May 16, 1962 (12 pages)

voce, Nc iv Midis lowe on fons Alfred ©. Melle. . 25); 2. i. Pablher R, Dean T ‘oth ee we ees ee Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation bythe Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12, 406 Subscription Rates: One year, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 . Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada CityEDITORIAL Defense And “Security” The defense business."has evolved under the heat of the 'cold war' into the biggest single economic activity, not only in’ the United States but in the world." (New York Times, April 29, 1962.) "Twenty-five per cent of U.S. defense prime contracts, in dollars, are going to California companies. More than $6 billion was spent inthe state last year on defense and aerospace work." (New York Times, April 29, 1962.). "There is now one armed force lobbyist for every. member of Congress. Ironically, this lobbying army dedicated to spending’ the taxpayer's money is chargedtothe taxpayer." (Sehator William Proxmire, D.Wis., AP dispatch, April 7, 1962.) "Military spending is not based solely on security considerations. Other factors include competition between the services, the pressure to hang on to old weapons. the search of industry for new business, and our desire to maintain high employment." (John Douglas, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower.) "The conjunction of an immense military establishment anda large arms industry is “new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." (Farewelladdress of President Eisenhower, Jan. 17; 1961.) “As a psychiatrist, I have been struck by an analogy between the behavior of policy makers today and the behavior of mental patients. That is, they see a problem or threat and then resort to methods of dealing with it which aggravate it. The leaders of the world agree that nuclear armaments pose or soon will pose an insufferable threat to the existence of humanity. Yet the preparation for war goes on feverishly." (Jerome D. Frank, professor of psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, August 1960 issue of Psychiatry .) In six years or less, a dozen nations, including China, will have A-bombs and H-bombs. "Within, at the most, 10 years some of those bombs are going off. Iam sayingthis as responsibly as Ican. That is the certainty.Weknow, with the certainty of a statistical truth, that if enough of these weapons are made-by enough different states --some of them are going to blow up.Through accident, or folly, or madness --" (Dr. C. P. Snow, British scientist and author, S. F. News-Call Bulletin, Dec. 27, 1950.) American society "is not only in peril by reason of a nuclear disaster, but simply by continuing as we are withan ever-increasing portion of our thought, energy, and national product becoming absorbed in the production of arms and weapons of mass destruction. We must get on with the task of at least attempting to diminish this everincreasing menace of a nuclear disaster wherein the only issue will be whether there are sufficient survivors to bury the the dead." (John J. McCloy, New York Times, Feb. 26, 1961,) P. BUY UNIT LOTS & SAVE*+= .L. MATSON FOREST PRODUCTS HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++++++ «= * ¢* Biel S732271 veues Poo!’ s Cold Q Ad NL /O le he a MEL ee OL ee Doin's At The Diggin's “The Story of the 1952 Nevada City 4th of July Celebration There's a magic in a Nevada City July 4th that is found no place elseonearth. The fun of the planning, the fun in making the floats, the nostalgia of the homecoming, the parade, the smell of firecrackers and horse manure, creates a mystic atmosphere recognizable to anyone who has ever taken part or witnessed a 4th in the City of the pines. Dutch Melton, co-chairman, and I owed a great deal toAl Trivelpiece, the Sacramento Bee reporter, for his ideas 10 yrs ago. It was Al who suggested Doin's at The Diggin's and it was he who masterminded the decoration theme of the miner's clothes lines, I doubt if any Nevada County event ever received as much free publicity as the 1952 4th. For two weeks before the show the tourists poured in totake pictures and they came for weeks after as a result of front page stories all over the US. The perennial and stimulatingly delightful letters-to-the editor housewife Elizabeth Allen, seeing the miner's clothes lines as decorations for such a patriotic celebration as the nations birthday promptly protested and wanted the American Flag used instead. Gently we had to inform Mrs, Allen the American Flag is never used as a decorationred, white, and blue bunting, yes, the American Flag never. The Chamber of Commerce had told Dutch Melton and me to shoot the works if we thought the celebration would pay for itself. And shoot the works we did. Only C of C Secty Si Sofge had daily heart attacks that we would break the treasury. We belonged to the old fashioned school of thought