November 2, 1960 (10 pages)

ae ae ee SMES ai alaasbicSea ee ee eine ‘ REE NS j d ‘ of a committee which will North ‘Quaker Hil, Willow Valley, Newown, > Seivhag the eoateasib of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, erving bi emer taal City, alley, Dog, You Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Relief Hill; W away Glenbrook, Sift Cin Sp Flat, Bridgeport, Cedar Ridge, Usion Hil, Little York, Cherokee, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou ~* Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Volume 34 No. 44 _“THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published. Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, November 2, 196¢ Paint-Up Planned 10 Cents a Copy At NC Corner Nevada City's Project: Paint-up has a junior partner this week after private plans to paint two buildings outside of the main project area blossomed into a five-unit paintup of one of the busiest comers in the city. — Called Primer Project asan_ indication that it will be the first step of a later paintup of the downtown area, the plans include a complete fresh look for the Main Street, Union Street and Commercial Street intersection. Included in the paintup set for Saturday and Sunday are Mike Haley's antique store building. Ott's Assay office and building, the-oldRoma Grocery building(Alpha Hardware warehouse), Nevada City Upholstery Shop, and Kéndrick's Insurance Agency building. Although not officially a part of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Project: Paint-up cam paign slated for Spring of 1961, the Primer Project has drawn offers of assistance from various sectors of the city. _ Otis Gaylord, Project: Paint-up chairman, announced this week the names r aid in making the immediate project a success. Included . are: Mrs. Clara Peterson, chamber of commerce auxiliary president; Babe Childers, Elks; Chick Thomas, Nevada City Fire Department; Ken Dark, contractor; Mosco Smart, supervisor, Bill Briggs of Alpha Hardware is arranging withFuller Paint Co. to give the Primer Project the same benefits that will be available for the Spring paintup. Primer Project developed when occupants of Ott's Assay office and the old Roma Grocery property jointly decided to dress up the two buildings, with permission of the California Division of Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain) Oct. 26 69 aa <23 Oct. 27 56 29 -Oct. 28 + =65 32 -Oct. 29 10 33 -Oct. 30 710 34 -Oct. 31. 73 35 -Nov. 1 72 37 -Rain to date. .. Rain last year. . Grass Valley Oct. 26 70. 45 .24 Oct. 27. 59 38 .o7f Oct.28 67 42 -Oct.29 72 44 -Oct. 30 74 48 -Oct. 31 718 48 -"4 Nov. 1 19 50 -Rain to date. . Rain last year. . . . 4.07 {rehabilitation program, the qneed is greater for local chapters to increase For-GetMe-Not sales All persons are urged to give generously to this worthy cause, Ramey Highways which owns both buildings. So that the paint jobs wauld not be out of harmony with the big paintup project scheduled next year, advice was sought from Fuller Paint Co. as to colors and procedure, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Field, and son Alan, visited Nevada City over the Oct. 22 weekend. They became enthusiastic about thecity and the Spring prospects. Likewise they looked upon the then two-unit paint job asa means of dressing up an important corner and at the same time showing the city what can be done. It was their advice that led to the expansion of Primer Projectto include the whole intersection. Mrs. Florence Kendricks joined the project, although her building had been termed by the Fields as fitting with plans for the corner, Likewise, Haley plans to paint more of his building than had been suggested as minimum by the Fields. Freeway Vote Set Nov. 22 Date for the freeway vote in Nevada City has been set as Nov. 22, Still to be chosen is the polling place. This announcement was made today by co-chairman Dick Knee and Bob Paine. Sample ballots will be mailed. Registered voters in Nevada City and ansentee property owners will be eligible tO vote. DAV Sale Set Through Saturday The annual DAV sale of For-Get-Me-Nots will begin tomorrowand continue through Saturday, it was announced this week by Commander Chester L. Ramey of the Lawrence H, Benson Chapter 122. The For-Get-Me-Nots are made by hospitalized veterans and sold only once a year. The salesrepresent the only source of income for the Disabled Veterans’ rehabilitation program. Since withdrawal of State funds formerly allotted to assist the Disabled Veterans’ THE NUGGET RECOMMENDS: VOTE FOR ONE PARTY JOHN F. KENNEDY, for President LYNDON B. JOHNSON, for Vice President Representative in Congress nd District =e CONGRESSIONAL SS TS Vote for One HAROLD Incumben T. BIZZ JOHNSON, Democrati t ic + State Senator 7th District STATE LEGISLATURE Vote for One RONALD G. “RON” CAMERON, Democratic . + Incumbent Member of Assembly 6th District Vote for One PAUL J. LUNARDI, Democratic . + Incumbent ; COUNTY Supervisor—1st District Vote for One MOSCO F. SMART . Incumbent . + of the water resources of the State. MEASURES SUBMITTED TO VOTE OF VOTERS FOR THE CALIFORNIA WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BOND ACT. This act provides for a bond issue of one billion, seven hundred fifty million dollars ($1,750,000,000) to be used by the Department of Water Resources for the development PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA WATER SOURCES DEVELOPMENT BOND ACT. ot eee for a bond issue of one billion, hundred fifty million dollars ($1,750,000,000) used by the it of Water Resources for: the development of the water resources of the State. REThis seven to be YES NO YES NO TERMS OF ASSEMBLYMEN. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 15. Provides that terms of members of Assembly elected in 1960 and thereafter shall be four years; onehalf of members elected in 1960 shall vacate office at expiration of second year, so that half of themmahereae the Assembly shall be elected every two years. TERMS OF OFFICE. Senate Constitutional Amendment No, 1 (1960 First ExtraordiSession). Permits Legislature to progs ope oad exceed eight os 1 er any agency created it to administer the State College System of California. k COMPENSATION OF LEGISLATORS. Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 31. Sets salary of members of the State Legislature at $750 per month. Provides that increased compensation provided by this increase retirement tors already retired. YES . ! NO bly Constitutional Amendment: No. 29. Establishes —— in which non-profit golf courses shoul assessed for f , Purposes o 6 ASSESSMENT OF GOLF COURSES. Assem: + NO SENATE REAPPORTIONMENT. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. i fi of Senators to be basis; more than 7 districts and 20 fei icoasts inal tase be districts be COUNTY Establishes or election of sll Senstors in 142, orionr NO } attendance. He also assured . that the public is invited to Others, Escape County Jail Touchy deputies of the Nevada County Sheriff's office Monday night turned away costumed and masked children making their Halloween rounds---turned them away without a smile and without a treat. Halloween had come 24 hours earlier to the Nevada City sheriff's office. It was all trick and no treat. Aileged murderer Stanley William Fitzgerald, 30, and Robert Lee Smithson, 31, Nevada City, masterminded an escape fromNevada was relieved of $26.28, his pickup truck keys, and then locked in a supply closet. The five escapees meanwhile took thealteged murder gun and two others as well as more than $100 in funds of the office including money placed with the sheriff for safe keeping following a holiday party at the Union Hill School. After pulling the plug on most radio equipment, the escapees raced off in Arbogast's 1956 red Ford pickup (long body), licensed PDP 470. Accused Murderer, MANNING ROADBLOCK ON HIGHWAY :( AT BEAR VALLEY--Volunteer Deputy Richard Esterly of Grass Valley and highway patrol officer John Waddell. . An Foi agent also stood b _by Elza Kilroy, president. County jail and took along with them as co-escapees Larry Pensoneau, 17, Donald Snyder, 17, andKelly Coleman, 16. A coincidental 9:30 p.m. phone call to the sheriff's office downstairs from the cells made easier the escape. As Deputy Carl Arbogast and Ray Blakely, 47, a jail trustee, went upstairs to the upper cell block, the phone rang. Arbogast returned to answer it, Blakely continued into the cell block, was grabbed by the two ringleaders. They got his keys, released the three youngsters, and crept downstairs. As Arbogast leaned forward in his chair to reach for . the microphone to call one of the mobile units, he was . grabbed from behind by Fitz‘gerald. The accused murderer's right arm held ' Arbogast in place in his chair, ' aknife pricking the fabric of © ; his shirt. Fitzgerald's left fist menacingly waved near the deputy’s face, and he repeated qver andover, "Don't ' doanything to make me hurt ' you, Carl.” “Fritz, what do you want . to do this for,” Arbogast asked. "You've got a 60-40 chance of beating this rap, why this?” The question was unanSwered, In quick time, Arbogast Historians _Nevada County Historical Society will hold its November meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in Rough and Ready, it was announced this week Meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall, the society will plan for its big December meeting, and Kilroy urged a full . sit in on the meeting. 