May 4, 1960 (10 pages)

a. a ee i we wh a een ole anes . da oe Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass V: Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washi Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Fist, Lake City, Selby Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian alley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, § Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hi Mooney Vol. 34 No. 18 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published Weekly Nevada ai Dedication Dinner Set Sunday Final plans for a gala celebration this Sunday in Rough and Ready are near completion. __ Features will be the annual old-timers gettogether with a home-cooked turkey noon dinner at the IOOF Com‘munity Hall and the dedication of a roadside monument at 11:30 a.m. Preparations have been made for almost twice the number of guests served at the 1959 dinner and serving © will continue through the afternoon. Adults dinners will be $1.50, children 75¢. All profits from the. turkey dinner are spent in restoring andrebuilding the Community Hall. Plans have been made for seats inthe shade on the west side of the parking area and in the picnic area for comfortable visiting before and after dinner. A new entrance ramp from the west roadway , directly into the dinning room, will allow easy access to the building. State Senator Ronald G. Cameton and State Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi will take part in the dedication ceremonies. One of the features of the dedication ceremonies will be the introduction of old time Rough and Ready residents who will havea special seating section set aside for them at the roadside. ———Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Apr.26 56 33 =< Apr.27 61 38 =. 1.16 Apr.28 45 32 Bt Apr.29 54 36 trace Apr.30 64 42 == May 1 68 46 -May 2 66 42 15 May 3 62 39 ++ Rain to date. . 46. 26 Rain last year. . 35, 27 ce Grass Valley Apr.26 $3 30 -Apr. 27 60 31 29 Apr.28 . 45 32 25) Apr.29 52 30 -Apr.30 64 Ba ee =e May! 67 39 =* May 2 66 39 .14 May 3° 62 38 as Pian to Gate. kk 43.79 Main lat year. . . . .35.61 The oldest living Chief of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Dept., Phil G. Scadden, who reigned during the period of 1899-1900, is shown with presentFire Chief, Norman Kopp. An interesting coincidence is the fact that Mr. Scadden was.a former owner of Kopp's Bakery, whichwas then known as the Gault Bakery, before selling it to Chief Kopp's Grandfather in 1922. Fire Department Ball Saturday Saturday night's Ball of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department at the Elk's lodge on Pine street is likely to be THE EVENT of the year. © A Culminating a week proclaimed by Mayor Robert Carr as Volunteer Fireman's Week, and following by one week the designation of each andevery man of the department as 1960 Man of the Year by the Historical Society, the Ball will point up the fact that thisisthel00th Anniversary of the department. It will also act as official kick-off of _ fire department celebrations aimedtoend with the huge city-wide Fourth of July affiar again emphasizing the 100th birth— day of a volunteer fire department in Nevada City. The program Saturday night will begin at 8 p.m. with Judge Verle "Puss" Grey -as master of ceremonies. It will feature local entertainment-~a banjo trio of Mike Reilly, Tommy Angove and Dave Willis; a solo by Winifred Renfrow; acrobatics by Tod McGee; and a surprise act from Auburn. Not the least will be the colorful grand march of the Nevada City Firemen which will precede the program. Dancing will commence at 9 p.m. Drawing for a grand prize will be held at midnight, with dancing slated to follow it. Grand prize is two days at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Another prize will be two days at the Riverside Hotel inReno. Music for the dance will be furnished by Arch Brooks. and his band. Historical Society To Meet Nevada County Historical Mernbers willbe in for a rare treat at their meeting Thursday evening, May 5, 8 p.m. . in the Nevada City Elementary School, Dr. and Mrs. Hirsch will present a program of colored slideswhich will cover their banana freighter. The Hirsches will take their audience lock by lock through the panama canal. ie President Elza Kilroy announces that following the program refreshments will be served by Mrs. Elizabeth seven week vacation on a ay ” and her Seaeaites. An area such as Nevads County cannot meet the fu. _ture on a “sound basis” une less it asks itself, “What am I?” and then asks, what do I. want to be, what is the “ge in which I am gos “Lay it out coldly,” urged Samuel FE. Wood before the County Planning Commise sion last week. Wood is senior consultant with Ebasco Services, Inc., with offices in Sacramento. The Ebasco firm is currently under cone tract with the Nevada Irrie gation District in p) the development of Yuba and Bear River waters. ~ Wood returned time and again in his informal talk to the advantages that ace crue to a county that hag developed a master lande use plan. He said he doubts that there is a county in the state without subdivision’ -—problems. water questions, and Ba © recreation problems., that could not be most effectives ly met with a master plin, . Recreation areas in the state are at the present time overloaded to 161 per. cent of capacity, and Nevada County California’s of