October 29, 1969 (12 pages)

BEALE AFB, Calif, — Spec-: tacular aerial demonstrations by the U.S. Air Force. Thunderbirds will highlight the annual Beale AFB-Kiwanis Kid's Day scheduled for Nov. 1 at the base, ; Beale's gates will open for the public at 10 a.m. so visitors may enjoy static aircraft displays before the 1 p.m. Thunderbird show, The annual Kid's Day is sponsored jointly by Beale AFB and Kiwanis Clubs of surrounding . communities and has a history of providing fun and games for children: as well. as absorbing the interest of adults, ; The Thunderbirds have an interesting history as explain this way by the air. Force: Sixteen years ago during the turbulent end of the Korean War, the placid skies over Williams AFB, Arizona, were rent by the howl of jet engines. Four, F-84 aircraft painted . red, white, and blue, rolled and looped over the audience below, always -keeping their wingtips overlapped three feet. This was the first show of the United States Air Force Demonstration Squatiron, the Thunderbirds, Based at Luke Air Force Base, near Phoenix, the Thunderbirds had been created a month before to demonstrate to people in the United States and overseas the capabilities of the men and machines of the United _ States Air Force. . Needless to sayg:the Thunderbirds were r senting in 1953, a very different Air Force from today's. As a separate service, the United States Air Force was only six years old, The hottest jet fighter then in action was still not capable of breaking the sound barrier in level flight. The technological and scientific advances leading to an Air Force of ICBMs and Mach 3 airplanes have been spanned: by more than 1,300 Thunderbird . aerial demonstrations, The team now flies an average of 100 air shows a year, making it the nation's busiest precision flying team. To reach show sites located from coastto-coast and even overseas, the Thunderbirds must cover175,000 air miles in 250 days of travel. To date, the team has flown an estimated 2,000,000 miles of the equivalent of 65 times around the earth. The most ftmportant part of the Thunderbirds is the people. *in the squadron, All of them are volunteers, chosen in competition with other specialists throughout the Air Force. . In 1963, there were four demonstration pilots, three other officers, and 15 enlisted maintenance specialists, Today, @ there are 93 Thunderbirds:Seven rated pilots, two nonrated officers, and 84 enlisted support personnel. + -emparneme namr magn aasecummneaeee tes Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 3 ays planned at BealeNov. THE U, S. AIR FORCE Thunderbirds demonstrate a "flat pass" which is one of many maneuvers * . >e in their spectacular aerial repertoire. The supersonic jets will highlight the annual jointly sponsored Beale AFB Kiwanis Kid's Day progr The board of supervisors, sitting as a board of equalization, Tuesday voted to reduce the as. sessed valuation of 7,757 acres sutuated 10 miles southwest of Grass Valley from $259 to $250 .per acre, m Action came at the conclusion of Wilber D. May's four-hour long assessment protest hearing. Attorney James Hunt, representing May, contended the assessed valuation should be $195 per acre, $64 less than the $259 per acre valuation placed by the assessor's office. The dispute between May's representatives and the county assessor's office appeared to center on the way in which the assessor's office computed assessed -valuation on land on which the owner does not own surface mineral rights. George Pifer, deputy district attorney and deputy county counsel for the eastern portion of the county, represented the assessor's office. The board of equalization had no legal counsel. The afternoon hearing bore a resemblance to court proceedings as witnesses were sworn in, expert qualifications were established,’ testimony was ruled out of order, and cross examinations and rebuttals took place. May's witnesses included Coy Miller, banker and vice president of the Mother Lode Bank in Grass Valley; Michael Good, manager of the Mid Valley Savings and Loan in Grass Valley; Calvin Erick, independent appraiser from Reno, Nev.; Leonard Carey, Grass Valley Realtor; a ranch broker who said he has handled ranch and land development business throughc: Western United States; Ward Hellings of Pasadena, May's agent; and May. Miller and Good testified that their institutions would not extend money on lands on which mineral rights are