October 21, 1970 (12 pages)

ra ey a Pe 954444 epee * 7 “ be 4% “<4 Bi 4 Se ot Se i aha BE A Oe SS 10 the Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, October 21, 1970 Detail to free loan cleared by NC board “A technical detail demanded additional construction, it would by the state before freeing a be too expensive to repair exloan for the new Seven Hills isting space and a majority of School was approved by Nevada space now there is condemned. City trustees Wednesday. — Selling old Seven Hills may The board needs an absolute or may not make Nevada City commitment on the loan before much money asthe district doesopening bids next Wednesday on n't hold much equity in the old the next pahse of ‘construction. plant. Nevada. Union High ot petthps R Consequently, the boardadded holds the deed, e This is Sunday evening, October 11 and we're in Liberal, Kansas. Each day of our trip has a paragraph to a previous resostill owes $90,000 on the prinhay its high volute but this one has really been an eventful one. We left Moriarty, New Mexico lution which stipulates the old cipal. this ‘morning about 7. Moriarty is in cattle country. It's about 25 miles east of Albuquerque. school will be sold and the proNext Wednesday's bid opening + was bitter cold and the wind was blowing. Just a few miles on the road and we hit swirling snow. ceeds applied to repaying the will be for a multi use room, w, hog snow for a couple of hundred miles. Fortunately the road didn't get too bad for driving. state Loan, . ' shower locker facility and 1 4. peautiful high country around there with quite a lot of grass called Gramma-grass. I believe This was done to satisty the stage. Estimated cost 1S it was imported here from Australia or New Zealand or womewhere like that, It will grow without state that Nevada City does not $250,000, which will be financed uch rain, We had driven 350 miles, which! guess isn't much of a day for most people but with iis intend to keep using the old entirely by. the state loan. snow and all Ifelt like the car was driving me. Then when we reached the little town of Turpin, Okla. Seven Hills site after the new The 20 classrooms and ad‘here our farm is and where we had hoped to spend the night we couldn't get anything to SAN. buildings are completed. The ministration offices now being People in this country believe in Sunday. Of course little old Turpin only has two cafes, We will have original resolution committed built will cost $711,660, ane to go back tomorrow but it's only 13 miles. We drove in 4 states today, New Mexico, Texas, the board to abandoning it, but preliminary grading, sewer 204 _Oy1shoma and Kansas. I was born in Wichita, Kansas and we hope to visit there at least by Tuesthe state wanted more definite water work cost $51,000. day. Liberal had 12 inches of snow on Oct, 8, just two days ago. This is the first time in 96 years ee Woodard reported that the root they have had snow in October. It's almost gone now and the sun was hot this evening. Around The district has said it will is completed on two wings and ‘tucumcary, New Mexico we saw the most beautiful-plateaus, I always thought Arizona was the abandon the :old Seven Bilis.beplywood is up of the third. Tne plateau country. and of course, it really is. Its beauty is in the color of its soil and sandstone cause the ‘site is too small for contractor ‘told him roofing rocks, They are almost bare of vegetation but oh, such bright colors. The ones around Tucumee can be finished by next week, cari are green and seem soft because of the softly rolling green countryside. $cs activities which pleased the superintendIt was Saturday when we came through Gallup, New Mexico and every Indian for miles around wats ent becausé of worry over rain’ _ 4+ nave been in town. Saturday is traditionally their day to celebrate. The streets were glowing rted arriving and getting inside the ih color, Really, I don't think I have ever seen such a beautiful sight. The squaws still dress in are repo building, lovely purple or green or some bright color skirts, usually velvet. It was cold and so they had , The turf atthenewcampushas 4-2wn ground their head and shoulders the colorful warm wool blankets they make So well. T Robert L. Grappi, director of Sprouted and lly will be Gontt mean red and grey like we have become accustomed to expect. I mean bright red and purple, the Nevada County Soil ConserWell enough matted before the ote ‘They also had on lots of heavy silver and turpuoise hand made jewelry. In Old Town Albuvation District, announced the Tains so it won't wash away. Guerque they sat on the cold stone floor in the square and sold their jewelry which they had spread. vx new cooperators signed The trusteeslookedover some Gna ‘blanket around them. We saw lots of them at Flagstaff and Winslow and again at Holbrook, agreements with the District Samples showing the color that 4+izona. But the biggest concentration is around Gallup and Albuquerque, New Mexico. during September. will be in the new school. Most “seem to be working backward in our travels. Flagstaff was the most beautiful spot in our They were: SacramentoCounare soft in tone, but Woodard journey. There is water and pines and mountains-there almost as nice as our own Nevada county. cil of Camp Fire Girls, Camp Pointed out there won't be much We have found we don't like big cities. So we went on to Winslow to spend the:night. started 'e Minaluta on Lake Vera Road; Wall space that will have tobe ciouq over there that evening and the two days since have been a fight to see which wins out M. W. Hall near Your BedRoad; Painted. Most of the classroom <unshine or storms. The clouds have been beautiful. Clotis Ursuery on Byer Road; Space will be permanent walls. Rivers are important in this country. We crossed the Colorado at Topock, Ariz. across from Ebb Pound on Henness Pass , Needles, Calif, Then we crossed the Rio Grande at Albuquerque and the Pecos at Santa Rosa, Road; Fred Harrison on Indian CHP war ning: New Mexico. They were both beautiful sights after the long dry areas. My aunt says the Pecos where Springs Road; Joel Goodkind you see it in Texas is really quite a river. I guess the Rio Grande in Texas is big too, In New near Sweetland Road. Each of § top for school Mexico they were just lovely green bands. across the dry countryside. Today we crossed the these new cooperators express: Canadian River at Logan, New Mexico near Tucumcari, The country around Tucumcari is blossomed an interest in practicing conbus red l Ig hts ing due to a new dam and irrigation project 30 miles NW of it. The project brought 40,000 new acres servation and good land use on of land under cultivation, Ou own little river, the Beaver is just outside Guyman, Oklahoma. their property. , The California Highway Paoh. Beaver and the Cimmaron Rivers both originate in New Mexico, too, ‘i Three new conservation plans trol issued 2,010 citations in Guyman is in the geographical center’of the Oklahoma panhandle, Each year on April 22, they were made for cooperators who 1969 for violation ofthe Califor114 @ Pioneer Celebration. This is the anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip for have previously signed with the nia law which requires drivers cottiers. It was originally a 50 mile band of "No Mans Land” the width of the state, Set aside by District:, Gilbert Chacon; to stop-when they see flashing treaty “to protect the Indians from settlers, Oklahoma's other big celebration is in August at William Smith, and Everett O, Ted lights on a school bUS. 4 \adarko where the Indians hold areally marvelous exhibition. My grandmother settle our farm with Jones. The large red flashing signals +1. opening of the strip. She drove in a buggy. Gene Andreuccetti and Lynn located near the top of the bus The motel.where we are staying tonight ison Pancake Blvd. So named for their annual Pancake Brittan of the Soil Conservation are used only when passengers Race This seems to be Liberals one claim to fame, it's a most unusual celebration, On Shrove Service reviewed tentative counhave to cross a roadway. OD tyesday the housewives of Liberal, aprons and all, hold a pancake race simultaneously with the ty park sites with Planning Diother stops, the school busdrivhousewives of Olney, England. In Liberal, the race starts at the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. rector Stanley Mansfield, Fred ers do not use the flashing 454 they race around the block. The competitors must flip their pancakes at the beginning of the Kelley, also of SCS, tapedatelelights. Whenever possible, race in’ the middle of the race, and again at the end of the race. The time is compared with the vision’ program. on Nevada school. bus routes are arranged time of the Olney housewife doing the same thing. The Vicar of Olney visits Liberal and rides in the County Soil Conservation Disto minimize the number of red Darade with the winner of the Liberal race, and the governor of the state. The contest has proven trict to be shown on a Farm light stops. interesting to the public and brings great crowds to Liberal. Otherwise Liberal is a rich little Program for Channel 12 ata The law requires that @MY 41 town very calm and staid with 14,000 population, There were only 2 or 3 cafes open here on later date. Andreuccetti and driver who meets or overtakes Sunday. Kelley assisted cooperator afy stopped school bus which Vacations are wonderful things. Hope you have enjoyed ours so far. Tomorrow we hope to James Vendley with a start on has the flashing red lights in ¢,:<) our business and then who can tell what will happen. My husband tells me everything there at his Range Trial Planting. operation must stop andnotpro1 ome is still holding together. My aunt is sure Pasadena won't fall apart. So we intend to just : we ceed past the bus until the flashhave fith!: rs . ing signal ceases operation. We» arrived in Oklahoma: City.last’ night (Friday) after a most interesting but trying day. School -bus drivers are Tewe spent: most of the day locating things familiar to our childhood. For me that was 50 years quired to stop the it Tea60’and I wasn't’ stich a child even then. We found my Paternal grandparents graves, along with a si . move the. ignition key, ne peck lot of other miscelianeous relatives, in anold well kept farm cemetery in Payne County, Oklahoma, BUILDING . cort elementary school c ates We also found, by a process of trial and error up and down old sandy roads along section lines for if ; across the roadway, to cag ee miles and miles, the oldschool house (long deserted now) where I went to school 50 years ago. We _ the bus, with the red ligh ae also found the old farmhouse where we lived and where my kid (50 years) sister was born, And we _ ing throughout the. ao On. hunted up the old grocery store in: the town of Coyle where the govcer used to give the farmers’ Drivers traveling ont ase children a bag of candy: each time he purchased his supplies, The 6 miles to Coyle was traveled ‘. i site side of a divided — in a spring wagon) 'so,you know we didn't go too often. I seem to remember my mother planned way from the stopped s ft supplies for a month.:Of course we had a beautiful big cellar with great crocks (I think they were j, bus are not required to stop for 95) yavion)ibf Hominy; pickles, and. sauerkraut; and. shelf.after shelf of canned peaches, tomaties, } the flashing red lights nor are oon peas, string.beans,.ahd.lots and lots of jam, jellies and butters. Besides this there were =. drivers required to stop ign bins. of turnips and potatoes. We gathered apples, nuts, and pumpkins late in the fall, We wrapped . 2 bus is not displayingtheflashtne sppies and: packed them in a barrel, The pumpkins were piled in straw. I remember cracking . ing Hents. . . « apggj Mokory. nuts and. black walnuts all winter. My mother loyed nuts in everything, T'almost forgot-the . “However,. the highway igs popcorn,’ We always had°a ‘sack of shelled popcorn and dried oultes s panes in the cellar, Meat advises that drivers should al-.2me mostly from the hénhotise, big plump Plymouth Rocks. At Christmas time, one of the extra ways use. cgution viene store purchases was a bag of cranberries, a few bananas, and some oranges. These.were rare ; Stopped achool buses which @F€ treats) The popcorn. and cranberries were strung and used to trim the tree along with candles, not displaying flashing 79 4m dittie holders that clipped on the branches. oTbey.dadte:be lighted akhe Jastaminutecans wabehed, o” lights. carefully. Nostalgia! Nostalgia! py ; 1 Papecces Sat Sit Sor Sey eat

ra ey a Pe 954444 epee * 7 “ be 4% “<4 Bi 4 Se ot Se i aha BE A Oe SS 10 the Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, October 21, 1970 Detail to free loan cleared by NC board “A technical detail demanded additional construction, it would by the state before freeing a be too expensive to repair exloan for the new Seven Hills isting space and a majority of School was approved by Nevada space now there is condemned. City trustees Wednesday. — Selling old Seven Hills may The board needs an absolute or may not make Nevada City commitment on the loan before much money asthe district doesopening bids next Wednesday on n't hold much equity in the old the next pahse of ‘construction. plant. Nevada. Union High ot petthps R Consequently, the boardadded holds the deed, e This is Sunday evening, October 11 and we're in Liberal, Kansas. Each day of our trip has a paragraph to a previous resostill owes $90,000 on the prinhay its high volute but this one has really been an eventful one. We left Moriarty, New Mexico lution which stipulates the old cipal. this ‘morning about 7. Moriarty is in cattle country. It's about 25 miles east of Albuquerque. school will be sold and the proNext Wednesday's bid opening + was bitter cold and the wind was blowing. Just a few miles on the road and we hit swirling snow. ceeds applied to repaying the will be for a multi use room, w, hog snow for a couple of hundred miles. Fortunately the road didn't get too bad for driving. state Loan, . ' shower locker facility and 1 4. peautiful high country around there with quite a lot of grass called Gramma-grass. I believe This was done to satisty the stage. Estimated cost 1S it was imported here from Australia or New Zealand or womewhere like that, It will grow without state that Nevada City does not $250,000, which will be financed uch rain, We had driven 350 miles, which! guess isn't much of a day for most people but with iis intend to keep using the old entirely by. the state loan. snow and all Ifelt like the car was driving me. Then when we reached the little town of Turpin, Okla. Seven Hills site after the new The 20 classrooms and ad‘here our farm is and where we had hoped to spend the night we couldn't get anything to SAN. buildings are completed. The ministration offices now being People in this country believe in Sunday. Of course little old Turpin only has two cafes, We will have original resolution committed built will cost $711,660, ane to go back tomorrow but it's only 13 miles. We drove in 4 states today, New Mexico, Texas, the board to abandoning it, but preliminary grading, sewer 204 _Oy1shoma and Kansas. I was born in Wichita, Kansas and we hope to visit there at least by Tuesthe state wanted more definite water work cost $51,000. day. Liberal had 12 inches of snow on Oct, 8, just two days ago. This is the first time in 96 years ee Woodard reported that the root they have had snow in October. It's almost gone now and the sun was hot this evening. Around The district has said it will is completed on two wings and ‘tucumcary, New Mexico we saw the most beautiful-plateaus, I always thought Arizona was the abandon the :old Seven Bilis.beplywood is up of the third. Tne plateau country. and of course, it really is. Its beauty is in the color of its soil and sandstone cause the ‘site is too small for contractor ‘told him roofing rocks, They are almost bare of vegetation but oh, such bright colors. The ones around Tucumee can be finished by next week, cari are green and seem soft because of the softly rolling green countryside. $cs activities which pleased the superintendIt was Saturday when we came through Gallup, New Mexico and every Indian for miles around wats ent becausé of worry over rain’ _ 4+ nave been in town. Saturday is traditionally their day to celebrate. The streets were glowing rted arriving and getting inside the ih color, Really, I don't think I have ever seen such a beautiful sight. The squaws still dress in are repo building, lovely purple or green or some bright color skirts, usually velvet. It was cold and so they had , The turf atthenewcampushas 4-2wn ground their head and shoulders the colorful warm wool blankets they make So well. T Robert L. Grappi, director of Sprouted and lly will be Gontt mean red and grey like we have become accustomed to expect. I mean bright red and purple, the Nevada County Soil ConserWell enough matted before the ote ‘They also had on lots of heavy silver and turpuoise hand made jewelry. In Old Town Albuvation District, announced the Tains so it won't wash away. Guerque they sat on the cold stone floor in the square and sold their jewelry which they had spread. vx new cooperators signed The trusteeslookedover some Gna ‘blanket around them. We saw lots of them at Flagstaff and Winslow and again at Holbrook, agreements with the District Samples showing the color that 4+izona. But the biggest concentration is around Gallup and Albuquerque, New Mexico. during September. will be in the new school. Most “seem to be working backward in our travels. Flagstaff was the most beautiful spot in our They were: SacramentoCounare soft in tone, but Woodard journey. There is water and pines and mountains-there almost as nice as our own Nevada county. cil of Camp Fire Girls, Camp Pointed out there won't be much We have found we don't like big cities. So we went on to Winslow to spend the:night. started 'e Minaluta on Lake Vera Road; Wall space that will have tobe ciouq over there that evening and the two days since have been a fight to see which wins out M. W. Hall near Your BedRoad; Painted. Most of the classroom <unshine or storms. The clouds have been beautiful. Clotis Ursuery on Byer Road; Space will be permanent walls. Rivers are important in this country. We crossed the Colorado at Topock, Ariz. across from

Ebb Pound on Henness Pass , Needles, Calif, Then we crossed the Rio Grande at Albuquerque and the Pecos at Santa Rosa, Road; Fred Harrison on Indian CHP war ning: New Mexico. They were both beautiful sights after the long dry areas. My aunt says the Pecos where Springs Road; Joel Goodkind you see it in Texas is really quite a river. I guess the Rio Grande in Texas is big too, In New near Sweetland Road. Each of § top for school Mexico they were just lovely green bands. across the dry countryside. Today we crossed the these new cooperators express: Canadian River at Logan, New Mexico near Tucumcari, The country around Tucumcari is blossomed an interest in practicing conbus red l Ig hts ing due to a new dam and irrigation project 30 miles NW of it. The project brought 40,000 new acres servation and good land use on of land under cultivation, Ou own little river, the Beaver is just outside Guyman, Oklahoma. their property. , The California Highway Paoh. Beaver and the Cimmaron Rivers both originate in New Mexico, too, ‘i Three new conservation plans trol issued 2,010 citations in Guyman is in the geographical center’of the Oklahoma panhandle, Each year on April 22, they were made for cooperators who 1969 for violation ofthe Califor114 @ Pioneer Celebration. This is the anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip for have previously signed with the nia law which requires drivers cottiers. It was originally a 50 mile band of "No Mans Land” the width of the state, Set aside by District:, Gilbert Chacon; to stop-when they see flashing treaty “to protect the Indians from settlers, Oklahoma's other big celebration is in August at William Smith, and Everett O, Ted lights on a school bUS. 4 \adarko