May 25, 1960 (8 pages)

The move of Bank of ™ of America’s Nevada County branch .from. 126 Main Street to more spacious and modern quarters at 109 Neal Street in the Brockington Manor shopping center, will add many customer conveniences and provide superior banking facilities. . : ‘In a joint statement made today, Albert Kalis, head of * operations, and .Paul Pres«ton, head -of loans: at the ‘bahkis new quarters, point‘ed out that air conditioning, convenient parking, a conference room and a ni depositary are some of the new features. Larger than the bank’s old premises, the new 42 by 85-foot building has 3,770 square feet of usable space, dncluding a 795 square foot lobby. ; For customer convenience, a streamlined teller codunter with positions for eight teller stations has been installed. For security, a 216 square foot vault has 18-ineh concrete walls heavily reinforced with a network of steel rods and guarded by a finely-balanced three and onehalf ton steel door measthe locking mechanisms, A conference room provides a quiet and secluded area where loans, deeds, wills, trusts and other confidential matters may be discussed with bank offiinches : thick, exclusive of} ° cials. Mcre than $23,000 was invested by Bank of America to condition the building for banking, as well as ap-. builder for 40 years, 30 of-for the First District, NePictured.is a group of Chicago Park 4-H'ers under the leadership of Marvin Paul, this group chooses to errect the signs that are shown as their community project this year. Youwill find the signs onthe Colfax highway just as you enter and leave the Chicago Park area. This picture was takenas the club made their annual project tour several weeks ago. W. Butz Is Supervisor Candidate Walter J. Butz, a road is a candidate for supervisor Butz is a past president of Gold Miners Chapter of uring more than three proximately $8,000 in bank which were spent continuvada City, atthe county the California . State Em; fixtures, ously in Nevada Couhty, non-partisan election June Ployees Association; past 7, president of the Nevada SUPERHIGHWAYS: In line with his life’s County Horsemens Associaid: “ tha’ Newsweek wr 2iz serine iat tion; member of William (Bull) Meek Chapter of E Walter’s wife Thelma is among the more active women in Nevada City, particularly in the Nevada City Womens Civic Club; Past Presidents Association of the Native Daughters of the Golden West; Rebekah Lodge, Woodcraft and associated groups. Nevada City’s Ordeal Even the twisting thoroughfares of Nevada City, Calif., weren't safe from picks of the prospectors during the gald-fevered days of the 1850s. One day, so the local legend runs, a merchant took heated exception to digging in front of his store and demanded that a miner leave off forthwith. “There ain't no law against it,” protested the prospector. Brandishing a pistol, the storekeeper ‘shouted: “Then Il make my own law.” Gun law has been repealed long since, even in the shadow of the snowcovered Sierras, but Nevada City is still having picks-in-the-pavement pangs this week. The 2,900 residents of Nevada County’s seat, 170 miles. northeast of San Francisco, are as sharply divided.as sheepmen and cowmen. The wrangle: Which route should a new freeway follow on its 4-mile southward course from Nevada City-to Grass Valley, the country’s metropolis (population: 5,000). As now planned, argues Alfred E. Heller, 31-year-old former schoolteacher and the earnest publisher of The Nevada County Nugget, “the freeway will split the town’ in half and hurt its chances for becoming a good tourist attraction.” “You'll find that most of the merchants are in favor of the freeway,” counters Dick Knee, who operates an appliance and jewelry store. Bottleneck: Nobody disputes the fact that Nevada City and Grass Valley need a new connecting highway. The great mining days have passed but. the roads are still busy. Skiers and tourists, each in their season, descend on Nevada City, a picturesque foothills site where balconied houses cling to the walls of Deer Creek Canyon. In season and out, geargrowling timber trucks cram the present Freeway Article THE NEWSWEEK STORY Reproduced here isthe full page story of “Nevada City's Ordeal,” which appeared in the May 23 issue of Newsweek, national news magazine. The story appears here with Newsweek's permission . Newsweek, May 23, 1960 years, 10,000 miners were at work inside a 3-mile radius of the spot. There, too, in February or March of . 