March 28, 1973 (12 pages)

NEVADA QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, Sg. 8 City Volume 27, No. 19 Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, May 7, 1953 INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE'S FLAT. ORLEANS FLA NUGGET SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY. OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, LIME KILN, SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL; GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILL: RED DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, —as LITTLE YORK. CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS. » CHICAGO PARK, WOLE, CHRISTMAS HILL, LIBERTY HILL, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CITY, . RTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL. T, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Price Five Cents JOHNS NAMED NEVADA CITY ATHLETICS TROUNCE LINCOLN 4 TO 1 AS CARL FISCHER HOLDS POTTERS TO FIVE HITS AIR FORCE ASSIGNS TRAINING PLANE TO CAP SQUADRON Nevada City made air history last Saturday when the first military pfane ever assigned to this area—a U.S. Air Force observation and training. plane, model L-16-A—arrived at the Nevada City airport, where its silver wings and 90-horsepower : engine made a big impression on ground crews and _ startled» onJookers. The plane is on loan to Squadron 98 of the Civil Air Patrol, which has its headquarters at the airport, for as long as squadron members put in sufficient hours to maintain it. Good Airmen Here “This is the climax of more than a year’s hard work,” said Captain E. R. (“Jim”). Stoddard, who heads the local CAP. “We }imaliy convinced the Air Force thoi we've got plenty of serimousmy oded aivmen up here. Now one ‘ eroatest necds das beon m oma liicars $e tree pilots.” prsaae te fram The handsome . L-16-A, reteased trom the Marysville CAP quadron through the 9 Sucraunit. will be used im mediately for onentatian flights cadets and osenier tine nber ! othe “squadron Auspiciously eneughy the ar vival of the planes a néw ‘first’ nNevada’ County historv> conodes withthe 50th anniversary this year of the birth of Wiation. Part of Air Force The year-old squadron is a part of the nation-wide Civil Air Patrol system, which is an auxiiary to the U.S. Air Force. A CAP cadet who puts two years’ training under his belt and gets u proficiency rating can join the Aw Force as a cadet officer. “And that isn’t all,” said squadron leaders M. W.:Lane and George Halstead this week. “The Aur Force waives the requirement for two years of college. You can't beat a pogram like that for kids who want to fly and who set their sights for the Air Force.” The two-year training with Squadron 98 includes radio, navigation, meteorology, air mechanwes. Every week the cadet takes orentation flights, plots courses ton. pilots, hears lectures, studies aviation. He also gets his taste of SARCAP—“Search Air Rescue -mission”—which is an intensified and* realistic part of the program. ‘ neato Important Project Junior cadets in the CAP are are from 15 to 17 years old; the «senior cadets are 18 years of age and upward. =—Membership-in.the local squadTon is open to all men of the area, starting at age 15. A widespread recruiting campaign is now under way, with special emphasis given for the benefits { pre-Air Force preparation. “Without any doubt,” stated Warrant Officer M. W. Lane, Commandant of Cadets in the squadron, “our CAP program is one of the most important things that has happened in this county. The youth especially have nothing to lose by it.” Applications for membership King Carl Fischer was ‘the master of the Lincoln Potters last Sunday as he pitched the Nevada City Athletics to a 4 to 1 victory over last year’s PNL champions. Fischer, with excellent control and a hopping fast ball, spread five hits over five innings and évas backed by the fine hustling play of his teammates. Manager “Casey” Haddy switched his team almost completely around by sending Bravo to first, Painter to second, Fischer to the mound and _ installing Fouyer behind the plate and Brown on the hot corner. The old crystal ball gazer admits it was a gambling experiment but now it will be a more or less permanent