the county. county, rather than a source of income, Wood stated that with planning, this could be avoided through planned public private recreational development, He added that the U. S. Forest Service (which owns 40 per cent of the land in Nevada County and most of the recreational land) and _ various state agencies were usually willing to cooperate in impleducing land-use plans. should depend entirely on the state to bring recreational development, In response to a question, Wood estimated that a coun: ty master plan for Nevada County could probably be produced for. between $18,and $25,000. However, he indicated that half of this cost might be borne by the federal government. He also sdid that*some of the planning studies being conducted for the N.LD. if arrangements could be made for their use by the county, could help to reduce costs somewhat. Pat Fe He suggested that if a master plan was made, it should be spread over two or three budget periods, Not . only would this spread costs, but it would insure that all parties concerned as it he a (Editor’s Note: A: the cost of a plan at $20,000, and assuming that the fedforhalf of it, the cost -to Nevada year period.) Wood cautionéd, however, pressure of population will continue to create “recreation’ slurhs” in California’s recreation resource areas, a Wood said. Proper planning, fs he pointed out, can help. insure a balanced use of county land resources, pres venting such “slums,” and at the same time creating a firm tax base for the coune. Wood clearly classified one of wl ol: ares as,” with recreation become« ing the main economic base Asked if recreation could not become a burden to the menting realistic, tax-proWood said he was not one who felt that counties Sierra County School Head To Be High School Superintendent on opening day. man Brown out of Deer Creek at 8 a.m. This is aFishof "Yesteryear". George Menovich of Highway 20 pulledthis GerGeraldH. Gelatt, 47-wil! be the new superintendent of the Nevada UnionHigh School district. He come: from Sierra county, where he is county superintendent of schools. / Gelatt was voted in by the high school board at its meeting Monday night. The vote was unanimous, with Wallace Brunker moving the appointment, and Jack Brickel] seconding. The other members of the board are chairman Albert Casey, Haroid George, Sr., and Robert Paine. Thecontract offered Gelatt calls for an annual salary of$11, 000 per year for three years with a clause allowing for salary renegotiation at the end of each year. Gelatt's career is notable fora steady advancement to positions of increasing importance. A fterteaching the 6th and 7th and 8th grades in Alameda public schools from 1949-51, hewasa teacher, vice-principal, and principal in the Placerville Union School District. }-~-From~-1063--66 he ‘served as District Superintendent of the Alturas School District, before mroving to Sierra County, wherehe has served as both District Superintendent of the Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified School District, and county superintendent of schools. Gelatt was rehired in Sierra County for next year at a higher salary than that offered by Nevada Union High School District, but he has obtained unofficial permission of his school board to sterminatehis contract, in order to allow him to come to Nevada County, a job The beauty weighed 3 pounds and was 20 1/2 inches long. which he applied for and has previously indicated he would accept. The new superintendent holds a general administraNevada Union High School District employes will receive a five per cent increase in salaries next year. The high school board voted the increase after turning down a teacher's committee request for a new salary schedule. . The increase will be in Teachers Get Raise At NUHS addition to the regular “step” increases of $150 for teach‘ers. The average teacher increase will therefore be $450 for the next year. The trustees also directed the president of the board to continue working toward the presentation of the teachers’ committee salary scheduled tion credential, He has an M. A. from Stanford University and a B.A, from Santa Barbara College, where he graduated in 1948. During the war he served with the for board adoption next year at salary time. Clay Sumrell, teacher at the junior high school, objected to the increase on behalf of other teachers saying: "I don't think it is right for teachers to build the buildings." . U.S. Air Force. He was born in San Jose. Married, he has two daughters, aged 10 and 12, Members. of the board expressed gratification with Gelatt's appointment, annual $3.000 per year over-a threeis » “broad brush” stiidy and and that after it is comof Highways last week. decided split in opinion. ment. that part of the town. their views. . The meeting, an unofficial gathering to discuss local opinion about the freeway with Hart, was moderated by Harold Berliner, county district attorney. Z Asaresult of the meeting, contention about the freeway seems to have narrowed to the cut it takes through the downtown section of Nevada City. Grass Valley city officials present at the meeting expressed wholehearted approval of the freeway route through their city and urged early completion. The county section of the freeway from Grass Valley to where jit joins the Nevada City section in Gold Flat did not come up for discussion. It must be assumed that