May 18, 1966 (20 pages)

TRADE WINDS By Bob Wolden Happy to welcome back “Meditation Moment" this. week, ~ written by Hjalmar Berg of the Three R's Bookstore in Grass* Valley. Go over and see his place and have a cup of coffee. eee#2s?s « Gracious, what a sale at Alpha! Their bi-annual backyard évent was a fantastic sucBoo, hiss, cheer, stomp your feet, now's your chance to lose all inhibitions at Saturday's big night at the Elk's hall in Nevada City. The showboat “River Queen” is coming up Deer Creek and will dock on Pine Street at 8 p.m. Entertainment, dancing, refreshments of your Friday morning, Alpha‘s backyard cess. Crowds of people, free ‘coffee and they seemed to have. moved all their merchandise. Cut prices, tell people what you're doing, have hard workers and planning management and youtoocan draw a large crowd, -@eees choice, (booze or soft drinks), and a midnight buffet. @eeeees? Grass Valley's mall is moving forward. The landscaping is being planned andI hope we get fountains and sculpture as already suggested by Grass Valley "Mike" Micander Everything you heard about Lynn Schugren's concert last Sunday is true -unless your informants didn't use enough superlatives. Special thanks to Mr, Charles Qgibet, music teacher at St. Mary's for pushing this program, Perhaps our local concert group can bring her back. eoeees#es Mayor John Hodge. ees 8.8 Understand there's stirrings of amerchant’s group in Nevada City..and I say “wonderful, ” eseeses John "Mike" Micander, longtime Grass Valley resident and past president of the Jaycees, is now on the sales staff of Farber Ford. “Mike™ will be handling new and used car sales, Town Talk Nevada County Nugget..May 18, 1966..Q River Queen..Stiff Backs.. Road Talk..New City..Cats Another in the seemingly endless number of events to raise funds to purchase the Nevada Theater has been scheduled for Saturday night. These things seem to alternate between Grass Valley and Nev: ada City unintentionally. A few weeks ago it was a wine tasting party and art show in Grass Valley. This weekend the Penstock Players willstage a melodrama, dance and midnight supper in ~ the Nevada City Elks Club Hall. From the advance publicity, -it sounds like a different and enjoyable evening. eeee8s¢ School buses may look alike, but more than one member of the group of local officials who went on the second countysponsored road inspection tour tothe eastern end of the county Saturday discovered this is not true. ‘More than one of the group soon discovered that they were ona different bus Saturday than ‘the one used two weeks ago and that the seats seemed a bit closer together. By mid-day it seemed harder to get out of the seat at each inspection stop. By the end of the day several of the group left the bus with noticeable limps. County Planning Director Bill Roberts hadno problems with the bus seats. He spent most of the day on the intercom explaining the variety of road problems in the eastern end of the county and stood up for almost the entire trip. Of course, he did get a few bruises from being bumped about while the bus slowly creeped over some of the more choice examples of humpy and bumpy county road problens. i ees ¢ The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce and other civic leaders are cranking up for a statistical and pictorial assault on the California Highway Commission in June in an attempt to jack up the schedule for the start of work on the Grass Valley and middlesection ofthe Grass Valley -Nevada City Freeway. The group of officials and civic leaders which traveléd to Sacramento several weeks ago to get the dismal news that the Grass Valley segment would not CAROUSEL May 19 «-. The Gold Quartz Democratic Club will held a potluck dinner at 7 p.m.-in-the Alta-OaksSunset firehouse. Jack Barker of Auburn, candidate for the Sixth Assembly District seat, will be the guest speaker, The public is invited. May 19 --»-An open house at the new Chicago Park School on Mount Olive Road will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The public is invited, } be started before 1970 was also told that a small delegation should appear at the June meeting of the commission with a concise presentation of the problems being created by the delay. So the Chamber is gathering pictures of the mid-town traffic jams which have become a regular occurence around here. Also being gathered are figures on the loss to county and city from state highway property which has been taken off the tax rolls to sit for several years ‘and some evidence on just what all this delay and destruction is doing to the local economy, Perhaps one of the best pitches the local group could make for haste in the freeway construction could be had by taping interviews with drivers headed to or from work in the morning, noon orearly evening by way of the present Grass Valley -Nevada City Highway. But, then, perhaps the kind of language that would be used in those interviews might be too strong fora highway commission meeting. eeeees Inthe “They're At It Again” category this week are the items that the Truckee-Donner area is seriously talking about turning that whole regton into a city for the umpteenth time in the past 25 years and giving some signs this time that the thing might really go ahead. The other bit of earth-shaking revival is that the Nevada City Council is going to take yet another look at reopening its airport. A serious poker player, and there are quite a few around here, would probably pause quite awhile before shelling out $300 to $400 just to see someone's hand, yetthat is just about what the Nevada City Council voted to do last week when they authorized a survey to permit computations of how much dirt has to be moved to bring the off-and-on facility up to standards that would allow it to be licensed by the state again. Since the state set up requirements for runway grade, it would seem logical to believe that the Aviation Agency might have some cost figures. Asa matter of fact, a