October 8, 1964 (24 pages)

5 October 8, 1964.,.Nevada County Nugget. NEVADA COUNTY SUPERVISOR Gene Ricker was one of the many local ee Niky visitors to the county's prize winning booth at the California State Fair and Exposition in Sacramento this summer. Here Ricker (far right) is shown with fair manager Ted Rosequist and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steger of Nevada City who constructed and manned the booth during the fair. it _ The Mountaineers Prefer Being A Law Unto Themselves from the Nevada Morning Tran-: script, March 9, 1861... come philosopher or poet, we forget which, once said that "Freedom, when driven from the plains, will make her last and most resolute stand on the mountains." There is a world of truth in this saying; and it matters little whether it owes its origin to the ratiocination of philosophy or the inspiration of poesy, so that it is truth. There.is something in the rugged grandeur of mountain scenery, in the balmy lightness ofthe air, in the wild dashing of the torrents, in the immense sweeps of the landscapes, that make mountaineers bold and free. The Swiss and Circassians are brilliant cases in point. The. mountains of California, whatever they are now, will, some day, be the nursing mothers of a gallant and freedom-loving race, Even their present exotic population, though not “to the manner born," evince a good deal of the Swiss and Circassian dislike of restraint. Our mountaineers perfer being “a law unto themselves," to having laws made for them by strangers, who know not, and can not know, the nice peculiarities of mountain avocations and mountain interests. The present legislature, whatever short-comings may be charged against it, has, wisely and virtuously, refrained from intermeddling with our mountain gold mines, and for this, if for nothing else, the wise men in the capitol deserve much commendation. The mines need but few laws, and those few they are competent to enact for themselves, without . appealing .to the wisdom of men outside of their pale, Not long ago it was a favorite speculation, with some pseudo philosophers, that the mines in the Californian mountains were on the point of being exhausted, and some fine croaking was expended on an anticipation so melancholy. Well, instead of being frightened from their propriety by the croakers, our mountaineers are all the time giving the rogues the lie by unveiling new quartz lodes, sparkling with goldand silver, androbbing them of their long-hidden treasures, At the present rate with which mineral discoveries are being made, there seems no rational prospect of the exhaustion of the mines in ascore of centuries. The days of river and placer mining have gone by; that is certain; but the reign of quartz has but just fairly begun. When it.will end is beyond the scope of mortal prescience. There is a restless industry in the mountains that only asks for freedom to follow ‘its bent, and this freedom it must and will have. The prospector seeks new minesin freedom; the capitalist, with free hands, ‘follows the free feet of the prospector: and the free wielder of the pick, the tamping rod, and the hydraulic hose, follows the prospector and capitalist. The mountaineers of California are not always rich, but they have what is better than wealth--souls full of energy and bodies full of vitality. When tired! of delving for the precious metals, they plough the valleys and clothe thehillsides with orchards and vineyards, County BoothA Winner ‘ Nevada County has claimed twoblue ribbons and a commendation in the coveted Sweepstakes of the California Boosters' Exhibit competition at the Los Angeles County Fair, The Nevada County committee received first-place awards in apple and pear displays and a red ribbon in the forestry and lumbering sweepstakes event. RWA2A WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF A spokesman for California growers today sought support from the State Board of Agriculture and Governor Edmund G. Brown in demanding that the Federal Govemment re move its restrictive and permit farmers to make use of existing laws governing supplemental workers. Keith Mets, Holtville grower and spokesman for the California Growers Farm Labor Committee, told the State Board that the report of the University of California survey on farm labor in the state confirms farmers’ contention thatthe need for temporary farm labor will increase in the next five years. Mets alsocalledto the attention of the Board the fact the report agrees that the unemployed and welfare recipients will not work on farms. “The report supports growers in their statement that wages are not the total answer," Mets said. “The report indicates that raising wages in one area is more