1850, ground-sluicing was introduced by William Elwell as a method of extracting gold from high, and normally dry, diggings. Up till then, gold had been taken from the beds and borders of streams. And in 1859 in Nevada City, the ore samples were assayed that led to the opening of the $1 billion Comstock silver lode. ~ Geld and Ghosts: The new freeway’s . route cuts ruthlessly through some of the monuments of this rip-roaring past—the assay office, for one. James Ott, tworlane Highway 49-20-to Grass Valley (the home, in 1854, of flamboyant Lola Montez, the courtesan who bemused mad King Ludwig of Bavaria). What troubles the community of Nevada City is a question that at some time, or another torments almost every growing community in the land: How much history should . be © sacrificed to progress? : Nevada City’s history is relatively short but unusually lively, It began in 1848 _with the discovery of gold in Deer Creek by James W. Marshall, the same man who made the momentous find at Sutter's -sawinill in Colgma, Calif. Within two ey FONTAN NEN TORN ELIS i se News we en-—Corwin Hansen Under the Sequoia, the villagers take a stand the man who examined the specimens from Washoe Lake—across the line in Nevada—opened the assay office for business in 1853, a structure that serves Heller’s Nugget as a newsparer folding room. That part of Deer Creek which runs through the town, apart from its association with the gold strike, is now set aside for fishing by the children. The freeway would cover some of the stream just as it would diggings and their canals. tel, whose second-story balcony stretches along a full block of Broad Street, would lose its 70-year-old annex. In its fusty Victorian bar, the National's proprietor Richard Worth likes to brag, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was organized over several rounds of beer. Old-Timer: To many Nevada City folks, though, the greatest loss of all would be the Sequoia tree that stands alongside. Paul Bergemann’s funeral parlors. Each winter, the giant redwood, 120 feet tall and about as old as the town, is decorated as a Christmas tree. (Bergemann, however, wouldn't miss it: “The damn needles get all over everything,” he says.) Whether the roadmen will spare that tree remains to be seen. The freeway route has been approved, but a public meeting in Nevada City, perhaps next week, will hear pleas to reconsider. California’s Division of Highways has set no date for the beIn speaking of his candii i i itus; ber of % Sits). nactenity is ee eve Vn meee dacy, Butz said: “I'd like to building of good roads and the Quarter Century Club of : . to that end I, at all times, the Division of Highways, Tepresent the people in ; b the Veterans county government. I behave done my utmost for and member of the i Ce a so. My retirement is such that I can devote full time , and by representing you I mean all of the people all of the time.” those owners of property of Foreign Wars. through which the highways Last spring, Butz was apwere to run. Iam thoroughpointed to a four-year term ly acquainted with the as a member of the board preblems of the definitely of directors of the 17th Disrural areas and also of the trict Agricultura] AssociaS.D.A: Potluck. Big’ Success The Seventh Day Adventist potluck and white elephant auction held at Seaman’s Lodge, Nevada City, last Sunday evening was enjoyed by a large group. Primarily the group gathered for a social hour and a delicious lunch. The white elephant auction was ~ for: the benefit of sending a delegate, Frank Baughman, to the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer North American Congress at Atlantic City, New Jersey, the latter part of June. Under the gavel of John Reed, the auction netted enough funds with Mrs. Reed’s potluck to send Mr. Baughman east. Mr. Baughman is the principal of the obliterate a number of the old dry . The 107-year-old National Hotion. urban (city) areas.” rass Valley Adventist Junfor Academy. + In the Matter of the Es. ‘fate of IRVA JAMES . TRVA “J. BLAKE. also ; ‘known as'I. J. BLAKE, Deq with gy ‘ ' ; IN THE SUPERIOR COURT . OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF . , also known as NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that HAYWARD 1] H. BLAKE has filed herein Ha a petition for probate of the q Will of the above-named q decedent and for issuance a . of Letters of Administration the Will Annexed in. thereon to said petitioner, ia . reference to which is made 1 for further particulars, and that. the time and place of hearing the same has been set for June 17, 1960, at 10:00 