May 20, 1965 (20 pages)

2 CO ae FUN Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North BloomfieR Humbug Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, ChicaghPark, vp ld Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch N Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Go Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, N. » Indi Volume 39 Number 20 Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orlean& 10 Cents A Copy mbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney elief Hill, fms a Published Thursdays, Nevada City > Pe ay 20, 1965 Frank Amaral Buys County's Interest In Chicago Park Townsite For $35,000 Nevada County picked up a good piece of change for the coffers Tuesday when the Chicago Park Townsite sold at auction for $35,000. The minimum bid for the 30 acres more or less south east of Grass Valley was set by the board at $25,000. The county only had afew hundred dollars invested as its interest in the property and offeredno title insurance or warranty as to title of the property in the sale, California Leisure Lands Corp. and Frank Amaral of Nevada City were the only bidders on the land, Heller To Attend Conference On Natural Beauty Nugget publisher Alfred Heller will be in Washington, D. C. Monday and Tuesday to participate in the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Jonnson, and members of the Cabinet willbe on the agenda of the conference, which is part of the President's program to “organize for action and rescue Our cities and countryside from blight in the same way that we moved to save the forests and the soil, “ Heller is president of California Tomorrow, a conservation education organization maintaining an office in Sacramento. California Leisure Lands bid $27,600 in a sealed bid and Amaral submitted the minimum bid of $25, 000. Under the procedure outlined in the public sale notices, oral bidding was then opened and the next bid had to be up five per cent or $28,980, but Amaral went up to $29,000. California Leisure Lands then raised to $30,000 where bidding could then proceed at $1 or more at atime, Amaral then jumped his bid to $35,000 and Clayton Orr, represcating California Leisure Lands, declined to bid. The board continued action on the matter until Tuesday to give the county counsel time to prepare the necessary papers to complete the deal, a: Set Up Recreation 4 Advisory Commission Nevada County took a big step forward in realizing its recreation potential Tuesday when the board of supervisors approved an ordinance creating a five man advisory recreation commission. This was the second time around for the proposal, The public hearing on the ordinance was held May 3 anda large delegation from the recreation rich TruckeeDonner area appeared and asked for a 30 day delay to study the proposal, Possible conflicts with the existing Truckee-Donner Recreation District and a lack of time to study the ordinance were given as the reasons for the request, The supervisors settledon a delay of two weeks and Tuesday THREE OLD RAILROADERS gathered this week to take a look at the start of the final destruction of the old Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad tunnel at Town Talk. The hill and tunnel are being excavated to make way for tne Nevada City -Grass Valley Freeway, of the tunnel which can be seen_on the lower left are former Shown above looking at the remains Narrow Gauge master mechanic Johnny Nolan of Grass Valley, former engineer and firemanTom Moyle of Gold Flat and former engineer and electrician Fred Hawke of GrassValley, For a view of the tunnel in the old days, turn to page 3, @ NUGGET SPECIAL REPORT the continued hearing brought out only a few interested residents, Dr. H. P. Tapia, president of the Truckee-Donner Recreation District, was the first to speak in favor of the proposal, He had been one of those asking for a delay in the proceedings two weeks before. Tapia told the board his group had reviewed the proposed ordinance and the Beaches and Parks Act of 1964 which he said had prompted the county to create a recreation commission to receive funds from the bond act, He noted the county supervisors had the final word on allocation of funds under the $150,000 bond act even though a recreation district such as the Truckee-Donner District could make application for a grant. . He also pointed out that one of the requirements for receiving funds under the bond act was that the county have a cor-ty-wide general plan such as the one now being prepared by the county and the planning firm of Williams, Mocine and.Cook, Tapia noted there is no requirement in the bond act requiring formation of a recreation commission, but it seemed like a good idea and would not infringe onthe powers of the existing Truckee District, He did ask that the section of the ordinance establishment appoint ment of ex-officio members to the commission be amended to include administrators from the Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District and the TruckeeDonner Recreation District "to promote unity betweeri the east‘ern and western end of the county, " The board modified the ordinance to read that ex-officio members may include a member of the supervisors, county execu(Continued on Page 2) Davis Offers To Bring Dramatic Production Here And The Liberal Arts Commission Turns The Nevada City "Liberal Arts Commission", which was created to-encourage the University of California at Davis to establish a summer theater in the city, preferably in the historic Nevada Theater, Monday night told Davis in effect to "go away until we're ready for you, " The Davis theater department had offered to puton its summer comedy production, Calderon's "A House of Two Doors", in Nevada City on the last weekend in July, This offer was made in January, and plans had progressed to the point that a location had been selected (the Elks Hall), and Davis had agreed to shoulder the burden of providing sets and programs, The local liberal arts group would have been expected to pay hallrental and other incidentals, with all ticket receipts going to the local sponsors, But twoweeks ago, at a special “executive” meeting of the commission's own proposed historical pageant.in the Nevada Theater for the same date as the proposed Davis production. Monday night the commission met again and decided that the local show must go on. A letter will be sent to Davis officials requesting a change in dates, However it is known that the July date is particularly convenient to Davis, since it coincides with the end of college summer session. Commission president Mrs, Isabol Hefelfinger said at Monday's meeting that maybe next year the city would own the theater and could offer it to Davis. But in the meantime the liberal arts group has obtained agreement from the owners of the Nevada Theaterto rent the hall for three weeks for the local July production, The commission members presumably felt on Monday that this arrangement should not be upset. The local production is being planned and organized under the direction of Mrs, Marian Libbey, and promises to be the finest local theater production in more than-a decade, In any Case, it deserves the fullest possible support. But the fact remains that the Davis offer was greeted by some Surprisingly negative responses from the liberal arts group. Fred Forsman, a veteran of amateur and professional theater, wondered whether the Davis summer production would be very good. Mrs, Kenneth Dark, commission secretary, worried that local expenses for the Davis production might be several hundred dollars. Mrs, Hefelfinger also asked for a “cold, hard" look at production costs, As one of the commission members friendly to Davis put it after the meeting, “After you have been asking a girl to marry you for three years, and she finally agrees, you don't tell her you're not ready for her, " “ 9 ie) pa "JT1BD ‘6 O4Usre Them Down *sTTBD £1BIQT] 04845 UOT45ES Sl BOT PoTuad

2 CO ae FUN Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North BloomfieR Humbug Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, ChicaghPark, vp ld Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch N Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Go Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, N. » Indi Volume 39 Number 20 Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orlean& 10 Cents A Copy mbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney elief Hill, fms a Published Thursdays, Nevada City > Pe ay 20, 1965 Frank Amaral Buys County's Interest In Chicago Park Townsite For $35,000 Nevada County picked up a good piece of change for the coffers Tuesday when the Chicago Park Townsite sold at auction for $35,000. The minimum bid for the 30 acres more or less south east of Grass Valley was set by the board at $25,000. The county only had afew hundred dollars invested as its interest in the property and offeredno title insurance or warranty as to title of the property in the sale, California Leisure Lands Corp. and Frank Amaral of Nevada City were the only bidders on the land, Heller To Attend Conference On Natural Beauty Nugget publisher Alfred Heller will be in Washington, D. C. Monday and Tuesday to participate in the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Jonnson, and members of the Cabinet willbe on the agenda of the conference, which is part of the President's program to “organize for action and rescue Our cities and countryside from blight in the same way that we moved to save the forests and the soil, “ Heller is president of California Tomorrow, a conservation education organization maintaining an office in Sacramento. California Leisure Lands bid $27,600 in a sealed bid and Amaral submitted the minimum bid of $25, 000. Under the procedure outlined in the public sale notices, oral bidding was then opened and the next bid had to be up five per cent or $28,980, but Amaral went up to $29,000. California Leisure Lands then raised to $30,000 where bidding could then proceed at $1 or more at atime, Amaral then jumped his bid to $35,000 and Clayton Orr, represcating California Leisure Lands, declined to bid. The board continued action on the matter until Tuesday to give the county counsel time to prepare the necessary papers to complete the deal, a: Set Up Recreation 4 Advisory Commission Nevada County took a big step forward in realizing its recreation potential Tuesday when the board of supervisors approved an ordinance creating a five man advisory recreation commission. This was the second time around for the proposal, The public hearing on