March 6, 1963 (8 pages)

NEVADA COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Chicago i ‘ fi Graniteville, North.San_Juan,.North Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Bi Flog pha, Omegz, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, werrte Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, No fi Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. French Corral, Rough and Ready, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Columbia, Columbia rth Volume 38 No. 10 10\Cents a Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, March 6, 1963. LUNARDI SEEKS AFTERMATH---A pre-dawn fire Tuesday did extensive damage to the Virgil Richy home on Gethsemane Street in Nevada City. More than forty firemen fought the stubborn blaze for almost two, hours. No estimate of damage or cause of the blaze was immediately available. Firemenwere able to save some of the family furniture NEVADA CITY---Nevada County supervisors are expected to decide whether to proceed with the lease-purchase construction ofa county courthouse annex and a county building at Truckee Supervisors Wi Financing Met Retirement Plan Voted NEVADA CITY---Nevada County supervisors voted Thursday to include its employeesin a coordinated social security-state retirement program. The actioncame on a 4-1 vote, with Supervisor Don Blake voting against the program. Participation in the California State Employes Retirement System will cost the county $79,628 the first year. Supervisors indicated the retirement program will be in lieu of any salary increases for the next fiscal year. Of the totalcost, $58, 385.75 will be borne by property tax payers from the county's general fund, while the balance will be furnished by state subventions to the county road department. Opposition to the program was heavy from those in the crowded supervisor's cham_bers, there also to protest : lease-purchase of a county building program. County employees, .however, voted heavily in favor of the program in a recent poll. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 27. 61 28 .00 28. 64 29 .00 Mar. 1 64. 29 . 00 . 2 64. 28 . 00 3 52 24 .00 4 50 22 . 00 5 53 26 .00 Rainfall to date 44.70. Rainfall last year 46.01 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 27 62 %& . 00 28: 70 .36 00 Mar. 1° 66 41 00 2 [email protected] 00 3 54 32 00 4 56 30 . 00 Sor. ay . 00 Rainfall to date 43.79 Rainfall last year 44.80 (in foreground covered with tarps). tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. The meeting tomorrow will be an adjourned meet-. ing, settoallow time for the study of two lease-purchase bids opened Thursday. A large and vocal crowd was present Thursday, most of themto protest the leasepurchase program and the county retirement program. Apparent low bid on the lease-purchase program was entered by the Nevada Brunker Analysis GRASS V ALLE Y---Weston W. Brunker, certified public accountant, today released an analysis of the low leasepurchase bid for construction and rental of a courthouse annex and Truckee building for the supervisors of Nevada County. Brunker stated that the average effective interest rate under terms of the lease-purchase bid of the Nevada County Building Company is 3. 8324 per cent. He compared the rate with the general obligation bond issue of the Nevada Union High School District which issued $1.5 million in bonds for construction of the new high school in 1959, That rate averaged 3.7004 per cent. Actually, the lease-purchase interest rate during the initial year is lower than was the high school initial year interest rate. This is also true of the lowest interest year. But because the high school bond issue was for 20 years compared to the 25 year lease -purchase proposal, the lease-purchase average rate appears to be higher in the comparison by one-tenth of of one per cent. Supporters of the leasepurchase program cited Brunker's report as evidence that the proposed building program will not suffer under a high interest rate. Brunker's interest figures for the general obligation bond issueiof the/high school district did het include the cost of selling or handling the bonds. His report pointed out that the building company is a non-profit corporation which shall be dissolved upon completion of the lease period, and that any funds it has at that time will be paid.into Il Decide Building hod Tomorrow County Building Company in behalf of the Robert Schweser Company of Ventura. It calls for $9,070 monthly rental for a period of 25 years. The other bid was placed by Arcon, Inc,, of Berkeley, in the sum of $9,581 monthly for 25 years. The Nevada County Building Company bid was based on construction bids it received of $1,068,000 for construction of the annex (the Nomellini Company of Stockton)) and $225,000 for construction of the Truckee building (Dorville, Gallino and Kohler of Grass Valley). Leader of the opposition to lease -purchase at the meeting was Dr. Walter Lotz, who spoke on behalf of the Nevada County Taxpayers Association. Dr. Lotz accused the supervisors of acting like “unthinking marionettes"in considering the lease-purchase program. Chairman Henry Loehr said the board was acting in the public's interest since a bond issue with its lengthy procedures would cost more than lease-purchase, andthe program would be delayed. A poll of the board indicated a 4-1 split, with Supervisor Don Blake opposing