A.M., in the courtroom. of the above-entitled Court, in the Court Hotise, Nevada City, California. DATED: May 23, 1960. JOHN T. TRAUNER, Clerk. By MELBA J. POLGLASE, Deputy Clerk. Publish: May 25, June 1, June 8, 1960. GOSPEL SERVICES . AT WOMENS CLUB a Gospel services are being held Sunday afternoons at 3:45 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:45 p.m., it was announced this week by Misses Sidney Lewallen and Thyra ‘ Morgue, 44 Site of the services is the Womens Civic Club hall, 413 Broad Street NATIONAL AFFAIRS . READY TO SERVE You IUIES new quarters at 109 Neal Street. When you visit this modern bank, the first thing you'll notice is the attractive lobby with its counterstyle teller stations.the newest in streamlined banking! You'll also welcome our safe deposit facilities .private conference room:.night depository. BANK OF AMERICA’S NEW NEVADA COUNTY BRANCH . air conditioning .and ample free parking. County Branch in Grass Valley is moving to handsome From top to bottom, our new home is designed to add to your convenience. to make banking here faster, easier and more pleasant for you. We hope you like it as much as we do. We'll be open for business on Tuesday — ready to provide the same prompt, friendly, complete service you can always expect at B of A. DANG ce i ginning of construction. A town whose serpentine streets were traced by saloon-staggered miners, according to one pioneer’s tale, or trains of pack burros, according to another, Nevada City is all-wound up inthe progress-vs.-tradition dispute and frantically seeking an avenue of escape. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was incorporated in April, 1870. : You're invited . . To attend an Open House at our new Nevada County Branch on Wednesday evening, May 25, from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. There'll be souvenirs and refreshments for all, tours of the bank, B of A’s traditional Gold Key Ceremony, and you can try for a. prize in our Gold Rush Contest. Come and join the fun! Herbert Toudy, Manager MATIONAL TRUST AND S NEVADA COUNTY BRANCH BANK OF AMERICA FEDERAL OLPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Sy . 109 Neal Street, Grass Valley ne Yo sperm ey tegen Per MINE SI OMEN BBUF M9 ENE NO Sen ee NEA tanta

The move of Bank of ™ of America’s Nevada County branch .from. 126 Main Street to more spacious and modern quarters at 109 Neal Street in the Brockington Manor shopping center, will add many customer conveniences and provide superior banking facilities. . : ‘In a joint statement made today, Albert Kalis, head of * operations, and .Paul Pres«ton, head -of loans: at the ‘bahkis new quarters, point‘ed out that air conditioning, convenient parking, a conference room and a ni depositary are some of the new features. Larger than the bank’s old premises, the new 42 by 85-foot building has 3,770 square feet of usable space, dncluding a 795 square foot lobby. ; For customer convenience, a streamlined teller codunter with positions for eight teller stations has been installed. For security, a 216 square foot vault has 18-ineh concrete walls heavily reinforced with a network of steel rods and guarded by a finely-balanced three and onehalf ton steel door measthe locking mechanisms, A conference room provides a quiet and secluded area where loans, deeds, wills, trusts and other confidential matters may be discussed with bank offiinches : thick, exclusive of} ° cials. Mcre than $23,000 was invested by Bank of America to condition the building for banking, as well as ap-. builder for 40 years, 30 of-for the First District, NePictured..is a group of Chicago Park 4-H'ers under the leadership of Marvin Paul, this group chooses to errect the signs that are shown as their community project this year. Youwill find the signs onthe Colfax highway just as you enter and leave the Chicago Park area. This picture was takenas the club made their annual project tour several weeks ago. W. Butz Is Supervisor Candidate Walter J. Butz, a road is a candidate for supervisor Butz is a past president of Gold Miners Chapter of uring more than three proximately $8,000 in bank which were spent continuvada City, atthe county the California . State Em; fixtures, ously in Nevada Couhty, non-partisan election June Ployees Association; past 7, president of the Nevada SUPERHIGHWAYS: In line with his life’s County Horsemens Associaid: “ tha’ Newsweek wr 2iz serine iat tion; member of William (Bull) Meek Chapter of E Walter’s wife Thelma is among the more active women in