November 21, 1963 (34 pages)

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Vi field, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Remington Hill; Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 38, Number 47 Societies To Meet In October A 1964 Fall Symposium of historical societies of Northern California and Southern Oregon will be heldinNevada County, it was announced today by Miss Irene Simpson, president of the Conference of California Historical Sosieties. An invitation toholdthe meet~ ing in Nevada City was extended by the Nevada County Historical Society. It was accepted by the Conference, meeting in Sacramento. A similar invitation to hold the annual of the Conference in Nev~ ada County is under consideration. R. Coke Wood, executive sec~ retary of the organization, said he hoped that either the sympos~ ium or the annual meeting could be held in the proposed University of California Summer Theater in the annex of the National Hotel, just as the Conference has held meetings in Fallon Tneater at Columbia. The Conference accepted Nevada City's invitation for the Fall Symposium so that the group could see the famed fall coloring of Nevada County. The sympos~ sium will be held early in October, with Isabel Hefelfinger, former official of the Conference, in charge of local arrangements. Miss Hefelfinger said the date has not yet been chosen. Conferees will gather on a Friday night for registration and a business meeting. The symposium will take place ona Saturday, with a featured speaker slated to address the group that night. A Sunday tour will be planned. This year's symposium was held in Southern Oregon. ‘10 Cents A Copy HISTORIA Frébch Carrel, R ty Wolf, Christmas H alley, Newtown, Indian F : WET AND COLD..Nevada City Firemen, wet from the spray they are playing through the roof into the Branding Iron, fire in downtown Nevada City at freezing midnight temperatures. Page 2) a Typhoid Epidemic Avoided, Nevada County Sanitarian Har~old Cox said today he was well satisfied withthe outcome of last week's meeting with governmen~ tal agencies and private concerms on sanitation problems that relate. to NID's $60 Million Yuba-Bear Clay Caldwell To Retire Clay Caldwell, ‘superintendent of the Grassi. Valley Elementary School District, submitted his resignation effective June 30 at a meeting of the district trustees Monday night. Caldwell'sresignation was ac~ cepted with regrets, after he explained that he desired to retire fromthe teaching field after more than 20 years of service to Grass Valley in a teaching career that ran 37 years. Caldwell had one more year to} go on a four year contract. He will be released from the balance of the contract. Caldwelltold the board it will be free next year to combine the epost of superintendent w ith that of principal of Hennessy School if it desires. . (Continued on Page 22) Cox Says Project. As a result of the meeting and agreements that Cox said ensued from it, Western Nevada County will have more protection from water pollution next year during the heavy construction on the project than the county residents had this year. ; "We got through a summer without any outbreak of ilJness, “ Cox said, “but I don't know whether we could next year.” He said the potential of a typhoid or nepatitis epidemic was present this year and would have (Continued on Page 22) The race issue and the 1964 election is discussed by Marquis Childs on this week's Nugget Editorial Page (see Page 11). fought the Friday night (See Fire In NC Nevada City firemen are still investigating a fire which gutted the Branding Iron Cafe Friday night and damaged beyond use the shoe store adjoining. Cause of the fire atid an estimate of the damage are not yet available, it was pointed out. The building is owned by Albert Krasevac, North Highlands, owner of several other pieces of local property. Irene DeMatteo, operator of the Branding Iron, said she was. “wiped out” by the fire, and Louis Appert, shoe repairman, indicated he has not-yet found quarters to go back into business. Fire loss was only partially covered by insurance. Nevada City firemen were aided by a Grass Valley rig and crew, and the 49er Fire Department stood by to cover for Nevada City crews fighting the fire. Three accused bank robbers are in Nevada County's jail awaiting legal proceedings which will bring them totrial in Nevada City for the murder of a California Highway Patrolman at Donner Lake Friday evening. Thethree are Roger M. Mealman, 29, Marysville, who Sacramento police say admitted firing the shot that killed Highway Patrolman Glenn Carlson, 33; Robert Lee Burns, 31, The Dalles, Ore.; and Clifford (Patterson) Toycen, 29, Salem, Ore. , Sacramento County law enforcement officials say the trio robbed the Northgate branch Bank of América of more than $44,000 Friday afternoon. Tne white con~ vertible believed used by the trio in the bank robbery was found abandoned in Tahoe City late Friday night. _ Atraffic ticket for illegal passing on Donner Summit had been issued by Patrolman Carlson to Burns a few minutes before the CHP officer again stopped the car after checking the car's ficticious license number by radio. He was shot as he approached the car for the second time. Mealman and Burns were arrested by Sacramento officers as they alighted from a chartered plane they took from Reno. Toycen was arrested ata Truckee motel by Nevada County Sheriff's deputies. Allthree men had taken a taxi from Tahoe City to Reno, Toycen . returning to Truckee by taxi, the other two chartering the flight to Sacramento. District Attorney Harold Berliner took the trio befdre Judge Verle Gray's justice court Monday and.charged them with murder. A preliminary hearing next Monday will likely turn the matter overto the superior court, unless action is taken by the Nevada County Grand Jury in the meantime which could return an indictment of murder in the first degree against the three men. A complaint of bank robbery resulting in death has also been filed in Federal court against the three men. : Capture of the trio resulted from cooperation between Sacra(Continued on Page 22) *3T1BO ‘6 CQUEWBA0eS Aawagyy 69845 * 31189 Uot4oes B1 eOTPOTuEY

