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‘NEVADA
COUNTY .
Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You
Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill,“ Washi
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Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wal
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Volume 37No. 44 10 Cents a Copy
“THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays
Marine
Band Due
Saturday
GRASS VALLEY ---The Marines are coming to Grass Valley Saturday---to entertain,
not to attack!!
In this unusual role for
Marines, the "President's
Own” Marine Band will appear at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium for matinee
and evening concerts under
the sponsorship of the Nevada
County 4-H Club Council.
When the nation's oldest
military symphonic musical
organization
"takes" the
Stage at 1:30 p.m, young
Americans will thrill to versatile program designed for
students and -adults of all
ages. Tickets are still available for the matinee.
The evening concert at 8
p.m. will consist of more
formal symphonic selections,
overtures, novelty tunes and
martial airs. Itis a sell-out.
In addition to hearing this
world-famous
musical organizatiou,
the Nevada
County 4-H Club Council is
bringing the band from Washington, D,C., to raise funds
for its International
Farm
activities of the famed organization before presidents,
kings, queens and other dignitaries have established an
enviable record,
The annual tours of the
Marine Band are rotated to
various sections of the country,
Tickets are now on sale for
the matinee program only-the 1400 seats forthe evening
concert are sold out--.at
Frank's Barber Shop in Nevada City and Alpha Store in’
Grass Valley, Any remaining
matinee seats will be sold at
the auditorium door.
sSedy ee
Lt. Col. Albert Schoepper, Director
U.S. Marine Corps Band
NEVADA CIT Y---Sheriff
Wayne Brown announced, today that the file on the 66
year old unsolved murder of
Nevada County Sheriff David
F, Douglass is now officially
closed.
Douglass was fatally shot
July 26, 1896 near Nevada
City while trying to apprehend a suspected highwayman,
Douglass killed the suspect
but was shot in the back by
a second bandit. (Nugget,
Oct. 3, Sierra Sights).
A restudy of the murder
case was ordered more than
a year ago when a client of
a former state attorney, told
him that he had know ledge of
the murder,
The client told the attorney that his former fatherin-law stated that whenhe
The Nugget is indebted to
Al Trivelpiece, whose tireless pursuit of the facts about
this case is responsible for its
resolution.
nothing we can do officially."
Here he became a salesman which proved to bea
successful career. He eventually became manager of
his office.
The man married and
raiseda family and was financally well off. At one point
in his life, according to relatives, he started a search
for Douglass’ son and planned to give him money.
was a boy he had killeda
sheriff in Nevada County,
California.
The information was passed along to local officers
NID May
GRASS VALLEY ---The Nevada Irrigation District has
been granted preliminary
eligibility approval by the
Depart mentof Water Resources, clearing the way for
application for grants of up to
$300, 000 for each of four recreation projects under the
Davis Grunsky Act.
The approval came on the
Architect is Named
For Woolma
NEVADA CITY---Richard
Borgstrom of Berkeley has
been given responsibility for
architectural design of the
John Woolman School, it was
announced Monday by Don
Elton Smith, resident-manager of the local school,
Borgstrom expectsto begin
work within two weeks, He
has been in the employ of
Norris Gadis and J, Hans Ostwald, architects in the Bay
Area.
Sponsor of the new seconn School
dary school to be located on
Jones Bar Rd. is the College
Park Friends Educational Association, The Quaker group
recently announced the purchase of a 112 acre ranch
where they propose to open
a boarding school next Fall,
Plans call for enrolment
of 30 students in grades ten
and eleven. The school will
.be co-educational and college preparatory in emphasis,
Cost of the development is
expected to be about $140,
000, :
Get Recreation $$
figure for last year because of
an item for the purchase of
new pipe and installation
costs torepair-worn out lines
in the district, for an increase
from. $18,500 to$42,500 and
the addition of $25,000 for
the purchase of property for
a new office building and
maintenance shops.
The directors have been
‘looking for property for some
time so all of the operations
in the Nevada division would
be centralized in one location for more efficiency and
economy.
