May 23, 1962 (10 pages)

‘NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Wednesday By ' NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. R. Dean Thompson. ... Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406 4 ’ Ame Subscription Rates: One year, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 . Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar EDITORIAL From the sphere of our sorrow. ~Shelley and the flyleaf on The Big X by Henry Hunt Searls, Jr. Economic Survey Published in 1959 The action of the Board of Supervisors last Thursday in calling for a county Econ omic Resources Inventory will be welcomed by the entire community. The resolution calling for the thorough study, tobe led by 25 community leaders, withthe assistance of the State Economic Development Agency, was introduced by Supervisor Neil Hennessy, and was passed unanimously. climbed and hauled the wagons by ropes and mules over the jagged rocks which in places were higher than the wagons and perpendicular. Wehave been caught in a storm ofsleet and 40 mules have frozen to death. Yet maybe tomorrow we will reach California, I am deathly sick and must get better soon or play Moses by looking at the Promised Land and never. enter It is hoped the survey will collect data to assist potential investors in the county's industry and economy, and produce a “program for action for development of the economic resources of the county and its communities." Without doubt, the survey will provide the factual basis for a realistic zoning program, the need for which has been cited by several groups withinthe last few months. The proposal as passed by the supervisors is notable in that its success will depend on "self help" at the local level. It does not rely on an outside expert to produce a study at considerable expense which might or might not be in tune with needs of this area. Weare sure that many community leaders willrespondtothis opportunity to conduct the survey. I quote from another book-The Diary of a Pioneer (on his overland trip from Missouri that took five months) -by Niles Searls: September 30, 1849 For eight miles we literally : ing therein. Judging from the effect of scurvy on others, I am good for another three weeks and then and then Well, at the end of a week if no better progress is made, I will, if able, confiscate a mule and ride for life. October 1, 1849 Thesummit is crossed! We are in Californial. ‘pioneer. In 1852 District Attorney of Nevada County. Law partner of William Morris Stewart. Chief Justice I could not help but believe that California was destined to become a State of some consequence. with such an average intelligent, cultured and educated population. The results, however, have greatly exceeded my most of the Supreme Court of the State of California. Grand father of Fred, Jr, ture andintelligencethat I did not expect to find, and Helen, Robert, Henry and Carrol Searls, A pioneer with vision who was not afraid of the unknown as he pushed his wagon train ever westward, Who is Henry Hunt: Searls. Tr He's Hank Searles, great grandson of Niles Searjs, who spends his week ends in Nevada City and he too a man of vision. Not over the unchartered prairies but in the skies above. Hank Searls isa pilot and author also of The Crowded Sky: Says author Searls in his prologue "The airway sanguine anticipations, and the development of the State's resources that has come with later years was something I never anticipated, " NilesSearles. Acrossthe plains he came to ‘See the Elephant' ascoming to California was called, He rose in greatness in Nevada City and California. Searls was in Washington DC on April 14th, 1865, the next day to meet President Abraham Lincoln through Senator William Morris Stewart. The appointment could not isnota highway, but an invisible alley, sometimes of infinite height. " : I write of Great Grandfather Niles and Great Grand be kept. That night Lincoln was assassinated byJohn Wilkes Booth: son Hank to show how great the change in 113 years. Now the goal isnot California, asinNiles Searls time, Neil Hennessy The economic development survey cited above is but one further example of the sound continuing contribution of Supervisor Neil Hennessyto the progress of Nevada County. Hennessy has been in the forefront of those on the board of supervi the interview discusses the growth of California, What would he think of California to-day that will have a sors who have devoted time and wisdom to the problems of maintaining an economi cally balanced, forward-looking county ositionS makes available $150 million for recreation and park land acquisition. Proposition1] ($200 million) will provide said Judge ofthe majesty_and grandeur--I will not say the beauty --of the mountain scenery of the State. To me the scene as I crossed the summit of the Sierra was aweinspiring. It was a revelation such as I was not prepared to expect. But concerning the future of the State I had "IT arrived in California October 14, 1849. Or rather, that wasthe date of my arrival in Sacramento; I crossed the Sierra two weeks previously. The Constitution of the State had just been adopted by the Con stitutional Convention sitting in Monterey, and the date set for the adoption of the Constitution by the people was just one month off. The election at which the Constitution was to be submitted to a vote of the was the theme of much thought and consideration, and The first plane to land in NC.at Cashin Field on July 4, 1914. this fact impressed me with the belief that the thousands of people then in California were taking an interest in the welfare and future of