October 19, 1966 (20 pages)

BDITORIALS . THANKS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS The Twin Cities area is fortunate to have so “ many people who are willing to step forward to help in times of-emergency. : _This was demonstrated again Saturday when many residents quickly responded and gave all kinds of-_aid during rescle operations at the Broad Street Bridge in Nevada.City. In a world where there is growing tendency for people to shy away from becoming involved in the business of others, we are constantly amazed how many people there are who are willing to become involved when the chips are down: All of the people, police, firemen,, deputies and just plain people who stepped in to help Saturday should be praised. On the other hand, we had the crowds of thrill seekers who jammed their way tothe edge of the disaster area and hindered those who were trying to work. It is part of human nature to be curious, we should know for curiosity is one of the things thatkeeps a newspaper in business, but when curiousity takes over good sense and people endanger themselves ar others, then it has gone too far. Wewere frankly amazed that representatives of the contractor and police had to make repeated loud speaker appeals to the crowd to get back away from the accident. scene to allow rescue operations to proceed. We don't really understand what everyone had come tosee. If most of those who crowded around had actually seen crushed bodies and heard the screams they seemed so anxious to see and hear a majority of them probably would have been sick and would wish for a long time that they had stayedhome. So why not stay home? We hope that this area does not have to call -. on its large corps of volunteers for such an emergency again for a long time tocome. But if there is another incident such as we had Saturday, we hope the people will use more sense and stay out of the way. THE BIG NEVADA COUNTY DRAW The huge success of the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Auxiliary home and garden tour and the Chamber's Trade Fair Saturday proves again what an attraction this area is for people near and far. . Several people asked about the Trade Fair Saturday. Th®y know it was goinc on, they hadcome here specifically for that purpose. It is interesting to see what will oe peorle in here. Several plane loads of pedple few into Loma Rica Airport Saturday just to go to the house tour. We have several things here that people living elsewhere want. If we can let people know what we have, we will be able to attract a lot of money into this area, Sut that will be the job of the new county‘widerchamber Of Commérces ee ag One of the last remnants of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad grudgingly gave way to progress in 1963 when the trestle over Bear River was blasted down so that Rollins Dam could be constructed by the Nevada Irrigation District. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To The Editor: Wellherelamback on my old stamping grounds where as a kid Iwas stabbed three times, twice on the neck and once on the Igave some people fits with the tricks I used to play on them: One thing Inever believed was that anyone could read your fortune, In my case I was ~ wrong. Mrs, Rose Jones told me ‘Iwduld marry six times she was wrong just a little thé ball and chain was put on just three times, She also told me that I would hand, But I guess at that time Iwastoo mean andtoughto die, All I lost was a finger on my right hand, Iwas walking up Broad St, this moming when Isaw some thing in the windows that sent me back over 70 years, The sign I seen said "Emma Nevada has a seat ‘in the old Nevada Theatre how IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THE IRONIES OF BRIDGE WORK We became very excitedFriday. We were sitting in the National Hotel having lunchand listening to five men from Los Angles debate about whether or not they wanted to go to wark on the Broad Street Bridge that afternoon. Sdmething is wrong with the system, we told ourselves, as weheardthe men recount how they had been told all they had to do was work three and a half hoursa day to receive $70 each. We would like to see a few of those $70 days ourselves, we thought, but these men were unhappy with the deal, There were not enough assurances and guarantees for them and they were seriously thinking about getting on the bus again and beating it back toL.A. “All you have to do is go out and stand on that bridge deck, " one of the group pleaded with the rest, “and he said he'll pay you $70." But they were still unhappy. This scene suddenly came flashing back to us Saturday afternoon as we stood at the edge of the hole and looked down at the mass of twisted steel, boards and wet concrete from the collapsed bridge deck. We suddenly wondered if any of theL,A, men had voted to stay and work on the bridge. eeee IT IS JUST about time for Grass Valley, the health department and the redisents of Hills Flat to fish or cut bait on a sewage system for Hills Flat. A few months ago County Health Officer Dr. Keith Seolas issued an order Stating that unless residents and businesses in Hills Flat corrected faulty systems that were polluting Wolf Creek, the Health Department would have to take steps to close down the guilty businesses, Since then Hills Flat residents have tried annexation to Grass Valley sothe the city sewer system would become available to thet, But they became embroiled with isolated areas in Spring Hill that wantedno part of the plan. The city council more or les? dumped it back into the laps of the proponents of the annexation move and said they would act when and if an ann~ exation properly presented to them, In thé meantime all that stuff is still going down Wolf Creek, We-wonder-what-will happen next.-.-., . Don-Heagiand---nearly be killed, She wasrightabout you” I remember when Emma Nevada came back toN. C, I think every body in N.C, was at the depot to welcome her, There aretimesI can hear her singing the Last Rose of Summer, Therewas alot of wet eyes when she finished. She filled the old Nevada Theatre. Of course a bunch of us young rough necks sneaked in. I can look overto Sacramento St. and see the two houses on stilts. They still look like two sore fingers, Jack Bassett Nevada City, Calif. NEVADA COUNTY NUG Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 eorge R, Kane, Publisher + ‘onald L, Hoagland, Editor gand General Manager Second class postag paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by th Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decre oO. 12,406, ubscription rates: one year,. . 3; Two years, $5, kkkkkkkkk ‘AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER..

BDITORIALS . THANKS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS The Twin Cities area is fortunate to have so “ many people who are willing to step forward to help in times of-emergency. : _This was demonstrated again Saturday when many residents quickly responded and gave all kinds of-_aid during rescle operations at the Broad Street Bridge in Nevada.City. In a world where there is growing tendency for people to shy away from becoming involved in the business of others, we are constantly amazed how many people there are who are willing to become involved when the chips are down: All of the people, police, firemen,, deputies and just plain people who stepped in to help Saturday should be praised. On the other hand, we had the crowds of thrill seekers who jammed their way tothe edge of the disaster area and hindered those who were trying to work. It is part of human nature to be curious, we should know for curiosity is one of the things thatkeeps a newspaper in business, but when curiousity takes over good sense and people endanger themselves ar others, then it has gone too far. Wewere frankly amazed that representatives of the contractor and police had to make repeated loud speaker appeals to the crowd to get back away from the accident. scene to allow rescue operations to proceed. We don't really understand what everyone had come tosee. If most of those who crowded around had actually seen crushed bodies and heard the screams they seemed so anxious to see and hear a majority of them probably would have been sick and would wish for a long time that they had stayedhome. So why not stay home? We hope that this area does not have to call -. on its large corps of volunteers for such an emergency again for a long time tocome. But if there is another incident such as we had Saturday, we hope the people will use more sense and stay out of the way. THE BIG NEVADA COUNTY DRAW The huge success of the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Auxiliary home and garden tour and the Chamber's Trade Fair Saturday proves again what an attraction this area is for people near and far. . Several people asked about the Trade Fair Saturday. Th®y know it was goinc on, they hadcome here specifically for that purpose. It is interesting to see what will oe peorle in here. Several plane loads of pedple few into Loma Rica Airport Saturday just to go to the house tour. We have several things here that people living elsewhere want. If we can let people know what we have, we will be able to attract a lot of money into this area, Sut that will be the job of the new county‘widerchamber Of Commérces ee ag One of the last remnants of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad grudgingly gave way to progress in 1963 when the trestle over Bear River was blasted down so that Rollins Dam could be constructed by the Nevada Irrigation District. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To The Editor: Wellherelamback on my old stamping grounds where as a kid Iwas stabbed three times, twice on the neck and once on the Igave some people fits with the tricks I used to play on them: One thing Inever believed was that anyone could read your fortune, In my case I was ~ wrong. Mrs, Rose Jones told me ‘Iwduld marry six times she was wrong just a little thé ball and chain was put on just three times, She also told me that I would hand, But I guess at that time Iwastoo mean andtoughto die, All I lost was a finger on my right hand,

Iwas walking up Broad St, this moming when Isaw some thing in the windows that sent me back over 70 years, The sign I seen said "Emma Nevada has a seat ‘in the old Nevada Theatre how IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THE IRONIES OF BRIDGE WORK We became very excitedFriday. We were sitting in the National Hotel having lunchand listening to five men from Los Angles debate about whether or not they wanted to go to wark on the Broad Street Bridge that afternoon. Sdmething is wrong with the system, we told ourselves, as weheardthe men recount how they had been told all they had to do was work three and a half hoursa day to receive $70 each. We would like to see a few of those $70 days ourselves, we thought, but these men were unhappy with the deal, There were not enough assurances and guarantees for them and they were seriously thinking about getting on the bus again and beating it back toL.A. “All you have to do is go out and stand on that bridge deck, " one of the group pleaded with the rest, “and he said he'll pay you $70." But they were still unhappy. This scene suddenly came flashing back to us Saturday afternoon as we stood at the edge of the hole and looked down at the mass of twisted steel, boards and wet concrete from the collapsed bridge deck. We suddenly wondered if any of theL,A, men had voted to stay and work on the bridge. eeee IT IS JUST about time for Grass Valley, the health department and the redisents of Hills Flat to fish or cut bait on a sewage system for Hills Flat. A few months ago County Health Officer Dr. Keith Seolas issued an order Stating that unless residents and businesses in Hills Flat corrected faulty systems that were polluting Wolf Creek, the Health Department would have to take steps to close down the guilty businesses, Since then Hills Flat residents have tried annexation to Grass Valley sothe the city sewer system would become available to thet, But they became embroiled with isolated areas in Spring Hill that wantedno part of the plan. The city council more or les? dumped it back into the laps of the proponents of the annexation move and said they would act when and if an ann~ exation properly presented to them, In thé meantime all that stuff is still going down Wolf Creek, We-wonder-what-will happen next.-.-., . Don-Heagiand---nearly be killed, She wasrightabout you” I remember when Emma Nevada came back toN. C, I think every body in N.C, was at the depot to welcome her, There aretimesI can hear her singing the Last Rose of Summer, Therewas alot of wet eyes when she finished. She filled the old Nevada Theatre. Of course a bunch of us young rough necks sneaked in. I can look overto Sacramento St. and see the two houses on stilts. They still look like two sore fingers, Jack Bassett Nevada City, Calif. NEVADA COUNTY NUG Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 eorge R, Kane, Publisher + ‘onald L, Hoagland, Editor gand General Manager Second class postag paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by th Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decre oO. 12,406, ubscription rates: one year,. . 3; Two years, $5, kkkkkkkkk ‘AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER...