September 10, 1969 (12 pages)

6 The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, September 10, 1969 Mobil Living By GLADYS HARPER Today I am going to write about the taxes that are paid by mobile home owners in the county of El Dorado. Later after a research in Nevada county, we will have an article on our tax picture here, A point that might be valuable to all of us to be aware of regarding property taxes, and that portion which goes to the school fund is: ° Eight hundred dollars is an average figure of what it costs to educate one child in school for one year in El Dorado county. It takes a minimum of land and property valued at $60,000 to produce sufficient taxes to provide the school fund with the required sum of $800, to pay for one child's schooling for one year. Appraised valuation of $60,000 assessed at 25 per cent equals $15,000 on which taxes are paid. Multiply this by the 7.59 tax rate (one of the lowest in the county) total tax $1,138. The percentage of the total tax taken for the school fund on this lowest tax rate is approximately 7/10 of the total tax paid. 7/10 of $1,138 is $796.95, roughly the $800 required. Therefore it is necessary for every household in the county to have a minimum appraised valuation of $60,000 for each child coming from that household. It is ridiculously obvious that there are not many households paying for the education of even one child, much less carrying the burden for someone else's child, as so many house owners seem to feel they are doing. Another set of figures you should have, especially since we went to the trouble of gathering them, are the results of the returns from the informational forms we sent out some time ago. There were 122 returns, The results were from 122 mobile homes house 293 people (an average of slightly less than 2.5 people per home). Of the 122 mobilehomes 62 are retired households-17 are planning to retire’ in the near future-42 are working households. More than 50 per cent therefore are retired. Ninety one households have one or two occupants-31 households account for 69 additional occupants. Just slightly over two additional occupants, children, for those specific homes, but less than 1/2 additional averaged over the 122 homes, 122 mobilehomes have land holdings of approximately 970 acres.122 mobilehomes paid a total of $5,115 in in-lieu and license fees in 1968. 122 mobilehomes paid a total of $21,676 in property taxes in 1968, anaverage of $170.50 per mobilehome, A total tax of $212.75 per mobilehome, closely approximating the tax paid by the average homeowner in this county. I attended a meeting at Rescue, California where Robert Marmorstein who is the district superintendent of Rescue School District was the speaker, andhe stated in his speech that it was his opinion that the mobile home owner did pay his share of all the county costs. Wish that the planning commission and the board of supervisors felt the same way. TS. ow ge -_ ~>. § Bendy WT e@-ww = By Fay M. Dunbar ‘ 273-2934 They ran out of space for Rough and Ready news last week before Ifinished telling you about the Fred McCumbers daughter, Mrs. Irene Lanzendorfer. The Lanzendorfers are building a new home on the hill back of the McCumbers. Mrs. Lanzendorfer spent many years in Rough and Ready and loves it. They have a young son who will attend school here, Mr. Lanzendorfer's job takes him all over the state, so job relocation presents no problems for them. They hope to be moved in before the holiday season. ** Kk * Mrs, Dora Grieme, our Rough and Ready postal clerk, is back from a month long vacation. She and her husband spent two weeks with a daughter in Puerto Rico and two weeks with Dora's sister in Houston, Texas. While in Puerto Rico they had a light brush with Hurricane Anna and later in Houston they were able to see some of the telltale signs of Camille and feel the fringe of her destructive winds. All in all their trip was lovely, Dora says, and Puerto Rico is beautiful and filled with coconuts and pineapples. My encyclopedia Says, Remnants ofthe primeval forests are still found on the higher slopes and contain varied and beautiful trees including ebony, sandalwood, rosewood, Spanish cedar, Ausubo and mahogany."" It lies in the path of the trade winds and hasan average terperature of 76.5 degrees which is practically constant night and day and winter and summer. What a place for a vacation! **k * * When Mrs. Mary O'Neal arrived back in Grass Valley from her Santa Catalina Island tour, the hour was late and the bus depot was dark, Everything, including the usually well lighted, bowling alley, had closed up and the people had gone to the fair, Mary was very pleased to have a patrol car come toher rescue, The officer offered to bring her home but since she had made arrangements for her transportation he settled for escorting her safely tothe big light by the corner service station. What a kind and courteous thing this small. gesture was. Little personal courtesies are all too few and far between these days. Visitors to our county greeted with this kind of