March 27, 1974 (8 pages)

Siabisclp a ONE “is scilihe ubliaaniaii Pa A eon 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 27,1974 Rough and Ready ‘News By kay Dunbar : The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble sang for the birthday party of Mr. Thomas Dayton Friday at Wiemar. Mr. Dayton was born in San .Francisco in 1866. He received birthday greetings from Mayor Joseph Alioto of that city and from Governor Reagan and President Nixon. As a child he and his parents moved to the Colfax area. While he was still a young man they returned to the east. In 1888 Mr. Dayton came back to his “beloved mountains” to die. He had developed tuberculosis. But now, at 108 years of age, he is just beginning to lose his sight and his other faculties are sharp and clear. He played the piano for us, as he had promised at Christmas, and sang two numbers. He ‘remembered all the words. His voice quavered but was quite strong and true. If you saw the news on Channel 10 last Friday you. saw and heard him. He is still quite a handsome old gentleman, typically bearded. — . Fifteen of the Ensembles 26 voices helped with this party. They wore their prettiest dresses and sang Happy Birthday, Smiles, and Wells Fargo Wagon. One of the members, Mrs. Doral Lane of Peardale, cut the birthday cake. The ensemble director, Mrs. Helen Beatie, was entertaining the OEP Club at her home in Rough and Ready and was unable to participate. The former accompanist, Mrs. Meda Snow of Cedar ‘Ridge, directed the singing. Mrs. Eleanor Richards of Grass Valley is accompanist at the present time. Rough and Ready members of the group are the Mmes. Fay Dunbar, Alice Licht, Beulah Shearer, Olyve Simmons, Elaine Vogt, and Josephine Webb. Others who sang for Mr. Dayton were the Mmes. Charlotte Anderson, Floy Bagley, Edith Brown, Laurie Ellsworth, ' Winifred Foster, Alice Garibaldi and. Doral Lane. a; For the past 10 years the Grass Valley Elks have provided the group with a hall for practice and a well maintained piano. They now have a repertoire of over 100 numbers. These range from opera through folk tunes. Harmony is done in three parts. The group sings from 15 to 20 programs a year besides entertaining at hospitals. Becoming a part of the group is quite . easy. Talent helps but all you really must have is a true love of music and a desire to serve your community. The most important qualifications are a determination to give up two hours a week, 10 to 12 each Wednesday morning, for practice and willingness to rearrange your. personal SVADA COUNTY NUGGET “301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. ition schedule, if possible, when programs for the ‘group are accepted. Last week besides Mr. Dayton’s birthday they sang for the 86th birthday of the Grass Valley Chapter of NDGW and entertained at Spring Hill and Golden Empire Convalescent hospitals. —R&R— Mrs. Lisetta Scheave is feeling like her old self again. She will help the Chamber of Com-merce with Secession Days on June 30 here in Rough and Ready. She has also agreed to help Chairman Sally Lewis with the Annual Antique Show at the Armory on May 17, 18 and 19. Proceeds from this project go to the Old Nevada Theatre. With the aid of Mrs. Lewis and many others like Mrs. Scheave the old theatre has been restored to her present degree of beauty. There is still a lot to be done so continue your support of the Liberal Arts Commission and projects such as the antique show. Besides it’s really fun. The Community Players plan a benefit performance for the theatre later in the year so watch for the date. The theatre will be dedicated on April 27 so save that date. It will be a nice party. Mrs. Lewis is chairman. —R&R— Don’t forget that the final hearings on the new Highway 20 route will be held at the Veterans Building in Grass Valley at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Just as important, and in direct conflict as to time and date, the candidates for the 4th Supervisorial District will present their case to the voters at the Ready Springs School Auditorium, Thursday at 8 p.m. : —R&ER— Mr. and Mrs. E. L. (Jack) Bixler spent last week in Santa Rosa visiting Mrs. Bixler’s sister, Mrs. Ruth Gmeiner. Esther said they had a marvelous restful time and the weather was beautiful. Too bad they had to come home to cold and rain. They did have a lovely weekend though. Son ‘Bud’ and his wife Dora were visiting here from San Jose and enjoyed it with —R&R— Mr. W. R. ‘Rich’ Avery underwent surgery at Rideout Hospital in Marysville last Friday. Helen says he is cross but doing as well as can be expected. She hopes to have him home by the end of this week. . Sugar