Dam Aid For NID Project SACRA MENTO---Assemblyman Paul J. Lunardi has introduced a bill authorizing the State Department of Water Resources to make a grant of $3.5 million for recreational developmentin conjunction withthe Nevada Irrigation District 's$65 million Yuba-Bear project. The bill would allow NID to develop four reservoirs in the project to their full recreational potential rather than limiting development to $1.2 million, normal limits of Davis-Grunsky Act grants for a four unit development. Recreational use is contemplated of Rollins, Jackson Meadow, Faucherie and Scott's Flat reservoirs, The largest share of the proposed grant would go toward recreational dev elo’pment on Rollins Reservoir, ontheBear River upstream from the Colfax Highway. The legislation resulted from a study of recreational feasibility on all four reservoir sites made by the district. Lunardi introduced a second bill which would authorize the granting of $3 million to the Placer County iW ater Agency for similar use on the Middle Fork of the American River. Tourism At High NEVADA CIT Y---March began with the same high tempo of tourism that marked February as an exceptional month in Nevada City.Morethan 100 persons attended the opening of the Richard and Beverly Hackett showing of paintings at the first anniversary celebration of the Art Rental Gallery Sunday. The gallery will open each Sunday afternoon in the future, changing its policy of Wednesday openings. A mong those who noted the heavy tourist traffic was Jack's Deer Creek Inn. Along with other restaurants, hotels and motels, the gourmet restaurant onBanner Mt. Rd. noted that good weather brought out of town visitors to the area. oe Le PAVENG THE PARKING LOT---The Church Street parking facility in Grass Valley rethe county treasury. the program. i] — ._ ~ — 7 } . = ee a ceived an asphalt topping Monday and will be open for business soon. 3.5 MILLION GRs GHOST TOWNS AND TOURISM---Is the title of an illustrated talk to be presented by Lynn A. Bramkamp at the-March meeting of the Nevada County Historical Society tomorrow night in the Union Hill School at 8 p.m. Bramkamp is a teacher at Nevada Union High School and has traveled and photographed many western ghost towns. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. GRASS VALLEY ---Even as the dams of Nevada County are filling and spilling, the Nevada Irrigation District today forecast the necessity of water rationing beginning in August or September. EltonA. WTobiassen, assisWater Rationing Predicted tant to district manager Edwin Koster, today acknowledged that the district expects that there will be no snow pack on the Sierra high land this year. The district is seeking permission to install flashboards Washington WASHINGTON ---A mountain spring has been serving the water needs of this small Sierra community for the past month, but the problem of repairing storm damaged flumes and the connecting water ditches has been solved today. R. Slyter, general manager of the recently formed Washington County Water District, saidthe district has received approval of a request for a $5000 loan from a Sacramento bank in order to repair the damaged system. Meanwhile, the district is proceeding with plans for 4 ‘more permanent source of water. Attorney William Sweigert, Sacramento, is Residents ‘Pan’ For Water Supply preparing an application for a low -interest loan under the Davis-Grunsky act to build a pipeline from Canyon Creek nearly four miles downstream to serve the community. Henry Roese has been hired todo preliminary design work on “the project. Roese opened a Nevada City office this week upstairs in the Union Building. Residents of Washington have been feeding water from a spring in town into the community water system in order to supply needs since the storm a month ago. Those who live north of the Yuba River have been forced to carry water across the river during this period. on Bowman Reservoir to increase thé capacity of that dam as soon as possible. It now has 66,000 acre feet impounded, with a normal capacity of 70, 000 acre feet. Likewise, the district is seeking perfhission to install flashboards a Flat Reservoir, where water has been spilling for more than a month, An additional 1000 acre feet of water could be trapped. Flashboards have already been installed at French Reservoir w here an additional 1500 to 2000 acre feet are thusly stored. Without a snowpack to replenish the reservoirs as spring and suminer usage ‘lowers the water level, the district can ‘Shly expect to ration water for agricultural purposes on a pro-rata basis, Tobiassen said. A month ago, the NID forecast that normal February snowfall would bring a sufficient pack to carry the district through the summer, February turned out to be anything but normal, and two inches ofsnow fell on barren ground above the 6000 foot level Saturday night. School District 1960-61 Nevada Union Placer (A uburn) Oroville Yuba City Marysville Roseville State Average for High Schools’: High School Financing Average Daily Tax Rate Current Annual ExAttendance penses Per Student 1633 1.09 $465.19 1847 1.24 014.95 1760 1.305 454.32 1396 1,15 486.17 1386 89° 413. 22° . 1242 1.62 533.63 _ 538.91 * During this 1960-61 year, Marysville was on an abbreviated five < ae period. teaching day which required summer course make-ups for _ those students desiring to enter universities, one ~ UOtZoeS a:

