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Entered December 5, 1020, as second class matter et the post office
at Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of 1879
Adjudicated’a legal newspaper November 6, 1951, im ‘Nevada Tevada County
Superior Court, Decree No. 10023.
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Nature Supplies An Answer
Nature, in her bounty, can provide problems for mankind. But if we look hard enough we usually find she also
provides some answers.
A bountiful nature has attracted millions of people to
California, and will continue todo so. With them come the
problems of supplying the employment and food and education and all the materials and services they require. So far,
we have done a pretty fair job of finding the sources from
which to fill those requirements.
A picturesque example exists in the Big Sulphur Creek
area some 100 miles north of San Francisco. in this isolated and narrow valley an aging earth is literally letting off
steam. What once was utilized merely as a visual attraction
for tourists and a therapeutic aid for devotees of the steam
bath is now about to be put to use supplying morthern . Californians with electric power. :
Harnessing of the natural steam supply is being done by
two inventive power companies. ermal and Magma.
Joining them is Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which will
produce the power. The steam supply is expected to last
indefinitely, and the industry feels that production is warranted. As Albert Bruce, designer of P. G. and E’s geothermal power plant, puts it:
“We'll have to double our power output by 1970 to ‘meet
California’s needs. Therefore we’re determined to harvest
kilowatts where we find them.”
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Space Age Hallowe’en
The night of the ghoulies and the goblins is upon us, and
the youngsters’ new version of collective bargaining, known
as “trick or treat,” will again be the order of the evening.
There probably will be many good bedsheets cut into shrouds
for somewhat nervous ghosts, and a lot fo pumpkins will never make it to the oven, what with candle grease and smokesmudge inside.
But we fear Hallowe’en isn’t what it used to be. TV and
horror movies make its once-delicious chills as bland as custard pie. And those satellites! Word from the witches’ world
has it that all brooms have been grounded this year. Too
many pointed hats knocked off during practice flights.
A Noble Standard
Thousands of words have been written about Charles J.
Hagerty since it became known that he was goimg to retire
from State service at the end of the month. We merely want
to add one more warm thought about this rather amazing
and justly beloved public servant, whose 47 years in the Department of State made him a legend while still on the job.
Charlie Hagerty had one central precept——that everybody had a right to a square deal by government. And he
devoted a great deal of hard, dedicated work to applying that
precept to his enormously successful shepherding of California’s huge and complex election procedures.
The work that Charlie Hagerty did for his State during
his long career could never be paid for in cash. Yet he has
given his fellow citizens an additional and even greater gift—
a standard for public service of simplicity and tolerance, wisdom and patience, understanding and high principle, unselfishness and a vast delight in hard work. Not many Of Us
could measure up to that Hagertian standard, but it’ sa noble
one against which to measure ourselves and those ‘we elect
or select for public office.
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THIS GUY HAS GOT TO GO! —
State Motor Vehicles Director Robert I. McCarthy had
better be careful or some of his colleagues in the state government are going to collapse as a result of his nerve shattering conduct.
Certainly he left the budget makers in a state of shock
when he asked them to CUT the budget for his department.
‘The 24 other state agencies all asked for imcreases-—as
usual. McCarthy said that his department can get along
on $2 million less this year and that a further saving of
about $1.5 million can be made by eliminating 186 authorized jobs. No one would be fired, he said, but jobs would
not be filled as they became vacant.
“It isn’t necessarily true,” said McCarthy in his heretical utterance, ‘“‘that the ‘quality of. government service is
determined by the number of job holders. The Department
of Motor Vehicles can render better service than it has in
the past with fewer employees .. by cutting out some of
the frills.”
We imagine that some state department heads. are in
near panic. Suppose McCarthy’s statement tips off the public
that other departments, too, can get alnog with fewer, instead of more, employees? Think of the loss of prestige which.
these department heads will suffer by having smaller staffs.
Think of the millions of dollars that will be “lost”” by reduced
government expenditures.
It’s really a gruesome thought and something which
must not be allowed to gain a foothold in government. After
all, what would citizens do with the extra money if they
had their taxes cut?
Beef Council Members Named
State Agriculture .Director W.]Foulke, Jr. of Gazelle, Siskiyou
C. Jacobsen has announced ap-. County; Kenneth Sexton of Wilpointment of five members of the . lows, Glenn County: Dean Brown
California Beef Council and-the. of Sata Maria, Santa Barbara
appointment of one new member. County; A. J. Bianchi of: Point
‘Keith Metz of Holtville, Im-. Reyes Station, Marin County,
perial Couty, is the new member. . and Charles V. Misuraca of Dixon,
: nts went to Edson L. Solano County.
