May 14, 1969 (12 pages)

By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934. Squirrel Creek which follows Osceola Ravine down the hill crosses Hwy. 20 at the Western outskirts of Rough and ‘Ready. It cannot be compared ‘with Deer Creek or the rivers of Nevada county, but in the gold mining heyday it provided its share of history. South of Hwy. 20, ‘on the hillside above the creek, in Osceola Ravine, can be seen the remains of the old Osceola Mine. It was similar to the more familiar Mistletoe Mine. down Rough and Ready Road. Mr, Asa Fippin, one of the stockholders who tried to get © together enough money to really work this mine, assured me, less than a year before his death in 1968, that there was still plenty of gold there but it was just too deep to get at easily. The Iron Clad Mine, across Hwy. 20 from the creek and just we: of Osceola Ravine, was a v soy es mine of the later period. Squirrel Creek's biggest contribution was the Portuguese Mining Company which used placer mining methods but mostxy without the powerful monitors, You can see the results just where the creek levels out for Penn Valley. The Portuguese Mining Company held a government patent signed in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes on both Rough and Ready Ravine and Osceola Ravine. To get water pressure these sturdy miners developed _ a ditch out of Deer Creek and brought water over the hills into a series of storage reservoirs, When they turned them loose all at once it loosened pockets all alongthe stream banks which they worked out while the reservoirs were refilling. One. of the pleasantest methods of getting gold was recount_ ed by Mr. Pearl M, Ladd, a rancher of the area in 1867, My, Ladd, while walking near Squirrel Creek, kicked a piece of rock with his toe. It felt different. He picked it up and found it to be a very large and beautiful kidney shaped nugget. Mr. "Slim" Judson, one of the original settlers, stooped to quench his thirst in Squirrel Creek and found a nugget valued at $1,600. -good size for those days. Much of Rough and Ready’s gold was found near the surface and was said to be of a particularly beautiful color. Inthe-early . period the old Slave Mine used a Mexican Arrastra type crusher to remove their goldfrom the quartz. For many years there was a stamp mill type crusher . near where our present post office now stands. The old barn where Squirrel Creek turns down Rough and Ready Ravine contaired several rusty gold pans and the remains of a sluice box arrangement which had been used by individuals to take out gold. Today's Squirrel Creek is quiet and overgrown with berry bushes, but it must have a lot of exciting. memories, On Friday, ae 9, I attended the Ready Springs Parent Teachers Club dedication of the old Rough and Ready School bell at the Ready Springs School, The children with were W their voices and group singing, day was lovely. te The speakers, Mr. Wayne Brown and Mr, Melvin Brown, both graduates of Indian Springs School, were interesting and brief. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and neighborly experience, The old school bell has been awaiting this event since 1952 when it was moved from its original district to the consolidated new district through the efforts of two of their first school board trustees, Mrs. Joan Mader and Mrs. Helen Steele, whose families had attended the old Rough and Ready School through several generations. Mrs. Lois Gordon, president of the PTC, with the help of a very active and interested group, finally succeeded in getting the job done. The bell was originally given to the Rough and Ready School by the Portuguese Mining Company. ig Still no bid openings on our ~ new post office building, though the site has been decided upon and a lease taken by the post office real estate agent in Sacramento, Mr. Sam Fraser. He has selected the site by the grocery store. There is, however, an old private road right-of-way of $2 feet through there which could prove to be a problem. They better hurry! Our postmaster tells me the post office has doubled in size this past year. i * ok * Mr. and.-Mrs, Harrell -E. Greenhaws of Ontario, California, will be moving into their new mobile home on Rough and Ready Road any day now — hopefully today. The Greenhaws are friends of the Dwight Nelsons. They have been neighbors for 80 years in three different homes, Their friendship began 30 years ago in Texas. The Greenhaws attended our chuck wagon breakfast last Sunday and are more than ever pleased with Rough and Ready. Both families plan to make this their permanent new home. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Cannon of San Jose spent last weekend visiting the Jack Bixlers. They spent their time climbing up and down hills seeing the country. Mr. Ted Woods of Colfax Highway. is the service station manager at the old Rough and Ready service station. Ted plans to increase the garage work available here in Rough and Ready. The new owners are the Allan McCreas who also make their home here in Rough and Ready. Mrs, Lucille. McCrea is planning an art and hobby shop in the post office building and hopes to get started by June 1. * * & At the Fire Dept. Aux. meeting on May 5 the ladies worked out details of their Secession Day plans for Sunday, June 29. Their food is always excellent and this year they are going to serve a variety of sandwiches, salads, and serts. The firemen will } corn onthe cob and iged watermelon. They also discussed the possibility of a uniform apron or dress to go with the nice new vests our firemen will be wearing. Highlight of the evening was the program proWednesday, May 14, 1969 BY EDUCATION NEWS SERVICE Thousands of junior and senior high school pupils in California start a foreign language, take a year or two and then drop out. These are just a few of the facts revealed in a new report on foreign language enrollments in the state’s public secondary schools for this year. * * * THE REPORT, submitted to the State Board of Education by John P. Dusel, consultant in foreign language education for the State Department of Education, points up some. of the following facts: e Out of 1,313 junior and senior high schools in the state, all but 27 offer some kind of foreign language study. e Slightly over one out of three secondary pupils signs up for a foreign language. This year the total enrollment in grades seven through «twelve was 1,588,801, an increase of 3.2 per cent. Total foreign language enrollment was 584,652, an increase of 1.5 per cent. e Spanish continues to be the most popular language, attracting 64 per cent of the pupils. French with 22 per cent is second. German with 10 per cent is third, and Latin is in fourth place, with 2.8 per cent. Of course, theseare not-the only languages offered. There is a scattering of pupils in the following: Chinese (Mandarin), 813 pupils; Greek (Classical), 9; He‘brew, 517; Italian, 1,141; Japanese, 440; Portuguese, 62; Russian, 2,391; and Swahili, 30. * * * SIGNIFICANT in the report vided by. captain of the Fire Prevention Bureau, Ray Hartung, asst. G.V. Fire Chief Mike Dickey, and past fire chief James Hawkeswood. We learned about fire safety in the home. Most of. us went home and cleaned out one or two tricky little everyday: fire hazards of gasoline and paint brushes, And I'm sure the grocery store has had a run on baking soda, * * * The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce met Thursday, May 8. They unanimously ee all of the suggestions of the steering committee on Secession Day celebration plans, as reported: by committee chairman Don Litchfield, then added a few exciting ideas of their own, The best part of the all-day entertainment program will be back and some new acts have been added. Kidsville will be back! In fact the kids are to get special attention this year. They will have their own music and their own special area, separate, but observable by adults, If you missed the chuck wagon breakfast May 4, you may get another chance "at the fun anti good food on Secession Day from 7 to 10 a.m. *** : Please remember the doll dressing session .at Mary O'Neals' on May 15 in the afternoon, and then the Community Secession Day get together at the old school house that evening at 7:30 p.m. 1G SA TUE a aS a r mek a eRe is the dropout rate, especially after the first two years. Yet, according to Dusel, in a telephone interview with Education News Service, this is not unususual. “On a national basis,” he said, “about 90 per cent of the pupils who start a foreign language do not enroll in the fourth year.” Dusel’s report, based on enrollments for this past fall, seems to substantiate this. First year foreign language enrollments in grades nine through twelve was 194,528. The enrollment figure for the fourth year