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March 22, 1972 (12 pages)

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8 The Nevada County Nugget and Recreation SACRAMENTO Asilomar State Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove will be the scene March 22, 23, and 24 for the fourth annual workshop and seminar of the California State Information Officers Council, a professional organization of state employees engaged in public communication and information activities. Vince Vandre, Department of Public Health, President of the group, reports that during the three-day meeting, the council will hear speakers on community relations, program management, polls, public relations, and exhibits; and will discuss methods of counseling their agencies and departments and improving information services to the media and the public. Speakers will include Bob Jones of Jones and Stokes Associates, Sacramento environmental consultants; Art Blum and Associates, San Francisco advertising and public relations firm; Robert L, Johnson, Vice-President -University Relations, University of California; Don Muchmore, the State Poll, Los Angeles; Bud Hopps, State Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles; and Frank Bellinghausen, State Department of Parks and Recreation and former manager of Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. The council will also hear from Jim Jenkins, Assistant to the Governor and Director of Public Affairs; Tom Bright, former director of Motor Vehicles and one-time press secretary to three governors; and Dr. Luis Saylor, retired director of the Department of Public Health. *x* * * SACRAMENTO -New chairman of the California State Park and Recreation Commission will be Lowell Berry of Oakland. He succeeds Mrs. Clarice E, Gilchrist of Piedmont, Alameda County who has served for the past year. Dr. Loren L. Lutz of Pasadena was named vice chairman, succeeding Mr. Berry. The new officers were elected at the March 10 meeting of the Commission in Solvang, Santa Barbara County. They will serve for one year. Mr. Berry was appointed to the Commission by Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to fill an unexpired term. He was reappointed for a full four-year term in 1972, He isa graduate of Stanford University and was the founder of the Best Fertilizer Company of Oakland, which he headed until 1963, He is presently semi-retired but continues to head the Lowell Berry Foundation and is active in East Bay civic affairs. Mrs. Gilchrist is the widow of Joseph Knowland, the late publisher of the Oakland Tribune who was also Chairman of the State Park Commission from 1956 to 1960. She was appointed to the Commission by Governor Reagan in 1968, and reappointed for an additional four-year term in 1972. She isa member of the Board of Directors of the Save-the -Redwoods League and Past Grand President of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Mother Lode Bank will be closed after 12 noon, Good Friday, March 31st Motztn Love BANE MEMBER F.D.I.C. GRASS VALLEY ¢ NEVADA CITY PLACERVILLE « SONORA e FOLSOM ROSEVILLE e TWAIN: HARTE ¢ ALTAVILLE Wednesday, March 22, 1972. Department of Parks. Camptonville CAMPTONVILLE — March 13 — Joe Del Porto left last week for a few days visit with relatives at Stockton. Mrs. Virginia Cevas has returned from a yisit with relatives at the bay area. J. Harry Sumner made a trip to the Sacramento Metropolitan Airport Thursday to meet his son William Sumner, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who willvisit him for a few days.. % Robert Tardiville of Oakland and associates have purchased the Thraves-Turner property on Mill Street and the Sharp property on Upper Main Street. William Davis arrived Friday from Cakland to spend the weekend visiting relatives. Joseph Frankovich,.of Penn Valley, arrived last week and is starting work on the new home he is building on Spring Street. Robert F. Kimball of Newcastle and Herb Garrish, of Grass Valley were in town Saturday on a brief business trip, continuing on to La Porte. Cyril P. Pendola has returned home after spending the past several weeks in the Grass Valley Convalescent Hospital. Mrs. Doris Fughes and daughter accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F. Turner, all of Marysville, were in town Sunday on a brief visit to thein old home here. Mr\.H. A. Burrows returned Sunday from Grass Valley where she has been hospitalized and underwent surgery, and is now convalescing. March 15 — Bill Stevens returned Sunday from a brief visit at Castro Valley. Virgil V. Vandiveer of San Francisco spent a few days at his summer home here this past weekend. Mrs. Maggie Jordan made a brief business visit at Sacramento last week. . Adam Grevas was visitor at Sacramento a few days ago. Tom Jentz, Yuba-Sutter Sanitarium, was in town Tuesday on official business. 