not in possession of the borrower. The Realtor and broker testified concerning their separate unsuccessful attempts to sell the acreage under satisfactory conditions and price, The Reno surveyor comparedthe assessor's valuation of the. May y unfavorably with val of what he said were similar properties. He said his testimony came from observation and research in comparative land values, Harrison Slawson, county appraiser, detailed his methods of arriving at figures. He too quoted selling prices of what he said were similar properties, some with and some without mineral rights. Hunt objected to the ascaiterscrealteoneenetane “comfortable” is the word when you déal with local people ‘at your home. owned, independent bank. A. Moree Loos Bare am scheduled Nov. 1 at the base. (Official Air Force Photo) sessor's method of determining land value, and contended that the May property should have been appraised separately from the mineral rights, rather than the value of the mineral rights being deducted from the land value, ; Supervisor William Thomas at one point during the hearing challenged the manner in which the board deliberated. He said, "We have not been technical before, and because we have two attorneys here we should not take a different approach." May contended that his land had been purchased at the Camp Beale auction and that he planned at that time, and still does, to use it for a ranch and cattle grazing. _ Slawson contended subdividing into 500 and 1,000-acre parcels would represent the highest and best land use. He pointed out approximity .of the Penn Valley School, the new Lake Wildwood subdivision, and road as factors MEMBER F.0.1.C. GRASS VALLEY ¢ NEVADA CITY PLACERVILLE * SONORA « FOLSOM TWAIN HARTE © ALTAVILLE Assessed value cut in four hour hearing favoring his contention. The first vote was a tie ona motion to sustain the assessor's office in its appraisal of $259 per acre, Ralph Bucahanan and Dean Lawrence voted no, Supervisors Robert Long and Thomas voted yes, TRAIN NOW POR . HOGS Bares, Buyieg stock trole i $ Tne a i . Re ts Insured by F.D.LC. up to $15,000 e Bank Ho Monthly ‘ Charge -dn Reaybe Personal. Checking, Accounts Main‘ ; a Minimum of Night Depository Safe Deposit Boxes

BEALE AFB, Calif, — Spec-: tacular aerial demonstrations by the U.S. Air Force. Thunderbirds will highlight the annual Beale AFB-Kiwanis Kid's Day scheduled for Nov. 1 at the base, ; Beale's gates will open for the public at 10 a.m. so visitors may enjoy static aircraft displays before the 1 p.m. Thunderbird show, The annual Kid's Day is sponsored jointly by Beale AFB and Kiwanis Clubs of surrounding . communities and has a history of providing fun and games for children: as well. as absorbing the interest of adults, ; The Thunderbirds have an interesting history as explain this way by the air. Force: Sixteen years ago during the turbulent end of the Korean War, the placid skies over Williams AFB, Arizona, were rent by the howl of jet engines. Four, F-84 aircraft painted . red, white, and blue, rolled and looped over the audience below, always -keeping their wingtips overlapped three feet. This was the first show of the United States Air Force Demonstration Squatiron, the Thunderbirds, Based at Luke Air Force Base, near Phoenix, the Thunderbirds had been created a month before to demonstrate to people in the United States and overseas the capabilities of the men and machines of the United _ States Air Force. . Needless to sayg:the Thunderbirds were r senting in 1953, a very different Air Force from today's. As a separate service, the United States Air Force was only six years old, The hottest jet fighter then in action was still not capable of breaking the sound barrier in level flight. The technological and scientific advances leading to an Air Force of ICBMs and Mach 3 airplanes have been spanned: by more than 1,300 Thunderbird . aerial demonstrations, The team now flies an average of 100 air shows a year, making it the nation's busiest precision flying team. To reach show sites located from coastto-coast and even overseas, the Thunderbirds must cover175,000 air miles in 250 days of travel. To date, the team has flown an estimated 2,000,000 miles of the equivalent of 65 times around the earth. The most ftmportant part of the Thunderbirds is the people. *in the squadron, All of them are volunteers, chosen in competition with other specialists throughout the Air Force. . In 