October 28, 1965 (20 pages)

NORTHERN MINES & CALIFORNIA REPORTS BIS EH EE REE eee FET eri ee 4 Eee ED $108,00 Grant Is Slated For County Schools Nevada County schools will be eligible for federal grants of $108,395.43 according to information received from the Federal Office of Education by Congressman Harold T. “Bizz” Johnson of the Second District. The maximum grant of $108, 396.43 is based on a total of 429 eligible children in the county. This total is the amount of aggregate maximum basic grants as authorized by title I of Public Law. 89-10, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which added title II to Public Law 81-874, Grant data has been compiled on the basis of decennial census tabulations for 1960 of children aged five to 17 in families who received less than $2,000, and ‘from information on children in families who received in excess of $2,000 for Federal aidto dependent children in the year 1962. In accordance withthe formula in the act, the maximum basic grants for each county are computed at a formula rate equivalent to one half the state average per pupil current expenditure during the school year 1963-64, e Nine Cooperators . Sign With Soil Conservation Nine new cooperators joined with the Nevada County Soil Conservation District last month according to the September Activity report of the Grass Valley Work Unit of the Soil Conservation Service. The new cooperators are: Everett T. Chittenden, 44 acres on Highway 49a quarter mile north of North San Juan for pasture development; Edmunt Evans, 60 acres on Indian Springs Road for pasture development; Alan Cranston, 520 acres on McCourtney Road for irrigation and dry pasture and recreation use; Henry L. Glasser, 306 acres in the Camp Beale area for dry pasture; Frank Van Vliet, 90 acres a half mile south of the intersection of Wolf and Duggan Roads for pasture and homesite; Ursal Snapp, 80 acres three miles southwest of Nevada City on Newton Road for woodland development and Mrs. Dorothy Tyron, 39 acres one anda half miles south of the intersection of Duggan and Wolf Roads for pasture and homesite. Two basic farm plans were prepared during the month including one for Leisure Lease Corp. for 40 acres in Truckee andone for Dr. Harry Stewart for 1,250 acres on Magnolia Road, One plan was revised and one cancelled during the month bringing the status of the district as of Oct. 1 to 469 cooperators and 336 conservation plans, ake ‘THE SECOND campground facility is p f 4 for this Woodcamp Creek area along the lake. % . Fi ~ +% ) roposed Reservoir, Clearing Work Starts For New Jackson Meadows Lake Recreational Facilities Clearing operations are underway at two areas of the new Jackson Meadows Reservoir in the Sierra in preparation for the start of construction of recreation facilities, Construction of the onshore facilities will be financed by the Nevada Irrigation District, owner of the lake, with funds received from a $4,693,000 state DavisGrunsky Act recreation grant, The Tahoe National Forest Staff will operate the facilities, In the Pass Creek area of the lake, plans call for construction of two family camp grounds of 20 and30 units each, There will — ay ” PASS CREEK CAMP, one of two proposed for construction at the New Jackson Meadows can be seen in the center of this view of the lake on the opposite shore. also be one group camp ground of four group camps, one double lane boat ramp, 15 picnic units and a beach area for 120 swimmers, In the Woodcamp area, two family campgrounds of 20 units each are planned. There will also be two picnic areas of 10 and five units each, a beach for 120 swimmers, a single lane boat ramp, one group camp of two units and an administrative site, Construction of this first phase of the Jackson Meadows development is planned over a five year period, This fall work consisted of timber sales and clearing of the sites, Calculograph Keeps Silent Watch On Long Distance Calls Despite The Change From Daylight Savings While most Nevada City residents are snoozing early next Sunday morning, telephone men will assume the role of “active clock watchers, “ And, by the time the clock strikes 2 A.M., they will have just about finished setting back to Standard Time some 5 "calculographs" at the operator switchboard which handles calls from Nevada City. The switchboard is located in Grass Valley. A calculograph isa small, combination clock-stamping device mounted on the telephone switchboard beside each operator. It works something like an employee "punch-in-and-out" time card machine registering exactly the length of each long distance call she handles, Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins said operators on duty at the moment Standard Time takes effect will quickly move to a nearby position on the switchboard and continue handling calls. And, according to their calculograph dial, reset only moments