October 29, 1969 (12 pages)

Frog flag is homeward bound to Calaveras county A mothball scented frog flag has come from a 20-year hiding place in a Nevada City trunk, and next Wednesday will be homeward bound to Frogtown, Calaveras County, U.S.A. The frog, leaping rampant across a field of white, is the symbol of the Jumping Frog Jubilee, which annually celebrates Mark Twain's tale of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." It was uncovered recently “when City Councilman Bob Paine donated it to the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame auction, : Calaveras county chamber officials, learning that the flag reportedly was the first to be hoisted at Frogtown, topped all bids for the banner. Paine and county and city chamber officials will deliver the flag to its rightful heritage amidst trumpeting and fanfare. A pony express rider will run the flag from Angels Camp to Frogtown, where Calaveras county will host a celebration luncheon. The Angels Camp Booster Club, which midwifed at the birth of the Frogtown banner, will be special guests. According to Paine, he acquired the Calaveras county treasure through a “legitimate” business. transaction, He swapped two pictures of Josie and Betsy, the last of the Oustomah Indians for the colorful Calaveras memorablia. The late Al Trivelpiece, a former Angels Camp resident, was recipient of the pictures, Carl Mills, who did a stint as manager of the Calaveras county event from 1938 until ' 1959, today said the flag first flew over Frogtown during the 1948 fair and jubilee. : According to Mills, now retired: and living in Sacramento, after serving several years as manager of» the amento County Fair, he and Trivelpiece, public relations man for the Calaveras County Fair and Jubilee, conceived the idea of substituting the frog for the bear on the California State Flag, and to seek legislation for the switch, _ John Kemp, aSacramento artitst, was comandeered to design the flag; a San Francisco firm volunteered to manufacture it; and the frog was in business. Trivelpiece drafted a tongue in cheek resolution proclaiming the frog more symbolic of California than the bear. The late Senator Jesse Mayo of Angels Camp, introduced the resolution into the assembly. It was referred tothe committee on swamps, rivers and harbors. The swamp designation was: a spontaneous addition to the more formal Rivers and Harbors Committee, and was designed to be more fitting for proposed frog .legislation. The resolution contended bears frighten women and children, raid chicken coops, upset garbage cans, and are a general nuisance, Whereas the bull frog furnished food for early day miners, predicted weather by croaking out wet and dry spells, and had been immortalized in history by that great American, Mark Twain. ; Mills smiled as he told that the Native Daughters of the Golden West opposed the proposed change. He said a magazine published by the Western Fairs Association in December of 1956 ‘quoted him as telling the native daughters "go home and stick to raising kids." The new flag was unfurled in the senate chamber while Angels Camp boosters and others friendly to frogs cheered from the gallery. But alas -the proposed legislation died in committee. However, the day followingits death, the frog flag fluttered from the flag pole at the University of California Campus at Berkeley. . Firemen were required to. retrieve it, for some enthusiast had. cut the ropes. For a. period the same jumping. . frog hung on the walls of the Berkeley Elks Hall, Ray Callahan, manager of the Calaveras County District Fair, today said a frog flag still flies over Frogtown, and welcomes the return of ‘the long-missing banner. It will be hoisted again come tke spring and jubilee time to the Calaveras foothills, KEEP FROM BETWEEN > PARKED \, x CARS WINNER. @D TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER CONTEST REPUBLIC oe peed Wedn THIS FROG FLAG reported to be the first ever flown at the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee was unearthed froma Nevada City trunk, and auctioned at the recent Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame Sale,’ The Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce topped all bids for its longmissing banner, and City Councilman Bob Paine and local chamber officials will deliver the banner to Frongtown next week, Nevada City Mayor John Rankin, pictured with the flag, unofficially proclaimed Angels Camp a "sister city." ASSEMBLY ©: DISTRICT An unprecedented four week, 33 campus tour has been completed by Assemblyman Gene Chappie (R-Cool), It is believed he is the first California legislator to undertake such an arduous fact finding campus project. "I talked with over 10,000 students and over 400 teachers and administrators", Chappie said. "I took the tour to listen and to learn what educational and campus problems there are at the high school and junior college level. Iknow better now." To visit all 33 high school and college campuses in his far-flung 11 county district, Chappie had to travel about 3,500 miles, some by air. He talked to the total student bodies of sixteen of the smaller high schools and seniors or selected classes in the bigger schools. He met with faculties and student councils at most