ho active objections exist in regard to its location. But discussion over the Nevada City routing showed a Hart gave the downtown route his unqualified endorse‘BenBarry, newly elected to the Nevada City council , after seeing the picture and touring up Manzanita Ravine with ‘its berry bushes and old homes, said he couldsee the proposed downtown route, as a means of cleaning up. . . Alsonewly elected, Craig Davies pointed out the freeway route has been a topic of conversation with many to whomhehastalked. He suggested reproducing the picture presented by Hart and asked for a public expression of Councilman Jack Brickell, reelectedin the recent election, voiced the opinion that a freeway was needed to aidtraffic, but stated that any otherroute would be better than the one through the downtown section. ~ Mayor Robert Carr indicated he has run into concern about Ott's Assay office. Could it be saved? Hart said the state would likely work with any city plan. to move the building and suggested aprivate subscription to move it to the park next to the Alpha store. Alfred E, Heller, publisher of The Nugget, said it would be a mistake for Nevada City to concern itself with saving one building. The assay office is relatively unimportant, he said. Heller pointed tothe loss of attractiveness tourist -wise the city faces with a freeway through the downtown, as well asthe loss of attractiveriess as a quiet area for home construction. : Historical Society President Elza Kilroy said it would bea shame to destroy the streets of Nevada City as they now are. He pointed to the visits of the California Historical Society andthe Past Presidents Association of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Members of both gourps were shocked that a freeway was planned through ~~ the downtown area, he said. Ed Ure, city engineer for many years, claimed the freeway downtown would “butcher” Nevada City. Ifthis were the only way, Nevada City would have to acceptit, he said. But there are two or three other pos-: sibilities. He said the downtown route was the most ex -— -. pensive, the mostiHogical. He also pointed to the possibility of smog developing with a low crossing over ce Deer Creek, the coolness keeping exhaust fumes low the ground. _ The meeting was considered by many to be a victory for those favoring a route through the de But activity since the meeting. since second looks been taken at the sketch of the proposed freeway, seem to indicated that the victory may have hee ~ lived, ‘Freeway Discussed By Hart, Officials lg The Nevada City freeway controversy has picked up tempo since a meeting of city officials and historical society members with Alan Hart of the California Division

a. a ee i we wh a een ole anes . da oe Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass V: Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washi Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Fist, Lake City, Selby Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian alley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, § Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hi Mooney Vol. 34 No. 18 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published Weekly Nevada ai Dedication Dinner Set Sunday Final plans for a gala celebration this Sunday in Rough and Ready are near completion. __ Features will be the annual old-timers gettogether with a home-cooked turkey noon dinner at the IOOF Com‘munity Hall and the dedication of a roadside monument at 11:30 a.m. Preparations have been made for almost twice the number of guests served at the 1959 dinner and serving © will continue through the afternoon. Adults dinners will be $1.50, children 75¢. All profits from the. turkey dinner are spent in restoring andrebuilding the Community Hall. Plans have been made for seats inthe shade on the west side of the parking area and in the picnic area for comfortable visiting before and after dinner. A new entrance ramp from the west roadway , directly into the dinning room, will allow easy access to the building. State Senator Ronald G. Cameton and State Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi will take part in the dedication ceremonies. One of the features of the dedication ceremonies will be the introduction of old time Rough and Ready residents who will havea special seating section set aside for them at the roadside. ———Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Apr.26 56 33 =< Apr.27 61 38 =. 1.16 Apr.28 45 32 Bt Apr.29 54 36 trace Apr.30 64 42 == May 1 68 46 -May 2 66 42 15 May 3 62 39 ++ Rain to date.. .. 46. 26 Rain last year.. . 35, 27 ce Grass Valley Apr.26 $3 30 -Apr. 27 60 31 29 Apr.28 . 