March 5, 1975 (8 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 5,1975 Calif PIG DINNER The woods along. the Calaveras River were full of animals in the 1880s, but Henry Wilson had had his fill of wild meat. What his taste buds were hankering for were some nice juicy pork chops, smoked hams and thick bacon. It made his mouth water just thinking about his 14 little pigs out in-the barnyard. They were already three months old and getting nice and plump. It wouldn’t be long before Henry would be sharpening his knife and filling his smokehouse. One morning while Henry was doing chores he counted his litter, ‘‘eleven twelve -thirteen —. Thirteen? I must have missed one.” And he counted again. Henry was right, he was missing a pig. And it was quite a mystery. His farm: was far up Jones Creek, one of the streams running into the Calaveras. His nearest neighbors were ten miles downstream and no one had come up the trail in the last few days. It definitely hadn’t been wild animals. Henry had taken the precaution of building a fence around the pigpen out of young tree trunks about five feet long. He set them tightly side by side Kristi Ottoman’ and sharpened the ends to make a fortress strong enough to resist any nocturnal prowler. He just couldn’t figure it out. Another pig was missing a few days later. Nowhere was there a sign or a clue to explain its disappearance. After a couple weeks Henry had only six pigs left. He vowed to watch his dwindling meat supply every minute of the day and night. He would lose no more pigs, ~ The second night of his vigil Henry saw a black bear walking on his hind feet down the path to the barnyard. He was followed by his mate and two cubs. Without hesitating the bear shimmied up the oak tree that shaded the pen, climbed out on a limb over the squealing pigs and rode it gently to the ground as it bent under his weight. His mate held the limb while he got off, grabbed a pig and started to climb back up the limb. The flabbergasted farmer went into action. Yelling and shouting he fired a shot over the bear’s head. ‘‘You gol’ darned thief, get out ‘a there,’’ he yelled. The bear looked him over calmly and ambled back into the woods, following his family. Henry didn’t lose another that year. Review by Ag. Dept. The recreation, wilderness, fish and wildlife, timber, water and grazing potential of almost two-thirds of the nation’s land will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A preliminary outline of how the review will be conducted and what assumptions will be used in NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of . general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Years. $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER ~ PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION making the projections are contained in a document recently released by the Department’s Forest Service. The document shows how the Forest Service will develop a long range program: to help meet national needs for renewable resources. The assessment will catalogue the present and anticipated use of all the nation’s forest and range lands, and lands adjacent to them, like mountain tops, deserts and swamps. In-all, this 7 includes 1.45 billion of the nation’s 2.3 billion acres of land. The document was made public in order to _ let organizations and individuals know how the forest service plans to implement responsibilities assigned it under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. . Forest Service welcomes public comment on the outline, but to be most useful it must be received by the Chief, Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250, by March 3. Copies of “Outline — Resources Planning Act” are available at National . Forest headquarter offices or ~ from Forest Service, Room 3230S, U. S. Department -of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. omnia Country. ) Rough and Ready News By Fay’ Placer Nevada County Home Advisor, Sharon Junge, announces March 2 thru 8 is National Nutrition Week. She sent along several pages of helpful suggestions. There were three among them that particularly caught my fancy. Most important were suggestions for your shopping list. Don’t make a hit or miss list says Sharon. See that it includes the big four. First, green and yellow vegetables and fruits supply vitamin A. Citrus fruits and vegetables give you vitamin C. Cereals and bread are for B vitamins and energy. Milk gives you calcium and protein and meat, fish, chicken, eggs, beans, and lentils, supply protein. Even then you are not safe against packaging of these foods. Read what your package says. A pound of protein may be only 23 pounds protein with the balance of “water, flavoring, dextrose, hydrolyzed plant protein, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, salt, and corn syrup.” Two things about this package are not good. First you are not getting your money’s worth, says Sharon. Second, preservatives of all kinds are bad for some folks. Third item I found interesting was about sugar, and sugar-type foods, in the mouth. The acid that causes tooth decay is formed each time you eat sugar. Five pieces of candy eaten in 15 minutes causes about 35 minutes of the dangerous condition in your mouth. Five pieces eaten at five different fimes causes about 100 minutes of the condition. ‘Each time the bacteria on the teeth is exposed to sugar, 20 to 30 minutes of acid is produced.” Hope I haven’t ruined all your fun. R&R 25 members of the Nevada County Travel Club have just returned from 15 days in Hawaii. They saw the same islands we did a year ago; Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii. They did most of the things we did and came home thrilled and rejuvinated just as we did. The group left Grass Valley in a snow storm but returned in time to enjoy some of our beautiful February weather. I had a long chat with some of them and we are ready to go again as soon as we become solvent. Gregory Mark Halstead was born at 6:40 last Friday morning just five minutes after mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. George Halstead, arrived at the hospital. The George Halsteads live in Cleveland, Ohio and it was snowing. The stork almost made the trip before they did. Gregory Mark is the grandson of Charlotte Halstead and great-grandson of Beatrice Ross. Father George says, all prejudice aside, he is a beautiful baby. R&R I can’t keep up with the community young people. Ten of these wonderful kids that I do remember maintained a ‘‘B’’ average at Nevada Union High School this last semester. For the ones I missed, forgive me. Stacey Purvis was the only freshman I knew. Lyle Zufelt succeeded with his B average as a sophomore. Wilfried Sabato and Brent Zufelt made it as juniors. Donny Burkard, Tim Gore, Dee Dee Moore, and Crisanne Zufelt made it as seniors. Also on that list of seniors was Melinda Solis, who doesn’t live in Rough and Ready but, who spends a lot of her time at our Mexican Villa which is owned by her parents. I still claim Nola Vogt for Routh and Ready even tho’ she lives down on Pleasant Valley Road. Nola has decided to give up her sheep for a nursing career. R&R We visited another gathering of fine young people Sunday evening. The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble sang for the young people’s service at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Langguth was there but the young people really did the very informal but beautiful worship service. Many older members were also present. Ensemble director Helen Beatie selected for their portion of the evening: ‘Come Let Us Sing,” “‘Green Cathedral,’”’ ‘‘When Children Pray,’’ “Hosanna,’-‘I Heard a Forest Praying’ and “Lift Thine Eyes.” “Come Let Us Sing” is a new Dunbar number for the Ensemble. It was written by Sister Mary Aloyse and is certainly joyous in its praises of the Lord. The young people seemed to enjoy it especially. I read a powerful sentence the other day The words are simple but the thought covered presents facts we should keep uppermost in our minds. The sentence is from an article in the current issue of Intelligence Digest. “Anybody who knows the Soviet Union knows that the ‘classless’ facade in fact conceals the most rigid class system in the world consisting of privileged elite and millions of exploited people . and little in between the two extremes.”’ Maybe we do have some of their problems but it sure isn’t concealed. We might even be able to correct our situation. Get involved! R&R Martina Paull is recuperating from a very severe case of the flu. Martina is at Glenwood Guest Home in Grass Valley. She is the daughter of Mary and Daniel Morrison, one of the early pioneer families of Rough and Ready, and can tell many an interesting tale of early days in Rough and Ready. The County Historical Society will hold its regular meeting at the old firehouse on Race St. in Grass Valley next Thursday at 8 p.m. History of mining in the old days, prior to 1914, will be told by one who has lived it; Frederi¢k Fulton, 92-years-old, will be the speaker. Everyone is welcome. > R&R Nevada County Newcomers Club lunched at Banner Grange Hall last Wednesday. The afternoon’s program was a demonstration by the garden group and by one of the sewing groups on the kinds of things they do. There were many interesting items’shown. Seamstress Edith Turchie demonstrated the actual fitting necessary for one of the ‘‘one pattern fits alltype” of thing when the one to be fitted is especially tiny. Charlotte Anderson did an equally interesting showing of a simple but elegant pant pattern, fitted and neatly finished but, without seams. ——_——R&R——_—_Had a nice letter from Mrs. John T. (Thelma S.) Ronan of Penn Valley. She is the sister of Mrs. Worth Havens Dikeman, Sr., so she was aware of my having missed a generation of Dikemans in my last story. Worth Dikeman is not dead. He is a civil engineer presently living in Fairfield. He and his wife had three children, and six grandchildren. So, as Mrs. Ronan says, the Dikeman family is not dying out. James and Irma had three children but only Worth raised a family. Mrs. Ronan is justly proud of the fact that both Worth and his son Worth Jr. have served their country with honor and loyalty and have made a success of their own lives. She said Boise Cascade had suggested the name Dikeman be given the Park. It makes me feel a bit disloyal to still feel Squirrel Creek is commercially more advantageous to the merchants to our area. I really am a history buff. As a true history nut I would have to advocate the name Montgomery Park be given. John and Ferdinand Montgomery were the original settlers and developers of the park area. I don’t feel that tourists would leave their mad rush across country to see either name. But to get to a lovely pastoral creek of any name becomes a desirable thing for travelers. It’s supposed to mean about $20. a day to. the community for their stay. Please forgive my commercialism Mrs. Ronan. ——_——_R&R—_—_Don’t forget the park district meeting at the Ready Springs School at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Everyone is welcome. Read “The Divine Eccentric!” It’s a wellresearched story. of Lola Montez, born Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and her influence on Grass Valley history, by our own Doris Foley.