265-2071 or 273-6559. John E, Nettle, Kilroy or Alan Haley will show slides of hisrecent trip to the UN. Residents desiring transportation are asked to call Bernice Glasson at the following numbers: 273-7165, About 20 minutes later, a Nevada City patrol car heard yelling from the jail and put out the alarm over remaining radio equipment . Immediately road blocks took shape, and since that time the FBI has joined the hunt. As of Tuesday morning, from allindications the five werein Nevada County. Deputies were checking out all leads, although most leads the first day were late in arriving at the office. Arbogast was on duty again Monday night, although still suffering from the shock of the previous night. He had been unableto eat following the escape. The jail population at the ‘time of the escape was 46, This, in a jail designed to confine 28 maximum when the top floor was available for use. The top floor was condemned recently by state inspectors. It had previously been used to help relieve overcrowded conditions when not used as a women's ward. So stripped was the office of cash by the escape that one prisoner released Monday accepted an IOU for $8 as part of the $11 he had.coming to him, The conversation between Arbogags and Fitzgerald at the timeof escape points up that the two had known each other casually years ago in Berkeley. Each had driven a milk truck in the same residential areaas competitors. By coincidence, Arbogast was on duty the night Fitzgerald was booked after being picked up in Portland, Ore. , oncharges of murdering a San Franciscan in the Truckee area, Another alleged victim of Fitzgerald is recovering from his wounds in a Reno hospital. . Fitzgerald was onthe “Ten Most Wanted” list of the FBI andthat federal agency immediately responded with aid in the search for the escapees. It all added tothe "spooks" jof Halloween in Nevada (County. SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CARL ARBOGAS: (right) tells Nevada City Patrolman Harold Knox how he was held at knife-point by murder suspect Stanley Fitzgerald THE OPEN CELL ‘Yes, There Has Been A Jailbreak.’ By Bob Wyckoff ‘its case,.CHP Officer O'Brien enters in Levi's and a cotton sweat shirt.The police teletype begins its monotonous click, .the telephone rings, "Yes, there has been a jailbreak. Yes it wasFitzgerald. You're we!come." Reporters asking Questions of all present. Despite apparent confusion _ each man was functioning — Unlike the best TV and movie ja@ilbreaks which depict screaming sirens and semi-hysterical desk sergents the scene Sunday night at the Nevada County Sheriff's Office was one of grim, organized determination. Within minutes of the All Points Bulletin being flashed, all available peace officers were pressed into service, Deputy Ed Wojcik on the radio keeping in constant touch with the patrol units aswell asthe road blocks. job. when he felt the knife pressed against his stomach; without e€pu rbogast con ued his duties, ., A deputy re(Continued on page 4) _ ‘turns an automatic rifle to smoothly inhis particular

ae ae ee SMES ai alaasbicSea ee ee eine ‘ REE NS j d ‘ of a committee which will North ‘Quaker Hil, Willow Valley, Newown, > Seivhag the eoateasib of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, erving bi emer taal City, alley, Dog, You Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Relief Hill; W away Glenbrook, Sift Cin Sp Flat, Bridgeport, Cedar Ridge, Usion Hil, Little York, Cherokee, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou ~* Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Volume 34 No. 44 _“THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published. Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, November 2, 196¢ Paint-Up Planned 10 Cents a Copy At NC Corner Nevada City's Project: Paint-up has a junior partner this week after private plans to paint two buildings outside of the main project area blossomed into a five-unit paintup of one of the busiest comers in the city. — Called Primer Project asan_ indication that it will be the first step of a later paintup of the downtown area, the plans include a complete fresh look for the Main Street, Union Street and Commercial Street intersection. Included in the paintup set for Saturday and Sunday are Mike Haley's antique store building. Ott's Assay office and building, the-oldRoma Grocery building(Alpha Hardware warehouse), Nevada City Upholstery Shop, and Kéndrick's Insurance Agency building. Although not officially a part of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Project: Paint-up cam paign slated for Spring of 1961, the Primer Project has drawn offers of assistance from various sectors of the city. _ Otis Gaylord, Project: Paint-up chairman, announced this week the names r aid in making the immediate project a success. Included . are: Mrs. Clara Peterson, chamber of commerce auxiliary president; Babe Childers, Elks; Chick Thomas, Nevada City Fire Department; Ken Dark, contractor; Mosco Smart, supervisor, Bill Briggs of Alpha Hardware is arranging withFuller Paint Co. to give the Primer Project the same benefits that will be available for the Spring paintup. Primer Project developed when occupants of Ott's Assay office and the old Roma Grocery property jointly decided to dress up the two buildings, with permission of the California Division of Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain) Oct. 26 69 aa <23 Oct. 27 56 29 -Oct. 28 + =65 32 -Oct. 29 10 33 -Oct. 30 710 34 -Oct. 31. 73 35 -Nov. 1 72 37 -Rain to date. ... Rain last year.. . Grass Valley Oct. 26 70. 45 .24 Oct. 27. 59 38 .o7f Oct.28 67 42 -Oct.29 72 44 -Oct. 30 74 48 -Oct. 31 718 48 -"4 Nov. 1 19 50 -Rain to date.. .. Rain last year. . .. . 4.07 {rehabilitation program, the qneed is greater for local chapters to increase For-GetMe-Not sales All persons are urged to give generously to this worthy cause, Ramey Highways which owns both buildings. So that the paint jobs wauld not be out of harmony with the big paintup project scheduled next year, advice was sought from Fuller Paint Co. as to colors and procedure, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Field, and son Alan, visited Nevada City over the Oct. 22 weekend. They became enthusiastic about thecity and the Spring prospects. Likewise they looked upon the then two-unit paint job asa means of dressing up an important corner and at the same time showing the city what can be done. It was their advice that led to the expansion of Primer Projectto include the whole intersection. Mrs. Florence Kendricks joined the project, although her building had been termed by the Fields as fitting with plans for the corner, Likewise, Haley plans to paint more of his building than had been suggested as minimum by the Fields. Freeway Vote Set Nov. 22 Date for the freeway vote in Nevada City has been set as Nov. 22, Still to be chosen is the polling place. This announcement was made today by co-chairman Dick Knee and Bob Paine. Sample ballots will be mailed. Registered voters in Nevada City and ansentee property owners will be eligible tO vote. DAV Sale Set Through Saturday The annual DAV sale of For-Get-Me-Nots will begin tomorrowand continue through Saturday, it was announced this week by Commander Chester L. Ramey of the Lawrence H, Benson Chapter 122. The For-Get-Me-Nots are made by hospitalized veterans and sold only once a year. The salesrepresent the only source of income for the Disabled Veterans’ rehabilitation program. Since withdrawal of State funds formerly allotted to assist the Disabled Veterans’ THE NUGGET RECOMMENDS: VOTE FOR ONE PARTY JOHN F. KENNEDY, for President LYNDON B. JOHNSON, for Vice President Representative in Congress nd District =e CONGRESSIONAL SS TS Vote for One HAROLD Incumben T. BIZZ JOHNSON, Democrati t ic + State Senator 7th District STATE LEGISLATURE Vote for One RONALD G. “RON” CAMERON, Democratic . + Incumbent Member of Assembly 6th District Vote for One PAUL J. LUNARDI, Democratic . + Incumbent ; COUNTY Supervisor—1st District Vote for One MOSCO F. SMART . Incumbent . + of the water resources of the State. MEASURES SUBMITTED TO VOTE OF VOTERS FOR THE CALIFORNIA WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BOND ACT. This act provides for a bond issue of one billion, seven hundred fifty million dollars ($1,750,000,000) to be used by the Department of Water Resources for the development PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AGAINST THE CALIFORNIA WATER SOURCES DEVELOPMENT BOND ACT. ot eee for a bond issue of one billion, hundred fifty million dollars ($1,750,000,000) used by the it of Water Resources for: the development of the water resources of the State. REThis seven to be YES NO YES NO TERMS OF ASSEMBLYMEN. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 15. Provides that terms of members of Assembly elected in 1960 and thereafter shall be four years; onehalf of members elected in 1960 shall vacate office at expiration of second year, so that half of themmahereae the Assembly shall be elected every two years. TERMS OF OFFICE. Senate Constitutional Amendment No, 1 (1960 First ExtraordiSession). Permits Legislature to progs ope oad exceed eight os 1 er any agency created it to administer the State College System of California. k

COMPENSATION OF LEGISLATORS. Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 31. Sets salary of members of the State Legislature at $750 per month. Provides that increased compensation provided by this increase retirement tors already retired. YES . ! NO bly Constitutional Amendment: No. 29. Establishes —— in which non-profit golf courses shoul assessed for f , Purposes o 6 ASSESSMENT OF GOLF COURSES. Assem: + NO SENATE REAPPORTIONMENT. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. i fi of Senators to be basis; more than 7 districts and 20 fei icoasts inal tase be districts be COUNTY Establishes or election of sll Senstors in 142, orionr NO } attendance. He also assured . that the public is invited to Others, Escape County Jail Touchy deputies of the Nevada County Sheriff's office Monday night turned away costumed and masked children making their Halloween rounds---turned them away without a smile and without a treat. Halloween had come 24 hours earlier to the Nevada City sheriff's office. It was all trick and no treat. Aileged murderer Stanley William Fitzgerald, 30, and Robert Lee Smithson, 31, Nevada City, masterminded an escape fromNevada was relieved of $26.28, his pickup truck keys, and then locked in a supply closet. The five escapees meanwhile took thealteged murder gun and two others as well as more than $100 in funds of the office including money placed with the sheriff for safe keeping following a holiday party at the Union Hill School. After pulling the plug on most radio equipment, the escapees raced off in Arbogast's 1956 red Ford pickup (long body), licensed PDP 470. Accused Murderer, MANNING ROADBLOCK ON HIGHWAY :( AT BEAR VALLEY--Volunteer Deputy Richard Esterly of Grass Valley and highway patrol officer John Waddell. . An Foi agent also stood b _by Elza Kilroy, president. County jail and took along with them as co-escapees Larry Pensoneau, 17, Donald Snyder, 17, andKelly Coleman, 16. A coincidental 9:30 p.m. phone call to the sheriff's office downstairs from the cells made easier the escape. As Deputy Carl Arbogast and Ray Blakely, 47, a jail trustee, went upstairs to the upper cell block, the phone rang. Arbogast returned to answer it, Blakely continued into the cell block, was grabbed by the two ringleaders. They got his keys, released the three youngsters, and crept downstairs. As Arbogast leaned forward in his chair to reach for . the microphone to call one of the mobile units, he was . grabbed from behind by Fitz‘gerald. The accused murderer's right arm held ' Arbogast in place in his chair, ' aknife pricking the fabric of © ; his shirt. Fitzgerald's left fist menacingly waved near the deputy’s face, and he repeated qver andover, "Don't ' doanything to make me hurt ' you, Carl.” “Fritz, what do you want . to do this for,” Arbogast asked. "You've got a 60-40 chance of beating this rap, why this?” The question was unanSwered, In quick time, Arbogast Historians _Nevada County Historical Society will hold its November meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in Rough and Ready, it was announced this week Meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall, the society will plan for its big December meeting, and Kilroy urged a full . sit in on the meeting. 265-2071 or 273-6559. John E, Nettle, Kilroy or Alan Haley will show slides of hisrecent trip to the UN. Residents desiring transportation are asked to call Bernice Glasson at the following numbers: 273-7165, About 20 minutes later, a Nevada City patrol car heard yelling from the jail and put out the alarm over remaining radio equipment . Immediately road blocks took shape, and since that time the FBI has joined the hunt. As of Tuesday morning, from allindications the five werein Nevada County. Deputies were checking out all leads, although most leads the first day were late in arriving at the office. Arbogast was on duty again Monday night, although still suffering from the shock of the previous night. He had been unableto eat following the escape. The jail population at the ‘time of the escape was 46, This, in a jail designed to confine 28 maximum when the top floor was available for use. The top floor was condemned recently by state inspectors. It had previously been used to help relieve overcrowded conditions when not used as a women's ward. So stripped was the office of cash by the escape that one prisoner released Monday accepted an IOU for $8 as part of the $11 he had.coming to him, The conversation between Arbogags and Fitzgerald at the timeof escape points up that the two had known each other casually years ago in Berkeley. Each had driven a milk truck in the same residential areaas competitors. By coincidence, Arbogast was on duty the night Fitzgerald was booked after being picked up in Portland, Ore. , oncharges of murdering a San Franciscan in the Truckee area, Another alleged victim of Fitzgerald is recovering from his wounds in a Reno hospital. . Fitzgerald was onthe “Ten Most Wanted” list of the FBI andthat federal agency immediately responded with aid in the search for the escapees. It all added tothe "spooks" jof Halloween in Nevada (County. SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CARL ARBOGAS: (right) tells Nevada City Patrolman Harold Knox how he was held at knife-point by murder suspect Stanley Fitzgerald THE OPEN CELL ‘Yes, There Has Been A Jailbreak..’ By Bob Wyckoff ‘its case,.CHP Officer O'Brien enters in Levi's and a cotton sweat shirt..The police teletype begins its monotonous click, .the telephone rings, "Yes, there has been a jailbreak. Yes it wasFitzgerald. You're we!come." Reporters asking Questions of all present.. Despite apparent confusion _ each man was functioning — Unlike the best TV and movie ja@ilbreaks which depict screaming sirens and semi-hysterical desk sergents the scene Sunday night at the Nevada County Sheriff's Office was one of grim, organized determination. Within minutes of the All Points Bulletin being flashed, all available peace officers were pressed into service, Deputy Ed Wojcik on the radio keeping in constant touch with the patrol units aswell asthe road blocks.. job.. when he felt the knife pressed against his stomach; without e€pu rbogast con ued his duties, ., A deputy re(Continued on page 4) _ ‘turns an automatic rifle to smoothly inhis particular