March 4, 1965 (24 pages)

NORTHERN MINES & CALIFORNIA REPORTS BI HAE RAIS HERE HOt OPED ee et PTE ot ++ Enrollment Doubles. Sierra Is Bursting Its Seams The next two years will see the construction of six new buildings costing more than $1.7 million on the Sierra College campus, administrators stated last week at the Rocklin campus. The expansion will involve the use of approximately $375, 000 in federal revenue bonds, $50,000 in other federal funds and $250, 000 in state bond monies from Proposition1A, it was estimated. Local funds made available by the 1963 tax override will complete the financing. The growth plan is essential, Vice President Marion Akers noted, since the fall, 1965 enrollment of 1700 will almost double the 900-enrollment en+ visioned for the campus when it was completed in 1961. Enrollment at the college has doubled in the past six years, from 750 to 1450 daytime students, with night enrollment of 1, 000 students limited by policy decisions and space -teac her considerations, With the go-ahead from the board of trustees, Akers has scheduled the following building projects, all of which are in the architectural design stage or under actual construction: 1Under Construction-a $197, 000 administration building 8, 000 square feet in size to contain student services, administration, nurses and attendance offices and free the library for classroom and library use by this fall, Complepletion set August, 1965. 2 More parking and two new ‘access roads to the college, from Sierra College boulevard (Himes road) andRocklin road, to be oiled as soon as weather permits. 3 A new matnematics and drafting building, to be located adjacent to the present business building. Plans are in the process of state approval, with bids tobe askedin March or April and construction to start this spring or early.summer.4 Anadditional classroom wing on the Industrial Technology building and an-additional ba y: on the shop building for auto mechanics is slated to double present accomodations for the agriculture I.T. and forestry departments Trustees approve of Akers plan to. seek federal Perkins act finan~ cing for half the cost of $100,000 IT building wing. Bid call is ex~pected sometime after July 1. > The present science bull. ing will be duplicated, with the new structure facing the present one, with work expected to begin in-late 1965 and not to be complete until1966, Additional science laboratories and lecture halls would become available for the _ present overcrowded facilities, Override tax and state funds will finance construction. ‘f # % “ ¢ re Ned Ain é 4 t DIRECTOR RAY MEREDITH (left) and cameraman Charles Stanyan set up a scene on the balcony ofthe National Hotel in Nevada City for a television film on the gold country. Ld j ? ae — -_ ights! Camera! Action! Nevada City was the setting last week for another movie on California history and the era of the great gold rush. Two members of the staff of KRON Channel 4 in San Francisco spent Tuesday through Friday photographing Nevada City and the surrounding area for one segment of a 13 part series on California history. Producer -director Ray Meredith andcameraman Charles Stanyan were in the county last week for the second try at filming the Nevada County segments of a half hour show on the gold rush to be called “The Gold Hunters. “ The two movie makers were in Nevada City in November but were rained out by the great winter storm. They arrived in Nevada City Tuesday and filmed Ott's Assay Office, an overall view of the city from Prospect Hill, a view of the National Hotel from the court house, and the Malakoff hydraulic diggings. LOCAL RESIDENTS and visitors were dressed up in old time outfits for sequences shot at the National Hotel. On the left Mr, and :iBay Area Television Camera Crew Films Series Segment Here Friday morning two scenes were shot at the National Hotel. Elza Kilroy arrived in the morning dressed in a frock coat, striped pants and shirt worn by the late U.S. Senator Harry Englebright. Mrs, Kilroy, Jean Worth of the National Hotel, and other passersby and hotel guests, made up a scene on the second floor balcony of the hotel, The same group was used for a street scene in front. of the hotel, From Nevada City the film makers left to shoot the Red Dog area. From there they were going to. work their way down through the Mother Lode to the gold discovery site at Coloma. Meredith, who wrote and is producing and directing the series, said the program will not be screened until all segments are completed. The Gold Hunters seg ment was the seventh of 13 parts. Meredith said he thought the program series will be released sometime in September. Mrs. Elza Kilroy are shown in a scene which utilizes the National's old facade. Everitt Davis stands by for his part in the scene, On the right, old dress and an old camera were used on the National balcony for a stylized formal picture scene for the movie. identified stand-ins, John Floris, a former Nevada City-resident now living in San Francisco is shown in the foreground with the camera. Sitting (left to right) are Mrs, Floris, Mrs. Jean Worth of the National Hotel and Mrs. Kilroy. In the rear are Everitt Davis, Kilroy and two unRetha Downey Speaks To DAR Chapter The Captain John Oldham Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, met the-afternoon of Feb, 22 at the Nevada Garden Apartment home of Mrs; JohnH. Elliott, TheRegent, Mrs. Lowell L. Elster, presided. — Miss Retha Downey, D.A.R. State Chairman of Conservation gave areport stressing the organization's state-wide sup port of the "Save-T he -Redwoods” movement so currently vital and of its Lambert Memorial Redwood Grove project. There was a discussion of the coming-event another book review by~Mrs, Lloyd Truman of ee ergreainneire Oakland and Nevada City whose former appearances have been so enthusiastically received. She will review Eugene Lyon's new biography of Herbert Hoover on April 23 at a tea given by members of the Captain John Oldham Chapter. Two delegates and two alternates will attend the D.A.R. state conference to be held at Hotel Senator, Sacramento, March 912; Miss Downey will make her State report, Mrs. RaphaelJ. Polk will serve as reader, and Mrs. Ernest F, Buck will serve on protocol, 0) COG ‘F YoIep’**20B3nN AunoD epeAen’

NORTHERN MINES & CALIFORNIA REPORTS BI HAE RAIS HERE HOt OPED ee et PTE ot ++ Enrollment Doubles. Sierra Is Bursting Its Seams The next two years will see the construction of six new buildings costing more than $1.7 million on the Sierra College campus, administrators stated last week at the Rocklin campus. The expansion will involve the use of approximately $375, 000 in federal revenue bonds, $50,000 in other federal funds and $250, 000 in state bond monies from Proposition1A, it was estimated. Local funds made available by the 1963 tax override will complete the financing. The growth plan is essential, Vice President Marion Akers noted, since the fall, 1965 enrollment of 1700 will almost double the 900-enrollment en+ visioned for the campus when it was completed in 1961. Enrollment at the college has doubled in the past six years, from 750 to 1450 daytime students, with night enrollment of 1, 000 students limited by policy decisions and space -teac her considerations, With the go-ahead from the board of trustees, Akers has scheduled the following building projects, all of which are in the architectural design stage or under actual construction: 1Under Construction-a $197, 000 administration building 8, 000 square feet in size to contain student services, administration, nurses and attendance offices and free the library for classroom and library use by this fall, Complepletion set August, 1965. 2 More parking and two new ‘access roads to the college, from Sierra College boulevard (Himes road) andRocklin road, to be oiled as soon as weather permits. 3 A new matnematics and drafting building, to be located adjacent to the present business building. Plans are in the process of state approval, with bids tobe askedin March or April and construction to start this spring or early.summer.4 Anadditional classroom wing on the Industrial Technology building and an-additional ba y: on the shop building for auto mechanics is slated to double present accomodations for the agriculture I.T. and forestry departments Trustees approve of Akers plan to. seek federal Perkins act finan~ cing for half the cost of $100,000 IT building wing. Bid call is ex~pected sometime after July 1. > The present science bull. ing will be duplicated, with the new structure facing the present one, with work expected to begin in-late 1965 and not to be complete until1966, Additional science laboratories and lecture halls would become available for the _ present overcrowded facilities, Override tax and state funds will finance construction. ‘f # % “ ¢ re Ned Ain é 4 t DIRECTOR RAY MEREDITH (left) and cameraman Charles Stanyan set up a scene on the balcony ofthe National Hotel in Nevada City for a television film on the gold country. Ld j ? ae — -_ ights! Camera! Action! Nevada City was the setting last week for another movie on California history and the era of the

great gold rush. Two members of the staff of KRON Channel 4 in San Francisco spent Tuesday through Friday photographing Nevada City and the surrounding area for one segment of a 13 part series on California history. Producer -director Ray Meredith andcameraman Charles Stanyan were in the county last week for the second try at filming the Nevada County segments of a half hour show on the gold rush to be called “The Gold Hunters. “ The two movie makers were in Nevada City in November but were rained out by the great winter storm. They arrived in Nevada City Tuesday and filmed Ott's Assay Office, an overall view of the city from Prospect Hill, a view of the National Hotel from the court house, and the Malakoff hydraulic diggings. LOCAL RESIDENTS and visitors were dressed up in old time outfits for sequences shot at the National Hotel. On the left Mr, and :iBay Area Television Camera Crew Films Series Segment Here Friday morning two scenes were shot at the National Hotel. Elza Kilroy arrived in the morning dressed in a frock coat, striped pants and shirt worn by the late U.S. Senator Harry Englebright. Mrs, Kilroy, Jean Worth of the National Hotel, and other passersby and hotel guests, made up a scene on the second floor balcony of the hotel, The same group was used for a street scene in front. of the hotel, From Nevada City the film makers left to shoot the Red Dog area. From there they were going to. work their way down through the Mother Lode to the gold discovery site at Coloma. Meredith, who wrote and is producing and directing the series, said the program will not be screened until all segments are completed. The Gold Hunters seg ment was the seventh of 13 parts. Meredith said he thought the program series will be released sometime in September. Mrs. Elza Kilroy are shown in a scene which utilizes the National's old facade. Everitt Davis stands by for his part in the scene, On the right, old dress and an old camera were used on the National balcony for a stylized formal picture scene for the movie. identified stand-ins, John Floris, a former Nevada City-resident now living in San Francisco is shown in the foreground with the camera. Sitting (left to right) are Mrs, Floris, Mrs. Jean Worth of the National Hotel and Mrs. Kilroy. In the rear are Everitt Davis, Kilroy and two unRetha Downey Speaks To DAR Chapter The Captain John Oldham Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, met the-afternoon of Feb, 22 at the Nevada Garden Apartment home of Mrs; JohnH. Elliott, TheRegent, Mrs. Lowell L. Elster, presided. — Miss Retha Downey, D.A.R. State Chairman of Conservation gave areport stressing the organization's state-wide sup port of the "Save-T he -Redwoods” movement so currently vital and of its Lambert Memorial Redwood Grove project. There was a discussion of the coming-event another book review by~Mrs, Lloyd Truman of ee ergreainneire Oakland and Nevada City whose former appearances have been so enthusiastically received. She will review Eugene Lyon's new biography of Herbert Hoover on April 23 at a tea given by members of the Captain John Oldham Chapter. Two delegates and two alternates will attend the D.A.R. state conference to be held at Hotel Senator, Sacramento, March 912; Miss Downey will make her State report, Mrs. RaphaelJ. Polk will serve as reader, and Mrs. Ernest F, Buck will serve on protocol, 0) COG ‘F YoIep’**20B3nN AunoD epeAen’