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PART OF the 400 Boy Scouts of the Tahoe Area Council
leaving Camp Pahatsi for the Donner Summit area to participate in the Interior Department's Johnny Horizon CleanLocal scouts dean up Donner litter
In an exciting display of America's Youth-Power, Boy Scouts
from the Tahoe Area Council
last. weekend mobilized 400
young men to help the Bureau
of Reclamation and the U. S,
Forest Service clean defaced
rocks and pick up litter in the
Donner Summit Area,
Troop leaders and helpers
from Roseville to Tahoe including Grass Valley Nevada
City assembled their units at
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Forest Service from Big Bend and
scapceegne up. some of the 75 cubic
Camp Pahatsi near Soda Springs.
The units were then bused tothe
summit area by a commercial
line,
It was one of the largest cleanup campaigns ever conducted in
the area. .
Tons of litter were gathered
in the area along old Highway 40
in the Tahoe National Forest
Area from Soda Springs to Donner Lake, and hundreds of defaced rocks were grouted over
with a thin layer of cement grout.
up Campaign Saturday
(Bureau of Raclaenaticn rere by Don Mell.)
Litter consisted of everything
from gum wrappers and beer
cans to large metal objects including old washing machines
and car bodies.
So much junk was accumulated along the road for pickup by
dump trucks donated and manned
by the Forest Service that they
were still working on Sunday
and finally had to enlist the help
of the State Highway Department.
The project was carried out
under guidelines of the Johnny
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litter collected by Boy Scouts from the Tahoe
Horizon Program of the gar
ment of the Interior. H. J. (ik
Geroy, administrative ‘one
for the Bureau of Reclamation,
Auburn, represented the interior
Department and coordinated all
activities with the Boy Scouts;
Stan Macy, district commissioner; Rev. Charles A, Rauscheck,
public relations director, Tahoe
Area Council; and Hank Branagh,
supervisor of the Tahoe Nationdl
Forest, Nevada City.
Y uncommon. stock’
for Condon lake ©
GV Lions sell
Shares of “uncommon stock"
“are being offered to the public
by Grass Valley Lions Club to
; finance the construction of the
new lake at Condon Park which
is under way now.
The lake will be called "Lions
Lake No, 2" “because the club —
built one several years ago at
the fairgrounds, It is a popular
fishing spot for youngsters,
The one in Condon Park also
will be geared toward children's
fishing. © :
The "uncommon stock" drive
will find Lions selling green
shares for $1. They will be negotiable "in fishing fun for those:
of ages 11 to 16," theshares
say, adding:
"Your dollar for this one share
of Uncommon Stock will help to
make new Lions Lake No, 2 at
Condon Park a spot of golden
hours for little boys and girls
for generations to come,”
Harry Holtzmann is chairman
of the. stock project and Arlie
Hansen chairman of construction of the new lake.
Fire district
effidency may
cut C-P rates
There are strong indications
that there will be some decrease
in fire insurance rates in the
Chicago Park Fire District because of the efficiency of its
volunteer fire department.
Fire. Chief Carl. Bauch made
the announcement this week. The .
chief said the Pacific Fire
f= Rating Bureau sent Bruce Park,
an engineer from the San Francisco office here for a five-day
evaluation of the department.
The engineer checked commercial fire hazards. Tests included: manpower and equipment
response, the alert system and
pumping capacity of the trucks.
Chief Bauch expressed his and
the district's appreciation to
volunteers who devoted more
than 100 man hours in preparation and time spent for rating
tests. Firemen spent one day
pumping water for the evaluation test,
County again ne
in ‘Sunset’
For the second month in a
and its work in the community
between Grass Valley and
Interstate 80 are featured in the
November issue.
The article refers tothe highway as "shaded by oaks and
evergreens, meandering past
farmhouses, a few orchards,
small settlements, pastureland
and woodland. It follows the
route of a toll road used in the
early 1900s. In 1930 this had
become the first official county
road in Nevada county."
Last month, Sunset featured
Malakoff Diggins Historical
State Park,, .
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