that celebrations should pay for themselves, But there were several times in the 1952 observance that we faced financial disaster. When the great ‘Strike Up The Band" moment came, Earl Covey, whoknows crowds, estimated there were 30,000 people in or trying to get into NC, Because of traffic problems hundreds missed the parade. Wehad looked totwosources for the big money to pay for the celebration, Card and dice gambling was to be tolerated in the tradition of the old ‘49er days that had made Nevada City, with the committee getting the profits. Secondly we had engaged a two ring circus that we had expected to clear for us at least $1,500. Little did we know there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Puss Grey's Water Aquacade at Pioneer Park was a smashing success as was Frank Stewart's Pine St stage show, but ticket controls broke down with the rush of the audience and hundreds got in without paying. Our first almost disaster struck about 1 pm on July 3rd. Judge George L. Jones who had a fetish about gambling This time in the person of Ernest Towle. =) We head a little with this picture. . Its from a GV 4th parade. Elza as George, Richard B igelow, father) as Uncle Sam, Dave Richards driving the truck. Note newsrell cameraman. Abe Lincoln often showed up in NC parades. . In 1912 the women of ‘hn town had . chaos of the entire holiday. The Grand Marshall was Mary Grimes one « ‘ After the 1912 parade was over the Grand Marshall,. in order to provethat NC .is not a one horse town, got off her white charger and went for a ride in somebody's brand new Packard. Betsy Ross is driving (Minnie Smith). In the back seat Minerva of the Great Seal of California, (Mildred Perryman), May Martin in the middle (herself) and the 1912 Goddess of Liberty (Vera Hopkins) was stewing at his Aristocracy Hill manse. To George the law was the law, you don't wink at it, bend it or do anything but obey it. At 1 pm he would listen to the rumors no longer. Gambling WAS taking place in NC and the public's morals were being corrupted. He strode into town with all his oratorical jurisprudence ready to overflow. He met me in front of the downstairs space in the Elks building where a terrible game of illegal bingo was in progress. He properly chewed me out. He threatened to have me and Dutch Melton and the entire NC police force arrested. He was headed for a telephone to call the Attorney General of the State of California. If he succeeded, just as the celebration was getting going, half of our revenue would be gone. On the way toa phone George met a sympatheic ear in the newsreporter Paul Fredericksen. And so, without planning, we got our second wave of front page publicity. Within an hour the press services had the story of Judge Jones threat. Just in time to hit the afternoon papers in Sacramento andthe bay area. Hundreds and hundreds of valley and bay area people, who had never heard of NC, and were headed for the gambling capital, Reno, changed their plans and came to’NC to see what the shootin’ was all about at Doin's atthe Diggin's. George's one man moralcrusadehadback-fired. I never did find out if he got through to the Attorney General. , Real financial disaster was to level us at just before parade time. I got a phone call from Rough and Ready (Gwen Anderson's that due to an unprecedented traffic jam there with hundreds of Marysville cars stalled trying to get to get to the parade and that the big circus wagons couldn't get through and they would be unable to put on their first performance immediately after the parade, Dutch and I each had a $750 heart attack. A cooperative Highway Patrol finally got the circus to the old Narrow Gauge depot lot in NC, The ground was too compact with tons of mine gravel down the years and they couldn't drive the stakes to put up the tents or the seats. Some kid threw a firecracker in the truck hauling the performing elephant and the trainer was almost crushed to death to keep the pachyderm from pannicking. The circus never did perform. All the circus family, broke, did not get payed. They were in an angry mood, On the morning of the 5th, Dutch Melton, I and the committee held an emergency meeting at the City Hall behind locked doors. Several circus roustabouts showed up and pounded on the doors demanding entrance. There WAS small print in the contract that Dutch and I had signed that if the circus DID NOT perform that we were TO PAY THEM $300. Which, of course we did. Ten days later when we had reestablished our equalibrium we payed all the bills and looked at the results. We had made a profit of $1500 for the Chamber. The 1952 Doin's at Diggin's was history, (More fabulous Fourth photos on Page 7) A rare photo, indeed, the first president of the US George Washington, and the 3lst President, Herbert Hoover, in GV. Hoover earned his first dollar and his great mining experience working underground in NC this was hisNevadaCo homecoming.