NEVADA COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Chicago i ‘ fi Graniteville, North.San_Juan,.North Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Bi Flog pha, Omegz, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, werrte Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, No fi Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. French Corral, Rough and Ready, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Columbia, Columbia rth Volume 38 No. 10 10\Cents a Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, March 6, 1963. LUNARDI SEEKS AFTERMATH---A pre-dawn fire Tuesday did extensive damage to the Virgil Richy home on Gethsemane Street in Nevada City. More than forty firemen fought the stubborn blaze for almost two, hours. No estimate of damage or cause of the blaze was immediately available. Firemenwere able to save some of the family furniture NEVADA CITY---Nevada County supervisors are expected to decide whether to proceed with the lease-purchase construction ofa county courthouse annex and a county building at Truckee Supervisors Wi Financing Met Retirement Plan Voted NEVADA CITY---Nevada County supervisors voted Thursday to include its employeesin a coordinated social security-state retirement program. The actioncame on a 4-1 vote, with Supervisor Don Blake voting against the program. Participation in the California State Employes Retirement System will cost the county $79,628 the first year. Supervisors indicated the retirement program will be in lieu of any salary increases for the next fiscal year. Of the totalcost, $58, 385.75 will be borne by property tax payers from the county's general fund, while the balance will be furnished by state subventions to the county road department. Opposition to the program was heavy from those in the crowded supervisor's cham_bers, there also to protest : lease-purchase of a county building program. County employees, .however, voted heavily in favor of the program in a recent poll. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 27. 61 28 .00 28. 64 29 .00 Mar. 1 64. 29 . 00 . 2 64. 28 . 00 3 52 24 .00 4 50 22 . 00 5 53 26 .00 Rainfall to date 44.70. Rainfall last year 46.01 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 27 62 %& . 00 28: 70 .36 00 Mar. 1° 66 41 00 2 [email protected] 00 3 54 32 00 4 56 30 . 00 Sor. ay . 00 Rainfall to date 43.79 Rainfall last year 44.80 (in foreground covered with tarps). tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. The meeting tomorrow will be an adjourned meet-. ing, settoallow time for the study of two lease-purchase bids opened Thursday. A large and vocal crowd was present Thursday, most of themto protest the leasepurchase program and the county retirement program. Apparent low bid on the lease-purchase program was entered by the Nevada Brunker Analysis GRASS V ALLE Y---Weston W. Brunker, certified public accountant, today released an analysis of the low leasepurchase bid for construction and rental of a courthouse annex and Truckee building for the supervisors of Nevada County. Brunker stated that the average effective interest rate under terms of the lease-purchase bid of the Nevada County Building Company is 3. 8324 per cent. He compared the rate with the general obligation bond issue of the Nevada Union High School District which issued $1.5 million in bonds for construction of the new high school in 1959, That rate averaged 3.7004 per cent. Actually, the lease-purchase interest rate during the initial year is lower than was the high school initial year interest rate. This is also true of the lowest interest year. But because the high school bond issue was for 20 years compared to the 25 year lease -purchase proposal, the lease-purchase average rate appears to be higher in the comparison by one-tenth of of one per cent. Supporters of the leasepurchase program cited Brunker's report as evidence that the proposed building program will not suffer under a high interest rate. Brunker's interest figures for the general obligation bond issueiof the/high school district did het include the cost of selling or handling the bonds. His report pointed out that the building company is a non-profit corporation which shall be dissolved upon completion of the lease period, and that any funds it has at that time will be paid.into Il Decide Building hod Tomorrow County Building Company in behalf of the Robert Schweser Company of Ventura. It calls for $9,070 monthly rental for a period of 25 years. The other bid was placed by Arcon, Inc,, of Berkeley, in the sum of $9,581 monthly for 25 years. The Nevada County Building Company bid was based on construction bids it received of $1,068,000 for construction of the annex (the Nomellini Company of Stockton)) and $225,000 for construction of the Truckee building (Dorville, Gallino and Kohler of Grass Valley). Leader of the opposition to lease -purchase at the meeting was Dr. Walter Lotz, who spoke on behalf of the Nevada County Taxpayers Association. Dr. Lotz accused the supervisors of acting like “unthinking marionettes"in considering the lease-purchase program. Chairman Henry Loehr said the board was acting in the public's interest since a bond issue with its lengthy procedures would cost more than lease-purchase, andthe program would be delayed. A poll of the board indicated a 4-1 split, with Supervisor Don Blake opposing Dam Aid