committee of the council met with state officials last year and was told it would cost about $75,000 to bring the airport up to state standards. Perhaps the council needs some more serious poker players around the table. eeasse , Some of the old timers and even some of the younger generation talk wistfully of the roaring days of Nevada City when the Spring Street pleasure palaces were going full blast. Some even suggest jt might aid, the sagging economy a bitto reopen the street. In Grass Valley at the newly enlarged animal shelter there is a special area set aside for smaller animals especially cats. Although the members of the committee which did the preliminary planning for the shel-ter came up with some fancy names for this area, most have just settled on calling it the cat house. eeee#es? Grass Valley’has now really started to enforce its leash law and the enforcement has brought about some strange reactions from the citizens. An old gentlemen was seen Monday night walking his dog on a leash downtown, but something about the arrangement seemed strange. The man was complying with the law, but in an unusual manner. He had a leash, but the leash was attached to a ball and the dog was carrying the ball in his mouth. “These Gousin Jacks,” commented one lounger surveying this passing parade, “they figure if they have to carry a leash the dog is going to have to help too, “ eeeseees There area lot of stories about anxious fathers having sympathy pains for their pregnant wives, but some people go just too far on this sympathy bit. Nevada City insurance man, Ralph Friedrich has been limping about with a cast on his leg ever since the middle of ski season and only recently had it removed. Saturday Carole Friedrich slippedon a rock along the bank of the Yuba River and now, yes, you guessedit, she has a cast on her leg. May 20 .. The University Chorus under the direction of Richard Swift associate professor of music will present a concert at 8:15 p.m, in Freeborn Hall on the Davis campus of the University of California. The chorus will present the first complete American performance of the "Great Service inB flat” by Henry Purcell, e*eee#s May 22 ..The annual choir festival of the Mother Lode Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will be held in the First Methodist Church in Grass Valley starting at 4:30 p.m. Dr. Arthur Holton of Stockton will be the director. The public is invited. May 22 .-. AnAfternoon of the Dance” will be presented at 2 p.m. by the students of Patricia Rose's School of Creative Dance in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. May 26-29 . «+A Major exhibition of A merican painters willbeshown in the new elementary school on Pentz Road in Paradise under the sponsorship of the Paradise Fine Arts Guild and the California Arts Commission, The collection of 25 paintings valued at $500,000 covers 150 years of painting in the United States. Hours will be from 11 a.m, to 9p.m. opening day and11 a.m, to 6 p.m, the other days,

TRADE WINDS By Bob Wolden Happy to welcome back “Meditation Moment" this. week, ~ written by Hjalmar Berg of the Three R's Bookstore in Grass* Valley. Go over and see his place and have a cup of coffee. eee#2s?s « Gracious, what a sale at Alpha! Their bi-annual backyard évent was a fantastic sucBoo, hiss, cheer, stomp your feet, now's your chance to lose all inhibitions at Saturday's big night at the Elk's hall in Nevada City. The showboat “River Queen” is coming up Deer Creek and will dock on Pine Street at 8 p.m. Entertainment, dancing, refreshments of your Friday morning, Alpha‘s backyard cess. Crowds of people, free ‘coffee and they seemed to have. moved all their merchandise. Cut prices, tell people what you're doing, have hard workers and planning management and youtoocan draw a large crowd, -@eees choice, (booze or soft drinks), and a midnight buffet. @eeeees? Grass Valley's mall is moving forward. The landscaping is being planned andI hope we get fountains and sculpture as already suggested by Grass Valley "Mike" Micander Everything you heard about Lynn Schugren's concert last Sunday is true -unless your informants didn't use enough superlatives. Special thanks to Mr, Charles Qgibet, music teacher at St. Mary's for pushing this program, Perhaps our local concert group can bring her back. eoeees#es Mayor John Hodge. ees 8.8 Understand there's stirrings of amerchant’s group in Nevada City....and I say “wonderful, ” eseeses John "Mike" Micander, longtime Grass Valley resident and past president of the Jaycees, is now on the sales staff of Farber Ford. “Mike™ will be handling new and used car sales, Town Talk Nevada County Nugget...May 18, 1966...Q River Queen...Stiff Backs... Road Talk...New City...Cats Another in the seemingly endless number of events to raise funds to purchase the Nevada Theater has been scheduled for Saturday night. These things seem to alternate between Grass Valley and Nev: ada City unintentionally. A few weeks ago it was a wine tasting party and art show in Grass Valley. This weekend the Penstock Players willstage a melodrama, dance and midnight supper in ~ the Nevada City Elks Club Hall. From the advance publicity, -it sounds like a different and enjoyable evening. eeee8s¢ School buses may look alike, but more than one member of the group of local officials who went on the second countysponsored road inspection tour tothe eastern end of the county Saturday discovered this is not true. ‘More than one of the group soon discovered that they were ona different bus Saturday than ‘the one used two weeks ago and that the seats seemed a bit closer together. By mid-day it seemed harder to get out of the seat at each inspection stop. By the end of the day several of the group left the bus with noticeable limps. County Planning Director Bill Roberts hadno problems with the bus seats. He spent most of the day on the intercom explaining the variety of road problems in the eastern end of the county and stood up for almost the entire trip. Of course, he did get a few bruises from being bumped about while the bus slowly creeped over some of the more choice examples of humpy and bumpy county road problens. i ees ¢ The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce and other civic leaders are cranking up for a statistical and pictorial assault on the California Highway Commission in June in an attempt to jack up the schedule for the start of work on the Grass Valley and middlesection ofthe Grass Valley -Nevada City Freeway. The group of officials and civic leaders which traveléd to Sacramento several weeks ago to get the dismal news that the Grass Valley segment would not CAROUSEL May 19 «-. The Gold Quartz Democratic Club will held a potluck dinner at 7 p.m.