March 4, 1970 (12 pages)

et we 6 4 ee eS & tie Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, March 4. 1970 SEDD bidtoclear Nevada City museum now . U.S. work not grante A request by the board of directors that Sierra Economic Development District be named the non-metropolitan clearing house for federal grants and loans requested within its four counties has not yet been granted by Governor Ronald Reagan. The directors voted to request such designation at their Dec, 17 meeting and the joint powers agency for SEDD voted for the same. designation at their Feb, 17 meeting. A letter addressed to Ronald B, Frankum, executive officer of Office of Intergovernmental Management, was sent by SEDD's executive director, Miss Elizabeth George on Jan, 5. The letter quotes from. the Bureau of the Budget Circular A-95 which explains the functions of a clearing house: "The functions of SEDD as‘a clearing house in accord with the aforementioned nonmetropolitan status would include receiving and disseminating project notifications to interested parties -within the jurisdiction, acting as a liaison between applicants for federal aid and local and state agencies, coordinating the efforts of federal agencies undertaking projects within the area and evaluating the significance of federal projects in the area." At present California has no non metropolitan clearing house, only metropolitan ones, including one covering the Sacramento area. Frankum's letter continues "I have instituted for the benefit of your organization an administrative process which will send all notices of intent and noticesof applications for funds falling"within the four counties to SEDD for review and comment, SEDD was formed last year within the counties of Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado. Its purpose at present is to make plans and seek grants from the Economic Development Administration to improve the sagging economies of the four counties. The effort is an expansion of the local Overall Economic Development Plan through which federal grants were obtained for sewers~ in Glenbrook and Hills Flat and part of the, Nevada Irrigation District domestic water system. If SEDD does receive clearing house designation, all applications for federal money would go through that agency, not just applications for EDA funds. This would be in line with the federal administrations' desire tohavea central agency clear grant requests. County doser to sanitation district rule Until "there has been a de-termination of policy relating to non-metropolitan clearing houses" the state has deferred giving SEDD this _ status, Frankum answered in a letter dated Feb, 16. "As an interim measure," Youth Symphony js “te atta concert March 8 The Sacramento Symphony Youth Orchestra will give its third concert of the season at 3 p.m. March 8 at Hiram Johnson High School Auditorium. Guest soloists Geofry Wharton and Dominick Toti, violinists, will play the J. S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, and guest soloist David Romano, baritone, will sing Dover Beach, Op, 3 by contemporary composer Samuel Barber. Conductor Danie Geeting has also programmed (From Ten Fanfares) Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland, and Eight Russian Folk Songs, Op. 58 by Anatol Liadov. Geoffry Wharton and Dominic Toti are also members of the Sacramento Symphony under Conductor Harry Newstone and they study with Ward Fenley and Norman Lamb respectively. David Romano, who plays viola with the Youth Orchestra, studies voice with Clive Mefford. The. concert, which is open to the public, will conclude a highly successful season for the Sacramento Symphony Youth Or‘tuestra under its new young Nevada county's supervisors are moving a little closer to a formal policy of requiring that sanitation districts be established in new subdivisions to handle future sewage problems, Perhaps the biggest worry of residential-recreation subdivisions is that sewers are not required because a large number of home probably won't be built for years. Various county officials have been discussing the possibility of requiring such sub-_ divisions to form a district for the future or annex to an existing district, This week, the supervisors put themselves on record that this will be the policy in the future. Sharon Mahaffey of the planads ning department asked that plan-, ners and public works officials work out exact wording of a policy so copies can be presented to future subdividers. The supervisors agreed to have those two departments work on this.’ The question of sewage facilities . has cropped up on three subdivisions in recent weeks, Miss Mahaffey noted--Glenshire and Lakeworld inthe eastern end of the county and Lake Wildwood in the western end, The first two may.-annex to Truckee districts in time, and Wildwood may be annexed to the existing district in Glen. Wood, if that can be done legally. Nevada City Firehouse No. 1, where horses once were stabled on the lower floor and firemen in red shirts met on the second floor, has been transformed into a cultural museum through the years. It is located on Commercial Street in Nevada City and “tells the story of Nevada county since the American occupation," according to Isabel Hefelfinger, a past president of the Nevada County Historical Society and a motivating force in museum activity. Elmer Stevens was president of the society. when it opened the museum in 1947. Mrs, Doris Foley, Nevada county historian and author, and her father, Bud Freeman, were thefirst museum chairmen, "They worked diligently to convert the old downstairs stable and upstairs m g room intoa showplace for county artifasts, " Mrs. Hefelfinger said. Glass cases were installed upstairs, and a fire wagon and hose cars occupied most of the lower space in 1947, A few years later renovation: came again, this time under the chairmanship of the late George Calanan. Nevada City's little park next to Alpha Hardware bears his name. During. Calanan's regime a shed to --Shelter the. faithful fire wagon and hose carts and an all wooden wheeled log wagon were constructed at Pioneer Park — and there they may be seen today. "One of the most precious possessions of the historical society is the Chinese Joss House," said Mrs, Hefelfinger. The Chinese population of the Golden Empire at one time worshipped at the Joss House in Grass Valley. A good Many years ago it was dismantled to make way for progress and awaited its fate stored in barns and other dusty ‘places, Calanan -and Eddie Tinloy, with the aid of many hélpers, brought bits and pieces out of their musty hiding places and set them up ‘in a "proper manner" on the lower floor of the museum. Alex Watson spent a summer cleaning and repairing altar pieces, He re-guilded x 3 * oe « oe WR eR d emphasizes cultural items altar pieces, and replaced heads on gods who had lost theirs. : About this time the Native Sons and Daughters collection, which had been housed in the Nevada City Library was moved to the museum. More glass cabinets were built to accomodate the ever~ increasing donations made toward preservation of the county's past. . « Credit for the museum goes to many unsung historians, Mrs, Hefelfinger said. City crews have spent many days on the project. Dorothy Wagner was the first regular custodian, Richard Nickless and Lurther Marsh were her successors, Nickless retired a few years ago but still serves as part time custodian. . When the society opened its mining museum in Grass Valley in 1968, mining memorablia was transferred there. The Nevada City collection became known as the "county's cultural museum." Number One firehouse underwent another renovation when the transfer was completed. It has a new front with a "fine old door,"’ once the portal to the Tom Hogan residence. This fine old home was dismantled to make room for the courthouse parking lot. A shrine was made for the Chinese Temple's Goddess of Mercy, and other “changes took place in the Joss House ' Display. . Statistics kept by Marsh reveal that last: year 5,181 visitors viewed Nevada county's past. They came from 39 states and 13 foreign’ countries. However the guest roster lists few from this county. Nevada City contributed 50, Grass Valley, 60, Truckee four and the little community of Graniteville, one. ' The museum which closes during winter -months, once again will put out the welcome mat come the springtime. Mrs. Hefelfinger hopes Nevada county will contribute a larger share of visitors when it does open again. The historical society is working on a new constitution, which ‘may up its annual dues to $3, Mrs. Hefelfinger explained _ dues entitle a membership card holder to the society's publications and to visit the society's museums as often as the card holder wishes, : RICHARD NICKLESS, "custodian emeritus" of the Nevada City museum points to the first ridge telephone, Hydraulic miners transmitted messages concerning turning water off and on over this system, Later when that type of mining was outlawed, this same line was used to warn violators, "Cheese it, the law." Nickless was the first telephone operator in the county, and worked a switchboard in the Vinton Drug Store (now the site of the Owl-Rexall), During dull hours he played phonograph records for up-country subscribers, and has been called the first disk jockey, ip the state, . «236 oe a ae ‘ ae ae by og ts . agate Fe bP) ial vn " an ge yi RR

