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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,