-in-the Alta-OaksSunset firehouse. Jack Barker of Auburn, candidate for the Sixth Assembly District seat, will be the guest speaker, The public is invited. May 19 --»-An open house at the new Chicago Park School on Mount Olive Road will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The public is invited, } be started before 1970 was also told that a small delegation should appear at the June meeting of the commission with a concise presentation of the problems being created by the delay. So the Chamber is gathering pictures of the mid-town traffic jams which have become a regular occurence around here. Also being gathered are figures on the loss to county and city from state highway property which has been taken off the tax rolls to sit for several years ‘and some evidence on just what all this

delay and destruction is doing to the local economy, Perhaps one of the best pitches the local group could make for haste in the freeway construction could be had by taping interviews with drivers headed to or from work in the morning, noon orearly evening by way of the present Grass Valley -Nevada City Highway. But, then, perhaps the kind of language that would be used in those interviews might be too strong fora highway commission meeting. eeeees Inthe “They're At It Again” category this week are the items that the Truckee-Donner area is seriously talking about turning that whole regton into a city for the umpteenth time in the past 25 years and giving some signs this time that the thing might really go ahead. The other bit of earth-shaking revival is that the Nevada City Council is going to take yet another look at reopening its airport. A serious poker player, and there are quite a few around here, would probably pause quite awhile before shelling out $300 to $400 just to see someone's hand, yetthat is just about what the Nevada City Council voted to do last week when they authorized a survey to permit computations of how much dirt has to be moved to bring the off-and-on facility up to standards that would allow it to be licensed by the state again. Since the state set up requirements for runway grade, it would seem logical to believe that the Aviation Agency might have some cost figures. Asa matter of fact, a committee of the council met with state officials last year and was told it would cost about $75,000 to bring the airport up to state standards. Perhaps the council needs some more serious poker players around the table. eeasse , Some of the old timers and even some of the younger generation talk wistfully of the roaring days of Nevada City when the Spring Street pleasure palaces were going full blast. Some even suggest jt might aid, the sagging economy a bitto reopen the street. In Grass Valley at the newly enlarged animal shelter there is a special area set aside for smaller animals especially cats. Although the members of the committee which did the preliminary planning for the shel-ter came up with some fancy names for this area, most have just settled on calling it the cat house. eeee#es? Grass Valley’has now really started to enforce its leash law and the enforcement has brought about some strange reactions from the citizens. An old gentlemen was seen Monday night walking his dog on a leash downtown, but something about the arrangement seemed strange. The man was complying with the law, but in an unusual manner. He had a leash, but the leash was attached to a ball and the dog was carrying the ball in his mouth. “These Gousin Jacks,” commented one lounger surveying this passing parade, “they figure if they have to carry a leash the dog is going to have to help too, “ eeeseees There area lot of stories about anxious fathers having sympathy pains for their pregnant wives, but some people go just too far on this sympathy bit. Nevada City insurance man, Ralph Friedrich has been limping about with a cast on his leg ever since the middle of ski season and only recently had it removed. Saturday Carole Friedrich slippedon a rock along the bank of the Yuba River and now, yes, you guessedit, she has a cast on her leg. May 20 ... The University Chorus under the direction of Richard Swift associate professor of music will present a concert at 8:15 p.m, in Freeborn Hall on the Davis campus of the University of California. The chorus will present the first complete American performance of the "Great Service inB flat” by Henry Purcell, e*eee#s May 22 ...The annual choir festival of the Mother Lode Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will be held in the First Methodist Church in Grass Valley starting at 4:30 p.m. Dr. Arthur Holton of Stockton will be the director. The public is invited. May 22 .-. AnAfternoon of the Dance” will be presented at 2 p.m. by the students of Patricia Rose's School of Creative Dance in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. May 26-29 . «+A Major exhibition of A merican painters willbeshown in the new elementary school on Pentz Road in Paradise under the sponsorship of the Paradise Fine Arts Guild and the California Arts Commission, The collection of 25 paintings valued at $500,000 covers 150 years of painting in the United States. Hours will be from 11 a.m, to 9p.m. opening day and11 a.m, to 6 p.m, the other days,