the ordinance was held May 3 anda large delegation from the recreation rich TruckeeDonner area appeared and asked for a 30 day delay to study the proposal, Possible conflicts with the existing Truckee-Donner Recreation District and a lack of time to study the ordinance were given as the reasons for the request, The supervisors settledon a delay of two weeks and Tuesday THREE OLD RAILROADERS gathered this week to take a look at the start of the final destruction of the old Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad tunnel at Town Talk. The hill and tunnel are being excavated to make way for tne Nevada City -Grass Valley Freeway, of the tunnel which can be seen_on the lower left are former Shown above looking at the remains Narrow Gauge master mechanic Johnny Nolan of Grass Valley, former engineer and firemanTom Moyle of Gold Flat and former engineer and electrician Fred Hawke of GrassValley, For a view of the tunnel in the old days, turn to page 3, @ NUGGET SPECIAL REPORT the continued hearing brought out only a few interested residents, Dr. H. P. Tapia, president of the Truckee-Donner Recreation District, was the first to speak in favor of the proposal, He had been one of those asking for a delay in the proceedings two weeks before. Tapia told the board his group had reviewed the proposed ordinance and the Beaches and Parks Act of 1964 which he said had prompted the county to create a recreation commission to receive funds from the bond act, He noted the county supervisors

had the final word on allocation of funds under the $150,000 bond act even though a recreation district such as the Truckee-Donner District could make application for a grant. . He also pointed out that one of the requirements for receiving funds under the bond act was that the county have a cor-ty-wide general plan such as the one now being prepared by the county and the planning firm of Williams, Mocine and.Cook, Tapia noted there is no requirement in the bond act requiring formation of a recreation commission, but it seemed like a good idea and would not infringe onthe powers of the existing Truckee District, He did ask that the section of the ordinance establishment appoint ment of ex-officio members to the commission be amended to include administrators from the Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District and the TruckeeDonner Recreation District "to promote unity betweeri the east‘ern and western end of the county, " The board modified the ordinance to read that ex-officio members may include a member of the supervisors, county execu(Continued on Page 2) Davis Offers To Bring Dramatic Production Here And The Liberal Arts Commission Turns The Nevada City "Liberal Arts Commission", which was created to-encourage the University of California at Davis to establish a summer theater in the city, preferably in the historic Nevada Theater, Monday night told Davis in effect to "go away until we're ready for you, " The Davis theater department had offered to puton its summer comedy production, Calderon's "A House of Two Doors", in Nevada City on the last weekend in July, This offer was made in January, and plans had progressed to the point that a location had been selected (the Elks Hall), and Davis had agreed to shoulder the burden of providing sets and programs, The local liberal arts group would have been expected to pay hallrental and other incidentals, with all ticket receipts going to the local sponsors, But twoweeks ago, at a special “executive” meeting of the commission's own proposed historical pageant.in the Nevada Theater for the same date as the proposed Davis production. Monday night the commission met again and decided that the local show must go on. A letter will be sent to Davis officials requesting a change in dates, However it is known that the July date is particularly convenient to Davis, since it coincides with the end of college summer session. Commission president Mrs, Isabol Hefelfinger said at Monday's meeting that maybe next year the city would own the theater and could offer it to Davis. But in the meantime the liberal arts group has obtained agreement from the owners of the Nevada Theaterto rent the hall for three weeks for the local July production, The commission members presumably felt on Monday that this arrangement should not be upset. The local production is being planned and organized under the direction of Mrs, Marian Libbey, and promises to be the finest local theater production in more than-a decade, In any Case, it deserves the fullest possible support. But the fact remains that the Davis offer was greeted by some Surprisingly negative responses from the liberal arts group. Fred Forsman, a veteran of amateur and professional theater, wondered whether the Davis summer production would be very good. Mrs, Kenneth Dark, commission secretary, worried that local expenses for the Davis production might be several hundred dollars. Mrs, Hefelfinger also asked for a “cold, hard" look at production costs, As one of the commission members friendly to Davis put it after the meeting, “After you have been asking a girl to marry you for three years, and she finally agrees, you don't tell her you're not ready for her, " “ 9 ie) pa "JT1BD ‘6 O4Usre Them Down *sTTBD £1BIQT] 04845 UOT45ES Sl BOT PoTuad