was 19,285, about a 90 per cent drop out rate. Attrition between the first and second year enrollments was slightly over 25 per cent, and The Nevada pune puger 3 State Reports Thousands of Foreign Language Dropouts” e ue between the first and third year. about 72.5 per cént. ww tk REGARDLESS of this, Dusel said, more students.are enrolling in foreign languages than -in pre:Sputnik days, and they are staying longer. Part of the reason, he added, is due to the fact that for several years California required that. foreign language. study start in the sixthograde for all pupils. This. requirement now has been dropped, but the state still requires that foreign: language. study -be. offered in theseventh and eighth. grades. “Many of the students’ who start earlier develop language proficiency earlier and stay in the program longer,” Duse! said. “However, still too many § of them take a year or two and drop out, really a waste of time.” BUSINESS DARE BILLE Club Zp es EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! Crazy Horse NEVADA CITY, CALIF. §: @ COCKTAILS @ DANCING @ SNACKS JULIE & CAPT. RUDGBO—PIANO & SONGS BOWLING & BILLIARDS . is) * Aaa tiel Jolly Roger Lanes Grass Valley, Calif. 273-2561 LITTLE OLO BAKE snoP 429 £. RIDGE RD. _—sGRASSVALLEV, Cater. REAL ESTATE Bey U.S. Savings Bends maw fret tome There’s a home in your future with ROMP, ty 201 Maia ST St. 6.V. 213-8473 While her husband, the Executive Mansion. James Madison, served as President Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State, Dolley acted as official hostess for the widowed. Jefferson during his two terms at Len Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP 111 W. MAIN P.O. BOX 1034: GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. 95945 PH. 273-6166 WASHINGTON HOTEL . ROOMS—COCKTAILS # 4 Breakfast—Lunch—Dinner § Washington, Calif. -'5-464 707 NEVADA CITY HIGHWAY GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA PHONE 273-2038 Representing The Travelers ins, Companies fron LONG INSURANCE DRIVE CAREFULLY For Big Results Coll A. SMA ALL fer Office Or Home 1F mom 1P LS om WATER. PROBLEMS [ Call 273-4493 Pumps—Filters' Pipe—Fittings . GEO. A. KING @ SON. »” THE GIPSON’S [I ~

By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934. Squirrel Creek which follows Osceola Ravine down the hill crosses Hwy. 20 at the Western outskirts of Rough and ‘Ready. It cannot be compared ‘with Deer Creek or the rivers of Nevada county, but in the gold mining heyday it provided its share of history. South of Hwy. 20, ‘on the hillside above the creek, in Osceola Ravine, can be seen the remains of the old Osceola Mine. It was similar to the more familiar Mistletoe Mine. down Rough and Ready Road. Mr, Asa Fippin, one of the stockholders who tried to get © together enough money to really work this mine, assured me, less than a year before his death in 1968, that there was still plenty of gold there but it was just too deep to get at easily. The Iron Clad Mine, across Hwy. 20 from the creek and just we: of Osceola Ravine, was a v soy es mine of the later period. Squirrel Creek's biggest contribution was the Portuguese Mining Company which used placer mining methods but mostxy without the powerful monitors, You can see the results just where the creek levels out for Penn Valley. The Portuguese Mining Company held a government patent signed in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes on both Rough and Ready Ravine and Osceola Ravine. To get water pressure these sturdy miners developed _ a ditch out of Deer Creek and brought water over the hills into a series of storage reservoirs, When they turned them loose all at once it loosened pockets all alongthe stream banks which they worked out while the reservoirs were refilling. One. of the pleasantest methods of getting gold was recount_ ed by Mr. Pearl M, Ladd, a rancher of the area in 1867, My, Ladd, while walking near Squirrel Creek, kicked a piece of rock with his toe. It felt different. He picked it up and found it to be a very large and beautiful kidney shaped nugget. Mr. "Slim" Judson, one of the original settlers, stooped to quench his thirst in Squirrel Creek and found a nugget valued at $1,600. -good size for those days. Much of Rough and Ready’s gold was found near the surface and was said to be of a particularly beautiful color. Inthe-early . period the old Slave Mine used a