the new country which promised well. I wasinSacramentowhen the election came off, and voted for the Constitution. Everybody wanted to know something about the document, but it happened that many were unable to obtain the intelligence they wanted, I happened to obtain a copy of it, and at the the solicitation of quite a number of acquaintances, I mounted a pile of ox yokes in the streets of Sacramento and read sections of the propsoed Constitution, covering which have all but gone the limit in bonded its salient features, toa crowd of several hundr ed people, I remember that I commended the Constituti on ‘very highly, and te'd the assembled miners that it greatly exceeded my anticipations, sense. State de jure, but not de facto, from Nove mber, 1849, for school districts Long before the "Crowded Sky" in Nevada City . people and at which State officers were to be elected propositions---numbers 1,3, and 5,--we tal, and other public works projects. Prop " My first impressions of California , Nile: Searls ofthe Supreme Court Commission, "were in a few years with the decline of the mining industry. Among the vital bond issue proposals on the June ballot we could not single out any as being without merit. The odd numbered of $470 million dollars for school, hospi population of 17,500,000 by December 15 of 1962? What would Nites Searles think of our "Crowded Skies"? This isthe reporter's story from the yellowed clipping: others that California's destiny was to be emphemeral and inglorious, andthat her statehood would terminate The Bard Wsdes would single out as being of major importance to the future of California. Propositions 1 and 3 provide for a total war a newspape ded r clipping of an interview that Niles Searls had given a reporter in 1860. Niles Searls in other impressions, I did not share the ‘opinion of some government. Hennessy deserves the continued support and confidence of the voters in District 3 in the forthcoming June 5 election. indebtedness and still do not have the a_ o Well, as every one knows, the Const itution was bility to take care of growing school enadotped, State officers were elected at the same time, rollments. As a basic investment in the and we went on with the State government befdr e the State was admitted by Congress. So that we were future of the state, this proposition makes a Proposition 3 ($270 million) will allow the state toconstruct badly needed facilities in state colleges and universities , mental institutions, and.corregtional wards. Proposition 5, discussed before in these columns, is the key to a sound expansion of the overloaded state park system and to construction of regional parks. Passage of this measure might bring about the longsought creation of Malakoff-North Bloom field State Park. “One of my first impressions on reaching Calffornia, and one that impressed me very forcibly, was the ease and rapidity with which people coming into the country adapted themselves totheir surroundings, andthe great individuality they exhibited. Their aptitude for adopting rules and regulations for governing themselves in the absence of laws also impressed my favorably. Among the entire population there was an average cul Who is Niles Searls? Perhaps Nevada City's greatest . but the moon, as in Hank Searls time. All this because in the mail the other day was for construction money melons, and he told me they were $5 apiece, How ever, as I did not care for watermelons just at that moment; I did not purchase any. At Hangtown melons sold for half and ounce to an ounce of gold dust. We urge without reservation the passage of propositions 1, 3, and 5. APOLLO MERCURY until September, 1850. These events meant much for the future of California as a State, although no one, ‘itis safe to assert, had anything approaching a corre ct realization of what the future of the State would be, or what her resources would be when the gold deposits were all panned out. I had an idea, as early as 1850 that agricutlure might be engaged in with profit. In fact, as early as the date of my arrival in California “certain small areas were being farmed with immense profit. The profits of agriculture at that time were so immense thatI was afraidto make mention of it in ak my letters home for fear of being accused of falsification. I recall an instance where a German granger raised a crop of watermelons on an acre of land somewhere a long the Sacramento river below Sacramento, which netted him $5000. On the date of my arrival in Sacra mento I saw a man peddling; watermelons about the streets in a wheelbarrow. I asked him the price of his ' GEMINI The other propositions: Proposition 2 ($250 million) extends the Cal-Vet loan public agencies and private firms for con-. “? program to those who have not made use struction of low rental housing facilities for elderly people. These bonds would of these loans but are eligible. This bond also be self-liquidating, the proceeds to issue is sel f-liquidating. Proposition 4 revert to a revolving fund for further con ($100 million) would provide for loans to struction loans. Will we reach the moon? Of course we will, just as Niles Searles reached California. For man is ever restless for new frontiers. The costof the space program is great. .$1000 for everyman, woman and child in America Arne but forward we must go or die. Yet the moon is only the beginni on to other planets, To Mars and after Mars, Venus. Planet has undertakena planned, orderly exploration of all space. ng. With advanced engines we will move after planet. Step by step into space. For America The goal is to find benefits there for all mankind.