lineup because it worked out so well. The game was marked by the fine catching job of Fouyer, the infield plays by all the infield and Stan Jones’ fine catches in the outfield. : The A's scored first on Painter's double and Jones’ single in the second inning. Lincoln bounced on O’Shaughnessey’'s single and the only two Athletic errors of the day. The Nevada Citvans three times.in. the Goldsberry reached first on an . crier. Fouyer walked. and Brown vsingled across a run. Bryan foljowed with a dens double to Prive acress the two final runs bo The Rotter threatened ino the Tth. when thev loaded the bases onotwo souks and a hot Fischer nt) dose one osteneds out) Wale and forced Stevens to hit sroundcr to Goldsberry Thee Nth ties wilh trivel Cobia te ome it tne Sireballs Vie octefeated) ti AgpaYOR FUE HCI IT ss SattetSe past r stinday. Mans Névada City nlan to travel to Colfax to see ithe game which starts at 2:30. las back to tie the score in the third > scored BRANCH OF AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY SET TO RECEIVE CHARTER A distinguished member of the American Cancer Society, Mrs. C. H. Turner, will formally present the Nevada County branch of that organization with their charter on Monday, May llth, She is the Deputy State Commander, and a long-time vigorous supporter of the Society. The presentation will be made at a luncheon meeting of the Nevada County group at the Deer Creek Inn, Nevada City. -Accompanying her will be Jeff Hall, Field Representative for Northern California. G. Otis Ogden is temporary chairman of the board of directors and Horace Curnow, finance chairman. LOCAL MEN GOOD SAILORS, SAYS NAVY RECRUITING OFFICER Want to join the Navy? Well, it’s not as easy as it once »was, according to Chief Petty Officer J. A. Warren, Nevada County Navy recruiter. Warren says that while the fifth when ; fans . Navy is still accepting applica. tions there’s a long waiting Max Solaro succumbs Max Antonio Solaro, known to hundreds of Nevada Countyans for his multitude of good deeds, died Monday afternoon at his home from a heart attack. The 45-year-old deputy sheriff, and World -War II veteran, was stricken while working in his garden. Virtually his entire career was spent in public service. He joined the. Nevada City street department in 1929, serving as a police deputy in his spare time; later he drove the fire truck, and finaHy the City Council in 1940 appointed him police chief. During the war he served as a Seabee in the South Pacific. Solaro became a deputy sheriff in 1950. Curiously, he recently submitted his resignation to take effect the day he died. He was constantly active in civic affairs. The Pioneer Park miniature railroad was his pet project, and he worked long hours laying its track and overhauling equipment. His is Survived by his widow, Grace; two daughters, Mary and Maxine; two brothers, James of Nevada City, and John of Reno. Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. at the Bergmann} Funeral Chapel. TheRev. John list,{ MaeDonald: officiated. Another 4d music COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT _ . SUPERVISORS OK MISS KENT’S RESIGNATION [ENDING LONG AND BITTER STRUGGLE OVER POST The Board of Supervis Schools. ‘FAMILY NIGHT TO BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT . “Family Night will be a buffet . dinner, served piping hot from electric Friday © night, May 8 at 6:30 in the Nevada City Elementary School. The party is under sponsorship of the Nevada City Elementary School PTA. Notices were sent home to be signed. If you didn't receive one and wish to make reservations, please phone 10J, Mrs. George Lystrup, between the hours of 9 and . on Thursday. Dinner will consist of baked beans, tamale pie. macaroni and cheese, hot rolls, tossed salad, cake, coffee or tea. Milk will be extra. The dinner will cost cach person 50c, and each pre-school child through the second erade. . 