October 18, 1972 (12 pages)

Visitors . crowd NC — ‘events “Nevada City buzzed during the weekend when visitors flocked here to help the local citizenry celebrate the coming of gas lights and near completion of the downtown improvement project. Intermittent sprinkles did not appear to dampen enthusiasm as visitors explored the town and fanned out to attend The Trade Fair, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Autumn =© House Tour, Gas Light Varieties * in the old Nevada Theater and participate in other entertainment, Several buses disgorged cam. era-laden passengers bent on . catching fall colors in this foothill community. Lines stood in front of houses on the SNMH tour, all chatting while they awaited turns to view the homes. Business was brisk at the Trade Fair where items ranging from green tomato chow chow to expensive antiques were for sale. Also many artistic hand-made creations were being vended. Reports were that the opening of Gas Light Varieties in the Old Nevada Theater as most entertaining, as were band concerts and other free entertainment. In keeping with the spirit of the celebration, Norman Oates, city superintendent of public works, re-kindled gas lights in {front of the theater. Elza Kilroy loaned a 1912 era gas lighter for the occasion. Traffic wis heavy and sometimes snarled. Parking was at a premium. Weather forced some events scheduled outside inside but no one seemed to complain. The celebration will continue through the week and climax next weekend when more entertainment is scheduled. This includes more productions of Gas Light Varieties, a kids’ parade, and an old fashioned community band concert. NORMAN OATES, superintendent of streets in Nevada City, is shown in two views as he turned on the gas lights officially in Nevada City Saturday night. The band was there to help the 10-day Gas Light Celebration. Relax. New gas ovens clean while they cook. See the new continuous-cleaning gas ovens that do their own dirty work. The oven keeps itself clean while you're using it at normal oven temperatures. Gas cooking is efficient and economical too. And gas ranges actually conserve natural gas. Theat’s because it takes more gas as fuel in steam-electric power plants to make equivalent heat for electric cooking. PGE ‘High Country’ due at Sierra “High Country", award-winning Bluegrass music quintet, will appear at Sierra College October 27 in the Campus Center, High Country is Ed Neff on fiddle, Butch Waller on mandolin, Bruce Nemiroff on fivestring banjo, Chris Boutwell on guitar, and Elon "Lonnie" Feiner on bass, all with a very specialized form of acoustic country music which originated in the late 30s and early 40s as Bluegrass. Holders of the best band award at the Topanga Canyon Fiddle Contest, sponsored by U.C.L.A,, Ed Neff also won the professional Bluegrass Award at the same contest. _ eee Air pollution controls are made stiffer Nevada County air pollution controls were somewhat stiffened Tuesday when supervisors adopted a resolution pertaining to open burning of waste wood products. Ron Earles, county air pollution officer, told supervisors that the action as required by the state. It pertains only to commercial or residential building on sites where there is no existing development. The regulation requires a valid permit to burn clearing debris. He described the provisions in the resolution as "minimum criteria." The new regulation applies to individual lot and lots gained by splitting property. Burning will be by permit only and permissible on only designated "purn days." Details of the permits have not yet been worked out but they will be available at the office of the NevadaCounty air Pollution Control. Earles Local scientist develops mosquito test A Grass Valley man is one of two scientists to develop a better test for mosquitoes, James G, Else, son of Mr. and Mrs, James G, Else, and Robert K, Washino are scientists at the University of California at Davis. The two have developed a quicker, cheaper, easier and more sensitive test to determine what creature has supplied the most recent meal for a blood-engorged mosquito. For many years a somewhat cumbersome laboratory testhas been used. The two scientists “can easily tell whether a mosquito has been feeding on a jackrabbit or a cottontail,"' says Washino using the new method for testing. "More important, we can determine whether its last meal came from a cow, sheep, goat, or deer. Inthe past, separation of these animals by the more conventional tests has been very difficult or impossible." The UC researchers simply smear blood from the gut of a mosquito onto a glass slide, add a few reagents, and let it dry. The resulting hemoglobin crystals show distinctive patterns for different species of animals. Else and Washino are using the new tests to study mosquito behavior around domestic animals and people. "For example, ifa farmer has cattle in a pasture close to his home, are he and his family more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes or not? Nobody knows, but we hope to find out," Washino says. The new test will come in handy if Venzuelan equine encephalomyelitis, a mosquitoborne virus disease of horses now threatening California, actually becomes established in the state.

