March 4, 1965 (24 pages)

coaieeaieeniahedeadtinte mate anaemia aes ee 2 eno a gRRENeR EE ee nee —_ as ~ a : = PS siti z Rag Hh geese NaS ag, LTP ee ON ee ER OE BE arg ea et ee . y see Pash 5k” & WES; A ge NEP Gn ae A TTA Reg gig ae aa hg ba yma Ae of Neveda Ci vat ly Ahsag itn You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherakec, M lat, Sweetland, Al, Ome umbug, Relic} Hil Relief ries ty, lesbicaton: Migs arr Meadows, Cedar R Ui mg a Pa ark fa Gold F » Ce idge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, hicago Park, Wolf, pt Fit Songwie, Gold Br Bar, Lowell Hill, — es Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Oi Quaker Hill, W ~_— Valley, PSSA Volume 39 Number 9 a Coyote Street Report Street Could Be Rezoned The Nevada City Planning Commission committee appointed tostudy possible rezoning of Coyote Street reported T uesday night it saw no logical reason why a portion of the street should not be rezoned, Don Fairclough speaking for the committee, said a study had been made of the possible rezoning of Coyote Street from Dean Alley to Court Street. The committee was in agreement, Fairclough said, that there was no logical reason why the area couldn't be rezoned. The committee gave the following reasons for its decision: l-a gas station is already sched. uled ‘to be built in that area; 2that section will have one of the ‘few off ramps into the city from the freeway; 3-there does not appear to be too much reason for the area to remain in its present R-1 residential status; 4-the area is a natural place for business. The committee made no recommendation as to what zone change should be made and the commission as a whole did not adopt the report. Chairman Carl Steger suggested the members study the report and be ready to make recommendations for or against adoption at thenext regular meeting. The same committee was asked to make a study of possible rezoning needs all along the freeway route through the city. The commission granted a variance from the set back requirements for a new Standard Oil Station to be constructed on Zion Street. The vote on the motion to grant the variance was 6-1 with Commissioner Dorothy Weir casting the dissenting vote. Burl D, Reed of Sacramento represented Standard Oil Co. in its petition before the commis“sion, He said the triangular shape of the lot. made it necessary to move a pump island and the sign and a canopy closer to the property line than permitted in the ordinance. He stressed that without the variance the company would be unable to build the station. The variance will put the overhang of the sign on the property line and the sign column 16 feet back from the line, The ordinance requires a 30 foot setback, The commission approved plans submitted by the state Division of Highways for a 10 year improvement program for its Nevada (Continued on Page 3) MRS. MARY WALLIS of Nevada City happily displays a letter from Pacific Gas & Electric Company vice president Shermer L, Sibley in which he states the utility intends to "continue doing business from the same old stand" in Nevada City. Furthermore, Nevada City not only keeps the P.G.&E, office, but Mary Wallis gets a free lunch in San Francisco, courtesy of Mr. Sibley. City Resident Gets The Final Word On PG&E Office Closing Tere will be no closing of Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Nevada City office--and that word comes right from the top. Closing of the office.in this city has been rumored ever suuce the. matter was mentioned several weeks ago at a meeting of the The City of Grass Valley has taken positive steps to insure the purity of city water, Acting upon a recommendation from County Health Officer Dr. C. Jackson Rayburn, the city councilvoted, ata special coun/ cil meeting February 25, to pur~. chase anew, fifty pound chlorine injector forthe Alta Street Reservoir. The current Alta Street chlorinator, which Dr, Rayburn.had termed, in his February 23 letter to the council as inadequate in size forthe' Alta Stréet Reservoir, will be installed at the smaller Pennsylvania Reservoir, Mayor John Hodge told the council that he and other city officials had met with Rayburn in response to a report from the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, State/Health Department, that the Gtass Valley Water System didnot meet U.S. Public Health Setvice drinking water standards. Zz e Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Last week L.R. Farrell, manager of the P.G.&E, office in Grass Valley, issued a statement saying “aroutine study of operations at the Nevada City P.G,&E, office has been forwarded to the Grass Valley Moves To Clear Up Its Water Problem Hodge said installation or the old injector at the Pennsylvania Reservoir was also approved by Rayburn and County Sanitarian: Harold Coy (Continued on Page 8) Hodge Says City Water Situation Is Not Too Bad Mayor John Hodge wants to as~ sure the people of Grass Valley that their water will be safe to drink. After a special city council meeting on water pollution last week, Hodge told a Nugget reporter that only one of the city's seven water storage areas, the Pennsylvania Reservoir, had failed inspection tests. Hodge stressed that his statement at the February 9 council (Continued on Page 8) company's general office. This study, which does not contemplate changes in the company facilities in Nevada City, has been made for the sole purpose of determining whether new methods may be applied which will improve setvice to P.G.