October 24, 1973 (8 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Oct. 24,1973 Notes Off The Cuff By PL. These crisply-cold Fall mornings leave me with only the one desire. .to turn over and ~ take another ‘‘40 winks’’. There was a time when the spirit and the body were willing, but lately a change has been creeping into the picture. Out where I live, near Town Talk, there’s a raucous rooster with a gleefully sadistic manner of greeting the early dawn. . .his conversations, per se, with his peers in various quarters of town, I do not appreciate. It is almost as discombobulating as an overdose of acid rock! At one time during our recent price hiking and beef shortages, I must admit that rising very early some morning to remove that nuisance seemed both desirable and economical. But one glance at the sparkling frosting on my windshield put a merciful end to such thoughts. Dat=ol’ debil rooster can just Keep on crowing for a while longer. Ruby Nobles said so much, in some of her recent Union columns, about the delights of apple-munching that I began to drool. So one morning when she dropped into our office to leave her copy, I told her how yummy the whole thing sounded. She immediately took the hint (7?) and on. her very next visit brought a generous’ bag of delicious red apples to my desk! I like people who are quick on the uptake because I am equally quick on the “‘intake’’ of apples. Some clever ballet choreographer is missing a bet in Nevada City. An hour’s traffic watch at the corner of Broad and Pine, during any peak hour of almost any day, should be the source of inspiration for a delightfully comic ballet.to end all ballets. It is rather like watching a threeaing circus gone amok to see cars, people and dogs all trying to ‘‘get there first’ in that intersection. There NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PW@BLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING -CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County -.Superior Court, June 3, +. 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Yeors . $5.00 Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Smith are enough wild ‘‘pas a’deux’’, dips and glides to satisfy anyone seeking a new dance ‘‘pattern.”’ One just watches and waits for the ultimate.crash! Breathtaking at times, to say the least. Witnessed an odd little incident in the parking lot of a big Sacramento store a few days ago. A very large woman had just finished parking her very large station:wagon across the lot from the security tower. As she started to walk over to the street exit, the young man in the tower sounded off on his public address mike with ‘‘Hey there, Big Mama.you in the purple pants.you just dropped yer purse behind ya.’”’ The woman spun around and, glaring in the general direction of the apparently disembodied voice,screamed back at it.‘‘Thanks a lot, but you watch out who you cali Big Mama, hear?’’ She quickly stooped down, picked up the purse and got out of that lot as fast as her feet could carry her. If I dwell overlong on the subject of our fantastically beautiful ‘‘Fall Colors’’, do forgive me.but I simply can’t get enough of the scenery in our wonderful foothill country. You just can’t beat it anywhere.no matter what the promoters of Colorado, Wyoming, Cape Cod, et al, have to say about their attractions along that line. We’ve got ’em all beat by a country mile, no doubt about that. I’ve really been frustrated by the gas shortage a few times this season.but it is an inescapable fact, surely, that “Only God can make a tree’”’ like those we can see up here any day in October. Ken Casper gets Rotary nomination Ken Casper has_ been nominated and elected District Governor for the Rotary year 1974-75. Ken will take office July 1, 1974 and become Rotary Internationals representative in District 519. District 519 has 53 Rotary Clubs and _ 3,200 Rotarians. , The District takes in the north half of Nevada and all of northeast California and extends from West Sacramento on the west to Ely-Elko on the east and from Alturas on the north to Jackson Tonopah on the south. Casper has been active in Rotary since 1949 when he joined the Yorba Linda Rotary Club. In 1956 when he moved to Nevada -county, he joined the Grass Valley Rotary Club and was president in 1967-68. He has 21 . years of perfect attendance and has made up at 217 Rotary Clubs throughout the Rotary World. Some of the responsibilities as District Governor are to attend .the Zone meeting in Monterey, the International Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. . Winter squash. supply? THE GRASS VALLEY resident who owns this squash eating. Perhaps he is a vegetarian? truck is in for a long winter of Voluntary cutback in energy use is urged Conserve energy voluntarily or face the -possibility of mandatory curtailment! This was the message from a Pacific Gas and Electric Company spokesman at a Drum Division news media conference at the Sunset-Whitney National