For NID Project SACRA MENTO---Assemblyman Paul J. Lunardi has introduced a bill authorizing the State Department of Water Resources to make a grant of $3.5 million for recreational developmentin conjunction withthe Nevada Irrigation District 's$65 million Yuba-Bear project. The bill would allow NID to develop four reservoirs in the project to their full recreational potential rather than limiting development to $1.2 million, normal limits of Davis-Grunsky Act grants for a four unit development. Recreational use is contemplated of Rollins, Jackson Meadow, Faucherie and Scott's Flat reservoirs, The largest share of the proposed grant would go toward recreational dev elo’pment on Rollins Reservoir, ontheBear River upstream from the Colfax Highway. The legislation resulted from a study of recreational feasibility on all four reservoir sites made by the district. Lunardi introduced a second bill which would authorize the granting of $3 million to the Placer County iW ater Agency for similar use on the Middle Fork of the American River. Tourism At High NEVADA CIT Y---March began with the same high tempo of tourism that marked February as an exceptional month in Nevada City.Morethan 100 persons attended the opening of the Richard and Beverly Hackett showing of paintings at the first anniversary celebration of the Art Rental Gallery Sunday. The gallery will open each Sunday afternoon in the future, changing its policy of Wednesday openings. A mong those who noted the heavy tourist traffic was Jack's Deer Creek Inn. Along with other restaurants, hotels and motels, the gourmet restaurant onBanner Mt. Rd. noted that good weather brought out of town visitors to the area. oe Le PAVENG THE PARKING LOT---The Church Street parking facility in Grass Valley rethe county treasury. the program. i] — ._ ~ — 7 } . = ee a ceived an asphalt topping Monday and will be open for business soon. 3.5 MILLION GRs GHOST TOWNS AND TOURISM---Is the title of an illustrated talk to be presented by Lynn A. Bramkamp at the-March meeting of the Nevada County Historical Society tomorrow night in the Union Hill School at 8 p.m. Bramkamp is a teacher at Nevada Union High School and has traveled and photographed many western ghost towns. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. GRASS VALLEY ---Even as the dams of Nevada County are filling and spilling, the Nevada Irrigation District today forecast the necessity of water rationing beginning in August or September. EltonA. WTobiassen, assisWater Rationing Predicted tant to district manager Edwin Koster, today acknowledged that the district expects that there will be no snow pack on the Sierra high land this year. The district is seeking permission to install flashboards Washington WASHINGTON ---A mountain spring has been serving the water needs of this small Sierra community for the past month, but the problem of repairing storm damaged flumes and the connecting water ditches has been solved today. R. Slyter, general manager of the recently formed Washington County Water District, saidthe district has received approval of a request for a $5000 loan from a Sacramento bank in order to repair the damaged system. Meanwhile, the district is proceeding with plans for 4 ‘more permanent source of water. Attorney William Sweigert, Sacramento, is Residents ‘Pan’ For Water Supply preparing an application for a low -interest loan under the Davis-Grunsky act to build a pipeline from Canyon Creek nearly four miles downstream to serve the community. Henry Roese has been hired todo preliminary design work on “the project. Roese opened a Nevada City office this week upstairs in the Union Building. Residents of Washington have been feeding water from a spring in town into the community water system in order to supply needs since the storm a month ago. Those who live north of the Yuba River have been forced to carry water across the river during this period. on Bowman Reservoir to increase thé capacity of that dam as soon as possible. It now has 66,000 acre feet impounded, with a normal capacity of 70, 000 acre feet. Likewise, the district is seeking perfhission to install flashboards a Flat Reservoir, where water has been spilling for more than a month, An additional 1000 acre feet of water could be trapped. Flashboards have already been installed at French Reservoir w here an additional 1500 to 2000 acre feet are thusly stored. Without a snowpack to replenish the reservoirs as spring and suminer usage ‘lowers the water level, the district can ‘Shly expect to ration water for agricultural purposes on a pro-rata basis, Tobiassen said. A month ago, the NID forecast that normal February snowfall would bring a sufficient pack to carry the district through the summer, February turned out to be anything but normal, and two inches ofsnow fell on barren ground above the 6000 foot level Saturday night. School District 1960-61 Nevada Union Placer (A uburn) Oroville Yuba City Marysville Roseville State Average for High Schools’: High School Financing Average Daily Tax Rate Current Annual ExAttendance penses Per Student 1633 1.09 $465.19 1847 1.24 014.95 1760 1.305 454.32 1396 1,15 486.17 1386 89° 413. 22° . 1242 1.62 533.63 _ 538.91 * During this 1960-61 year, Marysville was on an abbreviated five < ae period. teaching day which required summer course make-ups for _ those students desiring to enter universities, one ~ UOtZoeS a: