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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

May 18, 1966 (20 pages)

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Horsemen Plan For Trail Ride The overnight “Trail Ride” of the Nevada County Horsemen will meet at 10:00 a.m. Saturday at Lime Kiln Road, off Auburn Highway south of Grass Valley. The ride will take all comers through the Viscia property which has been so graciously offered to the -participants. All riders areasked to bring a sack lunch for the first day out. Also all horses must have strong lead ropes and be shod, Those interested are invited for Saturday night dinner at the Chuck Wagon. Veterans Picnic The third annual benefit picnic of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 49er Post No. 9878, North San Juan, will be held from noon to 5:00 p.m., May 29. The picnic site willbe the V.F.W. Camp grounds on Moonshine Road, One quarter pound hamburgers, beans, salads and refreshments wéll be on the menu. A mountain lion rug drawing will be held at 4:00 p.m. Haley Wins Award Allan S, Haley,of Nevada City, has received the John Osborne Sargent Award at Harvard College. The prize, consisting of a sum of $300, is awarded for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace. Haley was graduated from Nevada Union High School, and is completing his senior year at Harvardatthe present time. He is concentrating in music, and has submitted an honors thesis entitled “Sketchbook of BeetHoven.” After graduation from Harvard, Haley plans to continue his study of Beethoven in Germany with a Rotary Foundation Fellowship. : He is the son of Mrs. Charles Scott Haley of 304 Nevada St., Nevada City. Rebekah Ceremony Impressive ceremonies were conducted Tuesday evening by District Deputy President Mona Williams and her staff honoring past noble grands at Neva Rebekah No, 119, Nevada City. Noble Grand Esther Foster introduced 28 members from Neva and they responded with the year they served, Those visiting from other lodges were also introduced and all received pens bearing the lodge emblem as gifts from the noble grand,The evening opened with the annual Neva birthday dinner served by Roberta Day and her committee. Three Neva sisters, Helen Cox, Julie Rudisill and Anhe Richards, celebrating their birthdays this month, received candles, flowers and a poem from the noble grand. Their cakes were served in the dining hall following the meeting. A transfer member was received and welcomed into Neva during the business session. Marvin Kitts, Grass Valley, ‘gave a talk on Beale Air Base and invited all to Armed Forces day May 21. Memorial services will be held May 25 at Neva Lodge No, 119, Nevada City. ELOISE DALTON, played by Karen Ross and villain Egbert Van Horn, played by Dean Ross tobe seen in Saturday evening's production of "Curse You Jack Dalton." SHOWN HERE Karen and Dean Ross, Kimary Stevenson, playing Ann Alvarado are threatened by Harold Todd acting as RichardBlair. Sierra Will Honor 21 Students Twenty-one students at Sierra College will be honored Saturday, May 21, atSmorgy's in Roseville in the fourth annual Sierra College Recognition banquet, Student Body President Ken Herr announced today. Three area students will be honored at the affair. Speaker at the 7 p.m. dinner will be instructor John Creelman, whose topic will be “Academic Excellence." Honored will be those students recognized for department contributions during 1965-66. A reception for parents of those winning the American Paintings On Display A major exhibition of American painting, organized by the California ArtsCommission, will be shown in Paradise May 26-29. The traveling exhibition, “American Master, 150 Years of Painting in the United States, " is comprised of 25 paintings by some of America's foremost artists. Valued to$500, 000, it was assembled fromthe collections of several California museums by Dr. Thomas Leavitt, director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The Paradise Fine Arts Guild is sponsoring the show locally. It will beheld in the new elementary school, 6593 Pentz road, and is open to the public free of charge. Hours will be 11 a.m. to9p.m. on Thursday, the opening day, and 11 a.m. toé p.m. the other three days, According to Dr. Leavitt the exhibition traces the development of painting in America from the early portraits to romanticism, impressionism, and the many art movements of the 20th century. Each picture is intended torepresent a different aspect of painting in this county. : The scope of the exhibit ranges froma portrait by Gilbert Stuart to the work of such modern painters as Richard Diebenkorn and Arshile Gorky. Among the famous artists represented are CharlesBurchfield, Edward Hopper, John Marin, George Inness, Ben Shahn, Winslow Homer, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove, The exhibition is one of the first visual arts projects of the Arts Commission set up in 1964, It is taveling throughout the state. Other towns in which it
