October 24, 1963 (18 pages)

NUVI GUIS —— anne Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass eco Red ~~ Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little Br, Graniteville, North Hill, Washi Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Re Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, ce Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Co Volume 38, Number 43 ‘Nearly 100 persons are expected . togatherthis weekend in Nevada City to participate in the "Small City” workshop, co-sponsored at . the Elks Lodge by the Extension . branch of the University of Cali. fornia at Davis and the Nevada . City Chamber of Commerce. The two-day meeting is the . first of its type in the United ‘States, all previous conferences of this type concerning themselves with metropolitan, re. gional or other larger areas. bd SIX FEET FIRMLY PLANTEDIN THE AIR. .pare= back rider Craig Miller, Red Bluff, and his horse part company at Sunday's first annual Jr. Rodeo in Nevada City. The horse came back to the ground right-side-up, but Miller's landing was less formal. (Story on Page 7) Fall Colors Near Peak For Weekend Large numbers of visitors to Nevada County last weekend viewed the early Fall coloring changes, most of them through the view-finder of a camera. With poplar trees adding their yellow tones to the reds and orange of maples, visitors this weekend will be treated to additional pictorial potential Beautiful weather Saturday opened the Fall Spectacular in Nevada County, only to have the Jo-Ann Scull Competes For Diamond Star Jo-AnnScull, Grass Valley, is” one of 12 candidates for the state's four 4H Diamond Star representatives to the National 4H Convention to be held next Spring. Announcement that Miss Scull is one of the dozen finalists was made by the 4H club staff of the University of California Agricultural Extension Servicethis w eek. The 12 candidates will meet in Berkeley Saturday for final selection by a committee composed of Dr. Maurice L. Peterson, university dean of agriculture. Mrs. Emily Reed, assistant dean of students of Berkeley, Harry H. Laidlaw, Davis associate dean of agriculture, Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar, Oakland, wife of the chairman of the UC regents, and Robert x Davis, acting state 4H club leader . from Berkeley, chairman of the selection committee, event dam pened by cool and cloudy weather Sunday. ~ Local residents are hopeful, with clearing weather, that clear and sunny skies will welcome 'visitorsto the second weekend of the Spectacular. One beautiful Fall sight is noted in the Union Hill area where red sumac climbs into the green pine and cedar trees. The renowned maples at the corner of Bennett and Bank Sts, and at the corner of Neal and School Sts. are at or approaching their peak. Nevada City color is still evident on Zion, Nevada, Boulder and other residential streets. With the variety of trees in Deer Creek coloring, the creek bed has become of special interest to photographers, and a view down Commercial St. from its intersection with Broad St. provides an interesting view of the Manzanita Ravine area as background to the city itself. . charges that Brickell fraudulently Grass Valley Post’ Office Remodeling Is Slated Plans for remodeling the Grass Valley Post Office were scheduled to be completed by May 15 of next year. Congressman Harold T. Johnson said that the General Services Administration advised him that it has employed Sanford W. Fox of Oakland to design the work which will include a new lighting system, air conditioning and misBrickell Fraud Trial Commences The Superior Court trial of Nevada,City Councilman Jack Brickell opened yesterday with the choosing of a jury to hear received insurance benefits. Brickell, assistant fire chief, was injured in a fall into a creek aftera Nevada City Fire Department election-dinner in 1962. The Grand Jury indictment which brought him to court, charged that Brickell claimed to insurance representatives that he was fighting orinvestigating a fire at the time of the accident. The indictment says that he did not reveal that the accident came about during attempts to throw another participant at the affair into the creek. Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s 10 Cents A Copy Published Thursdays Nevada City, October 24, 1963 No Tricks, UNICEF ‘Treats’ Will Benefit Children Of The World A large number of Nevada County children who go “trick or treating” next Thursday night will be doing their share to aid underprivileged af ildren around the world. The community trick or treat for UNICEF, sponsored or endorsed by more than 20 local organizations, is in the final planning stages, it was announced this week. The Halloween UNICEF program began in 1950 when Sunday School children in one class put the ideato test and game in with “treats” totalling $36. From that start the program has grown tothe point where 2.5 million youngsters now take part throughout the 50 United States. Last year, local youngsters raised more than $800 in “treats” for children of the world from With nine qualified speakers to discuss the past and prospects of small cities in California, reservations have come from a wide area of Northern California. More than 50 advance reservations were recorded early this week, and attendance at the workshop will not be limited. Residents who haye not yet made reservations can still do so, the local arrangements committee said. Space for the dinner meeting. Saturday is limited, however, and some are likely to be turned away unless they make immediate reservations, Delegates to the workshop will be welcomed-by assistant -mayor Ben Barry at 9:30 a.m. Saturday following an hour-long registra. tion period when advance registrants can pick up their identification tags and late arrivals can register. Williamsburg. Report Tourists Flock To Restorec Colonial Ci By Marquis Childs In the brilliant Indian summer sun tourists -from all over are streaming through this remarkable reconstruction of the colonial past in Williamsburg, Va. From the Governor's Palace down to the simplest tavern the restoration has been done with scholarly care and generous dis~regard for cost. The late John D. Rockefeller Jr. and subsequently his sons have put $73,500,000 into what isa unique museum and object lesson in American history. And this is capped by a Robert TrentJones golf course, with the fairways bounded by the brilliant gold and red of the fall foliage. Last week Marshal Tito and his wife arrived, part of the long procession of distinguished visitors whohave come to Williamsburg. They ‘were put up in the restored Allen Byrd house on Francis Street where Tito saw what mid-18th late 20th Century plumbing can mean for the ease and pleasure of living. The house was purchased in 1770, a year after it was built, by William Byrd IH--Byrd,-areekless gambler and a gay blade, went through two fortunes and lost the family plantation, Westover, before his death in 1770. (Continued on Page 6) cellaneous repair work. local residents. Century decor combined with . Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, A Small City Problems, Prospects Up For Study At Workshop Conference chairman Dr. Everett Carter, vice-chancellor of UC, Davis, will officially open the session following the remarks by Barry. At9:45a.m., “The Character of the Small City" will be dis~cussed by Robert W. Cook, chief planner for the firm of Williams and Mocine, general plan consultants for Nevada County, Grass Valley and Nevada City. At 10:45 a.m., a panel will discuss “Our Architecutral Heritage", chaired by architect John Campbell, San Francisco, and including OrvelJohnson, restoration ex pert with the California Division of Architecture, and Richard Cramer, associate professor of design at UC, Davis. At 1:30 p.m., “Business, ‘Real Estate and the Growth of the Small City” will be discussed by John Denton, lecturer at the UC School of Business Administration, Berkeley. Assemblyman Robert W, Crown,Alameda County, will speak on “The Role of ‘the Tourist in the Local Economy" at 2 p.m. The Saturday afternoon session will close with a round table discussion "Can the Small City Afford to Respect Its Past" featuring Campbell, Johnson, Cramer, and Denton at 3:15. A feature of the conference will be the dinner address of Alan Temko, architectural and urban critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, speaking on "The Role of the Small City in the Region”. Sunday morning will find the second day opening with Dr. Carter speaking on "Human Values in the Small City” at 10 a. m,. Glenn Burch, director of the UC Davis Extension division, will close the formal part of the workshop Sunday at 11:45 a.m. with a talk on “Planning for the Good Life in the Small City”. Several homes and other buildings of architectural or historical interest will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. in the afternoon for workshop participants to see. Included are Trinity Church, the Christie home, the Nevada County Nugget office, the Osborn -W oods Studio(upstairs), the Rector home, the National Hotel, Nevada City Artists' Gallery, Ott's Assay Office and the Yuba Canal Co., and the Methodist Church, all in Nevada City. In Grass Valley, the Glasson home, the Tremoureux home, the Meggs home, and Emmanuel Church, : Other points of interest will be pointed out to visitors. wot4oes BS] BVOTPOT A084 shook woe tienn srs uy y

