May 11, 1966 (20 pages)

— om e Jd fo @ 5 fre @ ct ct © we o = Or Y o® »‘ HO NO ® ct Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon®®F field, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Goi, i t, land, Alpha, Omega, Freng# Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Blo. jln, Chicago Park, Wolf Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby F lat, @ i Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopd% Eye, Quaker Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. : AGU, FKi: Sia 4 town, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orl. F BIG DAM DEDICATION nbitinnthiusianiineenies ieee Volume 41 Number 17 seahenehininieathalians natin 10 Cents A Copy Yuba—Bear Project Published Wednesdays, Nevada City May 11, 1966 / Pension Coverage Studied Huge Local Water And Power Project Is Opened BACIFIS GAS “A PG2EMBSOLOLCS, Nevada: Irrigation District Manager Edwin Koster and the district directors were showered with praise and paper last Friday night as the district marked the dedication of the $60 million Yuba -Bear River hydro-electric project. ' Close to 300 local residents of Nevada and Placer Counties, city, county, state and federai officials attended the dedication banquet in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. It was an evening of praise for the pioneers who founded the Nevada Irrigation District in the early 1920's and for the current board of directors for carrying through the planning and construction of the Yuba -Bear pro Almost everyone who had something tosay also had some thing to present to Koster, Ralph M. Brody of Fresno, chairman of the California Water Commission acted as master of ceremonies, but spent most of histime stepping aside while Monday night to expand the re~ tation to Koster. Hugo Fisher, chief of the State's Resource Agency, pre sented Koster with a certificate signifying the district's DavisGrunsky Actrecreation grant for the project, tirement program for city employees. Where all the money to pay for the program will come from is not clear at this time, but from discussions Monday it was clear William Warne, director of the that if the city does expand the Department of Water Resources, presented a huge replica of the NEVADA IRRIGATION District Manager Edwin Koster shows off re program to cover miscellaneous employees, a tax increase will be needed, check is for Davis-Grunsky Act recreation funds and the other is for. power to be developed by the project. More dedication pic police department is covered $3,355,000 Davis-Grunsky check, M. Boyd Austin, regional engineer for the Federal Power Commission, presented copies of the district's federal power licenses for the project. George Harrington of the district's bond consultant firth of Orick, Harrington and Dalquist of ject. Nevada City Couici! voted someone made another presen San Francisco, conducted a symbolic bond burning ceremony of 1924 district bonds indicating the new financial position of the district created by the project. Harry Griffin, vice ¢hairman of the California Districts Se curity Commission, ptesented (continued on page 13), Johnson Expresses Hope For A Negotiated Viet Nam Settlement plicas of the multi-million dollar checks which were presented to the district as part of the Yuba-Bear River project during the project dedication banquet held Friday night in Grass Valley, One under the state retirement sys~ Nevada City Will Take A $400 Look At Reopening The Airport tem, Nevada City's off-again -onagain airport may be on again. The city council Monday authorized a survey and computa tion to see how much it would cost to move dirt and bring the runway up to standards required by the state aviation agency. The airport question was rai sed by City Manager Beryl Robinson who said an opinion from the State Attorney General's office indicated that out of the $8, 894 inthe city aviation fund Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) of the biggest concerns of the only $1,000 of state matching current congress from pollution to seeing that all states get monies paid last year wouldhave. to be repaid to the state if the city abandoned the airport, Councilman Joe Day said he residents and state officials here He said there will be $2 billion in water development projects Chamber Offers A day," Johnson said, “and we Chance To Get don't care who they bring to thattable, We hope we can find some way out and can sit down and negotiate. " He said he hoped that the in flationary trend in the country was leveling off, but if it did not stabilize, a tax increase would be coming. Turning to gold, Johnson said hearings were under way, but in the past the gold industry had re again and building hangers. Robinson said the state required atwo percent grade on the runway and that would mean moving a lot of dirt. He suggested that for $400-$500 a centerline survey could be made and from this computations could be made as to the amount of dirt that would have to be removed, Once this was determined the cost could be figured. He said then both the people for and against the airport would know once and for all whether it would be financially feasible toreopen the facility. Day moved that the survey be authorized and the cost figures prepared and the motion car ried, Puss contest. The event being held in conjunction with the city's July 4 acontest between whisker pusses, mittee w ould come up with a bill to take