25 cents. roasters, The program. will include a ‘family participating talent show, by) Frane Lusehen’s ‘and they're getting choosy ds all; Service was conducted by the! orchestra get out. They are, however, al. Nevada Loder No. 13. F. & A.M.' A surprise or twee are in store Wass looking for ex-Navy men to. Burial was at Pine Grove cemefor many. Whew net attend and tom the Reserve. A husky Mississippian, Warren . visits Nevada City cach Tuesday mornings, making the Post Office building his headquarters. He . holds Grass Valley and Nevada! City men in hieh regard. “They . make good sailors,” he says. “They're not afraid of a little work and also not afraid to take . Pardes.” Warren says he has eight or ten Grass Valley men who have . applications currently on file. . . tery. SOME WIN, SOME LOSE Lots of money went begging at the Wednesday session of Nevada City’s Appreciation Day. Among the losers were Robert Harris (North San Juan) $10, Nancy S. Curey (111 Nihill, Nevada City) $146, Ernestine Deeble $73, and Alta Costa (Route 1, Box 49, N.C.) $146. ON APPRECIATION DAY . Qn the brighter side, Peggy Flynn collected $5; Mrs. E. Brisihill S10, and Doris Harper’ $37. Next Wednesday at 4 p.m. there‘ll be another show. The local merchants will offer more money saving bargains and everybody will have a good time. ; Luschen Noted Cellist Franc Luschen is a _ noted celloist. He has -played under some of the world’s leading sympho conductors. They i de Sir Thomas Beecham, Maurice Ravel, Eugene Goessens, Albert Coates, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, Fritz Reiner, Serge Koussevitzky, Bruno Walter, Arthur Rodzinski and many. many others. i He says: “It has been an inspiration to me to find the children of Nevada City so interested in good music. There is, I find, a taste for fine music here which is truly excepCITY NEWSPAPERMEN VISIT NEVADA COUNTY Apparently it isn't enough that Southern California cops invaded this area several weeks ago, arresting a Grass Valley man while he was taking a bath. Now we've been infiltrated by a platoon of Metropolitan newspapermen looking for angles on the Newtown gold strike. Yesterday a crew of TV cameramen were hacking their way through the brush. This strike may be three dimensional yet. — City editors were cautious in giving out the assignment. “Get up there to that mountain town and get a story,” one told his reporter. “Better take a bedroll along because. I don’t imagine they have hotels.” Only a chimney blackened by smoke remains standing at the Franc Luschen home on Murchie rvad after last Thursday's fire. The blaze, which started in the attic, destroyed the once artistic home in thirty minutes. Luschen was able to save only his two cellos; he carried no insurance whatsoever. Since then, toca: clubs, fraternal organizations and individuals have offered the Luschens assistance. “They've done so many fine things for other people, it's a privilege to offer to help them,” said a local artist. The Nevada City Elks have planned a Franc Luschen dance on May 22nd at the club. Jerry Austin has donated his orchestra for the evening and there will be a floorshow by the Elks Players “streamlined for high school students.” It is hoped that at this party Luschen will play several selections on his cello. A former member of the Los Angeles Symphony, and of other famous orchestras, Luschen instructor at the Nevada Union High School, and teaches privately. : Exact cause of the fire is unknown. Accordnig to Luschen, he came home about 6:30 p.m. and saw smoke billowing out of a second story window. When he opened the door to the room, the is a’ music! Everybody Wants To Help The Franc Luschens ELKS PLAN FRANC LUSCHEN DANCE MAY 22 ONLY TWO CELLOS SAVED IN $15,000 BLAZE A State fire crew was first on the scene, since the home is outside the city limits. They were joined a few moments later by the big pumper from the Nevada City department. But the flames, fanned by a mild breeze, were beyond control. The $15,000 home was built by Mr. and Mrs. Luschen. Among the furnishings destroyed were some fine rugs and hand-carved furniture; needless to say, his entire collection of music, representing years of painstaking work, was entirely destroyed. As the fire gutted the structure.-Luschens, watching it from a point somewhat apart from the crowd, was asked for his reaction. “What can one say” he said, shrugging. “It happened and that is that.” Luschens Says Thanks Yesterday Franc Luschen, who lost his home in a disastrous fire last Thursday. issued a statement. He said: “It is beyond all my expectations that I found so many friends in this community in our moment of distress. When -I1 came here in 1943 I realized “after a year that I would stay here the rest of my life. : ‘Words cannot express all DOCS IN THE NEWS You can always tell in which store Tai Taylor is doing his business. Tessie, a small, 10-yearold Scottie, will be standing outside patiently waiting for him. Tessie and Tai, friends for the last 10 years, have developed something of a routine. In the morning when Tai leaves for work, he leaves Tessie behind. A cool operator, Tessie fools around the yard for an hour or so, then takes off down Boulder street to Tai’ office on North Pine. Then they go for coffee. Tessie, uninvited, will follow -him down the strect, taking up position outside the coffee house. Once a few years back Tai really fooled Tessié and went to see a client (Tai is an auditor) some 18 miles down the road. Tessie followed. It took her a ors yesterday unanimously appointed Melville Johns as County Superintendent of . _ The ex-principal of Hennessey school will take over officially as soon as he has posted bond. Miss Genevieve Kent's resignation was accepted with reluctance, effective Wednesday. Thus a long scramble for the post ended. R. Leé Ross, whose application has been the center of controversy for many months, reinstated his bid for the post In a etter read yesterday in the Supervisors’ meeting. Previously, Mrs. Doris Foley, the only other applicant. had withdrawn her application. For the first time since the matter came before the Board, Supervisor Henry Lochr cast his vote, making Johns’ appointunanimous. Lochr said that heretofore he had withheld expressing his opinion because his district. Truckee, falls under the Placer County School . system. “But I wish to make this vote unanimous,” he said, when an-, swering County Clerk Ralph Deeble's rell call. Mr. Johns later said, “It is a great honer to be appointed te this office and To will try my utmost to give: the County an Venhicient and economical schoo! jMepartment e When the Board was Upon accepting Miss Kent's resagPnations Loehr asked the. mem. Should we aeeept this Drestgnction wath resret? ' Dartiritesta stad John Brians NEVADA CITY MOURNS /AGNES GWILLIAM ° ' ours, Superviser It didnt take long for Agnes (Gwilham te make friends. Her . kind and quiet ways were quick }to draw Nevada Citvans to her although she had lived’ among them onky seven” years. Most peopie knew her as “Aggie.” Early Wednesday morning Mrs. Gwilliam died in her home on Main Street. Born Agnes Nealis in Butte, Montana, in 1902, she was graduated from the Girls Central High School and from the St. James Hospital training scshool, both of Butte. After she moved to Nevada City in 1946 Mrs. Gwilliam was on the Miners Hospital staff and Hawkins. The wife of the late David H Gwilliam, Agnes Gwilliam is survived by her three children, Dan, Gwen, and Judy, and five sisters, Ethel Harris of San Francisco, Florence Lindquist of Clark, Wyo, Mary Helen, Ella Griggs and Kathryn Williams of Nevada City and several nieces and nephews Mrs. Gwilliam’s Mrs. S. J. Brunyer. « band, as well as sever. in-law, arrived here fr good many hours, to make the trip but she finally get to a rutted fork in the road indicat-° ; ing the turnoff to Mt. Zion . tine . at Relief hill. There she was! stumped. Instead of trotting the ! 18 miles back to Nevada City. . sBe curled up in the middle of ¢ the road and went to sleep. Tessie can't stand blasting. She . waslat Rehef Hilb plaving with a Setter named Baby once when ja blast went off. Baby promptly . i fell into the flume. Tessie now . \retires into her corner when she hears a blast louder than a} whisper. ' ‘THIS EDITION a week ago. Mrs. Harr: Lindquist are also in City Funeral services will be heta Friday at 10 a.m. in the St Car ice Catholic Church with + © Rev. William Daly officiating. Burial will follow in the Cathohe cemetery. 7 Py . Redmen Having Party In North San Juan Wyoming Tribe No. 49, Redmen, will whoop it up at a benefit dance and show on Saturday, May 16, at Pete’s hall in North San Juan A 512 menOancinnal me. voting * was dental nurse for Dr. Walter . 2 ea wae is ok oe ALLS 7YNIDINO