&E, customers, ' Stillthe rumor persisted sad it was known in town that the company, which got its start here, was looking around for a place which could be used asa bill paying station. This would allow closing the present office on Broad Street. This week local fears that the office might be closed came to an end through a letter from P.G.&E, Vice President Shermer L. Sibley to Mrs, Mary Wallis of Nevada City. Mrs, Wallis, like a, lot of other people in town, became disturbed by the rumored office closing so she wrote to Sibley who has been a friend for many years. “By this time you should know better than to believe rumors without verification, " Sibley wrote in reply, _ "The lease covering the Nevada City office will soon expire and, asis our practice on all such occasions in Nevada City and elsewhere, we review the lease as well as the office operations prior to making a renewal, The study being made in this case no (Continued on Page 3) “Recreation Action On. Ordinance Deferred Action on a proposed recreation commission for Nevada County was postponed by: the county supervisors this week and put over until March 16. A draft ordinance was presented -by County Counsel Mrs, Dean Lawrence during the regular board meeting Monday. The supervisors were asked to study the proposed ordinance and be ready for a full discussion on March 16. The current proposal calls for creation of a five man commission with one member being appointed from each of the five supervisorial districts. Their terms will be concurrent with ‘those of the appointing supervisors. ~ The proposed com mission would be strictly -an advisory body. A provision for the levying of a tax to support the commission 's recreation and park activities which was included in an earlier draft of the ordinance, was deleted from the ordinance presented Monday. ~ Supervisor Henry Loehr repre. senting the Truckee-Donner area, asked that his area be excluded from any tax levying proposals of the recreation commission. The area already has a tax supported recreation district of its own, Loehr said that residents of his area did want to participate in the activities of the commission and wanted to be a part of any funds other than those raised by local taxes. One of the reasons for the urgency in creating the recreation commission was to make the county eligible for state recrea~tion funds, Mrs, Lawrence told the super(Continued on rage 3) Voters To Pick Trustees In Big Election April 20 Tomorrow is the deadline for ‘candidates to file for the April 20 school election. A total of 37 trustee seats on elementary, high school, junior college and county school boards willbe at stake, Two bond issues will also be on the ballot. Voters will be asked to approve a $1,500,000 bond issue for enlargement of the Nevada Union High School plant on Ridge Road. Voters in the Ready Springs (Continued on Page 8) JT180 $6 CpUSMEsS es “ favagyT 9389S °3FTPO uotTgoes ST BOT POTAed

coaieeaieeniahedeadtinte mate anaemia aes ee 2 eno a gRRENeR EE ee nee —_ as ~ a : = PS siti z Rag Hh geese NaS ag, LTP ee ON ee ER OE BE arg ea et ee . y see Pash 5k” & WES; A ge NEP Gn ae A TTA Reg gig ae aa hg ba yma Ae of Neveda Ci vat ly Ahsag itn You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherakec, M lat, Sweetland, Al, Ome umbug, Relic} Hil Relief ries ty, lesbicaton: Migs arr Meadows, Cedar R Ui mg a Pa ark fa Gold F » Ce idge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, hicago Park, Wolf, pt Fit Songwie, Gold Br Bar, Lowell Hill, — es Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Oi Quaker Hill, W ~_— Valley, PSSA Volume 39 Number 9 a Coyote Street Report Street Could Be Rezoned The Nevada City Planning Commission committee appointed tostudy possible rezoning of Coyote Street reported T uesday night it saw no logical reason why a portion of the street should not be rezoned, Don Fairclough speaking for the committee, said a study had been made of the possible rezoning of Coyote Street from Dean Alley to Court Street. The committee was in agreement, Fairclough said, that there was no logical reason why the area couldn't be rezoned. The committee gave the following reasons for its decision: l-a gas station is already sched. uled ‘to be built in that area; 2that section will have one of the ‘few off ramps into the city from the freeway; 3-there does not appear to be too much reason for the area to remain in its present R-1 residential status; 4-the area is a natural place for business. The committee made no recommendation as to what zone change should be made and the commission as a whole did not adopt the report. Chairman Carl Steger suggested the members study the report and be ready to make recommendations for or against adoption at thenext regular meeting. The same committee was asked to make a study of possible rezoning needs all along the freeway route through the city. The commission granted a variance from the set back requirements for a new Standard Oil Station to be constructed on Zion Street. The vote on the motion to grant the variance was 6-1 with Commissioner Dorothy Weir casting the dissenting vote. Burl D, Reed of Sacramento represented Standard Oil Co. in its petition before the commis“sion, He said the triangular shape of the lot. made it necessary to move a pump island and the sign and a canopy closer to the property line than permitted in the ordinance. He stressed that without the variance the company would be unable to build the station. The variance will put the overhang of the sign on the property line and the sign column 16 feet back from the line, The ordinance requires a 30 foot setback, The commission approved plans submitted by the state Division of Highways for a 10 year improvement program for its Nevada (Continued on Page 3) MRS. MARY WALLIS of Nevada City happily displays a letter from Pacific Gas & Electric Company vice president Shermer L, Sibley in which he states the utility intends to "continue doing business from the same old stand" in Nevada City. Furthermore, Nevada City not only keeps the P.G.