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 5,1975 Calif PIG DINNER The woods along. the Calaveras River were full of animals in the 1880s, but Henry Wilson had had his fill of wild meat. What his taste buds were hankering for were some nice juicy pork chops, smoked hams and thick bacon. It made his mouth water just thinking about his 14 little pigs out in-the barnyard. They were already three months old and getting nice and plump. It wouldn’t be long before Henry would be sharpening his knife and filling his smokehouse. One morning while Henry was doing chores he counted his litter, ‘‘eleven twelve -thirteen —. Thirteen? I must have missed one.” And he counted again. Henry was right, he was missing a pig. And it was quite a mystery. His farm: was far up Jones Creek, one of the streams running into the Calaveras. His nearest neighbors were ten miles downstream and no one had come up the trail in the last few days. It definitely hadn’t been wild animals. Henry had taken the precaution of building a fence around the pigpen out of young tree trunks about five feet long. He set them tightly side by side Kristi Ottoman’ and sharpened the ends to make a fortress strong enough to resist any nocturnal prowler. He just couldn’t figure it out. Another pig was missing a few days later. Nowhere was there a sign or a clue to explain its disappearance. After a couple weeks Henry had only six pigs left. He vowed to watch his dwindling meat supply every minute of the day and night. He would lose no more pigs, ~ The second night of his vigil Henry saw a black bear walking on his hind feet down the path to the barnyard. He was followed by his mate and two cubs. Without hesitating the bear shimmied up the oak tree that shaded the pen, climbed out on a limb over the squealing pigs and rode it gently to the ground as it bent under his weight. His mate held the limb while he got off, grabbed a pig and started to climb back up the limb. The flabbergasted farmer went into action. Yelling and shouting he fired a shot over the bear’s head. ‘‘You gol’ darned thief, get out ‘a there,’’ he yelled. The bear looked him over calmly and ambled back into the woods, following his family. Henry didn’t lose another that year. Review by Ag. Dept. The recreation, wilderness, fish and wildlife, timber, water and grazing potential of almost two-thirds of the nation’s land will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A preliminary outline of how the review will be conducted and what assumptions will be used in NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of . general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years.. $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER ~ PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION making the projections are contained in a document recently released by the Department’s Forest Service. The document shows how the Forest Service will develop a long range program: to help meet national needs for renewable resources. The assessment will catalogue the present and anticipated use of all the nation’s forest and range lands, and lands adjacent to them, like mountain tops, deserts and swamps. In-all, this 7 includes 1.45 billion of the nation’s 2.3 billion acres of land. The document was made public in order to _ let organizations and individuals know how the forest service plans to implement responsibilities assigned it under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. . Forest Service welcomes public comment on the outline, but to be most useful it must be received by the Chief, Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250, by March 3. Copies of “Outline — Resources Planning Act” are available at National . Forest headquarter offices or ~ from Forest Service, Room 3230S, U. S. Department -of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. omnia Country. ) Rough and Ready News By Fay’ Placer Nevada County Home Advisor, Sharon Junge, announces March 2 thru 8 is National Nutrition Week. She sent along several pages of helpful suggestions. There were three among them that particularly caught my fancy. Most important were suggestions for your shopping list. Don’t make a hit or miss list says Sharon. See that it includes the big four. First, green and yellow vegetables and fruits supply vitamin A. Citrus fruits and vegetables give you

vitamin C. Cereals and bread are for B vitamins and energy. Milk gives you calcium and protein and meat, fish, chicken, eggs, beans, and lentils, supply protein. Even then you are not safe against packaging of these foods. Read what your package says. A pound of protein may be only 23 pounds protein with the balance of “water, flavoring, dextrose, hydrolyzed plant protein, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, salt, and corn syrup.” Two things about this package are not good. First you are not getting your money’s worth, says Sharon. Second, preservatives of all kinds are bad for some folks. Third item I found interesting was about sugar, and sugar-type foods, in the mouth. The acid that causes tooth decay is formed each time you eat sugar. Five pieces of candy eaten in 15 minutes causes about 35 minutes of the dangerous condition in your mouth. Five pieces eaten at five different fimes causes about 100 minutes of the condition. ‘Each time the bacteria on the teeth is exposed to sugar, 20 to 30 minutes of acid is produced.” Hope I haven’t ruined all your fun. R&R 25 members of the Nevada County Travel Club have just returned from 15 days in Hawaii. They saw the same islands we did a year ago; Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii. They did most of