1959 JANUARY: Don Marie Dolan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Willian Polan of Grass Valley, was the first baby to be born in the brand new Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. : KK AICOK Mrs. Mary Mollineaux of Grass Valley, owner-operator of the Community Hospital in that city, announced that she would close the establishment as soon as all patients registered there were discharged. KKK FEBRUARY: Bill Moule of Grass Valley was flown to Hollywood for an interview regarding his book, "God's Arms Around Us" the story of the Moules as jungle refugees from the Japanese invasion of the Phillippine Islands during early World War 11. eK MARCH: Twelve new art glass windows were dedicated in the sanctuary of the Nevada City First Methodist Church. The church was 109 years old at the time. The windows stand as memorials to the following:
Ben J. Bowman, Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Esther Clemo, Elizabeth McD. Watson, David Ralston, Sarah J. Murchie, Maude E. Moody, Susanna Landsburg, John and Lavina Tamblyn, Effie M. Scarfe, H. A. Curnow, John M, Becker and the Rev. Isaac Owen. ROKK APRIL: Roy Farris of Crass Valley crashed his singleengined plane on Highway 20 several miles east of Nevada City. Heavy traffic was halted by officers to permit rescue equipment to reach the downed aircraft and its seriously injured pilot. HK KKK MAY: Aubrey Lee (A.L.) Wisker, 88, whose name had been identified with the development of Nevada Irrigation District BUSINESS BILLBOARD OFFICE MACHINES New & Used SERVICE RENTALS SUPPLIES OFFICE FURNITURE STATIONERY SUPPLIES 273-256! LITTLE OLD BARE SHOP From the files of The Nugget THE GIPSON'S . Television—Radio— Stereo We Service All Makes KNEE’S TY PHONE 265-4610 748 ZION ST., NEVADA CITY 120 W. Main Grass Valley 273-4288 ge Rd., Grass Va ley RGM Bis" . . Len Gilbert FARMERS . GROUP’ HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY . 111 W. Main P.O. Box 1034 Grass Valley, Ca. Ph. 265-6166 for all time as founder and first manager, died at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, He was described as “one of the more brilliant and active men on the Nevada County scene for many years." KK JUNE: Robert Frantz of 350 Brock.Road in Nevada City, was selected to attend the famous International Summer Racing. School for Skiers during its third annual session. Frantz had been skiing for the NUHS Ski Club. ? & Fe OK JULY: Andrew "Andy" Rogers, 79, noted Clamper chief and historical advocate, and his wife, Geneva, former postmaster of Rough and Ready, were killed in a collision near Laytonville, Mendocino County. Rogers wasthe noble grand humbug of William Bull Meek Chapter No. 10, E. Clampus Vitus; was active in the Nevada County Historical Society, and had written a book on local gold rush tales. KKKKK AUGUST: A $50,000 fire leveled the Moule Faint and Glass company plant, and that of the Hilborn Awning and Upholstery Company at Hills Flat. More than 10 acres of brushland at the rear of the two stores was also burned over in a fire which for a time threatened other structures. KK SEPTEMBER: Walter J. Butz, highway maintenance forman of Nevada City, was honored on his retirement after 40 years service with the State Division of Highways. Eutz was born in Camptonville in 1895, and began his career with the Division as a construction foreman in August of 1919. KKK OCTCBER: Dial telephone installations for Western Nevada County were to cost a total of $1,605,900, according to George Hutchins, district manager for Pacific Telephone. Prefix for Nevada City was to be ANdrews 5, and for Grass Valley, CRestview 3, he advised. The 10¢ toll was to be eliminated between the two cities. AK KK NOVEMEER: Firemen waged a long battle to control a lumber yard fire which threatened the town of Truckee with destruction. The blaze started in lumber piles belonging to Burney Lumber Company, and ' was fanned by record high winds, Fortunately there was a sudden shift in the wind, and that was all that saved the community from a much greater loss. AK DECEMBER: There was considerable consternation in the WATCHES >@QBB= clocks JEWELRY SSS REPAIRING E. M. DALPEZ sewer . 310 BROAD ST., N.C. 265-4501, = oe ranks when it was feared that the unseasonable lack of snow would hamper success for the scheduled Olympic Winter Games in February of 1960. .. so a tribe of Paiute Indians, headed by Chief Harry Wine-~ mucca, began a series of ''Snow Dances",