care of the gold mining industry. Beards will be judged in three classes according torules spelled Water, Johnson said, was one (continued on page 19) out at the Chamber meeting On Assay Office Nevada City Council Monday authorized the city attorney to work with the attorney of the Nevada Company to draw up an agreement for use of the Ott's Assay office as a new post office, A letter from John Sbaffi of the local investment firm, The project has been in the works for several months and while the council had gone on record as favoring the idea, the company has not yet submitted a firm. proposal nor signed an option on the building. Mayor Arch McPherson also named Councilman Bob Paine and Joe Day to act as a committee to.w ork with the company and authorized City Mana If you are, you can escape, for a while at least, by signing up for Nevada City’s Smooth test of smoothpusses, but rather Asks For Agreement to work with the attorney for each morning witha dull blade? said several different kinds of bills were being considered and Nevada Company the meeting asked that the council permit the city attorney Are you tired of that daily chore of scraping at your face celebration is somewhat mis named foritis not really a con Robinson. said ‘the council had expressed a desire in the past to expand the program and he needed a firm decision if he was to go ahead and obtain cost figures, He noted that it would probab ly cost the city an additional (continued on page 19) the Nevada Company, read at Out Of Shaving ceived very little in the way of consideration from Congress. He he was hopeful that the com would favor opening the airport (continued on page 13) last Friday at a luncheon in his honor at the Gold Nugget Inn. “We hope to negotiate every program. At this time only the tures are on page 13, Johnson last week echoed administration hopes that the Viet Nam warcan soon be brought to the conference table. Johnson spoke to about 70 local enough to satisfy their needs, City manager Beryl Robinson asked the council just what they wanted to do on the retirement B MRS, ED CUKJAT of Nevada I City looks on while daughter, Terry unwrap two records s presented to her by the members of Girl Scout Troop 709 in Nevada City Wednesday, The little girl was badly burned ina home accident several months ago and loca! residents have been raising money to defray mounting medical expenses, The Girl Scouts raised funds for the purchase of the two records through the sale of cookies, ger Beryl Robinson te work on the project. of Robinson told the council that itwas his understanding that the company now wanted to get an agreement as soon as possible because they were now ina position to get the project moving. ax be De Oo Ss

— om e Jd fo @ 5 fre @ ct ct © we o = Or Y o® »‘ HO NO ® ct Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon®®F field, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Goi, i t, land, Alpha, Omega, Freng# Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Blo. jln, Chicago Park, Wolf Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby F lat, @ i Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopd% Eye, Quaker Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. : AGU, FKi: Sia 4 town, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orl. F BIG DAM DEDICATION nbitinnthiusianiineenies ieee Volume 41 Number 17 seahenehininieathalians natin 10 Cents A Copy Yuba—Bear Project Published Wednesdays, Nevada City May 11, 1966 / Pension Coverage Studied Huge Local Water And Power Project Is Opened BACIFIS GAS “A PG2EMBSOLOLCS, Nevada: Irrigation District Manager Edwin Koster and the district directors were showered with praise and paper last Friday night as the district marked the dedication of the $60 million Yuba -Bear River hydro-electric project. ' Close to 300 local residents of Nevada and Placer Counties, city, county, state and federai officials attended the dedication banquet in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. It was an evening of praise for the pioneers who founded the Nevada Irrigation District in the early 1920's and for the current board of directors for carrying through the planning and construction of the Yuba -Bear pro Almost everyone who had something tosay also had some thing to present to Koster, Ralph M. Brody of Fresno, chairman of the California Water Commission acted as master of ceremonies, but spent most of histime stepping aside while Monday night to expand the re~ tation to Koster. Hugo Fisher, chief of the State's Resource Agency, pre sented Koster with a certificate signifying the district's DavisGrunsky Actrecreation grant for the project, tirement program for city employees. Where all the money to pay for the program will come from is not clear at this time, but from discussions Monday it was clear William Warne, director of the that if the city does expand the Department of Water Resources, presented a huge replica of the NEVADA IRRIGATION District Manager Edwin Koster shows off re program to cover miscellaneous employees, a tax increase will be needed, check is for Davis-Grunsky Act recreation funds and the other is for. power to be developed by the project. More dedication pic police department is covered $3,355,000 Davis-Grunsky check, M. Boyd Austin, regional engineer for the Federal Power Commission, presented copies of the district's federal power licenses for the project. George Harrington of the district's bond consultant firth of Orick, Harrington and Dalquist of ject. Nevada City Couici! voted someone made another presen San Francisco, conducted a symbolic bond burning ceremony of 1924 district bonds indicating the new financial position of the district created by the project. Harry Griffin, vice ¢hairman of the California Districts Se curity Commission, ptesented (continued on page 13), Johnson Expresses Hope For A Negotiated Viet Nam Settlement plicas of the multi-million dollar checks which were presented to the district as part of the Yuba-Bear River project during the project dedication banquet held Friday night in Grass Valley, One under the state retirement sys~ Nevada City Will Take A $400 Look At Reopening The Airport tem, Nevada City's off-again -onagain airport may be on again. The city council Monday authorized a survey and computa tion to see how much it would cost to move dirt and bring the runway up to standards required by the state aviation agency. The airport question was rai sed by City Manager Beryl Robinson who said an opinion from the State Attorney General's office indicated that out of the

$8, 894 inthe city aviation fund Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) of the biggest concerns of the only $1,000 of state matching current congress from pollution to seeing that all states get monies paid last year wouldhave. to be repaid to the state if the city abandoned the airport, Councilman Joe Day said he residents and state officials here He said there will be $2 billion in water development projects Chamber Offers A day," Johnson said, “and we Chance To Get don't care who they bring to thattable, We hope we can find some way out and can sit down and negotiate. " He said he hoped that the in flationary trend in the country was leveling off, but if it did not stabilize, a tax increase would be coming. Turning to gold, Johnson said hearings were under way, but in the past the gold industry had re again and building hangers. Robinson said the state required atwo percent grade on the runway and that would mean moving a lot of dirt. He suggested that for $400-$500 a centerline survey could be made and from this computations could be made as to the amount of dirt that would have to be removed, Once this was determined the cost could be figured. He said then both the people for and against the airport would know once and for all whether it would be financially feasible toreopen the facility. Day moved that the survey be authorized and the cost figures prepared and the motion car ried, Puss contest. The event being held in conjunction with the city's July 4 acontest between whisker pusses, mittee w ould come up with a bill to take care of the gold mining industry. Beards will be judged in three classes according torules spelled Water, Johnson said, was one (continued on page 19) out at the Chamber meeting On Assay Office Nevada City Council Monday authorized the city attorney to work with the attorney of the Nevada Company to draw up an agreement for use of the Ott's Assay office as a new post office, A letter from John Sbaffi of the local investment firm, The project has been in the works for several months and while the council had gone on record as favoring the idea, the company has not yet submitted a firm. proposal nor signed an option on the building. Mayor Arch McPherson also named Councilman Bob Paine and Joe Day to act as a committee to.w ork with the company and authorized City Mana If you are, you can escape, for a while at least, by signing up for Nevada City’s Smooth test of smoothpusses, but rather Asks For Agreement to work with the attorney for each morning witha dull blade? said several different kinds of bills were being considered and Nevada Company the meeting asked that the council permit the city attorney Are you tired of that daily chore of scraping at your face celebration is somewhat mis named foritis not really a con Robinson. said ‘the council had expressed a desire in the past to expand the program and he needed a firm decision if he was to go ahead and obtain cost figures, He noted that it would probab ly cost the city an additional (continued on page 19) the Nevada Company, read at Out Of Shaving ceived very little in the way of consideration from Congress. He he was hopeful that the com would favor opening the airport (continued on page 13) last Friday at a luncheon in his honor at the Gold Nugget Inn. “We hope to negotiate every program. At this time only the tures are on page 13, Johnson last week echoed administration hopes that the Viet Nam warcan soon be brought to the conference table. Johnson spoke to about 70 local enough to satisfy their needs, City manager Beryl Robinson asked the council just what they wanted to do on the retirement B MRS, ED CUKJAT of Nevada I City looks on while daughter, Terry unwrap two records s presented to her by the members of Girl Scout Troop 709 in Nevada City Wednesday, The little girl was badly burned ina home accident several months ago and loca! residents have been raising money to defray mounting medical expenses, The Girl Scouts raised funds for the purchase of the two records through the sale of cookies, ger Beryl Robinson te work on the project. of Robinson told the council that itwas his understanding that the company now wanted to get an agreement as soon as possible because they were now ina position to get the project moving. ax be De Oo Ss