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Title: March 26, 1969 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: March 26, 1969 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Doris Foley Library Location: 211 North Pine Street, Nevada City, CA 95959

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NL aServing the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, ‘Rough afid Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City; Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian ace Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 12 ° “Volume 47 ih Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY,MARCH 26, 1969 The Sounding Board Timber blamed for housing costs SHOULD STATE LAW BE CHANGED TO TREAT ALCOHOLICS AS _ bed cag RATHER THAN AS CRIMINALS? HELENE HURLBUT, Helene's Antiques, Rough and Ready: "Of _ course they are sick. And they ~ should be Pees ah Re peo ple are," CAROLE FRIEDRICH, Nevada County Chamber of Commerce pinchhitter: ''Yes, they are sick and should be treated as such. They are potential assets to the country and should be restored to society." The soaring cost of home construetion has been blamed on the shortage of timber, a shortage that U. S. Forest Service Chief Edward P. Cliff says will continue for a long time. But Assistant Commerce Secretary Kenneth N. Davis, Jr. says pressures on log supplies Woodard named are easing and other departwood lumber and plywood have ment officials see prices having reached a peak and a down trend in the offing. In a special report made public recently, the National Forests Products Association states: "Current shortages of softNC school head Dan C. Woodard’ of Manteca has been named superintendent of the Nevada City School District succeeding W. Edward Browning. School district trustees helda special session to offer Woodard a three-year contract at $15,000 a year. President Carl Early explained the procedure used by the trustees to obtain a new superintendent. Notice was sent to all placement agencies for school administrators in the state with 27 written and two verbal applications received. A committee composed of County Supt. Edward Fellersen, Grass Valley, Supt. Vernon Bond and Placer county Supt. Martin Baumann, screened the applications and interviewed six from the original 29. Two more were choice from among the four applicants, Woodard is 51 yearsold, married and the father of three children, Woodard has had 23 years exDAN C, WOODARD ation and is a golfer. Cheryl is personnel examiner for the City County of San Francisco and is. married resulted from increased demand for home building, heavy construction, and military requirements, ‘Log availability has not been increased due primarily to federal forest policies coupled with a series of natural calamities, starting with disastrous forest fires in 1967 and culminating in severe winter weather in 1968-69, and a tremendous increase in the export “Of logs from the Northwest. "Tight supply has triggered increased costs for finished lumber, plywood and other wood peoeoes ok @ result, competimber supplies has have been obliged to pay high prices for logs to maintain production in the face of heavy demand, and customers have been paying high prices for finished products to be assured of obtaining items needed to support construction requirements. "Inadequacy of available timber has been further heightened by the increasing level of exports of logs to Japan over the past several years. Japanese demand for U.S. logs has risen from 100 million board feet in 1960 to 2.2 billion board feet in 1968, a 22-fold increase in eight years. Continuation of this significant drain of raw material from the U.S, manufacturing industry is bound up with other national interests such as balance of payments, international trade agreements, military treaty considerations, and the necessity to maintain amicable relations with Japan which is currently building housing at a rate of 1.9 million units annually--the highest for any nation in the world." 2 supervisors will meet with employe group