45 32 25) Apr.29 52 30 -Apr.30 64 Ba ee =e May! 67 39 =* May 2 66 39 .14 May 3° 62 38 as Pian to Gate. kk 43.79 Main lat year. . . . .35.61 The oldest living Chief of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Dept., Phil G. Scadden, who reigned during the period of 1899-1900, is shown with presentFire Chief, Norman Kopp. An interesting coincidence is the fact that Mr. Scadden was.a former owner of Kopp's Bakery, whichwas then known as the Gault Bakery, before selling it to Chief Kopp's Grandfather in 1922. Fire Department Ball Saturday Saturday night's Ball of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department at the Elk's lodge on Pine street is likely to be THE EVENT of the year. © A Culminating a week proclaimed by Mayor Robert Carr as Volunteer Fireman's Week, and following by one week the designation of each andevery man of the department as 1960 Man of the Year by the Historical Society, the Ball will point up the fact that thisisthel00th Anniversary of the department. It will also act as official kick-off of _ fire department celebrations aimedtoend with the huge city-wide Fourth of July affiar again emphasizing the 100th birth— day of a volunteer fire department in Nevada City. The program Saturday night will begin at 8 p.m. with Judge Verle "Puss" Grey -as master of ceremonies. It will feature local entertainment-~a banjo trio of Mike Reilly, Tommy Angove and Dave Willis; a solo by Winifred Renfrow; acrobatics by Tod McGee; and a surprise act from Auburn. Not the least will be the colorful grand march of the Nevada City Firemen which will precede the program. Dancing will commence at 9 p.m. Drawing for a grand prize will be held at midnight, with dancing slated to follow it. Grand prize is two days at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Another prize will be two days at the Riverside Hotel inReno. Music for the dance will be furnished by Arch Brooks. and his band. Historical Society To Meet Nevada County Historical Mernbers willbe in for a rare treat at their meeting Thursday evening, May 5, 8 p.m. . in the Nevada City Elementary School, Dr. and Mrs. Hirsch will present a program of colored slideswhich will cover their banana freighter. The Hirsches will take their audience lock by lock through the panama canal. ie President Elza Kilroy announces that following the program refreshments will be served by Mrs. Elizabeth seven week vacation on a ay ” and her Seaeaites. An area such as Nevads County cannot meet the fu. _ture on a “sound basis” une less it asks itself, “What am I?” and then asks, what do I. want to be, what is the “ge in which I am gos “Lay it out coldly,” urged Samuel FE. Wood before the County Planning Commise sion last week. Wood is senior consultant with Ebasco Services, Inc., with offices in Sacramento. The Ebasco firm is currently under cone tract with the Nevada Irrie gation District in p) the development of Yuba and Bear River waters. ~ Wood returned time and again in his informal talk to the advantages that ace crue to a county that hag developed a master lande use plan. He said he doubts that there is a county in the state without subdivision’ -—problems. water questions, and Ba © recreation problems., that could not be most effectives ly met with a master plin, . Recreation areas in the state are at the present time overloaded to 161 per. cent of capacity, and Nevada County California’s of the county. county, rather than a source of income, Wood stated that with planning, this could be avoided through planned public private recreational development, He added that the U. S. Forest Service (which owns 40 per cent of the land in Nevada County and most of the recreational land) and _ various state agencies were usually willing to cooperate in impleducing land-use plans. should depend entirely on the state to bring recreational development, In response to a question, Wood estimated that a coun: ty master plan for Nevada County could probably be produced for. between $18,and $25,000. However, he indicated that half of this cost might be borne by the federal government. He also sdid that*some of the planning studies being conducted for the N.LD. if arrangements could be made for their use by the county,

could help to reduce costs somewhat. Pat Fe He suggested that if a master plan was made, it should be spread over two or three budget periods, Not . only would this spread costs, but it would insure that all parties concerned as it he a (Editor’s Note: A: the cost of a plan at $20,000, and assuming that the fedforhalf of it, the cost -to Nevada year period.) Wood cautionéd, however, pressure of population will continue to create “recreation’ slurhs” in California’s recreation resource areas, a Wood said. Proper planning, fs he pointed out, can help. insure a balanced use of county land resources, pres venting such “slums,” and at the same time creating a firm tax base for the coune. Wood clearly classified one of wl ol: ares as,” with recreation become« ing the main economic base Asked if recreation could not become a burden to the menting realistic, tax-proWood said he was not one who felt that counties Sierra County School Head To Be High School Superintendent on opening day. man Brown out of Deer Creek at 8 a.m. This is aFishof "Yesteryear". George Menovich of Highway 20 pulledthis GerGeraldH. Gelatt, 47-wil! be the new superintendent of the Nevada UnionHigh School district. He come: from Sierra county, where he is county superintendent of schools. / Gelatt was voted in by the high school board at its meeting Monday night. The vote was unanimous, with Wallace Brunker moving the appointment, and Jack Brickel] seconding. The other members of the board are chairman Albert Casey, Haroid George, Sr., and Robert Paine. Thecontract offered Gelatt calls for an annual salary of$11, 000 per year for three years with a clause allowing for salary renegotiation at the end of each year. Gelatt's career is notable fora steady advancement to positions of increasing importance. A fterteaching the 6th and 7th and 8th grades in Alameda public schools from 1949-51, hewasa