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PERLODICALS SECTION 5/16/7
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Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk. Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North
San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas
Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill,
Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens.
NUMBER 67 “VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY , May 10, 1972
Herrington low
bidder on span
at Bridgeport
The Auburn firm of G. S,
Herrington was low bidder on
reconstructing one-half mile of
Pleasant Valley and building a
365-foot concrete box girder
bridge over the South Yuba
River near Bridgeport bridge,
it was announced today.
Herrington's bid of $387,287
for the work was low of six
bids received by the state Department of Public Works. Inaddition to building the bridge
the job calls for reinforcing a
concrete box culvert at Kentucky Ravine and paving a 32foot wide two-lane roadway.
Rosendin Electric of San
Jose has the $44,044 contract
to modify highway lighting systems in Nevada and other counties. Over 300 lighting standards will be equipped with "slip
bases" designed to give way
easily upon impact, some along
Interstate 80 at Emigrant Gap
and near Truckee. Other-areas
of Int. 80 in Placer county will
also receive the "slip bases."
IT’S LATER THAN
YOU THINK!
Vacation will soon be here—
MOVE UP TO AN
OLDSMOBILE
for less than you think!
1972 Olds Cutlass Cpe.
Serial. 128139 with tinted
glass, factory air, turbo hydromatic, W/W tires, deluxe
radio, body side molding, P/
steering, deluxe wheel covers,
vinyl roof and more......
THIS WEEK ONLY °3795”
NEW and USED CARS
MEIER Chev.-Olds
: Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd.
Grass Valley — 273-9535
MON. thru SAT. = 8 to 6
Gold and Green R
South Auburn
St. business
Don’t buy it... rent it, and
you’ll be happier and so will
your pocket book!
_ There are-some 133 classifications of rental items available
at Gold and Green Rentals, 707 ;
South Auburn Street, Grass Vale
ley. . . all calculated to save the
contractor or the ‘‘do it myself?’
individual time, labor and in
most instances a great deal of
money,
As an example. . .while the
writer was visiting ths unusual
business one day recently, a
local contractor came in to rent
a~$2,000 piece of heavy equipment for a three-hour job, The
charge? Only $21. . .withnostorage or depreciation problems to
worry about when the job was
finished,
Ed Lorentzen is the owner
and Morey Ettesvold the manager, . .and they are onthe premises from 7 a.m, to 5 p,m. weeke
days; and from 8 until 4 on
weekends, They are ablyassisted
in the complex operation by John
Olson, apprentice mechanic and
all around helper. John, a midterm graduate of Nevada Union
High School, is so efficient in
his appointed tasks and so deeply
interested in the various phases
of the business, that the firm
has plans to send him toa special
school for some advanced
training soon.
Gold & Green Rentals & Sales
company celebrated its fifth ane
niversary in Grass Valley on
May 1 this year.
The fantastic inventory includes such interesting items as
belt sanders, oscillating sand.
ers, disc sanders and buffers;
car polishers, electric drills
and hammers, chain saws, gas
and electric saws and all kinds
of power saws; cement mixers
and finish tools, wheel barrows,
sump pumps, blow torches, gas
torches, plumbers’ furnaces,
pipe threaders and cutters, pipe
vices and tripods, wrenches and
stuff,power and hand sewer
augers,
Then there are car top
carriers, luggage carriers, appliance carts, piano dollies and
furniture pads; paint sprayers,
ladders of all kinds, dropcloths,
paint removers; chain hoists,
socket sets, transmission jacks,
crue
70 RENTING
AS SHOWN the Gold and Green Kental service has it all, At left is owner Ed Lorentzen
ental Service
and at his right is Morey Ettesvold, the manager of the service. In front employe John Olson
shows a new piece of equipment which is used for smoothing and packing and small enough to
use conviently around the home,
tow bars and engine hoists; tile
cutters, house jacks, levels,
clamps, transits; floor polishe
ers, rug shampoo machines,
vacuum cleaners, curtain
stretchers; jack hammers with
concrete tools; hospital beds,
wheel chairs, crutches and walke
ers.
Sun and heat lamps are also
available as are bath tub rails,
commodes, lawn mowers, weed
cutters, post hole diggers, lawn
rollers, seed and fertilizer
spreaders, wire stretchers, gare.
den sprayers and hand tools of
all types.
Or if you are going to have
company and needa few “‘extras”’
the firm can supply baby cribs,
hi-chairs, play pens, roll-away
beds, tables, chairs, card
tables, coffee makers, electric
and oil heaters, extension cords,
and electric adding machines to
tote up the score on!
And ... for the big job contractors there are acetylene
torches, arc welders, air com
pressors, bolt cutters, bull
floats, flatbed trailers, genera»
tors, hydraulic jacks, paint com=
pressors, posthole diggers, pipe
benders and threaders, routers,
roto-hammers, rock drills,
sandblasters, saws of every kind
imaginable, water pumps, and
tractors, with bucket, blade and
disc, etc, Plus, . .U-Haul equip.
ment in many sizes for big or
little jobs.
There’s a sign on one wall
which says, simpley: “Ask for
it if you don’t see it!’
And while you’re out there. . .
you might also ask to meet
‘Butch’ ... the handsome big
black Lab who keeps an eye on
activities around the shop; and
who is well acquainted with the
management of the Animal Shelter a few blocks away! Butch
really gets around... and
someone from the shop has to
**bail him out” every once ina
while. They don’t mind ’cause
they like him!
If you have a problem that a
tool or some kind of moving
equipment can solve, . .the answer lies in a brief contact with
Gold & Green Rentals just give
thematry... anytime.