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The Nevada County Nugget
October 23, 1968
Rt.1,Bx 5731S
Grass Valley
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Ph, 273-8954
The past ten days have been
more than busy for me as I
had to attend a Grange convention in Fresno with my husband
who is a Pomona Master, and
I as his wife was a voting
delegate, so had to be present.
Then came our own regional
meeting for Golden State Mobilehome Owners League, which was
held in the beautiful recreation
hall at Stonegate Mobile Vil
lage.
Our president
%
Norman
‘A, Lundstrom was present with
his wife Adamarie, from Camp
bell, Calif., Regional Director
of Region #1 Bill Petherbridge
and wife Elaine, from Sunnyvale,
Director of Region #2 Ernest
Glover and wife Irene from Se
bastopol, Associate Directors
bring out the differences between
our policy and those from other
companies.
Our president, Mr. Lundstrom, in his speech warned us
of the. many dangers to our way
of living that were coming up
even now and would be much
worse this next year as taxes
continue to rise everywhere and
the people that are supposed to
protect our rights, and those
of all that have elected them
to office, instead of protecting
us are only interested in protecting themselves by going
along with the Establishment.
There were approximately 165
people present, and I was very
pleased. when many.came up afterward and said that the meeting
had been so interesting, they
were so sorry that it had not
Herbert Berry from Magala and
his wife; Flint Yarrington and . continued for another hour orso.
We were entertained by the
wife from Jackson; Tom and Amy
Davis, managers of Grass ValWestern Band, a group composed
ley: Mobile Village, were presof an organist, a bass guitar,
ent with a number of members lead guitar, and ukulele, and
from the Village, and Mr. and their music certainly made evMrs. Cox, managers of Olympic eryone want to get up anddance.
Mobile. Village in Sacramento, They were real swingers, everyone, Then we were favored with
were also present.
several numbers by The Choral
Our insurance represenGroup singing all the good old
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tatives, Mr. and Mrs, Anderson,
were the featured guests at the
meeting and explained all about
our new insurance program
available -to:.our members. only.
Mr. Anderson made use of some
very interesting illustrations to
time numbers. I am sorry that
I did not take the names of these
wonderful people down, but they
will. be recognized more in our
WMHN ‘paper, Delicfous ‘refreshments were served at the
close.
CAPT. DON SCHMIDT, of the Naval Air Reserve Staff, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Ala
n inspection
meda, Calif,, gives a smile of approval to his son, Mark, during recruit graduatio
at the training unit. Mark, 19, is an Airman Apprentice in the Naval Air Reserve and had just
of Nevada
completed two-weeks of rigorous training at the time of the picture, He is a graduate
Union High School and is currently attending Sierra Junior College. In civilian life, Capt.
PHOTO
Schmidt is employed with Alpha Hardwar e in Nevada City. (OFFICIAL U. S, NAVY
BY JOE M, H, PEREZ-CASTILLO)
Forest law sees
action first time
A state law passed in 1965 the law.
A decision was handed down in
and aimed at strengthening California_ Forest Practice Rules July of this year giving the rewas put into action for the first sponsible parties 60 days to eftime recently when the Califorfect control of erosion violations
nia Division of Forestry ininvolving water breaks on skid
voked the law in this area. trails.
In the meantime Dorris had
Violations of the rules invoked
logging
operation
on 240 removed he snags and slash,
acres of timberland on both Forkner tookno corrective mea-sides of Highway 49 near North sures, according to Waddell,
"The timber operator took no
San Juan. Charges included leaving standing snags (dead trees) action, and the land owner did
allowing slash to be along a not take adequate action for
primary county road and alonga erosion control," was the decistate highway and lack of proper sion that triggered CDF pererosion control, according to forming the necessary erosion
State Forest Ranger Ted Wadcontrol work on the timber land
last week.
dell.
Robert L Forkner, the logThe land owner and the timging operator, and Langlie B, ber operator are held finanDorris, the land owner, were cially responsible for the costs
held responsible for the violainvolved, and the collection of
tions and given opportunities to these costs is now in the hands
of the attorney general.
correct them, Waddell said,
The forest
ranger empha
tions was strictly civil, and at
no time were criminal charges
involved.
The trouble began in December of 1966, and since that time
CDF has been involved in many
inspections of the property and
has served notices to the land
owner and timber operator concerning the rules violations,
Dorris, the land owner, re
quested a hearing before the
State Board of Forestry. However, Forkner did not ask for
the hearing, as provided for in
Forest
practice rules were
drafted in 1945 when the State
Legislature recognized the necessity for good forest prac~
tices in harvesting forest resources, They determined such
rules were necessary to conserve and maintain the productivity of the timberland for best
economic interests and for continuance of the forest industry.
It was decided that the industry itself could best determine
action to be taken in order that
land be left in a productive
condition after logging.
§
Chamber tidbits
&
Because our Nevada City foli. The Chamber is making plans
age has been slow to color, the for a special pre Christmas
photo contest committee has promotional sale to be held in
‘ postponed the closing date ofthe Nevada City on Nov. 1 and 2,
contest until November 15. This Why not begin your gift list now
permits photographers to conand be ready for these two days
tinue shooting some choice subof special savings?
jects, and still have time for
enlarging and
development,
printing. The teenagers and on
down, are especially urged to
enter this competition, since
there will be a few nuggets
given as first prizes, and an
A couple who own and operopportunity for help in improvement in their photography and ate antique stores in Nevada
lots of good publicity for their City have advocated that visitors be encouraged to come to
class and school.
Our Maid of Nevada County, this area through more inviting
Melody Nobles, was on hand in advertising.
Mr, and Mrs, Richard Willey,,
the pouring rain to welcome
the Cosmopolitans when they returning from a recent antique
show held in Reno, Nev., claim
arrived by bus last Saturday.
the show
many persons attending
The group of San Francisco
ladies thoroughly enjoyed a guidwere unaware of Nevada City
ed tour with Chet Mell acting and what it has to offer.
Many, they said, have seen
as official guide for the afternoon, bater they visited the the sign on Highway Interstate
Advertising of
area needed
stores, responded to the warm
hospitality of the National, and
enjoyed a Chamber-sponsored
drawing after dinner. The Chamber of Commerce furnished them
with packets of brochures and
information to later read and
refer to, and was present to say
good-bye to the group when they
left Sunday morning.
80 a few miles west of Truckee
which calls attention to the al
ternate route. However, they
are unaware of the road conditions or the attractions here,
according to the couple,
The Willeys believe. that.in
terest must be aroused to en
courage tourists to route their
trips through this. area..
Make a Move!!
without
~Weteome Wig,
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