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Vi field, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Remington Hill; Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 38, Number 47 Societies To Meet In October A 1964 Fall Symposium of historical societies of Northern California and Southern Oregon will be heldinNevada County, it was announced today by Miss Irene Simpson, president of the Conference of California Historical Sosieties. An invitation toholdthe meet~ ing in Nevada City was extended by the Nevada County Historical Society. It was accepted by the Conference, meeting in Sacramento. A similar invitation to hold the annual of the Conference in Nev~ ada County is under consideration. R. Coke Wood, executive sec~ retary of the organization, said he hoped that either the sympos~ ium or the annual meeting could be held in the proposed University of California Summer Theater in the annex of the National Hotel, just as the Conference has held meetings in Fallon Tneater at Columbia. The Conference accepted Nevada City's invitation for the Fall Symposium so that the group could see the famed fall coloring of Nevada County. The sympos~ sium will be held early in October, with Isabel Hefelfinger, former official of the Conference, in charge of local arrangements. Miss Hefelfinger said the date has not yet been chosen. Conferees will gather on a Friday night for registration and a business meeting. The symposium will take place ona Saturday, with a featured speaker slated to address the group that night. A Sunday tour will be planned. This year's symposium was held in Southern Oregon. ‘10 Cents A Copy HISTORIA Frébch Carrel, R ty Wolf, Christmas H alley, Newtown, Indian F : WET AND COLD...Nevada City Firemen, wet from the spray they are playing through the roof into the Branding Iron, fire in downtown Nevada City at freezing midnight temperatures. Page 2) a Typhoid Epidemic Avoided, Nevada County Sanitarian Har~old Cox said today he was well satisfied withthe outcome of last week's meeting with governmen~ tal agencies and private concerms on sanitation problems that relate. to NID's $60 Million Yuba-Bear Clay Caldwell To Retire Clay Caldwell, ‘superintendent of the Grassi. Valley Elementary School District, submitted his resignation effective June 30 at a meeting of the district trustees Monday night. Caldwell'sresignation was ac~ cepted with regrets, after he explained that he desired to retire fromthe teaching field after more than 20 years of service to Grass Valley in a teaching career that ran 37 years. Caldwell had one more year to} go on a four year contract. He will be released from the balance of the contract. Caldwelltold the board it will be free next year to combine the epost of superintendent w ith that of principal of Hennessy School if it desires. . (Continued on Page 22) Cox Says Project. As a result of the meeting and agreements that Cox said ensued from it, Western Nevada County will have more protection from water pollution next year during

the heavy construction on the project than the county residents had this year. ; "We got through a summer without any outbreak of ilJness, “ Cox said, “but I don't know whether we could next year.” He said the potential of a typhoid or nepatitis epidemic was present this year and would have (Continued on Page 22) The race issue and the 1964 election is discussed by Marquis Childs on this week's Nugget Editorial Page (see Page 11). fought the Friday night (See Fire In NC Nevada City firemen are still investigating a fire which gutted the Branding Iron Cafe Friday night and damaged beyond use the shoe store adjoining. Cause of the fire atid an estimate of the damage are not yet available, it was pointed out. The building is owned by Albert Krasevac, North Highlands, owner of several other pieces of local property. Irene DeMatteo, operator of the Branding Iron, said she was. “wiped out” by the fire, and Louis Appert, shoe repairman, indicated he has not-yet found quarters to go back into business. Fire loss was only partially covered by insurance. Nevada City firemen were aided by a Grass Valley rig and crew, and the 49er Fire Department stood by to cover for Nevada City crews fighting the fire. Three accused bank robbers are in Nevada County's jail awaiting legal proceedings which will bring them totrial in Nevada City for the murder of a California Highway Patrolman at Donner Lake Friday evening. Thethree are Roger M. Mealman, 29, Marysville, who Sacramento police say admitted firing the shot that killed Highway Patrolman Glenn Carlson, 33; Robert Lee Burns, 31, The Dalles, Ore.; and Clifford (Patterson) Toycen, 29, Salem, Ore. , Sacramento County law enforcement officials say the trio robbed the Northgate branch Bank of América of more than $44,000 Friday afternoon. Tne white con~ vertible believed used by the trio in the bank robbery was found abandoned in Tahoe City late Friday night. _ Atraffic ticket for illegal passing on Donner Summit had been issued by Patrolman Carlson to Burns a few minutes before the CHP officer again stopped the car after checking the car's ficticious license number by radio. He was shot as he approached the car for the second time. Mealman and Burns were arrested by Sacramento officers as they alighted from a chartered plane they took from Reno. Toycen was arrested ata Truckee motel by Nevada County Sheriff's deputies. Allthree men had taken a taxi from Tahoe City to Reno, Toycen . returning to Truckee by taxi, the other two chartering the flight to Sacramento. District Attorney Harold Berliner took the trio befdre Judge Verle Gray's justice court Monday and.charged them with murder. A preliminary hearing next Monday will likely turn the matter overto the superior court, unless action is taken by the Nevada County Grand Jury in the meantime which could return an indictment of murder in the first degree against the three men. A complaint of bank robbery resulting in death has also been filed in Federal court against the three men. : Capture of the trio resulted from cooperation between Sacra(Continued on Page 22) *3T1BO ‘6 CQUEWBA0eS Aawagyy 69845 * 31189 Uot4oes B1 eOTPOTuEY