1963, there were four demonstration pilots, three other officers, and 15 enlisted maintenance specialists, Today, @ there are 93 Thunderbirds:Seven rated pilots, two nonrated officers, and 84 enlisted support personnel. + -emparneme namr magn aasecummneaeee tes Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 3 ays planned at BealeNov. THE U, S. AIR FORCE Thunderbirds demonstrate a "flat pass" which is one of many maneuvers * . >e in their spectacular aerial repertoire. The supersonic jets will highlight the annual jointly sponsored Beale AFB Kiwanis Kid's Day progr The board of supervisors, sitting as a board of equalization, Tuesday voted to reduce the as. sessed valuation of 7,757 acres sutuated 10 miles southwest of Grass Valley from $259 to $250 .per acre, m Action came at the conclusion of Wilber D. May's four-hour long assessment protest hearing. Attorney James Hunt, representing May, contended the assessed valuation should be $195 per acre, $64 less than the $259 per acre valuation placed by the assessor's office. The dispute between May's representatives and the county assessor's office appeared to center on the way in which the assessor's office computed assessed -valuation on land on which the owner does not own surface mineral rights. George Pifer, deputy district attorney and deputy county counsel for the eastern portion of the

county, represented the assessor's office. The board of equalization had no legal counsel. The afternoon hearing bore a resemblance to court proceedings as witnesses were sworn in, expert qualifications were established,’ testimony was ruled out of order, and cross examinations and rebuttals took place. May's witnesses included Coy Miller, banker and vice president of the Mother Lode Bank in Grass Valley; Michael Good, manager of the Mid Valley Savings and Loan in Grass Valley; Calvin Erick, independent appraiser from Reno, Nev.; Leonard Carey, Grass Valley Realtor; a ranch broker who said he has handled ranch and land development business throughc: Western United States; Ward Hellings of Pasadena, May's agent; and May. Miller and Good testified that their institutions would not extend money on lands on which mineral rights are not in possession of the borrower. The Realtor and broker testified concerning their separate unsuccessful attempts to sell the acreage under satisfactory conditions and price, The Reno surveyor comparedthe assessor's valuation of the. May y unfavorably with val of what he said were similar properties. He said his testimony came from observation and research in comparative land values, Harrison Slawson, county appraiser, detailed his methods of arriving at figures. He too quoted selling prices of what he said were similar properties, some with and some without mineral rights. Hunt objected to the ascaiterscrealteoneenetane “comfortable” is the word when you déal with local people ‘at your home. owned, independent bank. A. Moree Loos Bare am scheduled Nov. 1 at the base. (Official Air Force Photo) sessor's method of determining land value, and contended that the May property should have been appraised separately from the mineral rights, rather than the value of the mineral rights being deducted from the land value, ; Supervisor William Thomas at one point during the hearing challenged the manner in which the board deliberated. He said, "We have not been technical before, and because we have two attorneys here we should not take a different approach." May contended that his land had been purchased at the Camp Beale auction and that he planned at that time, and still does, to use it for a ranch and cattle grazing. _ Slawson contended subdividing into 500 and 1,000-acre parcels would represent the highest and best land use. He pointed out approximity .of the Penn Valley School, the new Lake Wildwood subdivision, and road as factors MEMBER F.0.1.C. GRASS VALLEY ¢ NEVADA CITY PLACERVILLE * SONORA « FOLSOM TWAIN HARTE © ALTAVILLE Assessed value cut in four hour hearing favoring his contention. The first vote was a tie ona motion to sustain the assessor's office in its appraisal of $259 per acre, Ralph Bucahanan and Dean Lawrence voted no, Supervisors Robert Long and Thomas voted yes, TRAIN NOW POR . HOGS Bares, Buyieg stock trole i $ Tne a i . Re ts Insured by F.D.LC. up to $15,000 e Bank Ho Monthly ‘ Charge -dn Reaybe Personal. Checking, Accounts Main‘ ; a Minimum of Night Depository Safe Deposit Boxes