teacher, vice-principal, and principal in the Placerville Union School District. }-~-From~-1063--66 he ‘served as District Superintendent of the Alturas School District, before mroving to Sierra County, wherehe has served as both District Superintendent of the Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified School District, and county superintendent of schools. Gelatt was rehired in Sierra County for next year at a higher salary than that offered by Nevada Union High School District, but he has obtained unofficial permission of his school board to sterminatehis contract, in order to allow him to come to Nevada County, a job The beauty weighed 3 pounds and was 20 1/2 inches long. which he applied for and has previously indicated he would accept. The new superintendent holds a general administraNevada Union High School District employes will receive a five per cent increase in salaries next year. The high school board voted the increase after turning down a teacher's committee request for a new salary schedule. . The increase will be in Teachers Get Raise At NUHS addition to the regular “step” increases of $150 for teach‘ers. The average teacher increase will therefore be $450 for the next year. The trustees also directed the president of the board to continue working toward the presentation of the teachers’ committee salary scheduled tion credential, He has an M. A. from Stanford University and a B.A, from Santa Barbara College, where he graduated in 1948. During the war he served with the for board adoption next year at salary time. Clay Sumrell, teacher at the junior high school, objected to the increase on behalf of other teachers saying: "I don't think it is right for teachers to build the buildings." . U.S. Air Force. He was born in San Jose. Married, he has two daughters, aged 10 and 12, Members. of the board expressed gratification with Gelatt's appointment, annual $3.000 per year over-a threeis » “broad brush” stiidy and and that after it is comof Highways last week. decided split in opinion. ment. that part of the town. their views. . The meeting, an unofficial gathering to discuss local opinion about the freeway with Hart, was moderated by Harold Berliner, county district attorney. Z Asaresult of the meeting, contention about the freeway seems to have narrowed to the cut it takes through the downtown section of Nevada City. Grass Valley city officials present at the meeting expressed wholehearted approval of the freeway route through their city and urged early completion. The county section of the freeway from Grass Valley to where jit joins the Nevada City section in Gold Flat did not come up for discussion. It must be assumed that ho active objections exist in regard to its location. But discussion over the Nevada City routing showed a Hart gave the downtown route his unqualified endorse‘BenBarry, newly elected to the Nevada City council , after seeing the picture and touring up Manzanita Ravine with ‘its berry bushes and old homes, said he couldsee the proposed downtown route, as a means of cleaning up. . . Alsonewly elected, Craig Davies pointed out the freeway route has been a topic of conversation with many to whomhehastalked. He suggested reproducing the picture presented by Hart and asked for a public expression of Councilman Jack Brickell, reelectedin the recent election, voiced the opinion that a freeway was needed to aidtraffic, but stated that any otherroute would be better than the one through the downtown section. ~ Mayor Robert Carr indicated he has run into concern about Ott's Assay office. Could it be saved? Hart said the state would likely work with any city plan. to move the building and suggested aprivate subscription to move it to the park next to the Alpha store. Alfred E, Heller, publisher of The Nugget, said it would be a mistake for Nevada City to concern itself with saving one building. The assay office is relatively unimportant, he said. Heller pointed tothe loss of attractiveness tourist -wise the city faces with a freeway through the downtown, as well asthe loss of attractiveriess as a quiet area for home construction. : Historical Society President Elza Kilroy said it would bea shame to destroy the streets of Nevada City as they now are. He pointed to the visits of the California Historical Society andthe Past Presidents Association of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Members of both gourps were shocked that a freeway was planned through ~~ the downtown area, he said. Ed Ure, city engineer for many years, claimed the freeway downtown would “butcher” Nevada City. Ifthis were the only way, Nevada City would have to acceptit, he said. But there are two or three other pos-: sibilities. He said the downtown route was the most ex -— -. pensive, the mostiHogical. He also pointed to the possibility of smog developing with a low crossing over ce Deer Creek, the coolness keeping exhaust fumes low the ground. _ The meeting was considered by many to be a victory for those favoring a route through the de But activity since the meeting. since second looks been taken at the sketch of the proposed freeway, seem to indicated that the victory may have hee ~ lived, ‘Freeway Discussed By Hart, Officials lg The Nevada City freeway controversy has picked up tempo since a meeting of city officials and historical society members with Alan Hart of the California Division