schools, answering. all questions posed, "The concerns of high sehooi students, as one would expect, ® “Principally, however, today's student has great concern about our institutions and government and legal, peaceful ways to change them, In a progressively libertarian world, they feel frustrated in a conservative, slowto-change, institution like ahigh school. There is also great frustration about their "non-citizen status' in society, They feel ‘acted upon’ rather than being actors in it." j The concerns of educators, Chappie indicated, are not as varied but equally deep-seated, “High school faculty and administrators are concerned about the public's apparent rejection of education at the bal_lot box -its poor image. They feel education is not getting ‘ enough money from the’ state, and that it is being used as a ‘political football," Rezoning. goes back to planners To comply with a legal technicality, the Cherry Creek rezoning matter has been returned to the county planning commission, State law requires resubmission of zoning changes to the _ planners if the board of supervisors alters the commission's recommendation. The board did just that in this case, refusing to allow two exemptions that the commission had said should be allowed. The commission probably will discuss the item next Monday and can concur with the supervisors' change or Stay with its own recommendation. Action Monday could put the controversial rezoning back before the supervisors next Tuesday. The supervisors last week denied exemptions for the Water Wheel Recreation Center and a piece of property at the southern edge of the proposed residential zone. The Water Wheel's owner, Richard LaRue, contended later that zoning his property residential would prohibit him from borrowing money to continue his development as a non-conforming use. Dep. County Counsel Brian Bishop read an opinion Tuesday that stated LaRue’s use permit remains valid, but ordinances prohibit enlarging a structure or expanding use of land area which is non conforming. However, the law also allows LaRue to construct the specific facilities for which he received the use permit, Bishop ruled. FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP 117 W. MAIN P.O. BOX 1034 THE GIPSON'S 273-290) Crazy Horse NEVADA CITY, CALIF. see . LW, \a ~ ~~” @ COCKTAILS @ DANCING @ SNACKS JULIE & CAPT. RUDGEO—PIANO & SONGS WASHINGTON . HOTEL ROOMS—COCKTAIS Bin ~ ys P EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! For Big Results Call A. SMALL JANITORIAL SERVICE Women’s Jenitoriel Service mee &: See Pumps—Filter Pipe—Fittings iy. WE, Oc1. 29, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 5. 4

Frog flag is homeward bound to Calaveras county A mothball scented frog flag has come from a 20-year hiding place in a Nevada City trunk, and next Wednesday will be homeward bound to Frogtown, Calaveras County, U.S.A. The frog, leaping rampant across a field of white, is the symbol of the Jumping Frog Jubilee, which annually celebrates Mark Twain's tale of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." It was uncovered recently “when City Councilman Bob Paine donated it to the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame auction, : Calaveras county chamber officials, learning that the flag reportedly was the first to be hoisted at Frogtown, topped all bids for the banner. Paine and county and city chamber officials will deliver the flag to its rightful heritage amidst trumpeting and fanfare. A pony express rider will run the flag from Angels Camp to Frogtown, where Calaveras county will host a celebration luncheon. The Angels Camp Booster Club, which midwifed at the birth of the Frogtown banner, will be special guests. According to Paine, he acquired the Calaveras county treasure through a “legitimate” business. transaction, He swapped two pictures of Josie and Betsy, the last of the Oustomah Indians for the colorful Calaveras memorablia. The late Al Trivelpiece, a former Angels Camp resident, was recipient of the pictures, Carl Mills, who did a stint as manager of the Calaveras county event from 1938 until ' 1959, today said the flag first flew over Frogtown during the 1948 fair and jubilee. : According to Mills, now retired: and living in Sacramento, after serving several years as manager of» the amento County Fair, he and Trivelpiece, public relations man for the Calaveras County Fair and Jubilee, conceived the idea of substituting the frog for the bear on the California State Flag, and to seek legislation for the switch, _ John Kemp, aSacramento artitst, was comandeered to design the flag; a San Francisco firm volunteered to manufacture it; and the frog was in business. Trivelpiece drafted a tongue in cheek resolution proclaiming the frog more symbolic of California than the bear. The late Senator Jesse Mayo of Angels Camp, introduced the resolution into the assembly. It was referred tothe committee on swamps, rivers and harbors. The swamp designation was: a spontaneous addition to the more formal Rivers and Harbors Committee, and was designed to be more fitting for proposed frog .legislation. The resolution contended bears frighten women and children, raid chicken coops, upset garbage cans, and are a general nuisance, Whereas the bull frog furnished food for early