NEVADA QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, Sg. 8 City Volume 27, No. 19 Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, May 7, 1953 INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE'S FLAT. ORLEANS FLA NUGGET SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY. OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, LIME KILN, SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL; GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILL: RED DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, —as LITTLE YORK. CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS. » CHICAGO PARK, WOLE, CHRISTMAS HILL, LIBERTY HILL, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CITY, . RTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL. T, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Price Five Cents JOHNS NAMED NEVADA CITY ATHLETICS TROUNCE LINCOLN 4 TO 1 AS CARL FISCHER HOLDS POTTERS TO FIVE HITS AIR FORCE ASSIGNS TRAINING PLANE TO CAP SQUADRON Nevada City made air history last Saturday when the first military pfane ever assigned to this area—a U.S. Air Force observation and training. plane, model L-16-A—arrived at the Nevada City airport, where its silver wings and 90-horsepower : engine made a big impression on ground crews and _ startled» onJookers. The plane is on loan to Squadron 98 of the Civil Air Patrol, which has its headquarters at the airport, for as long as squadron members put in sufficient hours to maintain it. Good Airmen Here “This is the climax of more than a year’s hard work,” said Captain E. R. (“Jim”). Stoddard, who heads the local CAP. “We }imaliy convinced the Air Force thoi we've got plenty of serimousmy oded aivmen up here. Now one ‘ eroatest necds das beon m oma liicars $e tree pilots.” prsaae te fram The handsome . L-16-A, reteased trom the Marysville CAP quadron through the 9 Sucraunit. will be used im mediately for onentatian flights cadets and osenier tine nber ! othe “squadron Auspiciously eneughy the ar vival of the planes a néw ‘first’ nNevada’ County historv> conodes withthe 50th anniversary this year of the birth of Wiation. Part of Air Force The year-old squadron is a part of the nation-wide Civil Air Patrol system, which is an auxiiary to the U.S. Air Force. A CAP cadet who puts two years’ training under his belt and gets u proficiency rating can join the Aw Force as a cadet officer. “And that isn’t all,” said squadron leaders M. W.:Lane and George Halstead this week. “The Aur Force waives the requirement for two years of college. You can't beat a pogram like that for kids who want to fly and who set their sights for the Air Force.” The two-year training with Squadron 98 includes radio, navigation, meteorology, air mechanwes. Every week the cadet takes orentation flights, plots courses ton. pilots, hears lectures, studies aviation. He also gets his taste of SARCAP—“Search Air Rescue -mission”—which is an intensified and* realistic part of the program. ‘ neato Important Project Junior cadets in the CAP are are from 15 to 17 years old; the «senior cadets are 18 years of age and upward. =—Membership-in.the local squadTon is open to all men of the area, starting at age 15. A widespread recruiting campaign is now under way, with special emphasis given for the benefits { pre-Air Force preparation. “Without any doubt,” stated Warrant Officer M. W. Lane, Commandant of Cadets in the squadron, “our CAP program is one of the most important things that has happened in this county. The youth especially have nothing to lose by it.” Applications for membership King Carl Fischer was ‘the master of the Lincoln Potters last Sunday as he pitched the Nevada City Athletics to a 4 to 1 victory over last year’s PNL champions. Fischer, with excellent control and a hopping fast ball, spread five hits over five innings and évas backed by the fine hustling play of his teammates. Manager “Casey” Haddy switched his team almost completely around by sending Bravo to first, Painter to second, Fischer to the mound and _ installing Fouyer behind the plate and Brown on the hot corner. The old crystal ball gazer admits it was a gambling experiment but now it will be a more or less permanent lineup because it worked out so well. The game was marked by the fine catching job of Fouyer, the infield plays by all the infield and Stan Jones’ fine catches in the outfield. : The A's scored first on Painter's double and Jones’ single in the second inning. Lincoln bounced on O’Shaughnessey’'s single and the only two Athletic errors of the day. The Nevada Citvans three times.in. the Goldsberry reached first on an . crier. Fouyer walked. and Brown vsingled across a run. Bryan foljowed with a dens double to Prive acress the two final runs bo The Rotter threatened ino the Tth. when thev loaded the bases onotwo souks and a hot Fischer nt) dose one osteneds out) Wale and forced Stevens to hit sroundcr to Goldsberry Thee Nth ties wilh trivel Cobia te ome it tne Sireballs Vie octefeated) ti AgpaYOR FUE HCI IT ss SattetSe past r stinday. Mans Névada City nlan to travel to Colfax to see ithe game which starts at 2:30. las back to tie the score in the third > scored BRANCH OF AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY SET TO RECEIVE CHARTER A distinguished member of the American Cancer Society, Mrs. C. H. Turner, will formally present the Nevada County branch of that organization with their charter on Monday, May llth, She is the Deputy State Commander, and a long-time vigorous supporter of the Society. The presentation will be made at a luncheon meeting of the Nevada County group at the Deer Creek Inn, Nevada City. -Accompanying her will be Jeff Hall, Field Representative for Northern California. G. Otis Ogden is temporary chairman of the board of directors and Horace Curnow, finance chairman. LOCAL MEN GOOD SAILORS, SAYS NAVY RECRUITING OFFICER Want to join the Navy? Well, it’s not as easy as it once »was, according to Chief Petty Officer J. A. Warren, Nevada County Navy recruiter. Warren says that while the fifth when ; fans . Navy is still accepting applica. tions there’s a long waiting Max Solaro succumbs Max Antonio Solaro, known to hundreds of Nevada Countyans for his multitude of good deeds, died Monday afternoon at his home from a heart attack. The 45-year-old deputy sheriff, and World -War II veteran, was stricken while working in his garden. Virtually his entire career was spent in public service. He joined the. Nevada City street department in 1929, serving as a police deputy in his spare time; later he drove the fire truck, and finaHy the City Council in 1940 appointed him police chief. During the war he served as a Seabee in the South Pacific. Solaro became a deputy sheriff in 1950. Curiously, he recently submitted his resignation to take effect the day he died. He was constantly active in civic affairs. The Pioneer Park miniature railroad was his pet project, and he worked long hours laying its track and overhauling equipment. His is Survived by his widow, Grace; two daughters, Mary and Maxine; two brothers, James of Nevada City, and John of Reno. Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. at the Bergmann} Funeral Chapel. TheRev. John list,{ MaeDonald: officiated. Another 4d music COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT _ . SUPERVISORS OK MISS KENT’S RESIGNATION [ENDING LONG AND BITTER STRUGGLE OVER POST The Board of Supervis Schools. ‘FAMILY NIGHT TO BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT . “Family Night will be a buffet . dinner, served piping hot from electric Friday © night, May 8 at 6:30 in the Nevada City Elementary School. The party is under sponsorship of the Nevada City Elementary School PTA. Notices were sent home to be signed. If you didn't receive one and wish to make reservations, please phone 10J, Mrs. George Lystrup, between the hours of 9 and . on Thursday. Dinner will consist of baked beans, tamale pie. macaroni and cheese, hot rolls, tossed salad, cake, coffee or tea. Milk will be extra. The dinner will cost cach person 50c, and each pre-school child through the second erade. . 25 cents. roasters, The program. will include a ‘family participating talent show, by) Frane Lusehen’s ‘and they're getting choosy ds all; Service was conducted by the! orchestra get out. They are, however, al. Nevada Loder No. 13. F. & A.M.' A surprise or twee are in store Wass looking for ex-Navy men to. Burial was at Pine Grove cemefor many. Whew net attend and tom the Reserve. A husky Mississippian, Warren . visits Nevada City cach Tuesday mornings, making the Post Office building his headquarters. He . holds Grass Valley and Nevada! City men in hieh regard. “They . make good sailors,” he says. “They're not afraid of a little work and also not afraid to take .