Nevada City, particularly in the Nevada City Womens Civic Club; Past Presidents Association of the Native Daughters of the Golden West; Rebekah Lodge, Woodcraft and associated groups. Nevada City’s Ordeal Even the twisting thoroughfares of Nevada City, Calif., weren't safe from picks of the prospectors during the gald-fevered days of the 1850s. One day, so the local legend runs, a merchant took heated exception to digging in front of his store and demanded that a miner leave off forthwith. “There ain't no law against it,” protested the prospector. Brandishing a pistol, the storekeeper ‘shouted: “Then Il make my own law.” Gun law has been repealed long since, even in the shadow of the snowcovered Sierras, but Nevada City is still having picks-in-the-pavement pangs this week. The 2,900 residents of Nevada County’s seat, 170 miles. northeast of San Francisco, are as sharply divided.as sheepmen and cowmen. The wrangle: Which route should a new freeway follow on its 4-mile southward course from Nevada City-to Grass Valley, the country’s metropolis (population: 5,000). As now planned, argues Alfred E. Heller, 31-year-old former schoolteacher and the earnest publisher of The Nevada County Nugget, “the freeway will split the town’ in half and hurt its chances for becoming a good tourist attraction.” “You'll find that most of the merchants are in favor of the freeway,” counters Dick Knee, who operates an appliance and jewelry store. Bottleneck: Nobody disputes the fact that Nevada City and Grass Valley need a new connecting highway. The great mining days have passed but. the roads are still busy. Skiers and tourists, each in their season, descend on Nevada City, a picturesque foothills site where balconied houses cling to the walls of Deer Creek Canyon. In season and out, geargrowling timber trucks cram the present Freeway Article THE NEWSWEEK STORY Reproduced here isthe full page story of “Nevada City's Ordeal,” which appeared in the May 23 issue of Newsweek, national news magazine. The story appears here with Newsweek's permission . Newsweek, May 23, 1960 years, 10,000 miners were at work inside a 3-mile radius of the spot. There, too, in February or March of . 1850, ground-sluicing was introduced by William Elwell as a method of extracting gold from high, and normally dry, diggings. Up till then, gold had been taken from the beds and borders of streams. And in 1859 in Nevada City, the ore samples were assayed that led to the opening of the $1 billion Comstock silver lode. ~ Geld and Ghosts: The new freeway’s . route cuts ruthlessly through some of the monuments of this rip-roaring past—the assay office, for one. James Ott, tworlane Highway 49-20-to Grass Valley (the home, in 1854, of flamboyant Lola Montez, the courtesan who bemused mad King Ludwig of Bavaria). What troubles the community of Nevada City is a question that at some time, or another torments almost every growing community in the land: How much history should . be © sacrificed to progress? : Nevada City’s history is relatively short but unusually lively, It began in 1848 _with the discovery of gold in Deer Creek by James W. Marshall, the same man who made the momentous find at Sutter's -sawinill in Colgma, Calif. Within two ey FONTAN NEN TORN ELIS i se News we en-—Corwin Hansen Under the Sequoia, the villagers take a stand the man who examined the specimens from Washoe Lake—across the line in Nevada—opened the assay office for business in 1853, a structure that serves Heller’s Nugget as a newsparer folding room. That part of Deer Creek which runs through the town, apart from its association with the gold strike, is now set aside for fishing by the children. The freeway would cover some of the stream just as it would diggings and their canals. tel, whose second-story balcony

stretches along a full block of Broad Street, would lose its 70-year-old annex. In its fusty Victorian bar, the National's proprietor Richard Worth likes to brag, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was organized over several rounds of beer. Old-Timer: To many Nevada City folks, though, the greatest loss of all would be the Sequoia tree that stands alongside. Paul Bergemann’s funeral parlors. Each winter, the giant redwood, 120 feet tall and about as old as the town, is decorated as a Christmas tree. (Bergemann, however, wouldn't miss it: “The damn needles get all over everything,” he says.) Whether the roadmen will spare that tree remains to be seen. The freeway route has been approved, but a public meeting in Nevada City, perhaps next week, will hear pleas to reconsider. California’s Division of Highways has set no date for the beIn speaking of his candii i i itus; ber of % Sits). nactenity is ee eve Vn meee dacy, Butz said: “I'd like to building of good roads and the Quarter Century Club of : . to that end I, at all times, the Division of Highways, Tepresent the people in ; b the Veterans county government. I behave done my utmost for and member of the i Ce a so. My retirement is such that I can devote full time , and by representing you I mean all of the people all of the time.” those owners of property of Foreign Wars. through which the highways Last spring, Butz was apwere to run. Iam thoroughpointed to a four-year term ly acquainted with the as a member of the board preblems of the definitely of directors of the 17th Disrural areas and also of the trict Agricultura] AssociaS.D.A: Potluck. Big’ Success The Seventh Day Adventist potluck and white elephant auction held at Seaman’s Lodge, Nevada City, last Sunday evening was enjoyed by a large group. Primarily the group gathered for a social hour and a delicious lunch. The white elephant auction was ~ for: the benefit of sending a delegate, Frank Baughman, to the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer North American Congress at Atlantic City, New Jersey, the latter part of June. Under the gavel of John Reed, the auction netted enough funds with Mrs. Reed’s potluck to send Mr. Baughman east. Mr. Baughman is the principal of the obliterate a number of the old dry . The 107-year-old National Hotion. urban (city) areas.” rass Valley Adventist Junfor Academy. + In the Matter of the Es. ‘fate of IRVA JAMES . TRVA “J. BLAKE. also ; ‘known as'I. J. BLAKE, Deq with gy ‘ ' ; IN THE SUPERIOR COURT . OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF . , also known as NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that HAYWARD 1] H. BLAKE has filed herein Ha a petition for probate of the q Will of the above-named q decedent and for issuance a . of Letters of Administration the Will Annexed in. thereon to said petitioner, ia . reference to which is made 1 for further particulars, and that. the time and place of hearing the same has been set for June 17, 1960, at 10:00 A.M., in the courtroom. of the above-entitled Court, in the Court Hotise, Nevada City, California. DATED: May 23, 1960. JOHN T. TRAUNER, Clerk. By MELBA J. POLGLASE, Deputy Clerk. Publish: May 25, June 1, June 8, 1960. GOSPEL SERVICES . AT WOMENS CLUB a Gospel services are being held Sunday afternoons at 3:45 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:45 p.m., it was announced this week by Misses Sidney Lewallen and Thyra ‘ Morgue, 44 Site of the services is the Womens Civic Club hall, 413 Broad Street NATIONAL AFFAIRS . READY TO SERVE You IUIES new quarters at 109 Neal Street. When you visit this modern bank, the first thing you'll notice is the attractive lobby with its counterstyle teller stations..the newest in streamlined banking! You'll also welcome our safe deposit facilities ..private conference room:.night depository.. BANK OF AMERICA’S NEW NEVADA COUNTY BRANCH . air conditioning ..and ample free parking. County Branch in Grass Valley is moving to handsome From top to bottom, our new home is designed to add to your convenience.. to make banking here faster, easier and more pleasant for you. We hope you like it as much as we do. We'll be open for business on Tuesday — ready to provide the same prompt, friendly, complete service you can always expect at B of A. DANG ce i ginning of construction. A town whose serpentine streets were traced by saloon-staggered miners, according to one pioneer’s tale, or trains of pack burros, according to another, Nevada City is all-wound up inthe progress-vs.-tradition dispute and frantically seeking an avenue of escape. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was incorporated in April, 1870. : You're invited . . To attend an Open House at our new Nevada County Branch on Wednesday evening, May 25, from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. There'll be souvenirs and refreshments for all, tours of the bank, B of A’s traditional Gold Key Ceremony, and you can try for a. prize in our Gold Rush Contest. Come and join the fun! Herbert Toudy, Manager MATIONAL TRUST AND S NEVADA COUNTY BRANCH BANK OF AMERICA FEDERAL OLPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Sy . 109 Neal Street, Grass Valley ne Yo sperm ey tegen Per MINE SI OMEN BBUF M9 ENE NO Sen ee NEA tanta