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October 17, 1962 (10 pages)

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1d ar i . Pa Exchange (IFYE) pro. am. The historical musical ‘NEVADA COUNTY . Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill,“ Washi Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, Frenfh Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wal Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, way ri Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hil North id Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony 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 y epssValled Ue sat aA Goatss Lille } ©: Puiys * Py Card J Premium Card § Pre; $10R! WINNER! ed QUOT HM Fee ines bubltys Premium Card . " ene ward w be $1000 WINNER---Bernice Thomas of Grass Valley is obviously happy as shere— Syd Route GRASS walle ¥ ea Purity’s yanaae ’ Ota Fore . é THES 1 RAheY “VY Purity’s Premium Card $20 WINNER! + K cane ne € Pudi v's Premium Card $100 WINNER! Leas (oP?) Fvlaw ass Ca /le ceives a $1000 check from Purity Stores manager Bob Elfers at the Grass Valley Purity. The check was won one week before the store's premium card offer expires, and manager Elfers seems.as pleased with the fact as does the winner. 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, > — 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 *JI1LBO ‘6 CfUuSsLBZOES LABIQET 9989S “JTLED UCTHLES STBOTPOTUes