Mexican Arrastra type crusher to remove their goldfrom the quartz. For many years there was a stamp mill type crusher . near where our present post office now stands. The old barn where Squirrel Creek turns down Rough and Ready Ravine contaired several rusty gold pans and the remains of a sluice box arrangement which had been used by individuals to take out gold. Today's Squirrel Creek is quiet and overgrown with berry bushes, but it must have a lot of exciting. memories, On Friday, ae 9, I attended the Ready Springs Parent Teachers Club dedication of the old Rough and Ready School bell at the Ready Springs School, The children with were W their voices and group singing, day was lovely. te The speakers, Mr. Wayne Brown and Mr, Melvin Brown, both graduates of Indian Springs School, were interesting and brief. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and neighborly experience, The old school bell has been awaiting this event since 1952 when it was moved from its original district to the consolidated new district through the efforts of two of their first school board trustees, Mrs. Joan Mader and Mrs. Helen Steele, whose families had attended the old Rough and Ready School through several generations. Mrs. Lois Gordon, president of the PTC, with the help of a very active and interested group, finally succeeded in getting the job done. The bell was originally given to the Rough and Ready School by the Portuguese Mining Company. ig Still no bid openings on our ~ new post office building, though the site has been decided upon and a lease taken by the post office real estate agent in Sacramento, Mr. Sam Fraser. He has selected the site by the grocery store. There is, however, an old private road right-of-way of $2 feet through there which could prove to be a problem. They better hurry! Our postmaster tells me the post office has doubled in size this past year. i * ok * Mr. and.-Mrs, Harrell -E. Greenhaws of Ontario, California, will be moving into their new mobile home on Rough and Ready Road any day now — hopefully today. The Greenhaws are friends of the Dwight Nelsons. They have been neighbors for 80 years in three different homes, Their friendship began 30 years ago in Texas. The Greenhaws attended our chuck wagon breakfast last Sunday and are more than ever pleased with Rough and Ready. Both families plan to make this their permanent new home.. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Cannon of San Jose spent last weekend visiting the Jack Bixlers. They spent their time climbing up and down hills seeing the country. Mr. Ted Woods of Colfax Highway. is the service station manager at the old Rough and Ready service station. Ted plans to increase the garage work available here in Rough and Ready. The new owners are the Allan McCreas who also make their home here in Rough and Ready. Mrs, Lucille. McCrea is planning an art and hobby shop in the post office building and hopes to get started by June 1. * * & At the Fire Dept. Aux. meeting on May 5 the ladies worked out details of their Secession Day plans for Sunday, June 29. Their food is always excellent and this year they are going to serve a variety of sandwiches, salads, and serts. The firemen will } corn onthe cob and iged watermelon. They also discussed the possibility of a uniform apron or dress to go with the nice new vests our firemen will be wearing. Highlight of the evening was the program proWednesday, May 14, 1969 BY EDUCATION NEWS SERVICE Thousands of junior and senior high school pupils in California start a foreign language, take a year or two and then drop out. These are just a few of the facts revealed in a new report

on foreign language enrollments in the state’s public secondary schools for this year. * * * THE REPORT, submitted to the State Board of Education by John P. Dusel, consultant in foreign language education for the State Department of Education, points up some. of the following facts: e Out of 1,313 junior and senior high schools in the state, all but 27 offer some kind of foreign language study. e Slightly over one out of three secondary pupils signs up for a foreign language. This year the total enrollment in grades seven through «twelve was 1,588,801, an increase of 3.2 per cent. Total foreign language enrollment was 584,652, an increase of 1.5 per cent. e Spanish continues to be the most popular language, attracting 64 per cent