likely to attract farm workers from other areas than it is to attract nonfarm workers, " The grower spokesman called attention to a number of other statements in the report which confirm ed agriculture's statements the past few months. "By merely supplying us with information is not a solution to this problem. Now is the time for October Is Designated PTA Membership Month. The California Congress of Parents and Teachers, joins with the National Congress in designating October, 1964 as PTA Member-. ship Enrollment Month Silverware Diamonds Watches _ Clocks AND MANY OTHER GIFTS JEWELRY our Gold. Nugget and Quartz Jewelry Makes Lasting Gifts & Appropriate Souvenirs Of The Gold Country EXPERT WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIRING SS == Grass () Valley eweters Since 1875 ‘124 MILLST., GRASS VALLEY Phone 273—3039 ihnAhhsiMeneahialtacten raat teks asta: Punto cae ania acta) . Growers Seek Brown's Help action. We believe this report from an unimpeachable source gives the Board and the Governor all the facts needed to make a decision that will insure that . agriculture remains California's Number One Industry. Humphrey Completes Whistle-Stop Tour Of Central California. >enator Hubert H, Humphrey, Democratic vice presidential nominee, spent last week on a “whistle -stop" San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area. The Wisconsin Senator and his wife, Muriel boarded the "Victory Special"---complete with old-fashioned observation car-Saturday morning in Bakersfield. There were stops for platform addresses in Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Tracy, Martinez and Richmond. The Humphreys left the “Victory Special" in Oakland and attended’a $100 plate dinner in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and capped off the evening by attending a massrally of Humphrey supporters in the Oakland Auditorium, Senator Humphrey delivered major campaign addresses at both the dinner and the rally, _ don’t erase! snopake® it! Just paint on Snopake, type over it. Snopake corrections on originals can not be detected on photocopies, photo offset p for g . typing and inter-office correspondence. No erasure crumbs to damage typewriter. Handy brushin-cap applicator and easy-off plastic cap. Duplicating, end Xerography PHONE hie sae 120 W. Mela Stree Grass Valley for Photo Offset, Photo Copying 1 aaa cerns ents

5 October 8, 1964.,.Nevada County Nugget.. NEVADA COUNTY SUPERVISOR Gene Ricker was one of the many local ee Niky visitors to the county's prize winning booth at the California State Fair and Exposition in Sacramento this summer. Here Ricker (far right) is shown with fair manager Ted Rosequist and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steger of Nevada City who constructed and manned the booth during the fair. it _ The Mountaineers Prefer Being A Law Unto Themselves from the Nevada Morning Tran-: script, March 9, 1861..... come philosopher or poet, we forget which, once said that "Freedom, when driven from the plains, will make her last and most resolute stand on the mountains." There is a world of truth in this saying; and it matters little whether it owes its origin to the ratiocination of philosophy or the inspiration of poesy, so that it is truth. There.is something in the rugged grandeur of mountain scenery, in the balmy lightness ofthe air, in the wild dashing of the torrents, in the immense sweeps of the landscapes, that make mountaineers bold and free. The Swiss and Circassians are brilliant cases in point. The. mountains of California, whatever they are now, will, some day, be the nursing mothers of a gallant and freedom-loving race, Even their present exotic population, though not “to the manner born," evince a good deal of the Swiss and Circassian dislike of restraint. Our mountaineers perfer being “a law unto themselves," to having laws made for them by strangers, who know not, and can not know, the nice peculiarities of mountain avocations and mountain interests. The present legislature, whatever short-comings may be charged against it, has, wisely and virtuously, refrained from intermeddling with our mountain gold mines, and for this, if for nothing else, the wise men in the capitol deserve much commendation. The mines need but few laws, and those few they are competent to enact for themselves, without . appealing .to the wisdom of men outside of their pale, Not long ago it was a favorite speculation, with some pseudo philosophers, that the mines in the Californian mountains were on the point of being exhausted, and some fine croaking was expended on an anticipation so melancholy. Well, instead of being frightened from their propriety by the croakers, our mountaineers are all the time giving the rogues the lie by unveiling new quartz lodes, sparkling with goldand silver, androbbing them of their long-hidden treasures, At the present rate with which mineral discoveries are being made, there seems no rational prospect of the exhaustion of the mines in ascore of centuries. The days of river and placer mining have gone by; that is certain; but the reign of quartz has but just fairly begun. When it.will end is beyond the scope of mortal prescience. There is a restless industry in the mountains that only asks for freedom to follow ‘its bent, and this freedom it must and will have. The prospector seeks new minesin freedom; the capitalist, with free hands, ‘follows the free feet of the prospector: and the free wielder of the pick, the tamping rod, and the hydraulic hose, follows the prospector and capitalist. The mountaineers of California are not always rich, but they have what is better than wealth--souls full of energy and bodies full of vitality. When tired! of delving for the precious metals, they plough the valleys and clothe thehillsides with orchards and vineyards, County BoothA Winner ‘ Nevada County has claimed twoblue ribbons and a commendation in the coveted Sweepstakes of the California Boosters' Exhibit competition at the Los Angeles County Fair, The Nevada County committee received first-place awards in

apple and pear displays and a red ribbon in the forestry and lumbering sweepstakes event. RWA2A WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF A spokesman for California growers today sought support from the State Board of Agriculture and Governor Edmund G. Brown in demanding that the Federal Govemment re move its restrictive and permit farmers to make use of existing laws governing supplemental workers. Keith Mets, Holtville grower and spokesman for the California Growers Farm Labor Committee, told the State Board that the report of the University of California survey on farm labor in the state confirms farmers’ contention thatthe need for temporary farm labor will increase in the next five years. Mets alsocalledto the attention of the Board the fact the report agrees that the unemployed and welfare recipients will not work on farms. “The report supports growers in their statement that wages are not the total answer," Mets said. “The report indicates that raising wages in one area is more likely to attract farm workers from other areas than it is to attract nonfarm workers, " The grower spokesman called attention to a number of other statements in the report which confirm ed agriculture's statements the past few months. "By merely supplying us with information is not a solution to this problem. Now is the time for October Is Designated PTA Membership Month. The California Congress of Parents and Teachers, joins with the National Congress in designating October, 1964 as PTA Member-. ship Enrollment Month Silverware Diamonds Watches _ Clocks AND MANY OTHER GIFTS JEWELRY our Gold. Nugget and Quartz Jewelry Makes Lasting Gifts & Appropriate Souvenirs Of The Gold Country EXPERT WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIRING SS == Grass () Valley eweters Since 1875 ‘124 MILLST., GRASS VALLEY Phone 273—3039 ihnAhhsiMeneahialtacten raat teks asta: Punto cae ania acta) . Growers Seek Brown's Help action. We believe this report from an unimpeachable source gives the Board and the Governor all the facts needed to make a decision that will insure that . agriculture remains California's Number One Industry. Humphrey Completes Whistle-Stop Tour Of Central California. >enator Hubert H, Humphrey, Democratic vice presidential nominee, spent last week on a “whistle -stop" San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area. The Wisconsin Senator and his wife, Muriel boarded the "Victory Special"---complete with old-fashioned observation car-Saturday morning in Bakersfield. There were stops for platform addresses in Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Tracy, Martinez and Richmond. The Humphreys left the “Victory Special" in Oakland and attended’a $100 plate dinner in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and capped off the evening by attending a massrally of Humphrey supporters in the Oakland Auditorium, Senator Humphrey delivered major campaign addresses at both the dinner and the rally, _ don’t erase! snopake® it! Just paint on Snopake, type over it. Snopake corrections on originals can not be detected on photocopies, photo offset p for g . typing and inter-office correspondence. No erasure crumbs to damage typewriter. Handy brushin-cap applicator and easy-off plastic cap. Duplicating, end Xerography PHONE hie sae 120 W. Mela Stree Grass Valley for Photo Offset, Photo Copying 1 aaa cerns ents