TOM BUILT HOMES
3 OR 4 BEDROOM
Built Homes on Acre Plus Parcels
‘ 1 Mile From Town
BUILT-IN APPLIANCES, SHAKE ROOFS.
_ Priced to $16,900.00
. Well, if pay as you build construction of a capitol makes Nebraska an economic oddball, consider this: :
Nebraska has no state debts
and manages to keep enough
money in the bank to meet month
end bills.
It has no state sales tax and
no state income tax. Only one
other state, Texas, can make this
claim, and Texas enjoys the largesse of severance taxes on oil!
and gas resources unmatched in
Nebraska.
State government during the
year ended June 30 cost the average Nebraskan $55.60 in taxes,
lowest such per capita figure in
the Nation.
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Governor Ralph Brooks returned from the 1959 Governors
Conference at Puerto Rico to report that other governors thought
it wonderful that Nebraska manages’ without sales or income
taxes.
“Phey didn’t listen to the second half he complained. “We have
no parks, no roads, no schools!”
It was his facetious way of
saying, he explained later, that
the state’s economic Spartanism
has not been without some sacrifice.
The state’s debt-free status is.
nothing new. In the 1920s it led
to a vigorous promotion of Nebraska as the Nation’s “white
spot”—a capaign to counteract
thg bad publicity attending several years of drought.
Indebtedness by state government—in excess of $100,000—is
unconstitutional in Nebraska.
Framers of the constitution in
1875 decreed that “the state may,
to meet casual deficits, or failures
in the revenues, contract debts
never to exceed in the aggregate
of $100,000, and no greater indebtedness shal] be incurred except for the purpose of repeeling
invasion, suppressing insurrection or defending the state.”
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The $100,000 limit may have
shaped up as a comfortable cushion in those days. Today, even in
frugal Nebraska,it is pin money
and long-time satte officials say
they have no recollection of the
debt incurring privilege ever being used.
The constitutional ban is not
likely to be changed soon. It just
never has become an issue.
Nebraska relies heavily on the
property tax for revenue, not
only at the state level but at
county, city and school district
levels.
Under a recently set state levy,
the owner of a home worth $10,000 will pay about $30 in state
property taxes next year.
But cities, counties, schools and
other subdivisions also make their
levies, with the result that a
$10,000 home becomes subject to
taxes anywhere from $60 to $500.
The state levy represents only
about 15 per cent of the property tax take. Schools, which receive no state general fund aid,
pocket more than half the revenue.
Efforts. to enact sales or income
taxes with a view to easing the
burden on property owners develop regularly at each legislative session—so far without success.
The state resorts to most of
the other going revenue producing devices, however.
It has a 7 cent per gallon state
gasolin tax and a 4 cent per package tax on cigaretts. Liquor and
insurance taxs, licenses and fees
also help the cause. ...
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Only this year did the state get
around to taxing parimutuel race
betting, albeit modestly, bingo
Very little publicity was given
Khrushchev’s meeting with the
longshoremen”s headquarters and
the very proper sweetness-andmonwealth Club.
But according to the transcript
of the meeting released by the
labor panel mmbers, they really
gav Mr. K the works.
Present were Walter Reuther,
president of the United Automobile Workers; James Carey, president o fthe International Union of
Electreal Workers; Karl Feller,
president of the International
Union of Brewry Workers;' Joseph
Curran, president of the National
Maritime Union; O. A. Knight,
president of the Oil and Chemical
Workers; Paul Phillips, president
of the United Paper Makers Union, and Emil Rieve, president
emeritus of the Textile Workers
Union—good liberals all.
Here are some of the hot potatoes they tossed at the Premier:
Mr. Reuther: “If you don’t exploit (the workers_of East Germany why should 3 million of
them cross the border into West
Germany?”
Mr. K.: “You are hopelessly
sick with capitalistic fever.”
Mr. Reuther: “Do you have credentials to speak for the workers
of the world?”
Mr. K.:-Do you have credentials to poke your nose into East
Germany?”