Pardes.” Warren says he has eight or ten Grass Valley men who have . applications currently on file. . . tery. SOME WIN, SOME LOSE Lots of money went begging at the Wednesday session of Nevada City’s Appreciation Day. Among the losers were Robert Harris (North San Juan) $10, Nancy S. Curey (111 Nihill, Nevada City) $146, Ernestine Deeble $73, and Alta Costa (Route 1, Box 49, N.C.) $146. ON APPRECIATION DAY . Qn the brighter side, Peggy Flynn collected $5; Mrs. E. Brisihill S10, and Doris Harper’ $37. Next Wednesday at 4 p.m. there‘ll be another show. The local merchants will offer more money saving bargains and everybody will have a good time. ; Luschen Noted Cellist Franc Luschen is a _ noted celloist. He has -played under some of the world’s leading sympho conductors. They i de Sir Thomas Beecham, Maurice Ravel, Eugene Goessens, Albert Coates, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, Fritz Reiner, Serge Koussevitzky, Bruno Walter, Arthur Rodzinski and many. many others. i He says: “It has been an inspiration to me to find the children of Nevada City so interested in good music. There is, I find, a taste for fine music here which is truly excepCITY NEWSPAPERMEN VISIT NEVADA COUNTY Apparently it isn't enough that Southern California cops invaded this area several weeks ago, arresting a Grass Valley man while he was taking a bath. Now we've been infiltrated by a platoon of Metropolitan newspapermen looking for angles on the Newtown gold strike. Yesterday a crew of TV cameramen were hacking their way through the brush. This strike may be three dimensional yet. — City editors were cautious in giving out the assignment. “Get up there to that mountain town and get a story,” one told his reporter. “Better take a bedroll along because. I don’t imagine they have hotels.” Only a chimney blackened by smoke remains standing at the Franc Luschen home on Murchie rvad after last Thursday's fire. The blaze, which started in the attic, destroyed the once artistic home in thirty minutes. Luschen was able to save only his two cellos; he carried no insurance whatsoever. Since then, toca: clubs, fraternal organizations and individuals have offered the Luschens assistance. “They've done so many fine things for other people, it's a privilege to offer to help them,” said a local artist. The Nevada City Elks have planned a Franc Luschen dance on May 22nd at the club. Jerry Austin has donated his orchestra for the evening and there will be a floorshow by the Elks Players “streamlined for high school students.” It is hoped that at this party Luschen will play several selections on his cello. A former member of the Los Angeles Symphony, and of other famous orchestras, Luschen instructor at the Nevada Union High School, and teaches privately. : Exact cause of the fire is unknown. Accordnig to Luschen, he came home about 6:30 p.m. and saw smoke billowing out of a second story window. When he opened the door to the room, the is a’ music! Everybody Wants To Help The Franc Luschens ELKS PLAN FRANC LUSCHEN DANCE MAY 22 ONLY TWO CELLOS SAVED IN $15,000 BLAZE A State fire crew was first on the scene, since the home is outside the city limits. They were joined a few moments later by the big pumper from the Nevada City department. But the flames, fanned by a mild breeze, were beyond control. The $15,000 home was built by Mr. and Mrs. Luschen. Among the furnishings destroyed were some fine rugs and hand-carved furniture; needless to say, his entire collection of music, representing years of painstaking work, was entirely destroyed. As the fire gutted the structure.