treatment would surely be back. Mary said her trip was most enjoyable. Her tour left San Francisco. by bus. Lovely accommodations had been arranged for their first two nights in Los Angeles. Among other attractions which they saw were some of the outstanding gardens for which L. A, is justifyably famous. Mary was impressed with Olvera Street, an extra special mexican dinner and the missions, Their boat left the next day from Coronado and they spent their last three days enjoying Santa Catalina Island. Mary's special interest there was the night time boat trip to see the flying fish and the old nickelodian type theater reconstructed in the original hotel on the island, The theater's evening programs followed the.old time theme, too, includingthe serving of old fashioned ice cream cones, ** # Old time things seem to be on everyone's agenda lately. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bixler took a look at some turn of the century farmmethods and equipment and saw a parade of old autos and farm machinery over last weekend. They visited the .G, A. Humann Ranch at Gerber in Tehama county for the 6th annual (from now. on its to be biannual) demonstration of the development of power for farm equipment beginning with those powered by mules through the era of. steam power to the modern gasoline giants of today. Star attractions of the show were the three big steam engines, the 2 ft. gauge "South Shasta Steam Train" used to circle around the show area and the steam threshing machine. There was a_ public threshing bee and after the wheat was threshed it was milled, on the spot, in an old fashioned mill. The Bixlers brought home a souvenir bag of real flour unbleached, unpreserved, and unfortified. A loaf of bread these days that had the natural wheat so it didn't need to be vitamin fortified and fresh enough not to need preservatives would be a museum piece, : They also saw plowing done with a hand plow and a team of mules and then with a modern tractor, They watched an old corn sheller at work shelling corn for the gristmill. They also saw hay bailed in the old hay bailer where mules provided the power that meshed the gears that ‘drove the rods that fed the hay into the bin andthen pressed" it into bales, Compared to todays -bailers it was a lot of work. In those days everything, but the impossibly heavy work, was done by the slow hard hand method. Maybe you don't remember when hay had to be fed from a stack. I do. It was even lifted into haylofts loose. If you could provide a big enough hayloft to hold your winters supply you were a really prosperous farmer. There was one reward if the loft wouldn't quite hold it. It was a real lark to jump out of the "loft" door and slide down the leftover hay stacked there. 've had a tender derriere more than once when I had a little too much fun and slid dad's hay stack down, ** kK The Fire Dept. Ladies Aux. meeting was scheduled for Sept. 1, It was postponed until Sept. 8 due to the Labor Day Holiday. It was postponed again on the 8th so that everyone might attend the planning commission hearing on the proposed Rough and Ready Recreation Center (not the County Recreation District) scheduled for that night, It seems unlikely that the auxiliary will succeed in holding a regular meeting this month. The publicity chairman, Mrs. Jane Walter advised me that the Ways and Means Committee has planned a bake sale for Friday, Sept. 12, It will be held inGrass Valley at Penney's Lobby and starts at 9:30 a.m, Please leave all baked goods with Jane Walter or at Brownie's Service Station Thursday or before 8:30 a.m. Friday,** ke * v At the Rough and Ready Fire Commission meeting September “2 the commission obtained the consent of T. B. Broadus, Art Phelps, and L. H. Sorenson to accept the three upcoming vacancies, If there are no additional filings for the three openings the Board of Supervisors may appoint these three applicants for the vacancies. If there are more, then elections must be held to select just three to fill the vacancies. Fire Commission meetings are open to all district residents and are held the first Tuesday of each month, * ek The Rough and Ready Chamber meets tomorrow Thursday, September 11 at 8:00 p.m. atthe old school house, * eK * The Grange ladies held avery successful rummage sale last Thursday and Friday. Chairman Esther -Bixler and Myrtle Hester are still recuperating. The Grange ladies played hostess to the Placer Nugget Pomona Committee of Women's Activities regular meeting and luncheon on Sept. 9, The Grange Sunday Public Party is to be Sunday, Sept. -” at 1:30 p.m. : * Mrs, Violet Hawson will return home the end of the week. She has been in Bishop, California attending the funeral of her stepmother, Mrs. Ira B. Benson. Mrs. Hawson is returning so that she may be on hand to play the organ for weddings at the Little Rough and Ready Chapel while the regular organist, Mrs. Grace Porter is away. At this time of year the Little Chapel is especially busy. Mrs, Lisa Scheve reports that especially Saturdays and Sundays often have three or four weddings