‘NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Wednesday By ' NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. R. Dean Thompson. ..... Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406 4 ’ Ame Subscription Rates: One year, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 . Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar EDITORIAL From the sphere of our sorrow. ~Shelley and the flyleaf on The Big X by Henry Hunt Searls, Jr. Economic Survey Published in 1959 The action of the Board of Supervisors last Thursday in calling for a county Econ omic Resources Inventory will be welcomed by the entire community. The resolution calling for the thorough study, tobe led by 25 community leaders, withthe assistance of the State Economic Development Agency, was introduced by Supervisor Neil Hennessy, and was passed unanimously. climbed and hauled the wagons by ropes and mules over the jagged rocks which in places were higher than the wagons and perpendicular. Wehave been caught in a storm ofsleet and 40 mules have frozen to death. Yet maybe tomorrow we will reach California, I am deathly sick and must get better soon or play Moses by looking at the Promised Land and never. enter It is hoped the survey will collect data to assist potential investors in the county's industry and economy, and produce a “program for action for development of the economic resources of the county and its communities." Without doubt, the survey will provide the factual basis for a realistic zoning program, the need for which has been cited by several groups withinthe last few months. The proposal as passed by the supervisors is notable in that its success will depend on "self help" at the local level. It does not rely on an outside expert to produce a study at considerable expense which might or might not be in tune with needs of this area. Weare sure that many community leaders willrespondtothis opportunity to conduct the survey. I quote from another book-The Diary of a Pioneer (on his overland trip from Missouri that took five months) -by Niles Searls: September 30, 1849 For eight miles we literally : ing therein. Judging from the effect of scurvy on others, I am good for another three weeks and then and then Well, at the end of a week if no better progress is made, I will, if able, confiscate a mule and ride for life. October 1, 1849 Thesummit is crossed! We are in Californial. ‘pioneer. In 1852 District Attorney of Nevada County. Law partner of William Morris Stewart. Chief Justice I could not help but believe that California was destined to become a State of some consequence. with such an average intelligent, cultured and educated population. The results, however, have greatly exceeded my most of the Supreme Court of the State of California. Grand father of Fred, Jr, ture andintelligencethat I did not expect to find, and Helen, Robert, Henry and Carrol Searls, A pioneer with vision who was not afraid of the unknown as he pushed his wagon train ever westward, Who is Henry Hunt: Searls. Tr He's Hank Searles, great grandson of Niles Searjs, who spends his week ends in Nevada City and he too a man of vision. Not over the unchartered prairies but in the skies above. Hank Searls isa pilot and author also of The Crowded Sky: Says author Searls in his prologue "The airway sanguine anticipations, and the development of the State's resources that has come with later years was something I never anticipated, " NilesSearles. Acrossthe plains he came to ‘See the Elephant' ascoming to California was called, He rose in greatness in Nevada City and California. Searls was in Washington DC on April 14th, 1865, the next day to meet President Abraham Lincoln through Senator William Morris Stewart. The appointment could not isnota highway, but an invisible alley, sometimes of infinite height. " : I write of Great Grandfather Niles and Great Grand be kept. That night Lincoln was assassinated byJohn Wilkes Booth: son Hank to show how great the change in 113 years. Now the goal isnot California, asinNiles Searls time, Neil Hennessy The economic development survey cited above is but one further example of the sound continuing contribution of Supervisor Neil Hennessyto the progress of Nevada County. Hennessy has been in the forefront of those on the board of supervi the interview discusses the growth of California, What would he think of California to-day that will have a sors who have devoted time and wisdom to the problems of maintaining an economi cally balanced, forward-looking county ositionS makes available $150 million for recreation and park land acquisition. Proposition1] ($200 million) will provide said Judge ofthe majesty_and grandeur--I will not say the beauty --of the mountain scenery of the State. To me the scene as I crossed the summit of the Sierra was aweinspiring. It was a revelation such as I was not prepared to expect. But concerning the future of the State I had "IT arrived in California October 14, 1849. Or rather, that wasthe date of my arrival in Sacramento; I crossed the Sierra two weeks previously. The Constitution of the State had just been adopted by the Con stitutional Convention sitting in Monterey, and the date set for the adoption of the Constitution by the people was just one month off. The election at which the Constitution was to be submitted to a vote of the was the theme of much thought and consideration, and The first plane to land in NC..at Cashin Field on July 4, 1914.