where the Indians hold areally marvelous exhibition. My grandmother settle our farm with Jones. The large red flashing signals +1. opening of the strip. She drove in a buggy. Gene Andreuccetti and Lynn located near the top of the bus The motel.where we are staying tonight ison Pancake Blvd. So named for their annual Pancake Brittan of the Soil Conservation are used only when passengers Race This seems to be Liberals one claim to fame, it's a most unusual celebration, On Shrove Service reviewed tentative counhave to cross a roadway. OD tyesday the housewives of Liberal, aprons and all, hold a pancake race simultaneously with the ty park sites with Planning Diother stops, the school busdrivhousewives of Olney, England. In Liberal, the race starts at the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. rector Stanley Mansfield, Fred ers do not use the flashing 454 they race around the block. The competitors must flip their pancakes at the beginning of the Kelley, also of SCS, tapedatelelights. Whenever possible, race in’ the middle of the race, and again at the end of the race. The time is compared with the vision’ program. on Nevada school. bus routes are arranged time of the Olney housewife doing the same thing. The Vicar of Olney visits Liberal and rides in the County Soil Conservation Disto minimize the number of red Darade with the winner of the Liberal race, and the governor of the state. The contest has proven trict to be shown on a Farm light stops. interesting to the public and brings great crowds to Liberal. Otherwise Liberal is a rich little Program for Channel 12 ata The law requires that @MY 41 town very calm and staid with 14,000 population, There were only 2 or 3 cafes open here on later date. Andreuccetti and driver who meets or overtakes Sunday. Kelley assisted cooperator afy stopped school bus which Vacations are wonderful things. Hope you have enjoyed ours so far. Tomorrow we hope to James Vendley with a start on has the flashing red lights in ¢,:<) our business and then who can tell what will happen. My husband tells me everything there at his Range Trial Planting. operation must stop andnotpro1 ome is still holding together. My aunt is sure Pasadena won't fall apart. So we intend to just : we ceed past the bus until the flashhave fith!: rs . ing signal ceases operation. We» arrived in Oklahoma: City.last’ night (Friday) after a most interesting but trying day. School -bus drivers are Tewe spent: most of the day locating things familiar to our childhood. For me that was 50 years quired to stop the it Tea60’and I wasn't’ stich a child even then. We found my Paternal grandparents graves, along with a si . move the. ignition key, ne peck lot of other miscelianeous relatives, in anold well kept farm cemetery in Payne County, Oklahoma, BUILDING . cort elementary school c ates We also found, by a process of trial and error up and down old sandy roads along section lines for if ; across the roadway, to cag ee miles and miles, the oldschool house (long deserted now) where I went to school 50 years ago. We _ the bus, with the red ligh ae also found the old farmhouse where we lived and where my kid (50 years) sister was born, And we _ ing throughout the. ao On. hunted up the old grocery store in: the town of Coyle where the govcer used to give the farmers’ Drivers traveling ont ase children a bag of candy: each time he purchased his supplies, The 6 miles to Coyle was traveled ‘. i site side of a divided — in a spring wagon) 'so,you know we didn't go too often. I seem to remember my mother planned way from the stopped s ft supplies for a month.:Of course we had a beautiful big cellar with great crocks (I think they were j, bus are not required to stop for 95) yavion)ibf Hominy; pickles, and. sauerkraut; and. shelf.after shelf of canned peaches, tomaties, } the flashing red lights nor are oon peas, string.beans,.ahd.lots and lots of jam, jellies and butters. Besides this there were =. drivers required to stop ign bins. of turnips and potatoes. We gathered apples, nuts, and pumpkins late in the fall, We wrapped . 2 bus is not displayingtheflashtne sppies and: packed them in a barrel, The pumpkins were piled in straw. I remember cracking . ing Hents. . . « apggj Mokory. nuts and. black walnuts all winter. My mother loyed nuts in everything, T'almost forgot-the . “However,. the highway igs popcorn,’ We always had°a ‘sack of shelled popcorn and dried oultes s panes in the cellar, Meat advises that drivers should al-.2me mostly from the hénhotise, big plump Plymouth Rocks. At Christmas time, one of the extra ways use. cgution viene store purchases was a bag of cranberries, a few bananas, and some oranges. These.were rare ; Stopped achool buses which @F€ treats) The popcorn. and cranberries were strung and used to trim the tree along with candles, not displaying flashing 79 4m dittie holders that clipped on the branches. oTbey.dadte:be lighted akhe Jastaminutecans wabehed, o” lights. carefully. Nostalgia! Nostalgia! py ; 1 Papecces Sat Sit Sor Sey eat