voce, Nc iv Midis lowe on fons Alfred ©. Melle. . 25); 2.. i.. Pablher R, Dean T ‘oth ee we ees ee Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation bythe Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12, 406 Subscription Rates: One year, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 . Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada CityEDITORIAL Defense And “Security” The defense business.."has evolved under the heat of the 'cold war' into the biggest single economic activity, not only in’ the United States but in the world." (New York Times, April 29, 1962.) "Twenty-five per cent of U.S. defense prime contracts, in dollars, are going to California companies. More than $6 billion was spent inthe state last year on defense and aerospace work." (New York Times, April 29, 1962.). "There is now one armed force lobbyist for every. member of Congress. Ironically, this lobbying army dedicated to spending’ the taxpayer's money is chargedtothe taxpayer." (Sehator William Proxmire, D.Wis., AP dispatch, April 7, 1962.) "Military spending is not based solely on security considerations. Other factors include competition between the services, the pressure to hang on to old weapons.. the search of industry for new business, and our desire to maintain high employment." (John Douglas, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower.) "The conjunction of an immense military establishment anda large arms industry is “new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." (Farewelladdress of President Eisenhower, Jan. 17; 1961.) “As a psychiatrist, I have been struck by an analogy between the behavior of policy makers today and the behavior of mental patients. That is, they see a problem or threat and then resort to methods of dealing with it which aggravate it. The leaders of the world agree that nuclear armaments pose or soon will pose an insufferable threat to the existence of humanity. Yet the preparation for war goes on feverishly." (Jerome D. Frank, professor of psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, August 1960 issue of Psychiatry .) In six years or less, a dozen nations, including China, will have A-bombs and H-bombs. "Within, at the most, 10 years some of those bombs are going off. Iam sayingthis as responsibly as Ican. That is the certainty..Weknow, with the certainty of a statistical truth, that if enough of these weapons are made-by enough different states --some of them are going to blow up..Through accident, or folly, or madness --" (Dr. C. P. Snow, British scientist and author, S. F. News-Call Bulletin, Dec. 27, 1950.) American society "is not only in peril by reason of a nuclear disaster, but simply by continuing as we are withan ever-increasing portion of our thought, energy, and national product becoming absorbed in the production of arms and weapons of mass destruction. We must get on with the task of at least attempting to diminish this everincreasing menace of a nuclear disaster wherein the only issue will be whether there are sufficient survivors to bury the the dead." (John J. McCloy, New York Times, Feb. 26, 1961,) P. BUY UNIT LOTS & SAVE*+= .L. MATSON FOREST PRODUCTS HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++++++ «= * ¢* Biel S732271 veues Poo!’ s Cold Q Ad NL /O le he a MEL ee OL ee Doin's At The Diggin's “The Story of the 1952 Nevada City 4th of July Celebration There's a magic in a Nevada City July 4th that is found no place elseonearth. The fun of the planning, the fun in making the floats, the nostalgia of the homecoming, the parade, the smell of firecrackers and horse manure, creates a mystic atmosphere recognizable to anyone who has ever taken part or witnessed a 4th in the City of the pines. Dutch Melton, co-chairman, and I owed a great deal toAl Trivelpiece, the Sacramento Bee reporter, for his ideas 10 yrs ago. It was Al who suggested Doin's at The Diggin's and it was he who masterminded the decoration theme of the miner's clothes lines, I doubt if any Nevada County event ever received as much free publicity as the 1952 4th. For two weeks before the

show the tourists poured in totake pictures and they came for weeks after as a result of front page stories all over the US. The perennial and stimulatingly delightful letters-to-the editor housewife Elizabeth Allen, seeing the miner's clothes lines as decorations for such a patriotic celebration as the nations birthday promptly protested and wanted the American Flag used instead. Gently we had to inform Mrs, Allen the American Flag is never used as a decorationred, white, and blue bunting, yes, the American Flag never. The Chamber of Commerce had told Dutch Melton and me to shoot the works if we thought the celebration would pay for itself. And shoot the works we did. Only C of C Secty Si Sofge had daily heart attacks that we would break the treasury. We belonged to the old fashioned school of thought that celebrations should pay for themselves, But there were several times in the 1952 observance that we faced financial disaster. When the great ‘Strike Up The Band" moment came, Earl Covey, whoknows crowds, estimated there were 30,000 people in or trying to get into NC, Because of traffic problems hundreds missed the parade. Wehad looked totwosources for the big money to pay for the celebration, Card and dice gambling was to be tolerated in the tradition of the old ‘49er days that had made Nevada City, with the committee getting the profits. Secondly we had engaged a two ring circus that we had expected to clear for us at least $1,500. Little did we know there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Puss Grey's Water Aquacade at Pioneer Park was a smashing success as was Frank Stewart's Pine St stage show, but ticket controls broke down with the rush of the audience and hundreds got in without paying. Our first almost disaster struck about 1 pm on July 3rd. Judge George L. Jones who had a fetish about gambling This time in the person of Ernest Towle. =) We head a little with this picture. . Its from a GV 4th parade. Elza as George, Richard B igelow, father) as Uncle Sam, Dave Richards driving the truck. Note newsrell cameraman. Abe Lincoln often showed up in NC parades. . In 1912 the women of ‘hn town had . chaos of the entire holiday. The Grand Marshall was Mary Grimes one « ‘ After the 1912 parade was over the Grand Marshall,. in order to provethat NC .is not a one horse town, got off her white charger and went for a ride in somebody's brand new Packard. Betsy Ross is driving (Minnie Smith). In the back seat Minerva of the Great Seal of California, (Mildred Perryman), May Martin in the middle (herself) and the 1912 Goddess of Liberty (Vera Hopkins) was stewing at his Aristocracy Hill manse. To George the law was the law, you don't wink at it, bend it or do anything but obey it. At 1 pm he would listen to the rumors no longer. Gambling WAS taking place in NC and the public's morals were being corrupted. He strode into town with all his oratorical jurisprudence ready to overflow. He met me in front of the downstairs space in the Elks building where a terrible game of illegal bingo was in progress. He properly chewed me out. He threatened to have me and Dutch Melton and the entire NC police force arrested. He was headed for a telephone to call the Attorney General of the State of California. If he succeeded, just as the celebration was getting going, half of our revenue would be gone. On the way toa phone George met a sympatheic ear in the newsreporter Paul Fredericksen. And so, without planning, we got our second wave of front page publicity. Within an hour the press services had the story of Judge Jones threat. Just in time to hit the afternoon papers in Sacramento andthe bay area. Hundreds and hundreds of valley and bay area people, who had never heard of NC, and were headed for the gambling capital, Reno, changed their plans and came to’NC to see what the shootin’ was all about at Doin's atthe Diggin's. George's one man moralcrusadehadback-fired. I never did find out if he got through to the Attorney General. , Real financial disaster was to level us at just before parade time. I got a phone call from Rough and Ready (Gwen Anderson's that due to an unprecedented traffic jam there with hundreds of Marysville cars stalled trying to get to get to the parade and that the big circus wagons couldn't get through and they would be unable to put on their first performance immediately after the parade, Dutch and I each had a $750 heart attack. A cooperative Highway Patrol finally got the circus to the old Narrow Gauge depot lot in NC, The ground was too compact with tons of mine gravel down the years and they couldn't drive the stakes to put up the tents or the seats. Some kid threw a firecracker in the truck hauling the performing elephant and the trainer was almost crushed to death to keep the pachyderm from pannicking. The circus never did perform. All the circus family, broke, did not get payed. They were in an angry mood, On the morning of the 5th, Dutch Melton, I and the committee held an emergency meeting at the City Hall behind locked doors. Several circus roustabouts showed up and pounded on the doors demanding entrance. There WAS small print in the contract that Dutch and I had signed that if the circus DID NOT perform that we were TO PAY THEM $300. Which, of course we did. Ten days later when we had reestablished our equalibrium we payed all the bills and looked at the results. We had made a profit of $1500 for the Chamber. The 1952 Doin's at Diggin's was history, (More fabulous Fourth photos on Page 7) A rare photo, indeed, the first president of the US George Washington, and the 3lst President, Herbert Hoover, in GV. Hoover earned his first dollar and his great mining experience working underground in NC this was hisNevadaCo homecoming.