before, they'll have moved backwards one hour within just a few seconds, Then, the telephone technicians will move the remaining switchboard timing devices back to Standard Time on the vacated positions, All this time, Hutchins said, nightowls will be making calls completely unaware of thebehind-the-scenes action. Meanwhile, at Pacific Telephone dial equipment centers throughout the state, master timers which measure the length of all direct-distance-dial calls must also be reset to Standard Time. Many local subscribers are expected to dial Pacific Telephone’s “Time of Day" service (767-8900) after they awaken Sunday morning to confirm the time change. In fact, on an average business day, local residents dial some 400 calls for this service, These calls are instantaneously routed to a kind of tape recorder device at Pacific Telephone's 430 Bush Street communications center in San Francisco, A constantly revolving drum withthree master tapes plays the voice of Mrs. Berrien Moore, a television personality in Atlanta, Georgia. On one recorded tape she counts to 12 for the hours, on another she counts to 59 for the minutes, The introductory "The SIRS Will Meet Next Week At Alta Sierra The Nevada County Branch No, 11, of SIRS will hold their regular monthly imeeting Wednesday, November 3, at the Alta Sierra Country Club, at 12 noon, Election of officers for 1966 will be held for the newly chartered group which now boasts a membership of 162 retired men ofthis area. Thomas Steel, former plumbing inspéctor of Sacramento, willshow slides and movies of Hawaii, time is.." and the seconds, in 10-second intervals, are combined on a third tape. All three tapes are synchronized to give the correct hour, minute and second to callers, Two such tape devices in Pacific Telephone's San Francisco facility -each running for12 straight hours daily -provide the correct time, at any hour of the day or night, for millions of persons in Northern California, They are checked often to make sure they operate on U.S, Naval Observatory Time, When California changes back to Standard Time Sunday Morning at two o'clock, this is the way it willsound to those dialing in the "Time of Day” service: --"The time is 1:59 and 50 seconds, " --"The time is one o'clock, " The change from one tape machine to the other will be made ever so quietly, at the touch of a button, and we'll all have an extra hour to sleep, Z G96T ‘8% 12qGQ0109°* *1088nN Aiun0D epeAen’** bP

NORTHERN MINES & CALIFORNIA REPORTS BIS EH EE REE eee FET eri ee 4 Eee ED $108,00 Grant Is Slated For County Schools Nevada County schools will be eligible for federal grants of $108,395.43 according to information received from the Federal Office of Education by Congressman Harold T. “Bizz” Johnson of the Second District. The maximum grant of $108, 396.43 is based on a total of 429 eligible children in the county. This total is the amount of aggregate maximum basic grants as authorized by title I of Public Law. 89-10, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which added title II to Public Law 81-874, Grant data has been compiled on the basis of decennial census tabulations for 1960 of children aged five to 17 in families who received less than $2,000, and ‘from information on children in families who received in excess of $2,000 for Federal aidto dependent children in the year 1962. In accordance withthe formula in the act, the maximum basic grants for each county are computed at a formula rate equivalent to one half the state average per pupil current expenditure during the school year 1963-64, e Nine Cooperators . Sign With Soil Conservation Nine new cooperators joined with the Nevada County Soil Conservation District last month according to the September Activity report of the Grass Valley Work Unit of the Soil Conservation Service. The new cooperators are: Everett T. Chittenden, 44 acres on Highway 49a quarter mile north of North San Juan for pasture development; Edmunt Evans, 60 acres on Indian Springs Road for pasture development; Alan Cranston, 520 acres on McCourtney Road for irrigation and dry pasture and recreation use; Henry L. Glasser, 306 acres in the Camp Beale area for dry pasture; Frank Van Vliet, 90 acres a half mile south of the intersection of Wolf and Duggan Roads for pasture and homesite; Ursal Snapp, 80 acres three miles southwest of Nevada City on Newton Road for woodland development and Mrs. Dorothy Tyron, 39 acres one anda half miles south of the intersection of Duggan and Wolf Roads for pasture and homesite. Two basic farm plans were prepared during the month including one for Leisure Lease Corp. for 40 acres in Truckee andone for Dr. Harry Stewart for 1,250 acres on Magnolia Road, One plan was revised and one cancelled during the month bringing the status of the district as of Oct. 1 to 469 cooperators and 336 conservation plans, ake ‘THE SECOND