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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MAY: Aubrey Lee (A.L.)
Wisker, 88, whose name had been
identified with the development
of Nevada Irrigation District
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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 .
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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."
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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. ?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DECEMBER: There was considerable consternation in the
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JEWELRY
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E. M. DALPEZ sewer .
310 BROAD ST., N.C. 265-4501,
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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",