Pine Point on weekend hike Second class postage On agg pa Wen Park Aajudicated 1 and ski exploration of the daya legal newspaper of ) use portion of Sugar Pine Point ‘general circulation by ire ety i pe reyhaeans the Nevada County f early history of the Tahoe : Basin, and the group will look at Superior Court, June 3, the. hrmas Matision. and 1960. grounds as well as the General Decree No. 12,406. -{ Phipps Cabin. Meet at 10:30 — é a.m. at the Sugar Pine Point Subscription Rates: . State Park picnic area, 12 miles One Year . $3.00 { south of Tahoe City on Highway Two Years. $5.00 f 89. Bring snowshoes or crossotc skis and lunch and Member of erage. CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER . ,, Te, Sunday biking party ne PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . famous Donner famous Donner Party survived, > emer eet 6 PE9EO so, Telephone 265-2559 SACRAMENTO — The last of. PUBLISHED EVERY we miner nies £ . ot WEDNESDAY BY snow y NEVADA COUNTY — . Sale Part Sled for March 30 PUBLISHING CO. and 31. we and how some didn’t during the winter of 1846-47. After a short hike on snowshoes or cross-. country skis, they will hear the story of how the emigrants built shelters, hunted game, and passed the long winter, while the will modern-day hikers cook their lunch over a fire in the snow. Meet State Park Rangers Dave Stratton and Dave Richter at 10:30 am. in front of the fireplace at Donner Memorial State Park Museum 4 miles west of Truckee on old Highway 40. Bring your own lunch of jerky, beans, biscuits, and coffee or other beverage. For more information on these and future weekend hikes, call the Sierra Area of the State Department of Parks and Recreation. From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., call (916) 525-7232; after 6 p.m., call (916) 541-3030. It fiappened last week in Nevada Co. FRUIT TRAIL MONEY Nevada County supervisors voted $300 to the 49er Fruit Trai) Association for promotional purposes. Joel and Ernie Bierwagen and Dick Green were the spokesmen who requested the money. The association has 44 members in Nevada and Placer Counties and the money will go towards printing of descriptive brochures, paid advertising and other forms of participation in public affairs. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP A Judge Verle R. Gray Memorial Vocational Scholarship is being set up to honor the memory of the late judge. The Nevada County Department Heads Association will sponsor the memorial ‘with the help of other organizatios and interested individuals. Donations may be made immediately to the Bank of America branch in Nevada City in person or by mail. SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT — A proposed special tax district in downtown Grass Valley to finance ‘downtown promotions” was sent to legal advisor Bradford Ellsworth for study by the city council. Chairman of Grass Valley Retail Merchants Association, Gene Kimler, had requested the council establish the special district to assist in financing such promotions as the annual Cornish Christmas and other public events tending to draw audiences to town. Kimler said that ‘‘25 per cent of the downtown merchants are paying the bill and the other 75 per cent are sitting back and enjoying the benefits.” A tax district would serve to ‘‘equalize” the situation. KING AGUILAR ELECTED King Aguilar is the newly elected chairman of the county planning commission, succeeding Bob Caris, resigned. The appointee from the second district took over the gavel from acting chairman Bob Crippen, vice chairman, who was re-elected to that position. NEW PRINCIPAL SOUGHT =f A screening committee to select a new principal for Nevada Union High School is being set up to function in the matter of a successor to Art Hooper, who presented the board of trustees a letter of resignation to be effective at the end of the current school year. SCHOOL TRANSIT COSTS . Participation in the county-operated transporation system is costing Nevada City School District $10,000 more than if the district ‘were operating its own system. The 1972-73 transportation costs, when the city operated its own system, was $35,091; the cost this year for the district to. participate in the county system is $50,000. Savings could come from not needing a dispatcher, superintendent, clerk, rent on a garage or utilities for the garage, was the explanation presented by Dan Woodard, superintendent of schools. The city does not need the extra personnel which the countyoperated system, with 25 or more buses does need, he says. Estimated costs for the city’s participation in the county system next year is $60,000. JUDICIAL