Ranch in Rocklin Wednesday. Northern and_ Central California have been in good shape for energy until recent months, when ‘cutbacks in natural gas supplies, delays in construction of nuclear plants and difficulties in finding the required amounts of environmentally acceptable oil in the tight world market have combined to threaten power shortages next year, he said. Lawrence R. McDonnell, the company’s director, said, ‘“‘PG&E is searching diligently all over the world for oil and is continuing its extensive quest for new supplies of natural gas in Canada, the Yukon Territory, the Rocky Mountain area, California and the Southwest.” Other California utilities face news *~ bureau. similar problems in finding boiler fuel for steam electric generation, he said, and the California Public Utilities Commission is coordinating efforts to meet potential power shortages through establishing curtailment plans on both voluntary and mandatory bases. PG&E has fueled its steamelectric generating plants with natural gas 90 to 95 per cent of the time in the past, burning oil only during cold snaps when priority call on gas is given to firm residential and commercial customers. The annual requirement for oil was about two million barrels, and domestic oil supplies were always adequate and priced at about $2 a barrel. Next year, McDonnell said, the company will require 43 million barrels. Under the new air pollution control standards it must be low-sulfur oil, which is not available domestically and which is priced currently at about $7 a barrel on the world. market. ‘iva thothinds of Gic lowsulfur oil reserves in the free world are in the Middle East, and other nations in the world want some of it, as do the utility systems of the United States, McDonnell stated, adding grimly ‘‘and there’s a shooting war as well as an oil war going on there right now.” The company has been urging the public, through advertising and __ other means of communication, to eliminate wasteful uses of gas and electricity and has suggested numerous ways energy can be conserved in the home. mi PG&E experts in power service for commercial and industrial applications are calling on their more than 2,000 large-scale electric customers to achieve the same conservation objectives and to help plan’ schedules for curtailment on both voluntary and mandatory bases, McDonnell said. If voluntary curtailment fails to conserve energy adequately, he said, the only alternative will be a system of mandatory cutoffs.

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Oct. 24,1973 Notes Off The Cuff By PL. These crisply-cold Fall mornings leave me with only the one desire. .to turn over and ~ take another ‘‘40 winks’’. There was a time when the spirit and the body were willing, but lately a change has been creeping into the picture. Out where I live, near Town Talk, there’s a raucous rooster with a gleefully sadistic manner of greeting the early dawn. . .his conversations, per se, with his peers in various quarters of town, I do not appreciate. It is almost as discombobulating as an overdose of acid rock! At one time during our recent price hiking and beef shortages, I must admit that rising very early some morning to remove that nuisance seemed both desirable and economical. But one glance at the sparkling frosting on my windshield put a merciful end to such thoughts. Dat=ol’ debil rooster can just Keep on crowing for a while longer. Ruby Nobles said so much, in some of her recent Union columns, about the delights of apple-munching that I began to drool. So one morning when she dropped into our office to leave her copy, I told her how yummy the whole thing sounded. She immediately took the hint (7?) and on. her very next visit brought a generous’ bag of delicious red apples to my desk! I like people who are quick on the uptake because I am equally quick on the “‘intake’’ of apples. Some clever ballet choreographer is missing a bet in Nevada City. An hour’s traffic watch at the corner of Broad and Pine, during any peak hour of almost any day, should be the source of inspiration for a delightfully comic ballet..to end all ballets. It is rather like watching a threeaing circus gone amok to see cars, people and dogs all trying to ‘‘get there first’ in that intersection. There NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PW@BLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING -CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County -.Superior Court, June 3, +. 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Yeors .. $5.00 Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Smith are enough wild ‘‘pas a’deux’’, dips and glides to satisfy anyone seeking a new dance ‘‘pattern.”’ One just watches and waits for the ultimate..crash! Breathtaking at times, to say the least. Witnessed an odd little incident in the parking lot of a big Sacramento store a few days ago. A very large woman had just finished parking her very large station:wagon across the lot from the security tower. As she started to walk over to the street exit, the young man in the tower sounded off on his public address mike with ‘‘Hey there, Big Mama..you in the purple pants..you just dropped yer purse behind ya.’”’ The woman spun around and, glaring in the general direction of the apparently disembodied voice,screamed back at it..‘‘Thanks a lot, but you watch out who you cali Big Mama, hear?’’ She quickly stooped down, picked up the purse and got out of that lot as fast as her feet could carry her. If I dwell overlong on the subject of our fantastically beautiful ‘‘Fall Colors’’, do forgive me..but I simply can’t get enough of the scenery in our wonderful foothill country. You just can’t beat it anywhere..no matter what the promoters of Colorado, Wyoming, Cape Cod, et al, have to say about their attractions along that line. We’ve got ’em all beat by a country mile, no doubt about that. I’ve really been frustrated by the gas shortage a few times this season..but it is an inescapable fact, surely, that “Only God can make a tree’”’ like those we can see up here any day in October. Ken Casper gets Rotary

nomination Ken Casper has_ been nominated and elected District Governor for the Rotary year 1974-75. Ken will take office July 1, 1974 and become Rotary Internationals representative in District 519. District 519 has 53 Rotary Clubs and _ 3,200 Rotarians. , The District takes in the north half of Nevada and all of northeast California and extends from West Sacramento on the west to Ely-Elko on the east and from Alturas on the north to Jackson Tonopah on the south. Casper has been active in Rotary since 1949 when he joined the Yorba Linda Rotary Club. In 1956 when he moved to Nevada -county, he joined the Grass Valley Rotary Club and was president in 1967-68. He has 21 . years of perfect attendance and has made up at 217 Rotary Clubs throughout the Rotary World. Some of the responsibilities as District Governor are to attend .the Zone meeting in Monterey, the International Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. . Winter squash. supply? THE GRASS VALLEY resident who owns this squash eating. Perhaps he is a vegetarian? truck is in for a long winter of Voluntary cutback in energy use is urged Conserve energy voluntarily or face the -possibility of mandatory curtailment! This was the message from a Pacific Gas and Electric Company spokesman at a Drum Division news media conference at the Sunset-Whitney National Ranch in Rocklin Wednesday. Northern and_ Central California have been in good shape for energy until recent months, when ‘cutbacks in natural gas supplies, delays in construction of nuclear plants and difficulties in finding the required amounts of environmentally acceptable oil in the tight world market have combined to threaten power shortages next year, he said. Lawrence R. McDonnell, the company’s director, said, ‘“‘PG&E is searching diligently all over the world for oil and is continuing its extensive quest for new supplies of natural gas in Canada, the Yukon Territory, the Rocky Mountain area, California and the Southwest.” Other California utilities face news *~ bureau. similar problems in finding boiler fuel for steam electric generation, he said, and the California Public Utilities Commission is coordinating efforts to meet potential power shortages through establishing curtailment plans on both voluntary and mandatory bases. PG&E has fueled its steamelectric generating plants with natural gas 90 to 95 per cent of the time in the past, burning oil only during cold snaps when priority call on gas is given to firm residential and commercial customers. The annual requirement for oil was about two million barrels, and domestic oil supplies were always adequate and priced at about $2 a barrel. Next year, McDonnell said, the company will require 43 million barrels. Under the new air pollution control standards it must be low-sulfur oil, which is not available domestically and which is priced currently at about $7 a barrel on the world. market. ‘iva thothinds of Gic lowsulfur oil reserves in the free world are in the Middle East, and other nations in the world want some of it, as do the utility systems of the United States, McDonnell stated, adding grimly ‘‘and there’s a shooting war as well as an oil war going on there right now.” The company has been urging the public, through advertising and __ other means of communication, to eliminate wasteful uses of gas and electricity and has suggested numerous ways energy can be conserved in the home. mi PG&E experts in power service for commercial and industrial applications are calling on their more than 2,000 large-scale electric customers to achieve the same conservation objectives and to help plan’ schedules for curtailment on both voluntary and mandatory bases, McDonnell said. If voluntary curtailment fails to conserve energy adequately, he said, the only alternative will be a system of mandatory cutoffs.