campground facility is p f 4 for this Woodcamp Creek area along the lake. % . Fi ~ +% ) roposed Reservoir, Clearing Work Starts For New Jackson Meadows Lake Recreational Facilities Clearing operations are underway at two areas of the new Jackson Meadows Reservoir in the Sierra in preparation for the start of construction of recreation facilities, Construction of the onshore facilities will be financed by the Nevada Irrigation District, owner of the lake, with funds received from a $4,693,000 state DavisGrunsky Act recreation grant, The Tahoe National Forest Staff will operate the facilities, In the Pass Creek area of the lake, plans call for construction of two family camp grounds of 20 and30 units each, There will — ay ” PASS CREEK CAMP, one of two proposed for construction at the New Jackson Meadows can be seen in the center of this view of the lake on the opposite shore. also be one group camp ground of four group camps, one double lane boat ramp, 15 picnic units and a beach area for 120 swimmers, In the Woodcamp area, two family campgrounds of 20 units each are planned. There will also be two picnic areas of 10

and five units each, a beach for 120 swimmers, a single lane boat ramp, one group camp of two units and an administrative site, Construction of this first phase of the Jackson Meadows development is planned over a five year period, This fall work consisted of timber sales and clearing of the sites, Calculograph Keeps Silent Watch On Long Distance Calls Despite The Change From Daylight Savings While most Nevada City residents are snoozing early next Sunday morning, telephone men will assume the role of “active clock watchers, “ And, by the time the clock strikes 2 A.M., they will have just about finished setting back to Standard Time some 5 "calculographs" at the operator switchboard which handles calls from Nevada City. The switchboard is located in Grass Valley. A calculograph isa small, combination clock-stamping device mounted on the telephone switchboard beside each operator. It works something like an employee "punch-in-and-out" time card machine registering exactly the length of each long distance call she handles, Pacific Telephone Manager G. O. Hutchins said operators on duty at the moment Standard Time takes effect will quickly move to a nearby position on the switchboard and continue handling calls. And, according to their calculograph dial, reset only moments before, they'll have moved backwards one hour within just a few seconds, Then, the telephone technicians will move the remaining switchboard timing devices back to Standard Time on the vacated positions, All this time, Hutchins said, nightowls will be making calls completely unaware of thebehind-the-scenes action. Meanwhile, at Pacific Telephone dial equipment centers throughout the state, master timers which measure the length of all direct-distance-dial calls must also be reset to Standard Time. Many local subscribers are expected to dial Pacific Telephone’s “Time of Day" service (767-8900) after they awaken Sunday morning to confirm the time change. In fact, on an average business day, local residents dial some 400 calls for this service, These calls are instantaneously routed to a kind of tape recorder device at Pacific Telephone's 430 Bush Street communications center in San Francisco, A constantly revolving drum withthree master tapes plays the voice of Mrs. Berrien Moore, a television personality in Atlanta, Georgia. On one recorded tape she counts to 12 for the hours, on another she counts to 59 for the minutes, The introductory "The SIRS Will Meet Next Week At Alta Sierra The Nevada County Branch No, 11, of SIRS will hold their regular monthly imeeting Wednesday, November 3, at the Alta Sierra Country Club, at 12 noon, Election of officers for 1966 will be held for the newly chartered group which now boasts a membership of 162 retired men ofthis area. Thomas Steel, former plumbing inspéctor of Sacramento, willshow slides and movies of Hawaii, time is..." and the seconds, in 10-second intervals, are combined on a third tape. All three tapes are synchronized to give the correct hour, minute and second to callers, Two such tape devices in Pacific Telephone's San Francisco facility -each running for12 straight hours daily -provide the correct time, at any hour of the day or night, for millions of persons in Northern California, They are checked often to make sure they operate on U.S, Naval Observatory Time, When California changes back to Standard Time Sunday Morning at two o'clock, this is the way it willsound to those dialing in the "Time of Day” service: --"The time is 1:59 and 50 seconds, " --"The time is one o'clock, " The change from one tape machine to the other will be made ever so quietly, at the touch of a button, and we'll all have an extra hour to sleep, Z G96T ‘8% 12qGQ0109°* *1088nN Aiun0D epeAen’** bP