-Luschens, watching it from a point somewhat apart from the crowd, was asked for his reaction. “What can one say” he said, shrugging. “It happened and that is that.” Luschens Says Thanks Yesterday Franc Luschen, who lost his home in a disastrous fire last Thursday. issued a statement. He said: “It is beyond all my expectations that I found so many friends in this community in our moment of distress. When -I1 came here in 1943 I realized “after a year that I would stay here the rest of my life. : ‘Words cannot express all DOCS IN THE NEWS You can always tell in which store Tai Taylor is doing his business. Tessie, a small, 10-yearold Scottie, will be standing outside patiently waiting for him. Tessie and Tai, friends for the last 10 years, have developed something of a routine. In the morning when Tai leaves for work, he leaves Tessie behind. A cool operator, Tessie fools around the yard for an hour or so, then takes off down Boulder street to Tai’ office on North Pine. Then they go for coffee. Tessie, uninvited, will follow -him down the strect, taking up position outside the coffee house. Once a few years back Tai really fooled Tessié and went to see a client (Tai is an auditor) some 18 miles down the road. Tessie followed. It took her a ors yesterday unanimously appointed Melville Johns as County Superintendent of . _ The ex-principal of Hennessey school will take over officially as soon as he has posted bond. Miss Genevieve Kent's resignation was accepted with reluctance, effective Wednesday. Thus a long scramble for the post ended. R. Leé Ross, whose application has been the center of controversy for many months, reinstated his bid for the post In a etter read yesterday in the Supervisors’ meeting. Previously, Mrs. Doris Foley, the only other applicant. had withdrawn her application. For the first time since the matter came before the Board, Supervisor Henry Lochr cast his vote, making Johns’ appointunanimous. Lochr said that heretofore he had withheld expressing his opinion because his district. Truckee, falls under the Placer County School . system. “But I wish to make this vote unanimous,” he said, when an-, swering County Clerk Ralph Deeble's rell call. Mr. Johns later said, “It is a great honer to be appointed te this office and To will try my utmost to give: the County an Venhicient and economical schoo! jMepartment e When the Board was Upon accepting Miss Kent's resagPnations Loehr asked the. mem. Should we aeeept this Drestgnction wath resret? ' Dartiritesta stad John Brians NEVADA CITY MOURNS /AGNES GWILLIAM ° ' ours, Superviser It didnt take long for Agnes (Gwilham te make friends. Her . kind and quiet ways were quick }to draw Nevada Citvans to her although she had lived’ among them onky seven” years. Most peopie knew her as “Aggie.” Early Wednesday morning Mrs. Gwilliam died in her home on Main Street. Born Agnes Nealis in Butte, Montana, in 1902, she was graduated from the Girls Central High School and from the St. James Hospital training scshool, both of Butte. After she moved to Nevada City in 1946 Mrs. Gwilliam was on the Miners Hospital staff and Hawkins. The wife of the late David H Gwilliam, Agnes Gwilliam is survived by her three children, Dan, Gwen, and Judy, and five sisters, Ethel Harris of San Francisco, Florence Lindquist of Clark, Wyo, Mary Helen, Ella Griggs and Kathryn Williams of Nevada City and several nieces and nephews Mrs. Gwilliam’s Mrs. S. J. Brunyer. « band, as well as sever. in-law, arrived here fr good many hours, to make the trip but she finally get to a rutted fork in the road indicat-° ; ing the turnoff to Mt. Zion . tine . at Relief hill. There she was! stumped. Instead of trotting the ! 18 miles back to Nevada City. . sBe curled up in the middle of ¢ the road and went to sleep. Tessie can't stand blasting. She . waslat Rehef Hilb plaving with a Setter named Baby once when ja blast went off. Baby promptly . i fell into the flume. Tessie now . \retires into her corner when she hears a blast louder than a} whisper. ' ‘THIS EDITION a week ago. Mrs. Harr: Lindquist are also in City Funeral services will be heta Friday at 10 a.m. in the St Car ice Catholic Church with + © Rev. William Daly officiating. Burial will follow in the Cathohe cemetery. 7 Py . Redmen Having Party In North San Juan Wyoming Tribe No. 49, Redmen, will whoop it up at a benefit dance and show on Saturday, May 16, at Pete’s hall in North San Juan A 512 menOancinnal me. voting * was dental nurse for Dr. Walter . 2 ea wae is ok oe ALLS 7YNIDINO