et we 6 4 ee eS & tie Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, March 4. 1970 SEDD bidtoclear Nevada City museum now . U.S. work not grante A request by the board of directors that Sierra Economic Development District be named the non-metropolitan clearing house for federal grants and loans requested within its four counties has not yet been granted by Governor Ronald Reagan. The directors voted to request such designation at their Dec, 17 meeting and the joint powers agency for SEDD voted for the same. designation at their Feb, 17 meeting. A letter addressed to Ronald B, Frankum, executive officer of Office of Intergovernmental Management, was sent by SEDD's executive director, Miss Elizabeth George on Jan, 5. The letter quotes from. the Bureau of the Budget Circular A-95 which explains the functions of a clearing house: "The functions of SEDD as‘a clearing house in accord with the aforementioned nonmetropolitan status would include receiving and disseminating project notifications to interested parties -within the jurisdiction, acting as a liaison between applicants for federal aid and local and state agencies, coordinating the efforts of federal agencies undertaking projects within the area and evaluating the significance of federal projects in the area." At present California has no non metropolitan clearing house, only metropolitan ones, including one covering the Sacramento area. Frankum's letter continues "I have instituted for the benefit of your organization an administrative process which will send all notices of intent and noticesof applications for funds falling"within the four counties to SEDD for review and comment, SEDD was formed last year within the counties of Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado. Its purpose at present is to make plans and seek grants from the Economic Development Administration to improve the sagging economies of the four counties. The effort is an expansion of the local Overall Economic Development Plan through which federal grants were obtained for sewers~ in Glenbrook and Hills Flat and part of the, Nevada Irrigation District domestic water system. If SEDD does receive clearing house designation, all applications for federal money would go through that agency, not just applications for EDA funds. This would be in line with the federal administrations' desire tohavea central agency clear grant requests. County doser to sanitation district rule Until "there has been a de-termination of policy relating to non-metropolitan clearing houses" the state has deferred giving SEDD this _ status, Frankum answered in a letter dated Feb, 16. "As an interim measure," Youth Symphony js “te atta concert March 8 The Sacramento Symphony Youth Orchestra will give its third concert of the season at 3 p.m. March 8 at Hiram Johnson High School Auditorium. Guest soloists Geofry Wharton and Dominick Toti, violinists, will play the J. S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, and guest soloist David Romano, baritone, will sing Dover Beach, Op, 3 by contemporary composer Samuel Barber. Conductor Danie Geeting has also programmed (From Ten Fanfares) Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland, and Eight Russian Folk Songs, Op. 58 by Anatol Liadov. Geoffry Wharton and Dominic Toti are also members of the Sacramento Symphony under Conductor Harry Newstone and they study with Ward Fenley and Norman Lamb respectively. David Romano, who plays viola with the Youth Orchestra, studies voice with Clive Mefford. The. concert, which is open to the public, will conclude a highly successful season for the Sacramento Symphony Youth Or‘tuestra under its new young Nevada county's supervisors are moving a little closer to a formal policy of requiring that sanitation districts be established in new subdivisions to handle future sewage problems, Perhaps the biggest worry of residential-recreation subdivisions is that sewers are not required because a large number of home probably won't be built for years. Various county officials have been discussing the possibility of requiring such sub-_ divisions to form a district for the future or annex to an existing district, This week, the supervisors put themselves on record that this will be the policy in the future. Sharon Mahaffey of the planads ning department asked that plan-, ners and public works officials work out exact wording of a policy so copies can be presented to future subdividers. The supervisors agreed to have those two departments work on this.’