NUVI GUIS —— anne Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass eco Red ~~ Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little Br, Graniteville, North Hill, Washi Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Re Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, ce Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Co Volume 38, Number 43 ‘Nearly 100 persons are expected . togatherthis weekend in Nevada City to participate in the "Small City” workshop, co-sponsored at . the Elks Lodge by the Extension . branch of the University of Cali. fornia at Davis and the Nevada . City Chamber of Commerce. The two-day meeting is the . first of its type in the United ‘States, all previous conferences of this type concerning themselves with metropolitan, re. gional or other larger areas. bd SIX FEET FIRMLY PLANTEDIN THE AIR.. .pare= back rider Craig Miller, Red Bluff, and his horse part company at Sunday's first annual Jr. Rodeo in Nevada City. The horse came back to the ground right-side-up, but Miller's landing was less formal. (Story on Page 7) Fall Colors Near Peak For Weekend Large numbers of visitors to Nevada County last weekend viewed the early Fall coloring changes, most of them through the view-finder of a camera. With poplar trees adding their yellow tones to the reds and orange of maples, visitors this weekend will be treated to additional pictorial potential Beautiful weather Saturday opened the Fall Spectacular in Nevada County, only to have the Jo-Ann Scull Competes For Diamond Star Jo-AnnScull, Grass Valley, is” one of 12 candidates for the state's four 4H Diamond Star representatives to the National 4H Convention to be held next Spring. Announcement that Miss Scull is one of the dozen finalists was made by the 4H club staff of the University of California Agricultural Extension Servicethis w eek. The 12 candidates will meet in Berkeley Saturday for final selection by a committee composed of Dr. Maurice L. Peterson, university dean of agriculture. Mrs. Emily Reed, assistant dean of students of Berkeley, Harry H. Laidlaw, Davis associate dean of agriculture, Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar, Oakland, wife of the chairman of the UC regents, and Robert x Davis, acting state 4H club leader . from Berkeley, chairman of the selection committee, event dam pened by cool and cloudy weather Sunday. ~ Local residents are hopeful, with clearing weather, that clear and sunny skies will welcome 'visitorsto the second weekend of the Spectacular. One beautiful Fall sight is noted in the Union Hill area where red sumac climbs into the green pine and cedar trees. The renowned maples at the corner of Bennett and Bank Sts, and at the corner of Neal and School Sts. are at or approaching their peak. Nevada City color is still evident on Zion, Nevada, Boulder and other residential streets. With the variety of trees in Deer Creek coloring, the creek bed has become of special interest to photographers, and a view down Commercial St. from its intersection with Broad St. provides an interesting view of the Manzanita Ravine area as background to the city itself. . charges that Brickell fraudulently Grass Valley Post’ Office Remodeling Is Slated Plans for remodeling the Grass Valley Post Office were scheduled to be completed by May 15 of next year. Congressman Harold T. Johnson said that the General Services Administration advised him that it has employed Sanford W. Fox of Oakland to design the work which will include a new lighting system, air conditioning and misBrickell Fraud Trial Commences The Superior Court trial of Nevada,City Councilman Jack Brickell opened yesterday with the choosing of a jury to hear received insurance benefits. Brickell, assistant fire chief, was injured in a fall into a creek aftera Nevada City Fire Department election-dinner in 1962. The Grand Jury indictment which brought him to court, charged that Brickell claimed to insurance representatives that he was fighting orinvestigating a fire at the time of the accident. The indictment says that he did not reveal that the accident came about during attempts to throw another participant at the affair into the creek. Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s 10 Cents A Copy Published Thursdays Nevada City, October 24, 1963 No Tricks, UNICEF ‘Treats’ Will Benefit Children Of The World A large number of Nevada County children who go “trick or treating” next Thursday night will be doing their share to aid underprivileged af ildren around the world. The community trick or treat for UNICEF, sponsored or endorsed by more than 20 local organizations, is in the final planning stages, it was announced this week. The Halloween UNICEF program began in 1950 when Sunday School children in one class put the ideato test and game in with “treats” totalling $36.

