morrison purchased from the old Ironclad Mine, when it was forced to close down due to stockholder trouble, in 1911. R&R“To err is human but you better have a better excuse than that’’ is another one of Gary Reeder’s witticisms. -

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 20,1974 Note ; Ly oP. €. Right on! According to a n down in Stinnett, Texas, ‘‘what this country needs is the income of ’66, the prices of 36, the taxes of ’26 and the Spirit of °76.” Will wonders never cease?! Well do I remember when...the Young Women’s Christian Association was just about as straight-laced and square an institution as you could find anywhere on earth...but them days is gone forever it appears. At least down on the Monterey Peninsula they are. The latest attraction on the agenda of “cultural courses of instruction” being given at the YWCA of the Monterey Peninsula is a course in belly dancing! It’s all a part of the organized physical fitness deal that is so very “in” these days...and the instructor there is a former English teacher with a master’s degree in literature. She’s engaged in a whole new career for herself as the dance instructor and says she finds it both relaxing and figure According to the Johnsonburg Press...way back yonder. in Pennsylvania, ‘‘The lowly copper penny, the last United States coin with any intrinsic -value, is apparently about to go. Because of inflation and the demand for copper, the value of the metal is now worth more than the penny. During World War II, pennies were made of zinc-coated steel, but these were called in and destroyed. So it is planned that next year poor old Abe Lincoln, E Pluribus Unum Smith and all, will appear in alummum and there he will remain until aluminum, too, becomes more valuable than the penny. Then the Great White Father in Washington will probably reso to wampum!” . , In the California Vehicle Code there’s a section relating to the proper and legal way to make a right turn around a corner...i.e., you get your car as close to the right curb. as: possible, signal well in advance of your planned turn, watching for signal lights, etc. all the while, and then you go into your turn. Fine and dandy...I passed that question with flying colors when I recently renewed my driving license. Os But...putting it into practice a few days ago down in the big city of Roseville provided me with an “interesting’’ experience; to say the very least. I approached the intersection, watched the lights change, got as close to the curb as I could, signalled for more than a quarter block and then I sat, and I sat, andI sat! Finally, in frustration, I ‘‘beep-beeped”’ in a very mild, totally lady-like fashion on my horn at the cars up ahead of me in my u turn lane. All I got were some very dirty looks and a few rather questionable hand gestures from the drivers. Well, the lighteventually dawned..all those nice people were lined up waiting for a gas station a block up that street to open for business...maybe! I had a dickens of a time working my way out of that pinched parking situation and into another travel lane...and when I did, I got out of that scene but fast! I had gas! Man injured in fall A man was injured early‘Sunday when he fell out of a pickup truck on Colfax Highway. Samuel Leo Harris, 23, of NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .... $3.00 Two Years ... $5.00 Member of 1 CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Sacramento Was treated at Nevada Memorial Howard Freligh, 28, of Nevada City was the pickup driver, the California Highway Patrol reports, ‘ Kenneth Paul West Jr., 36, of Auburn ran his truck off Wolf damaged four mail boxes, the into jail and charged with The Eck Satsang Society will open discussion class on s Off The Cuff}$ Rough and Ready News By Fay At their . Secession Days meeting-— last Thursday the chamber completed plans for ~ Rough and Ready’s Secession from the Union on April 7. There will be dancing and poetry at the flagpole when the Flag of the Great Republic again stirs on the morning breeze. The program will conclude with a no host luncheon at the Villa. The group started work on the program for June 30. It will be much the same as last year but there is a tendency to move back a bit and have more programs for the young people as we did in 1967 and 1968. The Fire Department

Auxiliary is very interested and plans some real fun for the kids. Perhaps even the old treasure hunt. F Our county clerk Mr. Ted Kohler published a list of deputy registrars just a short time ago. If you don’t remember the one nearest you just call the clerks office. I am one and as long as I have gasoline I will go any place to sign you up. R&R Mrs. James (Rusty) Cline of Bonanza Way called the other day. She was hunting organic fertilizer (of which I usually have loads). They are expanding their garden this year. Everyone seems to be adding more to their gardens. The Clines are adding a potato patch. It’s just a different kind of gold than citizens of Rough and Ready mined 100 years ago. ; R&R With 19 animals in my barn you would think there would be fertilizer enough to go around. Only problem is seven of my animals are babies. Yes five lambs and now two new calves. The first calf was born last Thursday morning. She is a darling little almost white (like her grandfather) heifer. The other baby arrived Sunday morning. Mama still keeps him way up on the hill. Yes I do think its him but she doesn’t want me too close. R&R. “Don’t worry, 95 per cent of your worries never happen and you can’t do anything about the other five per cent anyway” is the theme of a new paperback by Olive Richards Tardiff titled “How to Live Happily With Your Retired Husband. She is really trying to answer this problem and lists the Ten Commandments as one helpful solution. R&R— I was pleased to receive an interesting letter from a reader last week. He didn’t think I was entirely right “but gave me credit for being headed in the right direction. He is not only a reader but also a thinker. Grand isn’t it. Thanks Mr. Priest. I am sending a letter with more information than I can include here. R&R I’m a retired telephone employe so because ~ of Ma Bell’s interest in us (she checks up now and again to see if we’re starving) I get lots of interesting facts about the telephone. When I read this one about President Rutherford B. Hayes I picked up my ears. He signed the mining patent that was issued to the Portuguese Mining here in Rough and Ready in 1867. We own. a tiny piece of it. “The first telephone installed in the White House (no bugs) was December 1, 1878. It was placed in a booth outside the executive office and since the President didn’t use the phone very often an aide answered the few calls that did come in and usually spoke for him. This was the way things were until 1929 when President Hoover realized the necessity for having a telephone on his desk. Washington D.C. has the most telephones per capita of anywhere in the world. 128.1 for every 100.people to be exact. The national average in the USA is 62.76 telephones per 100 people and the worldwide average is only 8.2 per 100. Southfield, Michigan is next to Washington D.C. with 1 cpg aap agement “Ny Attend worship services this week Gide Durbar 124.1 per 100. The U.S. is a runaway leader with 131,021,000 telephones of the worlds 312 million. Japan comes second with 34,021,155 and the United Kingdom is third with 15,570,904.” R&R Rough and Ready still had some farmer line telephone service when we came in 1956. We were fresh from Los Angeles and the funny old telephone and the strange numbers like 52J11 and the fact: we had to answer on a certain ring, ours was three, was quite a lark. It was several years before it became our turn to get a single line service and a new telephone. For the old timers here it was a vast improvement. They had started in the early 1900s with the true farmer lines. A subscriber built and maintained a magneto operated, system. The old Rough and Ready service was part of a group of lines and companies self owned and maintained and each working under its own contract with Pacific Telephone and-Telegraph. PT&T provided intercompany service and long distance connections among other services. Mr. George Hutchins of PT&T has mentioned several of the line or company names such as Buckeye Rural Co., Casey Rural Co., and Penn and Pleasant Valley Rv-al Company. These were operating back in 1927. Charges too were from the old days like the lines. The monthly charges made per contract user were from 50 to 75 cents per month. The lines were fastened to trees and fence posts. Everyone contributed time and labor to help with the maintenance so the overall charge to the subscriber usually ran $1. per month. Toll charges had to be paid directly to the telephone company office on West Main Street in Grass Valley. Nevada City had its own central office and operated in the same way. Most rural services grew this way but it seems strange that in an area that had the first long distance line in the world — the French Corral line with connections for hydraulic mining for about 60 miles along the San Juan Ridge — other services could move so slowly. Their service was old fashioned too. Different neighbors have told me of their experiences. It happened that Mrs. Paull and Mrs. Bixler were on separate lines. Mrs. Bixler found it easier, when she wanted to talk tosomeone on Mrs. Paull’s line, to walk across the road and use her telephone than to try to make the connection. Another story is that neighbors often signaled one another to answer their telephones because it was so difficult to make the connection. Sometime around 1900 a toll station was established by PT&T at the Rough and Ready Hotel. Primarily this old toll service was to provide service to the people traveling to and from Beale. This was during World War I. When the hotel was torn down in 1947 this old phone was tied to a telephone pole where it stayed, with no protection from the weather, for about five years until Rough and Ready became big enough to become part of the national system in 1952-53. We still had this company supplied farmer line service when we came here with a great insufficiency of lines to supply proper service to the new homes back on Rough and Ready Road and the Wildwoodarea. The Van Johnsons and the Al Moniz and others way back in the hinterland didn’t find much comfort in the trials of these rude beginnings. It is interesting to look back to these beginnings and note the enormous progress made. Subscribers of these rural telephone companies even had to provide their own telephone instruments. Mrs. Paull had a huge old wall phone which her father Dan Morrison purchased from the old Ironclad Mine, when it was forced to close down due to stockholder trouble, in 1911. R&R“To err is human but you better have a better excuse than that’’ is another one of Gary Reeder’s witticisms. -