Visitors . crowd NC — ‘events “Nevada City buzzed during the weekend when visitors flocked here to help the local citizenry celebrate the coming of gas lights and near completion of the downtown improvement project. Intermittent sprinkles did not appear to dampen enthusiasm as visitors explored the town and fanned out to attend The Trade Fair, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Autumn =© House Tour, Gas Light Varieties * in the old Nevada Theater and participate in other entertainment, Several buses disgorged cam. era-laden passengers bent on . catching fall colors in this foothill community. Lines stood in front of houses on the SNMH tour, all chatting while they awaited turns to view the homes. Business was brisk at the Trade Fair where items ranging from green tomato chow chow to expensive antiques were for sale. Also many artistic hand-made creations were being vended. Reports were that the opening of Gas Light Varieties in the Old Nevada Theater as most entertaining, as were band concerts and other free entertainment. In keeping with the spirit of the celebration, Norman Oates, city superintendent of public works, re-kindled gas lights in {front of the theater. Elza Kilroy loaned a 1912 era gas lighter for the occasion. Traffic wis heavy and sometimes snarled. Parking was at a premium. Weather forced some events scheduled outside inside but no one seemed to complain. The celebration will continue through the week and climax next weekend when more entertainment is scheduled. This includes more productions of Gas Light Varieties, a kids’ parade, and an old fashioned community band concert. NORMAN OATES, superintendent of streets in Nevada City, is shown in two views as he turned on the gas lights officially in Nevada City Saturday night. The band was there to help the 10-day Gas Light Celebration. Relax. New gas ovens clean while they cook. See the new continuous-cleaning gas ovens that do their own dirty work. The oven keeps itself clean while you're using it at normal oven temperatures. Gas cooking is efficient and economical too. And gas ranges actually conserve natural gas. Theat’s because it takes more gas as fuel in steam-electric power plants to make equivalent heat for electric cooking. PGE ‘High Country’ due at Sierra “High Country", award-winning Bluegrass music quintet, will appear at Sierra College October 27 in the Campus Center, High Country is Ed Neff on fiddle, Butch Waller on mandolin, Bruce Nemiroff on fivestring banjo, Chris Boutwell on guitar, and Elon "Lonnie" Feiner on bass, all with a very specialized form of acoustic country music which originated in the late 30s and early 40s as Bluegrass. Holders of the best band award at the Topanga Canyon Fiddle Contest, sponsored by

U.C.L.A,, Ed Neff also won the professional Bluegrass Award at the same contest. _ eee Air pollution controls are made stiffer Nevada County air pollution controls were somewhat stiffened Tuesday when supervisors adopted a resolution pertaining to open burning of waste wood products. Ron Earles, county air pollution officer, told supervisors that the action as required by the state. It pertains only to commercial or residential building on sites where there is no existing development. The regulation requires a valid permit to burn clearing debris. He described the provisions in the resolution as "minimum criteria." The new regulation applies to individual lot and lots gained by splitting property. Burning will be by permit only and permissible on only designated "purn days." Details of the permits have not yet been worked out but they will be available at the office of the NevadaCounty air Pollution Control. Earles Local scientist develops mosquito test A Grass Valley man is one of two scientists to develop a better test for mosquitoes, James G, Else, son of Mr. and Mrs, James G, Else, and Robert K, Washino are scientists at the University of California at Davis. The two have developed a quicker, cheaper, easier and more sensitive test to determine what creature has supplied the most recent meal for a blood-engorged mosquito. For many years a somewhat cumbersome laboratory testhas been used. The two scientists “can easily tell whether a mosquito has been feeding on a jackrabbit or a cottontail,"' says Washino using the new method for testing. "More important, we can determine whether its last meal came from a cow, sheep, goat, or deer. Inthe past, separation of these animals by the more conventional tests has been very difficult or impossible." The UC researchers simply smear blood from the gut of a mosquito onto a glass slide, add a few reagents, and let it dry. The resulting hemoglobin crystals show distinctive patterns for different species of animals. Else and Washino are using the new tests to study mosquito behavior around domestic animals and people. "For example, ifa farmer has cattle in a pasture close to his home, are he and his family more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes or not? Nobody knows, but we hope to find out," Washino says. The new test will come in handy if Venzuelan equine encephalomyelitis, a mosquitoborne virus disease of horses now threatening California, actually becomes established in the state.