COURT STUDY ‘ Request of the Nevada County Bar Association for a review of Nevada Judiacial District One before filling the vacancy created by the recent death of Judge Verle Gray received the green light from the Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Tom Turner and Fred Conway are to make an in-depth study. of existcourt and will return their findings to the board prior to any appointment to the vacancy. COUNTY ORDINANCES DIE Supervisors signed the ‘death certificates” for two county ordinances, namely that dealing with a “‘snowload’”’ requirement for mobilehomes, which had never been implemented; and that concerned with nepotism in hiring related employes for the same county departments. In the latter case, it was felt that the ordinance was too severe and could penalize the county by loss of ' eminently qualified personnel for county employment. It was believed doubtful that department heads would jeopardize their _ own jobs by hiring relatives with nepotism in mind. VITAL STATISTICS Ida L. Fredricks, died in Miners’ Hospital March 12, at the age of 70. A native of Texas, Mrs. Fredricks had lived in the Grass Valley area many years ago with her late husband, Phillip, and thep moved away. She returned, as a widow, about 10 years ago and engaged in real estate, community and political affairs of the area. Funeral services and burial were in Llano, Texas, under local auspices of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. ; Bessie Rogers, 80, died March 11, following an illness of two years. She was a native of England and came to San Francisco in 1925. She had been a resident of Grass Valley for the past 45 years. Funeral services were held at Hooper Weaver Chapel followed by burial in Elm Ridge Lawn Cemetery. Dorothy Jane Gilberg, well known artist and 27-year resident of Nevada City, died in Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. She was 59. Funeral services were held at HoooperWeaver Chapel, followed by cremation in Marysville. Perry Lee Boyd, Sr., a two-year resident of Grass Valley died March 18 in Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital at the age of 81, following a brief illness. Funeral services were held from HooperWeaver Chapel, with burial in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. e ah > Gd Leet st ¢ GOtERE Oe: *¢ tae $e ere

Siabisclp a ONE “is scilihe ubliaaniaii Pa A eon 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 27,1974 Rough and Ready ‘News By kay Dunbar : The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble sang for the birthday party of Mr. Thomas Dayton Friday at Wiemar. Mr. Dayton was born in San .Francisco in 1866. He received birthday greetings from Mayor Joseph Alioto of that city and from Governor Reagan and President Nixon. As a child he and his parents moved to the Colfax area. While he was still a young man they returned to the east. In 1888 Mr. Dayton came back to his “beloved mountains” to die. He had developed tuberculosis. But now, at 108 years of age, he is just beginning to lose his sight and his other faculties are sharp and clear. He played the piano for us, as he had promised at Christmas, and sang two numbers. He ‘remembered all the words. His voice quavered but was quite strong and true. If you saw the news on Channel 10 last Friday you. saw and heard him. He is still quite a handsome old gentleman, typically bearded. — . Fifteen of the Ensembles 26 voices helped with this party. They wore their prettiest dresses and sang Happy Birthday, Smiles, and Wells Fargo Wagon. One of the members, Mrs. Doral Lane of Peardale, cut the birthday cake. The ensemble director, Mrs. Helen Beatie, was entertaining the OEP Club at her home in Rough and Ready and was unable to participate. The former accompanist, Mrs. Meda Snow of Cedar ‘Ridge, directed the singing. Mrs. Eleanor Richards of Grass Valley is accompanist at the present time. Rough and Ready members of the group are the Mmes. Fay Dunbar, Alice Licht, Beulah Shearer, Olyve Simmons, Elaine Vogt, and Josephine Webb. Others who sang for Mr. Dayton were the Mmes. Charlotte Anderson, Floy Bagley, Edith Brown, Laurie Ellsworth, ' Winifred Foster, Alice Garibaldi and. Doral Lane. a; For the past 10 years the Grass Valley Elks have provided the group with a hall for practice and a well maintained piano. They now have a repertoire of over 100 numbers. These range from opera through folk tunes. Harmony is done in three parts. The group sings from 15 to 20 programs a year besides entertaining at hospitals. Becoming a part of the group is quite . easy. Talent helps but all you really must have is a true love of music and a desire