a day. * * kK * Mrs, Eugene Walter had three entires in our district fair in the baked goods and confections division. She came away with two blue ribbons and third place, Janie bakes good pies and her pumpkin pie placed first in a well contested class, Her pride and joy, divinity fudge, also picked up a blue. Her. carrot cake, which I think rates a blue any day in the week, only placed third, I sure would like to taste the other two, Janie thinks its rating was affected because she iced it instead of using a glaze, Judges havé to be technical, The Bonds continue to earn interest even after they mature. Chamber Tidbits Olive Hughes, a member of Pioneer Art Club, has loaned the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce several of her beautiful paintings to grace the walls of the office in the city hall. Mrs. Hughes" paintings are vivid in color with happy and pleasant subjects in each, Drop in and see them some afternoon, We can't sell you one, but we could make arrangements for you to purchase one from her. We're grateful for this added beauty in the city hall. Now when the secretary looks up from her letters and work, she will find a pleasant change from the rather drab _ walls. In fact, one of the directors was heard to express the thought that perhaps they might prove to be too much ofa distraction for the secretary, and her work might be neglected. The office isreceivingreplies and entries for exhibitions and sales at the coming Trade Fair in October. Mr. Bennett will make every effort to bring his sea shells and marine items from Los Angeles; Mrs. Ruby Martin will return to the fair for the sixth time -or is it the seventh? -with her fine needlework; and a gentleman from Woodland will be bringing his novelty pincushions, which have won prizes at previous occasions, If you, or anyone you know has creative talent, call the chamber office at 265-2692 any afternoon from Monday through Friday for an entry blank. There will be everything from jewelry and antiques to fresh fruit and home baked foods. We. suggest you drop in at Lowell's Gold ‘n Jewels for a look at the chamber's gold display that Lowell has collected and placed in a framed box. Ask him how this could be yours, if your're lucky. This is just another project that the chamber has decided to sponsor for the benefit of Nevada City. Our recent guests in the office came from great distances in the past two weeks. Many were from the east coast and the south, but the one who came the’ most miles was a young girl from Switzerland who was keenly interested in our gold history. She took every brochure and leaf'et that pertained to any part oi ihe county, and intends to write about it when she returns. to Europe. More and more, people are writing to inquire about the possibility of moving to Nevada City. They have grown tired of either crowded conditions, the smog, heat, or the fast pace of living in the larger cities. Plan to attend the Constitution Day parade and ceremonies this Sunday, the 14th in Nevada City. Chairman Bill Lambert promises an excellent parade with a large variety of excellent bands. There will be a parachute jump at 12:30, the parade at 2 p.m., followed by the signing of the Constitution on the platform on North Pine Street. The speaker will be Commander Ted Robinson of Sacramento, He was commander of the PT-118, that assisted inthe rescue of John F. Kennedy and his crew in 1943 when their ship met with disaster in World War II action,

6 The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, September 10, 1969 Mobil Living By GLADYS HARPER Today I am going to write about the taxes that are paid by mobile home owners in the county of El Dorado. Later after a research in Nevada county, we will have an article on our tax picture here, A point that might be valuable to all of us to be aware of regarding property taxes, and that portion which goes to the school fund is: ° Eight hundred dollars is an average figure of what it costs to educate one child in school for one year in El Dorado county. It takes a minimum of land and property valued at $60,000 to produce sufficient taxes to provide the school fund with the required sum of $800, to pay for one child's schooling for one year. Appraised valuation of $60,000 assessed at 25 per cent equals $15,000 on which taxes are paid. Multiply this by the 7.59 tax rate (one of the lowest in the county) total tax $1,138. The percentage of the total tax taken for the school fund on this lowest tax rate is approximately 7/10 of the total tax paid. 7/10 of $1,138 is $796.95, roughly the $800 required. Therefore it is necessary for every household in the county to have a minimum appraised valuation of $60,000 for each child coming from that household. It is ridiculously obvious that there are not many households paying for the education of even one child, much less carrying the burden for someone else's child, as so many house owners seem to feel they are doing. Another set of figures you should have, especially since we went to the trouble of gathering them, are the results of the returns from the informational forms we sent out some time ago. There were 122 returns, The results were from 122 mobile homes house 293 people (an average of slightly less than 2.5 people per home). Of the 122 mobilehomes 62 are retired households-17 are planning to retire’ in the near future-42 are working households. More than 50 per cent therefore are retired. Ninety one households have one or two occupants-31 households account for 69 additional occupants. Just slightly over two additional occupants, children, for those specific homes, but less than 1/2 additional averaged over the 122 homes, 122 mobilehomes have land holdings of approximately 970 acres..122 mobilehomes paid a total of $5,115 in in-lieu and license fees in 1968. 