the things we did and came home thrilled and rejuvinated just as we did. The group left Grass Valley in a snow storm but returned in time to enjoy some of our beautiful February weather. I had a long chat with some of them and we are ready to go again as soon as we become solvent. Gregory Mark Halstead was born at 6:40 last Friday morning just five minutes after mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. George Halstead, arrived at the hospital. The George Halsteads live in Cleveland, Ohio and it was snowing. The stork almost made the trip before they did. Gregory Mark is the grandson of Charlotte Halstead and great-grandson of Beatrice Ross. Father George says, all prejudice aside, he is a beautiful baby. R&R I can’t keep up with the community young people. Ten of these wonderful kids that I do remember maintained a ‘‘B’’ average at Nevada Union High School this last semester. For the ones I missed, forgive me. Stacey Purvis was the only freshman I knew. Lyle Zufelt succeeded with his B average as a sophomore. Wilfried Sabato and Brent Zufelt made it as juniors. Donny Burkard, Tim Gore, Dee Dee Moore, and Crisanne Zufelt made it as seniors. Also on that list of seniors was Melinda Solis, who doesn’t live in Rough and Ready but, who spends a lot of her time at our Mexican Villa which is owned by her parents. I still claim Nola Vogt for Routh and Ready even tho’ she lives down on Pleasant Valley Road. Nola has decided to give up her sheep for a nursing career. R&R We visited another gathering of fine young people Sunday evening. The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble sang for the young people’s service at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Langguth was there but the young people really did the very informal but beautiful worship service. Many older members were also present. Ensemble director Helen Beatie selected for their portion of the evening: ‘Come Let Us Sing,” “‘Green Cathedral,’”’ ‘‘When Children Pray,’’ “Hosanna,’-‘I Heard a Forest Praying’ and “Lift Thine Eyes.” “Come Let Us Sing” is a new Dunbar number for the Ensemble. It was written by Sister Mary Aloyse and is certainly joyous in its praises of the Lord. The young people seemed to enjoy it especially. I read a powerful sentence the other day The words are simple but the thought covered presents facts we should keep uppermost in our minds. The sentence is from an article in the current issue of Intelligence Digest. “Anybody who knows the Soviet Union knows that the ‘classless’ facade in fact conceals the most rigid class system in the world consisting of privileged elite and millions of exploited people . and little in between the two extremes.”’ Maybe we do have some of their problems but it sure isn’t concealed. We might even be able to correct our situation. Get involved! R&R Martina Paull is recuperating from a very severe case of the flu. Martina is at Glenwood Guest Home in Grass Valley. She is the daughter of Mary and Daniel Morrison, one of the early pioneer families of Rough and Ready, and can tell many an interesting tale of early days in Rough and Ready. The County Historical Society will hold its regular meeting at the old firehouse on Race St. in Grass Valley next Thursday at 8 p.m. History of mining in the old days, prior to 1914, will be told by one who has lived it; Frederi¢k Fulton, 92-years-old, will be the speaker. Everyone is welcome. > R&R Nevada County Newcomers Club lunched at Banner Grange Hall last Wednesday. The afternoon’s program was a demonstration by the garden group and by one of the sewing groups on the kinds of things they do. There were many interesting items’shown. Seamstress Edith Turchie demonstrated the actual fitting necessary for one of the ‘‘one pattern fits alltype” of thing when the one to be fitted is especially tiny. Charlotte Anderson did an equally interesting showing of a simple but elegant pant pattern, fitted and neatly finished but, without seams. ——_——R&R——_—_Had a nice letter from Mrs. John T. (Thelma S.) Ronan of Penn Valley. She is the sister of Mrs. Worth Havens Dikeman, Sr., so she was aware of my having missed a generation of Dikemans in my last story. Worth Dikeman is not dead. He is a civil engineer presently living in Fairfield. He and his wife had three children, and six grandchildren. So, as Mrs. Ronan says, the Dikeman family is not dying out. James and Irma had three children but only Worth raised a family. Mrs. Ronan is justly proud of the fact that both Worth and his son Worth Jr. have served their country with honor and loyalty and have made a success of their own lives. She said Boise Cascade had suggested the name Dikeman be given the Park. It makes me feel a bit disloyal to still feel Squirrel Creek is commercially more advantageous to the merchants to our area. I really am a history buff. As a true history nut I would have to advocate the name Montgomery Park be given. John and Ferdinand Montgomery were the original settlers and developers of the park area. I don’t feel that tourists would leave their mad rush across country to see either name. But to get to a lovely pastoral creek of any name becomes a desirable thing for travelers. It’s supposed to mean about $20. a day to. the community for their stay. Please forgive my commercialism Mrs. Ronan. ——_——_R&R—_—_Don’t forget the park district meeting at the Ready Springs School at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Everyone is welcome. Read “The Divine Eccentric!” It’s a wellresearched story. of Lola Montez, born Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and her influence on Grass Valley history, by our own Doris Foley.