to serve your community. The most important qualifications are a determination to give up two hours a week, 10 to 12 each Wednesday morning, for practice and willingness to rearrange your. personal SVADA COUNTY NUGGET “301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. ition schedule, if possible, when programs for the ‘group are accepted. Last week besides Mr. Dayton’s birthday they sang for the 86th birthday of the Grass Valley Chapter of NDGW and entertained at Spring Hill and Golden Empire Convalescent hospitals. —R&R— Mrs. Lisetta Scheave is feeling like her old self again. She will help the Chamber of Com-merce with Secession Days on June 30 here in Rough and Ready. She has also agreed to help Chairman Sally Lewis with the Annual Antique Show at the Armory on May 17, 18 and 19. Proceeds from this project go to the Old Nevada Theatre. With the aid of Mrs. Lewis and many others like Mrs. Scheave the old theatre has been restored to her present degree of beauty. There is still a lot to be done so continue your support of the Liberal Arts Commission and projects such as the antique show. Besides it’s really fun. The Community Players plan a benefit performance for the theatre later in the year so watch for the date. The theatre will be dedicated on April 27 so save that date. It will be a nice party. Mrs. Lewis is chairman. —R&R— Don’t forget that the final hearings on the new Highway 20 route will be held at the Veterans Building in Grass Valley at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Just as important, and in direct conflict as to time and date, the candidates for the 4th Supervisorial District will present their case to the voters at the Ready Springs School Auditorium, Thursday at 8 p.m. : —R&ER— Mr. and Mrs. E. L. (Jack) Bixler spent last week in Santa Rosa visiting Mrs. Bixler’s sister, Mrs. Ruth Gmeiner. Esther said they had a marvelous restful time and the weather was beautiful. Too bad they had to come home to cold and rain. They did have a lovely weekend though. Son ‘Bud’ and his wife Dora were visiting here from San Jose and enjoyed it with —R&R— Mr. W. R. ‘Rich’ Avery underwent surgery at Rideout Hospital in Marysville last Friday. Helen says he is cross but doing as well as can be expected. She hopes to have him home by the end of this week. . Sugar Pine Point on weekend hike Second class postage On agg pa Wen Park Aajudicated 1 and ski exploration of the daya legal newspaper of ) use portion of Sugar Pine Point ‘general circulation by ire ety i pe reyhaeans the Nevada County f early history of the Tahoe : Basin, and the group will look at Superior Court, June 3, the. hrmas Matision. and 1960. grounds as well as the General Decree No. 12,406. -{ Phipps Cabin. Meet at 10:30 — é a.m. at the Sugar Pine Point Subscription Rates: . State Park picnic area, 12 miles One Year .. $3.00 { south of Tahoe City on Highway Two Years.. $5.00 f 89. Bring snowshoes or crossotc skis and lunch and

Member of erage. CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER . ,, Te, Sunday biking party ne PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . famous Donner famous Donner Party survived, > emer eet 6 PE9EO so, Telephone 265-2559 SACRAMENTO — The last of. PUBLISHED EVERY we miner nies £ . ot WEDNESDAY BY snow y NEVADA COUNTY — . Sale Part Sled for March 30 PUBLISHING CO. and 31. we and how some didn’t during the winter of 1846-47. After a short hike on snowshoes or cross-. country skis, they will hear the story of how the emigrants built shelters, hunted game, and passed the long winter, while the will modern-day hikers cook their lunch over a fire in the snow. Meet State Park Rangers Dave Stratton and Dave Richter at 10:30 am. in front of the fireplace at Donner Memorial State Park Museum 4 miles west of Truckee on old Highway 40. Bring your own lunch of jerky, beans, biscuits, and coffee or other beverage. For more information on these and future weekend hikes, call the Sierra Area of the State Department of Parks and Recreation. From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., call (916) 525-7232; after 6 p.m., call (916) 541-3030. It fiappened last week in Nevada Co. FRUIT TRAIL MONEY Nevada County supervisors voted $300 to the 49er Fruit Trai) Association for promotional purposes. Joel and Ernie Bierwagen and Dick Green were the spokesmen who requested the money. The association has 44 members in Nevada and Placer Counties and the money will go towards printing of descriptive brochures, paid advertising and other forms of participation in public affairs. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP A Judge Verle R. Gray Memorial Vocational Scholarship is being set up to honor the memory of the late judge. The Nevada County Department Heads Association will sponsor the memorial ‘with the help of other organizatios and interested individuals. Donations may be made immediately to the Bank of America branch in Nevada City in person or by mail. SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT — A proposed special tax district in downtown Grass Valley to finance ‘downtown promotions” was sent to legal advisor Bradford Ellsworth for study by the city council. Chairman of Grass Valley Retail Merchants Association, Gene Kimler, had requested the council establish the special district to assist in financing such promotions as the annual Cornish Christmas and other public events tending to draw audiences to town. Kimler said that ‘‘25 per cent of the downtown merchants are paying the bill and the other 75 per cent are sitting back and enjoying the benefits.” A tax district would serve to ‘‘equalize” the situation. KING AGUILAR ELECTED King Aguilar is the newly elected chairman of the county planning commission, succeeding Bob Caris, resigned. The appointee from the second district took over the gavel from acting chairman Bob Crippen, vice chairman, who was re-elected to that position. NEW PRINCIPAL SOUGHT =f A screening committee to select a new principal for Nevada Union High School is being set up to function in the matter of a successor to Art Hooper, who presented the board of trustees a letter of resignation to be effective at the end of the current school year. SCHOOL TRANSIT COSTS . Participation in the county-operated transporation system is costing Nevada City School District $10,000 more than if the district ‘were operating its own system. The 1972-73 transportation costs, when the city operated its own system, was $35,091; the cost this year for the district to. participate in the county system is $50,000. Savings could come from not needing a dispatcher, superintendent, clerk, rent on a garage or utilities for the garage, was the explanation presented by Dan Woodard, superintendent of schools. The city does not need the extra personnel which the countyoperated system, with 25 or more buses does need, he says. Estimated costs for the city’s participation in the county system next year is $60,000. JUDICIAL COURT STUDY ‘ Request of the Nevada County Bar Association for a review of Nevada Judiacial District One before filling the vacancy created by the recent death of Judge Verle Gray received the green light from the Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Tom Turner and Fred Conway are to make an in-depth study. of existcourt and will return their findings to the board prior to any appointment to the vacancy. COUNTY ORDINANCES DIE Supervisors signed the ‘death certificates” for two county ordinances, namely that dealing with a “‘snowload’”’ requirement for mobilehomes, which had never been implemented; and that concerned with nepotism in hiring related employes for the same county departments. In the latter case, it was felt that the ordinance was too severe and could penalize the county by loss of ' eminently qualified personnel for county employment. It was believed doubtful that department heads would jeopardize their _ own jobs by hiring relatives with nepotism in mind. VITAL STATISTICS Ida L. Fredricks, died in Miners’ Hospital March 12, at the age of 70. A native of Texas, Mrs. Fredricks had lived in the Grass Valley area many years ago with her late husband, Phillip, and thep moved away. She returned, as a widow, about 10 years ago and engaged in real estate, community and political affairs of the area. Funeral services and burial were in Llano, Texas, under local auspices of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. ; Bessie Rogers, 80, died March 11, following an illness of two years. She was a native of England and came to San Francisco in 1925. She had been a resident of Grass Valley for the past 45 years. Funeral services were held at Hooper Weaver Chapel followed by burial in Elm Ridge Lawn Cemetery. Dorothy Jane Gilberg, well known artist and 27-year resident of Nevada City, died in Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. She was 59. Funeral services were held at HoooperWeaver Chapel, followed by cremation in Marysville. Perry Lee Boyd, Sr., a two-year resident of Grass Valley died March 18 in Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital at the age of 81, following a brief illness. Funeral services were held from HooperWeaver Chapel, with burial in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. e ah > Gd Leet st ¢ GOtERE Oe: *¢ tae $e ere