Items of more than $90 ,000
for construction of a reservoir
in the Rough and Ready area,
another on the Wolf Area for
regulation onthe Tarr system
and replacement of the Combie pump were cut from the
budget at the final session.
All of these projects will
be taken care of with funds
from the Small Projects Act
loan for which the district has
made preliminary application in connection with its
Yuba-Bear River development,
application of NID to determine eligibility for recreation grants at Jackson Meadows, Faucherie, Scotts Flat
and Rollins reservoirs under <
the district's $65 million
water =power development at
those sites.
The district was informed
last week that the next step
is the preparation and submission of a project feasibility study, and the NID
board authorized Edwin
Koster, manager, to investigate methods and costs of
preparing the feasibility
study.
Koster has set a tentative
meeting with Assemblyman
Paul Lunardi for 10 a, m, Friday to discuss the Rollins
recreational application.
NID'‘s directors last week
approved a 1962-63 budget of
$790,000, The tax rate at 5
per cent of assessed valuation
andthe water rate at $31 per
miner's inch remain unchanged,
The budget is up over the
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and the case was reopened,
Brown said that no names
w ould be disclosed for the
protection of persons who
aided inthe year long inyéstigation which followed.
After careful review of the
information obtained, Brown
theorizes that Douglass was
shot from behind by a boy of
12 or 13 who believed Douglasstobe another bandit engagedin a gun duel with his
friend,
When the boy discovered
he had killed a sheriff he fled
the scene and made good his
escape while deputies were
‘searching for an adult gunman.
Investigators traced the life
of the boy from 1896 to date.
He is now in his late seventies and resides outside the
state.
After the murder he went
to Marysville where he was
questioned briefly andreleased. He then went to
Colorado and worked asa
miner. He lived for a while
in Oklahoma before going to
the northwest.
He is now divorced and living in retirement. At one
time he told his wife of the
killing.
In closing the case Brown
said, “We have consulted
with representatives of the
attorney general's office and
with the state bureau of criminal investigation and identification and there is unanimous opinion that there is
Natives of Britain,
Norway in Survey
NEVADA CITY---A number
of residents of this county who
were born in Great Britain or
Notway will receive in the
mail late this week a questionnaire fromthe U.S. CensusBureau as part of a Survey
of Health Characteristics
which that agency is conducting for the United States
Public Health Service.The purpose of the survey
is to provide information for
use in studying health problems involving diseases of the
heart and lungs. Questions
will be asked to determine if
persons born in Great Britain
and Norway are less or more
likely to have these diseases
than persons born in the
United States, and whether
these diseases have any relation to the places people
have lived, kinds of work
they have done, and similar
District Attorney Harold
A. Berlingr added that there
was virtually no chance that
the suspect would ever come
to Nevada County voluntarily.
Berliner said, "Even if the
lad had been arrested at the
time of the killing he would
have been processed through
juvenile channels and would
probably have been sent to
reform school, "
Sheriff David F. Douglass
Nevada City Visitor
Stirs Campaign Pot
NEVADA CITY---A visit to
Nevada City three weeks ago
of HarryS. Ashmore, editorin-chief of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, hasset off a chain
of events which have affected
the course of the contest between Gov. Edmund Brown
and Brown's challenger,
Richard Nixon.
Following his stay at the
National Hotel, Ashmore returned to his home in Santa
Barbara and wrote three almost identical letters-to-the
-editor, onetothe San Francisco: Chronicle, one to the
Nugget, and oneto the Santa
Barbara News-Press.
The letter decried the
state's plan to "gut" Nevada
City and other scenic and
historical areas with freeways, and urged the creation
of a statewide review board,
of conservationists and historians to check on Division
of Highways plans for "legalized vandalism" before they
leave the drawing boards.
The response was immediate. The Chronicle called in
an editorial for a statement
from the two candidates on
the subject, as did the California Scenic Highways Association,
Thetwo candidates thereupon issued lengthy commentaries, Gov. Brown rejecting the Ashmore proposal
but urging the use of local
consulting boards of historians and conservationists in
freeway planning, and Nixon
bypassing the Ashmore proposal buturging appropriate
hearingsin freeway-affected
communities,
Nixon also insisted that
“threats of withdrawing highway funds or promises of additionalhighway expenditures be banned _as solicitations for local agreement on
proposed routing."