of the pupils. French with 22 per cent is second. German with 10 per cent is third, and Latin is in fourth place, with 2.8 per cent. Of course, theseare not-the only languages offered. There is a scattering of pupils in the following: Chinese (Mandarin), 813 pupils; Greek (Classical), 9; He‘brew, 517; Italian, 1,141; Japanese, 440; Portuguese, 62; Russian, 2,391; and Swahili, 30. * * * SIGNIFICANT in the report vided by. captain of the Fire Prevention Bureau, Ray Hartung, asst. G.V. Fire Chief Mike Dickey, and past fire chief James Hawkeswood. We learned about fire safety in the home. Most of. us went home and cleaned out one or two tricky little everyday: fire hazards of gasoline and paint brushes, And I'm sure the grocery store has had a run on baking soda, * * * The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce met Thursday, May 8. They unanimously ee all of the suggestions of the steering committee on Secession Day celebration plans, as reported: by committee chairman Don Litchfield, then added a few exciting ideas of their own, The best part of the all-day entertainment program will be back and some new acts have been added. Kidsville will be back! In fact the kids are to get special attention this year. They will have their own music and their own special area, separate, but observable by adults, If you missed the chuck wagon breakfast May 4, you may get another chance "at the fun anti good food on Secession Day from 7 to 10 a.m. *** : Please remember the doll dressing session .at Mary O'Neals' on May 15 in the afternoon, and then the Community Secession Day get together at the old school house that evening at 7:30 p.m. 1G SA TUE a aS a r mek a eRe is the dropout rate, especially after the first two years. Yet, according to Dusel, in a telephone interview with Education News Service, this is not unususual. “On a national basis,” he said, “about 90 per cent of the pupils who start a foreign language do not enroll in the fourth year.” Dusel’s report, based on enrollments for this past fall, seems to substantiate this. First year foreign language enrollments in grades nine through twelve was 194,528. The enrollment figure for the fourth year was 19,285, about a 90 per cent drop out rate. Attrition between the first and second year enrollments was slightly over 25 per cent, and The Nevada pune puger 3 State Reports Thousands of Foreign Language Dropouts” e ue between the first and third year. about 72.5 per cént. ww tk REGARDLESS of this, Dusel said, more students.are enrolling in foreign languages than -in pre:Sputnik days, and they are staying longer. Part of the reason, he added, is due to the fact that for several years California required that. foreign language. study start in the sixthograde for all pupils. This. requirement now has been dropped, but the state still requires that foreign: language. study -be. offered in theseventh and eighth. grades. “Many of the students’ who start earlier develop language proficiency earlier and stay in the program longer,” Duse! said. “However, still too many § of them take a year or two and drop out, really a waste of time.” BUSINESS DARE BILLE Club Zp es EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! Crazy Horse NEVADA CITY, CALIF. §: @ COCKTAILS @ DANCING @ SNACKS JULIE & CAPT. RUDGBO—PIANO & SONGS BOWLING & BILLIARDS . is) * Aaa tiel Jolly Roger Lanes Grass Valley, Calif. 273-2561 LITTLE OLO BAKE snoP 429 £. RIDGE RD. _—sGRASSVALLEV, Cater. REAL ESTATE Bey U.S. Savings Bends maw fret tome There’s a home in your future with ROMP, ty 201 Maia ST St. 6.V. 213-8473 While her husband, the Executive Mansion.. James Madison, served as President Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State, Dolley acted as official hostess for the widowed. Jefferson during his two terms at Len Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP 111 W. MAIN P.O. BOX 1034: GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. 95945 PH. 273-6166 WASHINGTON HOTEL . ROOMS—COCKTAILS # 4 Breakfast—Lunch—Dinner § Washington, Calif. -'5-464 707 NEVADA CITY HIGHWAY GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA PHONE 273-2038 Representing The Travelers ins, Companies fron LONG INSURANCE DRIVE CAREFULLY For Big Results Coll A. SMA ALL fer Office Or Home 1F mom 1P LS om WATER. PROBLEMS [ Call 273-4493 Pumps—Filters' Pipe—Fittings . GEO. A. KING @ SON. »” THE GIPSON’S [I ~