&E, office, but Mary Wallis gets a free lunch in San Francisco, courtesy of Mr. Sibley. City Resident Gets The Final Word On PG&E Office Closing Tere will be no closing of Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Nevada City office--and that word comes right from the top. Closing of the office.in this city has been rumored ever suuce the. matter was mentioned several weeks ago at a meeting of the The City of Grass Valley has taken positive steps to insure the purity of city water, Acting upon a recommendation from County Health Officer Dr. C. Jackson Rayburn, the city councilvoted, ata special coun/ cil meeting February 25, to pur~. chase anew, fifty pound chlorine injector forthe Alta Street Reservoir. The current Alta Street chlorinator, which Dr, Rayburn.had termed, in his February 23 letter to the council as inadequate in size forthe' Alta Stréet Reservoir, will be installed at the smaller Pennsylvania Reservoir, Mayor John Hodge told the council that he and other city officials had met with Rayburn in response to a report from the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, State/Health Department, that the Gtass Valley Water System didnot meet U.S. Public Health Setvice drinking water standards. Zz e Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Last week L.R. Farrell, manager of the P.G.&E, office in Grass Valley, issued a statement saying “aroutine study of operations at the Nevada City P.G,&E, office has been forwarded to the Grass Valley Moves To Clear Up Its Water Problem Hodge said installation or the old injector at the Pennsylvania Reservoir was also approved by Rayburn and County Sanitarian: Harold Coy

(Continued on Page 8) Hodge Says City Water Situation Is Not Too Bad Mayor John Hodge wants to as~ sure the people of Grass Valley that their water will be safe to drink. After a special city council meeting on water pollution last week, Hodge told a Nugget reporter that only one of the city's seven water storage areas, the Pennsylvania Reservoir, had failed inspection tests. Hodge stressed that his statement at the February 9 council (Continued on Page 8) company's general office. This study, which does not contemplate changes in the company facilities in Nevada City, has been made for the sole purpose of determining whether new methods may be applied which will improve setvice to P.G.&E, customers, ' Stillthe rumor persisted sad it was known in town that the company, which got its start here, was looking around for a place which could be used asa bill paying station. This would allow closing the present office on Broad Street. This week local fears that the office might be closed came to an end through a letter from P.G.&E, Vice President Shermer L. Sibley to Mrs, Mary Wallis of Nevada City. Mrs, Wallis, like a, lot of other people in town, became disturbed by the rumored office closing so she wrote to Sibley who has been a friend for many years. “By this time you should know better than to believe rumors without verification, " Sibley wrote in reply, _ "The lease covering the Nevada City office will soon expire and, asis our practice on all such occasions in Nevada City and elsewhere, we review the lease as well as the office operations prior to making a renewal, The study being made in this case no (Continued on Page 3) “Recreation Action On. Ordinance Deferred Action on a proposed recreation commission for Nevada County was postponed by: the county supervisors this week and put over until March 16. A draft ordinance was presented -by County Counsel Mrs, Dean Lawrence during the regular board meeting Monday. The supervisors were asked to study the proposed ordinance and be ready for a full discussion on March 16. The current proposal calls for creation of a five man commission with one member being appointed from each of the five supervisorial districts. Their terms will be concurrent with ‘those of the appointing supervisors. ~ The proposed com mission would be strictly -an advisory body. A provision for the levying of a tax to support the commission 's recreation and park activities which was included in an earlier draft of the ordinance, was deleted from the ordinance presented Monday. ~ Supervisor Henry Loehr repre. senting the Truckee-Donner area, asked that his area be excluded from any tax levying proposals of the recreation commission. The area already has a tax supported recreation district of its own, Loehr said that residents of his area did want to participate in the activities of the commission and wanted to be a part of any funds other than those raised by local taxes. One of the reasons for the urgency in creating the recreation commission was to make the county eligible for state recrea~tion funds, Mrs, Lawrence told the super(Continued on rage 3) Voters To Pick Trustees In Big Election April 20 Tomorrow is the deadline for ‘candidates to file for the April 20 school election. A total of 37 trustee seats on elementary, high school, junior college and county school boards willbe at stake, Two bond issues will also be on the ballot. Voters will be asked to approve a $1,500,000 bond issue for enlargement of the Nevada Union High School plant on Ridge Road. Voters in the Ready Springs (Continued on Page 8) JT180 $6 CpUSMEsS es “ favagyT 9389S °3FTPO uotTgoes ST BOT POTAed