is being shown in the northern part of the state are Eureka and Sacramento, Nevada County Nugget... May 18, 1966...'7 River Queen Docks Saturday Night The Liberal Arts decoration committee headed by Mrs, William Briggs will convert the the Elks Club in Nevada City into a Mississippi show boat for the Saturday night ball and buffet which introduces the Penstock Players tothe Twin Cities. With artistic design and ingenuity, the committee has-crea~ ted a red and white show room replete with white railing, sound effects and gang plank entrance tocreate the River Queen show boat setting. Possters from the Powell Theatre Collection now on loan to the Liberal Arts will lend an authentic touch to the gay makebelieve decor, In addition to Mrs. Briggs the decorations committee includes Mrs. Karl Kopp, Mrs, Carl Steger, and Mr, and Mrs, Richard McKenzie. The evening aboard the showboat will open with the imelodrama “Curse You Jack Dalton: Del Pharis has directed the production assisted by Joyce Stanley, The cast of the melodrama will include: Jim Abraham, Nancy Barberii, Harold Todd, Joyce Stanley, Karen Ross,;-Dean Ross and Kim Stevenson. . The melodrama will be followed by an olio which will include Dan O'Neill and Dan Ruedger, the Honeyette Alley Cats, Steve Tassone and Kathy Valentine from the recent production of “The Mikado”. Four members of the Gold Pan Players of Georgetown and their director -producer, Margaret Chamberlain, will also lend their talents to the olio, The Gold Panners represented by Earline and Alf Christiansen, John Evans and Betty Lou Young will present the skit “l'oo Late! Too Late!" Mrs, Chamberlain will also give her characterization of Ophelia Fallingwater from the classic “Curfew, Shall Not Right Tonight! ” Following the olio performances there will be dancing to the music of Jim Painter's orchestra from Sacramento and a midnight buffet supper. Funds derived from the event will go to the Save the Nevada Theater Drive. Tickets will be available at the door and also may be-purchased at Alpha, Osborn -Woods, 3R Book Store and Sierra Saddlery, Workshop Film Screened A filmtitled "Selling One Guy Named Larry” was shown to the officers and members of Esther Rebekah Lodge No, 9 in Grass Valley Saturday night. The film produced by the National Association for Retarded Children was shown by Don Hoagland of Grass Valley, publicity chairman for the Nevada County Council for Retarded honors will precede the dinner at 6:30 p.m. Special honors will go to retifing English instructor Martha Pierce, to choreographer Jere .Curry and to Student Council Member Bob Noyes of Roseville. Nameu by the instructors for department honors were: Agriculture Johnny Johnson, Grass Valley and Eliot Appleton, Loomis; Business-LaWanna McCoy, Grass Valley and Mike Davis, Fair Oaks; Drama -Speech -Bruce Lombardi,Rocklin and Rod Sullivan, Meadow Vista; Engineering-Leslie Miller, Auburn; Math -Richard Litzenberger, Placerville; English-Carol Ann Dunlop, Placerville and John Benson, Nevada City; Foreign Language -Betty Zablosky , Roseville andSean Daley, Roseville; Music -Bill Mitchell, Placerville; Physical Science -Barbara Oviedo, Auburn and Douglas Hunter, Roseville; Social Sciences-Richard Foley, Placerville and John Schick, Roseville;Electronics-Don MacGregor of Roseville. To protect the value of the awards, some departments failed to name “outstanding stur dents” this semester. President Harold Weaver will welcome guests and their parents. Ex-Council Member Dave Mace will give the invocation, Children, Hoagland told the group that the community had responded to the appeal of the Nevada County Council for funds to start and operate a sheltered workshop forthe retarded here. Now, he said, the organization has the workshop open and is again appealing tothe community to seek work contracts for the workshop and tothink about jobs that the -workshop trainees can do in this area. The filmexplains howemployers across the country learned about the retarded and their capabilities by hiring trainees from sheltered workshops. Preceding the film, the regular business session was held with Noble Grand, Zale Johnson, presiding. An invitation was read from Native Daughters of the Golden West, Manzanita Parlor No, 29, to hold joint services May 26 in their parlor at 159 Mill Street, Grass Valley. Initiation for new members was set for June 25, There will be special entertainment following the business session of the next meeting Mav 28. All members are urged to attend, Refreshments were served by Irene Hunt and her cominittee, Yip Will Paint The Town This Weekend Richard Yip, well known instructor in out of door painting, will be in the Grass ValleyNevada City area Saturday and Sunday, Yip has visited this arca on several occasions and his sessions are looked forward to by many local residents as well as out of town talent, For further information, contact Mrs. Helen Liotta, the director of the class, She isa teacher of arts-and crafts at Nevada Union Senior High School,