The question of sewage facilities . has cropped up on three subdivisions in recent weeks, Miss Mahaffey noted--Glenshire and Lakeworld inthe eastern end of the county and Lake Wildwood in the western end, The first two may.-annex to Truckee districts in time, and Wildwood may be annexed to the existing district in Glen. Wood, if that can be done legally. Nevada City Firehouse No. 1, where horses once were stabled on the lower floor and firemen in red shirts met on the second floor, has been transformed into a cultural museum through the years. It is located on Commercial Street in Nevada City and “tells the story of Nevada county since the American occupation," according to Isabel Hefelfinger, a past president of the Nevada County Historical Society and a motivating force in museum activity. Elmer Stevens was president of the society. when it opened the museum in 1947. Mrs, Doris Foley, Nevada county historian and author, and her father, Bud Freeman, were thefirst museum chairmen, "They worked diligently to convert the old downstairs stable and upstairs m g room intoa showplace for county artifasts, " Mrs. Hefelfinger said. Glass cases were installed upstairs, and a fire wagon and hose cars occupied most of the lower space in 1947, A few years later renovation: came again, this time under the chairmanship of the late George Calanan. Nevada City's little park next to Alpha Hardware bears his name. During. Calanan's regime a shed to --Shelter the. faithful fire wagon and hose carts and an all wooden wheeled log wagon were constructed at Pioneer Park — and there they may be seen today. "One of the most precious possessions of the historical society is the Chinese Joss House," said Mrs, Hefelfinger. The Chinese population of the Golden Empire at one time worshipped at the Joss House in Grass Valley. A good Many years ago it was dismantled to make way for progress and awaited its fate stored in barns and other dusty ‘places, Calanan -and Eddie Tinloy, with the aid of many hélpers, brought bits and pieces out of their musty hiding places and set them up ‘in a "proper manner" on the lower floor of the museum. Alex Watson spent a summer cleaning and repairing altar pieces, He re-guilded x 3 * oe « oe WR eR d emphasizes cultural items altar pieces, and replaced heads on gods who had lost theirs. : About this time the Native Sons and Daughters collection, which had been housed in the Nevada City Library was moved to the museum. More glass cabinets were built to accomodate the ever~ increasing donations made toward preservation of the county's past. .. « Credit for the museum goes to many unsung historians, Mrs, Hefelfinger said. City crews have spent many days on the project. Dorothy Wagner was the first regular custodian, Richard Nickless and Lurther Marsh were her successors, Nickless retired a few years ago but still serves as part time custodian. . When the society opened its mining museum in Grass Valley in 1968, mining memorablia was transferred there. The Nevada City collection became known as the "county's cultural museum." Number One firehouse underwent another renovation when the transfer was completed. It has a new front with a "fine old door,"’ once the portal to the Tom Hogan residence. This fine old home was dismantled to make room for the courthouse parking lot. A shrine was made for the Chinese Temple's Goddess of Mercy, and other “changes took place in the Joss House ' Display. . Statistics kept by Marsh reveal that last: year 5,181 visitors viewed Nevada county's past. They came from 39 states and 13 foreign’ countries. However the guest roster lists few from this county. Nevada City contributed 50, Grass Valley, 60, Truckee four and the little community of Graniteville, one. ' The museum which closes during winter -months, once again will put out the welcome mat come the springtime. Mrs. Hefelfinger hopes Nevada county will contribute a larger share of visitors when it does open again. The historical society is working on a new constitution, which ‘may up its annual dues to $3, Mrs. Hefelfinger explained _ dues entitle a membership card holder to the society's publications and to visit the society's museums as often as the card holder wishes, : RICHARD NICKLESS, "custodian emeritus" of the Nevada City museum points to the first ridge telephone, Hydraulic miners transmitted messages concerning turning water off and on over this system, Later when that type of mining was outlawed, this same line was used to warn violators, "Cheese it, the law." Nickless was the first telephone operator in the county, and worked a switchboard in the Vinton Drug Store (now the site of the Owl-Rexall), During dull hours he played phonograph records for up-country subscribers, and has been called the first disk jockey, ip the state, . «236 oe a ae ‘ ae ae by og ts . agate Fe bP) ial vn " an ge yi RR