Mr. Knight: “In view of your
statements favoring’ self-determination and non-interference in
the internal *of other nations, how*do you reconcile these
statements with the harsh military suppression of the Hungarian freedom fighters by the Soviet
military powers?”
Mr. K.: “The capitalists have
certainly trained some wey good
cadres.”
Mr. Feller: “Can you tell us of
a single instance where, following
Communist seizure of power,
there has been a mass influx of
workers from surrounding nonCommunist countries into the
Communist country? If the Communist Party is the liberator of
the working class, why don’t we
see this phenomenon?”
Mr. K.: “Drink your beer.”
The above is only a sampling of
a needling interchange that made
Mayor Poulson’s remarks ‘sound,
in.comparison, like an invitation
to the waltz.”
Canners Report On
Spinach, Asparagus
The Canners League of California this week reported stocks
of canned spinach held by California canners totaled 2,018,441
eases, as of October 1. At the
same time the league reported a
total of 2,438,639 eases of canned
asparagus on hand.
not principally for revenue purposes.
Indebtedness, while, banned at
the state level, is common at
lower levels of government. A
1956 survey showed counties,
cities, school districts, and other
subdivisions, excluding public
power districts, carrying bonded
indebtedness roughly equivaint
to the amount of money, federal
funds, included, spent by state
alsa was legalized this year, but
government in an Laser te —_
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pen to anyone.
er Fire Dept.
And Auxiliary To
Hold Buck Stew
The plans of the 49er Fire Department and Auxiliary for their
buck stew on November 15 at
Seamans Lodge in Pioneer Park,
are shaping up.
Tickets for same, with an opportunity to win the door prize of .
a box of groceries, are now available at the News and Novelty
Every woman of every household in the district covered by
the 49er Fire Department should
join the auxiliary, attend the
meetings and find out what she
ean personally do to help raise
the funds needed by the department. The men are doing their
share. At present, in adition to
answering calls for their services,
they are. building their new
home on Highway 49. No easy
task since. most of the members
hold down regular jobs and must
use their otherwise spare time. If
it is impossible for anyone in the
household to contribute time,
then a gift of money is much appreciated. Rémember,
usually accidental ,and can hapfires. are
The next meeting of the auxiliary will be held on November 13
at 8 p.m. in the . Elementary
School in Nevada City.
Baby Chick Hatch Up
Commercial] hatcheries in California produced 8,046,000 baby
chicks during September,. the
California Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service has reported.
The figure is 2 per cent more
than 1958 production.
The average price received by
hatcheries for 100 straight run
broiler chicks at mid-September
was reported at $13.50.
California production reversed
the.national trend, the Service
reported, which was down 10 per
cent during September.
Atlantic.
The Navy first used the Panama
Canal on October 12, 1914, when
the USS Jupiter crossed the “Big
Ditch” from the Pacific to the
The Sather Campanile, on the
University of California Berkely campus, is 307 feet high.
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GOING PLACES?ae
@ Desinon or Phewore Trip
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4-H Livestock
Day October 31
The 4-H beef and sheep field
Saturday, October 31. All members interested in livestock, their
parents and leaders are cordially
invited. The program begins at
10 a.m. on the Ken Casper ranch,
located at the end of the Garden
Bar Road beyond the Wolf School
house, and the Ernie Struckman
ranch. The program is headed by
Ken Casper, livestock promotion
chairman of the 4-H Club Council.
Several specialists will be on
hand.to show the ims and outs of
judging, feeding, selection of animals, and grooming. A baseball
game is scheduled for the afternoon. Grilled hamburgers . and
home-made ice cream for lunch
will be prepared by Mrs. Casper
and staff. The cost will be a slim
40 cents per person.
Those coming are asked to
phone reservations to the Farm
Advisors office, Grass Valley 26.
will be interested in finding out
more about: the projects their
4-Hers are taking. They will also
get some ideas on what the members should know about their
projects. All interested are condially invited.
JOINS DELTA PHI DELTA
William Prentiss of Nevada
City has been selected as a member of the Delta Phi Delta men’s
social club of Ottawa University,
Ottawa, Kansas.
William, a freshman, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Townsend
of Nevada City.
READ THE NUGGET
day is coming HalHlowe’en Day,:
Livestock leaders’ and parents.
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DON *T FORGET THE
HALLOWE'EN PARTY
At the Question Mark, Saturday, Oct. 31st
DANCING AND MUSIC
Come Early and Stay Late
QUESTION MARK
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