From that start the program has grown tothe point where 2.5 million youngsters now take part throughout the 50 United States. Last year, local youngsters raised more than $800 in “treats” for children of the world from With nine qualified speakers to discuss the past and prospects of small cities in California, reservations have come from a wide area of Northern California. More than 50 advance reservations were recorded early this week, and attendance at the workshop will not be limited. Residents who haye not yet made reservations can still do so, the local arrangements committee said. Space for the dinner meeting. Saturday is limited, however, and some are likely to be turned away unless they make immediate reservations, Delegates to the workshop will be welcomed-by assistant -mayor Ben Barry at 9:30 a.m. Saturday following an hour-long registra. tion period when advance registrants can pick up their identification tags and late arrivals can register. Williamsburg. Report Tourists Flock To Restorec Colonial Ci By Marquis Childs In the brilliant Indian summer sun tourists -from all over are streaming through this remarkable reconstruction of the colonial past in Williamsburg, Va. From the Governor's Palace down to the simplest tavern the restoration has been done with scholarly care and generous dis~regard for cost. The late John D. Rockefeller Jr. and subsequently his sons have put $73,500,000 into what isa unique museum and object lesson in American history. And this is capped by a Robert TrentJones golf course, with the fairways bounded by the brilliant gold and red of the fall foliage. Last week Marshal Tito and his wife arrived, part of the long procession of distinguished visitors whohave come to Williamsburg. They ‘were put up in the restored Allen Byrd house on Francis Street where Tito saw what mid-18th late 20th Century plumbing can mean for the ease and pleasure of living. The house was purchased in 1770, a year after it was built, by William Byrd IH--Byrd,-areekless gambler and a gay blade, went through two fortunes and lost the family plantation, Westover, before his death in 1770. (Continued on Page 6) cellaneous repair work. local residents. Century decor combined with . Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, A Small City Problems, Prospects Up For Study At Workshop Conference chairman Dr. Everett Carter, vice-chancellor of UC, Davis, will officially open the session following the remarks by Barry. At9:45a.m., “The Character of the Small City" will be dis~cussed by Robert W. Cook, chief planner for the firm of Williams and Mocine, general plan consultants for Nevada County, Grass Valley and Nevada City. At 10:45 a.m., a panel will discuss “Our Architecutral Heritage", chaired by architect John Campbell, San Francisco, and including OrvelJohnson, restoration ex pert with the California Division of Architecture, and Richard Cramer, associate professor of design at UC, Davis. At 1:30 p.m., “Business, ‘Real Estate and the Growth of the Small City” will be discussed by John Denton, lecturer at the UC School of Business Administration, Berkeley. Assemblyman Robert W, Crown,Alameda County, will speak on “The Role of ‘the Tourist in the Local Economy" at 2 p.m. The Saturday afternoon session will close with a round table discussion "Can the Small City Afford to Respect Its Past" featuring Campbell, Johnson, Cramer, and Denton at 3:15. A feature of the conference will be the dinner address of Alan Temko, architectural and urban critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, speaking on "The Role of the Small City in the Region”. Sunday morning will find the second day opening with Dr. Carter speaking on "Human Values in the Small City” at 10 a. m,. Glenn Burch, director of the UC Davis Extension division, will close the formal part of the workshop Sunday at 11:45 a.m. with a talk on “Planning for the Good Life in the Small City”. Several homes and other buildings of architectural or historical interest will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. in the afternoon for workshop participants to see. Included are Trinity Church, the Christie home, the Nevada County Nugget office, the Osborn -W oods Studio(upstairs), the Rector home, the National Hotel, Nevada City Artists' Gallery, Ott's Assay Office and the Yuba Canal Co., and the Methodist Church, all in Nevada City. In Grass Valley, the Glasson home, the Tremoureux home, the Meggs home, and Emmanuel Church, : Other points of interest will be pointed out to visitors. wot4oes BS] BVOTPOT A084 shook woe tienn srs uy y