122 mobilehomes paid a total of $21,676 in property taxes in 1968, anaverage of $170.50 per mobilehome, A total tax of $212.75 per mobilehome, closely approximating the tax paid by the average homeowner in this county. I attended a meeting at Rescue, California where Robert Marmorstein who is the district superintendent of Rescue School District was the speaker, andhe stated in his speech that it was his opinion that the mobile home owner did pay his share of all the county costs. Wish that the planning commission and the board of supervisors felt the same way. TS. ow ge -_ ~>.. § Bendy WT e@-ww = By Fay M. Dunbar ‘ 273-2934 They ran out of space for Rough and Ready news last week before Ifinished telling you about the Fred McCumbers daughter, Mrs. Irene Lanzendorfer. The Lanzendorfers are building a new home on the hill back of the McCumbers. Mrs. Lanzendorfer spent many years in Rough and Ready and loves it. They have a young son who will attend school here, Mr. Lanzendorfer's job takes him all over the state, so job relocation presents no problems for them. They hope to be moved in before the holiday season. ** Kk * Mrs, Dora Grieme, our Rough and Ready postal clerk, is back from a month long vacation. She and her husband spent two weeks with a daughter in Puerto Rico and two weeks with Dora's sister in Houston, Texas. While in Puerto Rico they had a light brush with Hurricane Anna and later in Houston they were able to see some of the telltale signs of Camille and feel the fringe of her destructive winds. All in all their trip was lovely, Dora says, and Puerto Rico is beautiful and filled with coconuts and pineapples. My encyclopedia Says, Remnants ofthe primeval forests are still found on the higher slopes and contain varied and beautiful trees including ebony, sandalwood, rosewood, Spanish cedar, Ausubo and mahogany."" It lies in the path of the trade winds and hasan average terperature of 76.5 degrees which is practically constant night and day and winter and summer. What a place for a vacation! **k * * When Mrs. Mary O'Neal arrived back in Grass Valley from her Santa Catalina Island tour, the hour was late and the bus depot was dark, Everything, including the usually well lighted, bowling alley, had closed up and the people had gone to the fair, Mary was very pleased to have a patrol car come toher rescue, The officer offered to bring her home but since she had made arrangements for her transportation he settled for escorting her safely tothe big light by the corner service station. What a kind and courteous thing this small. gesture was. Little personal courtesies are all too few and far between these days. Visitors to our county greeted with this kind of treatment would surely be back. Mary said her trip was most enjoyable. Her tour left San Francisco. by bus.. Lovely accommodations had been arranged for their first two nights in Los Angeles. Among other attractions which they saw were some of the outstanding gardens for which L. A, is justifyably famous. Mary was impressed with Olvera Street, an extra special mexican dinner and the missions, Their boat left the next day from Coronado and they spent their last three days enjoying Santa Catalina Island. Mary's special interest there was the night time boat trip to see the flying fish and the old nickelodian type theater reconstructed in the original hotel on the island, The theater's evening programs followed the.old time theme, too, includingthe serving of old fashioned ice cream cones, ** # Old time things seem to be on everyone's agenda lately. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bixler took a look at some turn of the century farmmethods and equipment and saw a parade of old autos and farm machinery over last weekend. They visited the .G, A. Humann Ranch at Gerber in Tehama county for the 6th annual (from now. on its to be biannual) demonstration of the development of power for farm equipment beginning with those powered by mules through the era of. steam power to the modern gasoline giants of today. Star attractions of the show were the three big steam engines, the 2 ft. gauge "South Shasta Steam Train" used to circle around the show area and the steam threshing machine. There was a_ public threshing bee and after the wheat was threshed it was milled, on the spot, in an old fashioned mill.

The Bixlers brought home a souvenir bag of real flour unbleached, unpreserved, and unfortified. A loaf of bread these days that had the natural wheat so it didn't need to be vitamin fortified and fresh enough not to need preservatives would be a museum piece, : They also saw plowing done with a hand plow and a team of mules and then with a modern tractor, They watched an old corn sheller at work shelling corn for the gristmill. They also saw hay bailed in the old hay bailer where mules provided the power that meshed the gears that ‘drove the rods that fed the hay into the bin andthen pressed" it into bales, Compared to todays -bailers it was a lot of work. In those days everything, but the impossibly heavy work, was done by the slow hard hand method. Maybe you don't remember when hay had to be fed from a stack. I do. It was even lifted into haylofts loose. If you could provide a big enough hayloft to hold your winters supply you were a really prosperous farmer. There was one reward if the loft wouldn't quite hold it. It was a real lark to jump out of the "loft" door and slide down the leftover hay stacked there. 've had a tender derriere more than once when I had a little too much fun and slid dad's hay stack down, ** kK The Fire Dept. Ladies Aux. meeting was scheduled for Sept. 1, It was postponed until Sept. 8 due to the Labor Day Holiday. It was postponed again on the 8th so that everyone might attend the planning commission hearing on the proposed Rough and Ready Recreation Center (not the County Recreation District) scheduled for that night, It seems unlikely that the auxiliary will succeed in holding a regular meeting this month. The publicity chairman, Mrs. Jane Walter advised me that the Ways and Means Committee has planned a bake sale for Friday, Sept. 12, It will be held inGrass Valley at Penney's Lobby and starts at 9:30 a.m, Please leave all baked goods with Jane Walter or at Brownie's Service Station Thursday or before 8:30 a.m. Friday,** ke * v At the Rough and Ready Fire Commission meeting September “2 the commission obtained the consent of T. B. Broadus, Art Phelps, and L. H. Sorenson to accept the three upcoming vacancies, If there are no additional filings for the three openings the Board of Supervisors may appoint these three applicants for the vacancies. If there are more, then elections must be held to select just three to fill the vacancies. Fire Commission meetings are open to all district residents and are held the first Tuesday of each month, * ek The Rough and Ready Chamber meets tomorrow Thursday, September 11 at 8:00 p.m. atthe old school house, * eK * The Grange ladies held avery successful rummage sale last Thursday and Friday. Chairman Esther -Bixler and Myrtle Hester are still recuperating. The Grange ladies played hostess to the Placer Nugget Pomona Committee of Women's Activities regular meeting and luncheon on Sept. 9, The Grange Sunday Public Party is to be Sunday, Sept. -” at 1:30 p.m. : * Mrs, Violet Hawson will return home the end of the week. She has been in Bishop, California attending the funeral of her stepmother, Mrs. Ira B. Benson. Mrs. Hawson is returning so that she may be on hand to play the organ for weddings at the Little Rough and Ready Chapel while the regular organist, Mrs. Grace Porter is away. At this time of year the Little Chapel is especially busy. Mrs, Lisa Scheve reports that especially Saturdays and Sundays often have three or four weddings a day. * * kK * Mrs, Eugene Walter had three entires in our district fair in the baked goods and confections division. She came away with two blue ribbons and third place, Janie bakes good pies and her pumpkin pie placed first in a well contested class, Her pride and joy, divinity fudge, also picked up a blue. Her. carrot cake, which I think rates a blue any day in the week, only placed third, I sure would like to taste the other two, Janie thinks its rating was affected because she iced it instead of using a glaze, Judges havé to be technical, The Bonds continue to earn interest even after they mature. Chamber Tidbits Olive Hughes, a member of Pioneer Art Club, has loaned the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce several of her beautiful paintings to grace the walls of the office in the city hall. Mrs. Hughes" paintings are vivid in color with happy and pleasant subjects in each, Drop in and see them some afternoon, We can't sell you one, but we could make arrangements for you to purchase one from her. We're grateful for this added beauty in the city hall. Now when the secretary looks up from her letters and work, she will find a pleasant change from the rather drab _ walls. In fact, one of the directors was heard to express the thought that perhaps they might prove to be too much ofa distraction for the secretary, and her work might be neglected. The office isreceivingreplies and entries for exhibitions and sales at the coming Trade Fair in October. Mr. Bennett will make every effort to bring his sea shells and marine items from Los Angeles; Mrs. Ruby Martin will return to the fair for the sixth time -or is it the seventh? -with her fine needlework; and a gentleman from Woodland will be bringing his novelty pincushions, which have won prizes at previous occasions, If you, or anyone you know has creative talent, call the chamber office at 265-2692 any afternoon from Monday through Friday for an entry blank. There will be everything from jewelry and antiques to fresh fruit and home baked foods. We. suggest you drop in at Lowell's Gold ‘n Jewels for a look at the chamber's gold display that Lowell has collected and placed in a framed box. Ask him how this could be yours, if your're lucky. This is just another project that the chamber has decided to sponsor for the benefit of Nevada City. Our recent guests in the office came from great distances in the past two weeks. Many were from the east coast and the south, but the one who came the’ most miles was a young girl from Switzerland who was keenly interested in our gold history. She took every brochure and leaf'et that pertained to any part oi ihe county, and intends to write about it when she returns. to Europe. More and more, people are writing to inquire about the possibility of moving to Nevada City. They have grown tired of either crowded conditions, the smog, heat, or the fast pace of living in the larger cities. Plan to attend the Constitution Day parade and ceremonies this Sunday, the 14th in Nevada City. Chairman Bill Lambert promises an excellent parade with a large variety of excellent bands. There will be a parachute jump at 12:30, the parade at 2 p.m., followed by the signing of the Constitution on the platform on North Pine Street. The speaker will be Commander Ted Robinson of Sacramento, He was commander of the PT-118, that assisted inthe rescue of John F. Kennedy and his crew in 1943 when their ship met with disaster in World War II action,