The Chronicle editorialized, "Freeway Now Election
Issue, “ and the Scenic Roads
Association announced that it
is not fully satisfied by the
statement of either candidate. Itcalls for “more definite guarantees from both
candidates that our scenic resources and historic areas will
be adequately protected from
the freeway juggernaut. "
D.A. and Defender Pay,
Accused Gets Probation
NEVADA CIT Y---It doesn't
pay to keep the court waiting.
Asa matter of fact, it cost
District Attorney Harold Berliner and Public Defender Leo
Todd $25 each Monday.
Both failed to appear at the
Thursday sentencing of Raymond Lee Mellis, 21, charged with escaping from the
Truckee jail while serving a
30 day sentence.
_ Superior Court Judge Vernon Stoll took the wrath of
the'c ourt out on the public
Mfactors,
officials, andgranted probation to the defendant.
Todd had been late in returning froma deerhunt, delayed by a four-point buck
that eluded him. Berliner had
been blocked in his driveway
after lunch Thursday bya
falling tree. .
Attorney Harry W olters,’s,
assistant tothe district attorney, had been assignedto the
case, Hewas late due to car
trouble during the storm. But
by the time he appeared to
admit his part in the court's
delay, the court's wrath had
been satisfied,
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Corral, Rough and Ready
Delirium Tremens.
66 YEAR OLD NC
MURDER SOLVED
DEATH
(As reported in the Nevada
City Transcript in 1896.)
DOUGLASS, David Fulton.
Nevada City, July 26, 1896.
Funeral services were held
yesterday (July 29) in Armory
Hall, Nevada City for Sheriff David F. Douglass who
was shot to death in the line
of duty Sunday while trying
to capture a highwayman
near the North San Juan Road
(Lake Vera Road).
JTS Howard shs@qy of
Grass Valley delivered a simple funeral address in accordance with the wishes of the
family of the deceased.
Graveside services were
conducted at Pine Grove by
Knights of Pythias ,’ Milo
Lodge, No. 48 and Native
Sons of The Golden West,
Hydraulic Parlor, Douglass
was a member of both societies,
Sheriff Douglass is survived by a wife and son, both
of this city.
Pall bearers were: B.S,
Rector, F.T. Nilon, A. Frandy
andF.B. Woodman of the K.
of P. andjJas. F. Colley,
Chas, E. Clinch and Fred E.
Brown of the Native Sons.
. Douglass was a native of
SanJoaquincounty, aged 38
years.
County
Chamber >
Is Topic
GRASS VALLEY ---A study of
a countywide chamber of
commerce -will be held Friday ata noon luncheon at the
Bret Harte Inn with George
Sawyer, regional manager of
the California Chamber of
Commerce, slated to explain
the formation and operation
of various county chambers.
More than 40 Nevada
County chamber officials and
civic leadershave made reservations for the luncheon, it
was revealed today by cochairmen Bill Briggs and
Dean Thompson,
Supervisorsinrecent
months have been interested
in the possibility of forming
a county chamber, and individuals within local chambers of the county have privately discussed the idea,
Representation at the
meeting, todate, will come
from Truckee, Washington,
and otherrural areas, as well
as Grass Valley and Nevada
City.
Weather ©
NEVADA CITY
Max. Min. Rainfall
Oct. 10 70 48 . 00
12 o8E 849 1.92
12° "$8 3 7.07
18; ST. 48. 56.98
14.52 42 5.71
15 53° 32 . 00
16.99: Bh 00
Rainfall to date 21,63
Rainfall last year . 90
GRASS VALLEY
Max. Min, Rainfall
Oct. 10.” 73.. 80 00
11 57 48 1,32
12> 80: Sa Bee
13. 57 49.--6.20
14 53. 41 5.78
15 59 298 . 90
6 Ge 6S . 00
Rainfall to date 20.71
Rainfall last year 99
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