day miners, predicted weather by croaking out wet and dry spells, and had been immortalized in history by that great American, Mark Twain. ; Mills smiled as he told that the Native Daughters of the Golden West opposed the proposed change. He said a magazine published by the Western Fairs Association in December of 1956 ‘quoted him as telling the native daughters "go home and stick to raising kids." The new flag was unfurled in the senate chamber while Angels Camp boosters and others friendly to frogs cheered from the gallery. But alas -the proposed legislation died in committee. However, the day followingits death, the frog flag fluttered from the flag pole at the University of California Campus at Berkeley. . Firemen were required to. retrieve it, for some enthusiast had. cut the ropes. For a. period the same jumping. . frog hung on the walls of the Berkeley Elks Hall, Ray Callahan, manager of the Calaveras County District Fair, today said a frog flag still flies over Frogtown, and welcomes the return of ‘the long-missing banner. It will be hoisted again come tke spring and jubilee time to the Calaveras foothills, KEEP FROM BETWEEN > PARKED \, x CARS WINNER. @D TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER CONTEST REPUBLIC oe peed Wedn

THIS FROG FLAG reported to be the first ever flown at the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee was unearthed froma Nevada City trunk, and auctioned at the recent Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame Sale,’ The Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce topped all bids for its longmissing banner, and City Councilman Bob Paine and local chamber officials will deliver the banner to Frongtown next week, Nevada City Mayor John Rankin, pictured with the flag, unofficially proclaimed Angels Camp a "sister city." ASSEMBLY ©: DISTRICT An unprecedented four week, 33 campus tour has been completed by Assemblyman Gene Chappie (R-Cool), It is believed he is the first California legislator to undertake such an arduous fact finding campus project. "I talked with over 10,000 students and over 400 teachers and administrators", Chappie said. "I took the tour to listen and to learn what educational and campus problems there are at the high school and junior college level. Iknow better now." To visit all 33 high school and college campuses in his far-flung 11 county district, Chappie had to travel about 3,500 miles, some by air. He talked to the total student bodies of sixteen of the smaller high schools and seniors or selected classes in the bigger schools. He met with faculties and student councils at most schools, answering. all questions posed, "The concerns of high sehooi students, as one would expect, ® “Principally, however, today's student has great concern about our institutions and government and legal, peaceful ways to change them, In a progressively libertarian world, they feel frustrated in a conservative, slowto-change, institution like ahigh school. There is also great frustration about their "non-citizen status' in society, They feel ‘acted upon’ rather than being actors in it." j The concerns of educators, Chappie indicated, are not as varied but equally deep-seated, “High school faculty and administrators are concerned about the public's apparent rejection of education at the bal_lot box -its poor image. They feel education is not getting ‘ enough money from the’ state, and that it is being used as a ‘political football," Rezoning. goes back to planners To comply with a legal technicality, the Cherry Creek rezoning matter has been returned to the county planning commission, State law requires resubmission of zoning changes to the _ planners if the board of supervisors alters the commission's recommendation. The board did just that in this case, refusing to allow two exemptions that the commission had said should be allowed. The commission probably will discuss the item next Monday and can concur with the supervisors' change or Stay with its own recommendation. Action Monday could put the controversial rezoning back before the supervisors next Tuesday. The supervisors last week denied exemptions for the Water Wheel Recreation Center and a piece of property at the southern edge of the proposed residential zone. The Water Wheel's owner, Richard LaRue, contended later that zoning his property residential would prohibit him from borrowing money to continue his development as a non-conforming use. Dep. County Counsel Brian Bishop read an opinion Tuesday that stated LaRue’s use permit remains valid, but ordinances prohibit enlarging a structure or expanding use of land area which is non conforming. However, the law also allows LaRue to construct the specific facilities for which he received the use permit, Bishop ruled. FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP 117 W. MAIN P.O. BOX 1034 THE GIPSON'S 273-290) Crazy Horse NEVADA CITY, CALIF. see . LW, \a ~ ~~” @ COCKTAILS @ DANCING @ SNACKS JULIE & CAPT. RUDGEO—PIANO & SONGS WASHINGTON . HOTEL ROOMS—COCKTAIS Bin ~ ys P EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! For Big Results Call A. SMALL JANITORIAL SERVICE Women’s Jenitoriel Service mee &: See Pumps—Filter Pipe—Fittings iy. WE, Oc1. 29, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 5. 4