this fact impressed me with the belief that the thousands of people then in California were taking an interest in the welfare and future of the new country which promised well. I wasinSacramentowhen the election came off, and voted for the Constitution. Everybody wanted to know something about the document, but it happened that many were unable to obtain the intelligence they wanted, I happened to obtain a copy of it, and at the the solicitation of quite a number of acquaintances, I mounted a pile of ox yokes in the streets of Sacramento and read sections of the propsoed Constitution, covering which have all but gone the limit in bonded its salient features, toa crowd of several hundr ed people, I remember that I commended the Constituti on ‘very highly, and te'd the assembled miners that it greatly exceeded my anticipations, sense. State de jure, but not de facto, from Nove mber, 1849, for school districts Long before the "Crowded Sky" in Nevada City . people and at which State officers were to be elected propositions---numbers 1,3, and 5,--we tal, and other public works projects. Prop " My first impressions of California , Nile: Searls ofthe Supreme Court Commission, "were in a few years with the decline of the mining industry. Among the vital bond issue proposals on the June ballot we could not single out any as being without merit. The odd numbered of $470 million dollars for school, hospi population of 17,500,000 by December 15 of 1962? What would Nites Searles think of our "Crowded Skies"? This isthe reporter's story from the yellowed clipping: others that California's destiny was to be emphemeral and inglorious, andthat her statehood would terminate The Bard Wsdes would single out as being of major importance to the future of California. Propositions 1 and 3 provide for a total war a newspape ded r clipping of an interview that Niles Searls had given a reporter in 1860. Niles Searls in other impressions, I did not share the ‘opinion of some government. Hennessy deserves the continued support and confidence of the voters in District 3 in the forthcoming June 5 election. indebtedness and still do not have the a_ o Well, as every one knows, the Const itution was bility to take care of growing school enadotped, State officers were elected at the same time, rollments. As a basic investment in the and we went on with the State government befdr e the State was admitted by Congress. So that we were future of the state, this proposition makes a Proposition 3 ($270 million) will allow the state toconstruct badly needed facilities in state colleges and universities , mental institutions, and.corregtional wards. Proposition 5, discussed before in these columns, is the key to a sound expansion of the overloaded state park system and to construction of regional parks. Passage of this measure might bring about the longsought creation of Malakoff-North Bloom field State Park. “One of my first impressions on reaching Calffornia, and one that impressed me very forcibly, was the ease and rapidity with which people coming into the country adapted themselves totheir surroundings, andthe great individuality they exhibited. Their aptitude for adopting rules and regulations for governing themselves in the absence of laws also impressed my favorably. Among the entire population there was an average cul Who is Niles Searls? Perhaps Nevada City's greatest . but the moon, as in Hank Searls time. All this because in the mail the other day was for construction money melons, and he told me they were $5 apiece, How ever, as I did not care for watermelons just at that moment; I did not purchase any. At Hangtown melons sold for half and ounce to an ounce of gold dust. We urge without reservation the passage of propositions 1, 3, and 5. APOLLO MERCURY until September, 1850. These events meant much for the future of California as a State, although no one, ‘itis safe to assert, had anything approaching a corre ct realization of what the future of the State would be, or what her resources would be when the gold deposits were all panned out. I had an idea, as early as 1850 that agricutlure might be engaged in with profit. In fact, as early as the date of my arrival in California “certain small areas were being farmed with immense profit. The profits of agriculture at that time were so immense thatI was afraidto make mention of it in ak my letters home for fear of being accused of falsification. I recall an instance where a German granger raised a crop of watermelons on an acre of land somewhere a long the Sacramento river below Sacramento, which netted him $5000. On the date of my arrival in Sacra mento I saw a man peddling; watermelons about the streets in a wheelbarrow. I asked him the price of his ' GEMINI The other propositions: Proposition 2 ($250 million) extends the Cal-Vet loan public agencies and private firms for con-. “? program to those who have not made use struction of low rental housing facilities for elderly people. These bonds would of these loans but are eligible. This bond also be self-liquidating, the proceeds to issue is sel f-liquidating. Proposition 4 revert to a revolving fund for further con ($100 million) would provide for loans to struction loans. Will we reach the moon? Of course we will, just as Niles Searles reached California. For man is ever restless for new frontiers. The costof the space program is great. .$1000 for everyman, woman and child in America Arne but forward we must go or die. Yet the moon is only the beginni on to other planets, To Mars and after Mars, Venus. Planet has undertakena planned, orderly exploration of all space. ng. With advanced engines we will move after planet. Step by step into space. For America The goal is to find benefits there for all mankind.