September 10, 1975 (8 pages)

County board delays grand jury comments County supervisors will meet Wednesday rather than their regular Tuesday date because of the Admission Day holiday. Chairman Willie Curran said that an agenda item, _ supervisors’ comments on the recent Grand Jury Report, will not be held. Eric Rood, who had recent surgery will not be present for the session and as a courtesy to Rood who wishes to comment, Curran said the item will be scheduledfor a later meeting. Also because of Rood’s absence the public hearing concerning Robert Lawton’s appeal from a decision of the planning commission giving Hansen Brothers a permit to operate a gravel operation on Greenhorn Creek will be opened but continued, Curran said. When the meeting opens at 10 a.m. supervisors will sit as directors of Sanitation District No. 1 to ‘prepare for consideration of annexing and accepting the Cascade Shores Grass Valley area thefts Grass Valley Police are investigating two residential burglaries and a petty theft reported over the weekend. The first burglary occurred sometime Saturday night at the East Main Street home of Robin Halberson, 20. The culprit entered the home through an unlocked door and removed $300 in cash from a drawer; nothing else was disturbed. A green wallet containing $15 and several gasoline credit cards was taken Sunday evening from the Mill Street home of Adele Hodge. She told officers someone opened her unlocked front door, scattered the contents of her purse and removed the items. Sometime between midnight ° and 8 a.m. Saturday an unknown person or persons removed: the two front>tires and an ignition key from a vehicle owned by Miles Stephen Rodney, 25, of Grass Valley. The vehicle, sarked in a parking lot on ‘ain Street, was pushed to t! rear of the lot, the front e was jacked upandtheiter ken. Loss is estimated at: «. CDF controls fires The California Division of Forestry and the Gold Flat and Ophir Hill Fire Depart-ments responded to six small fires late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The fires were located at Forest Knolls, Banner Mountain, East Empire and Lower Brooks Road. Two air tankers: and two Washington Ridge crews aided the state agency in battling a three acre blaze near Scotts . Flat Reservoir Saturday. * Sewage System into the sanitation district. Department heads. will report during the morning and the board also will consider proposed resolutions and communications. The following public hearings are slated when the board reconvenes at 1:30 after lunch: —Modified zoning petition of Delano Faraco to rezone property within the Cascade Shores Subdivision. -Rex Downing’s petition to rezone property in the Scotts Flat area, east of Nevada City. LOLA MONTEZ HOUSE Restoration Fund drive is officially open:Sources of Energy—.No. . of a series If it rained all the time, electricity would be cheaper. i laine PG&E employs five sources of primary energy —oil, natural gas, natural steam (geothermal), nuclear fuel and falling water (hydro power)—to turn turbogenerators which produce the electricity for its interconnected network system. They are “mixed” for maximum efficiency to generate power at the lowest possible cost. Tc harness water for power. we have built,one of t::2 nation’s greatest hydroelectric systems. In “average” rain and snowfall years, hydro provides about 50% of our electric energy. The force.of falling water makes the wheels go ’round in the generating plants. Hydro generation neither contaminates nor consumes the water itself. It is returned to the rivers undiminished. to serve agriculture and other vital needs. Building hydroelectric facilities is expensive, but they are economical to operate. The low cost of hydroelectricity is one reason why our rates, despite récent increases, remain among the lowest in the nation. Diversity: Other sources of energy Oil and natural gas have become more prominent in our energy mix in recent years because nearly all economically acceptable hydro sites have been developed. But the costs of these fossil fuels have been skyrocketing. In just 5 years, the prices for gas have more than doubled and the cost per barrel of low-sulfur fuel oil has quintupled. All but two of the PG&E electric rate increases requested in the past five years were to offset these higher fuel costs. The altérnative to oil and gas, which are getting more scarce September 10, 1975 Wed., The Nevada County Nugget 3 and more‘costly, is uranium. tively inexpensive source of never become practical for vided with adequate energy and ’ Nuclear power plants can propower, it presently supplies large-scale commercial use. but reliable service at the lowest duce electricity at half the cost only about 4% of our customers’ research continues. possible cost. And for our part, of a new oil-fired plant. Our two needs. Its most optimistic potenThe demand for electricity we intend to do just that. nuclear units.at Diablo Canyon tial would supply only about 10%. . continues to grow, partly s For your part, we hope you will save our having to buy 24 Coal one day may, be our sixth . because population itself conwill continue your efforts to tonmillion barrels of expensive, source of primary energy. We tinues to grow. In 1974 alone, serve energy. It is too precious imported oil a year. are in the process of acquiring about 100,000 more people were to waste. These are the good reasons reserves in Utah. added to PG&E’s service area. why PG&E and other utility Recent developments in solar Energy conservation efforts systems, at home and abroad, power show interesting promise, must continue, but conservation are building nuclear plants. but its use as a major source is. efforts alone will not eliminate PG&E operates The Geysers, . at best, many years away. Tidal our need to build ahead today PGE the nation’s only geothermal and wind power are still in , for your tomorrow. ; power plant. Although a rela, , ,. , Jimited. development, and may. ’ It’s oun job ¢o"keép you pro” Pe Parhicea Fee eV ER ees : ae be a % eee 6 l gutiatinaanncne tn 19X-w875 ’ ee ae ee

County board delays grand jury comments County supervisors will meet Wednesday rather than their regular Tuesday date because of the Admission Day holiday. Chairman Willie Curran said that an agenda item, _ supervisors’ comments on the recent Grand Jury Report, will not be held. Eric Rood, who had recent surgery will not be present for the session and as a courtesy to Rood who wishes to comment, Curran said the item will be scheduledfor a later meeting. Also because of Rood’s absence the public hearing concerning Robert Lawton’s appeal from a decision of the planning commission giving Hansen Brothers a permit to operate a gravel operation on Greenhorn Creek will be opened but continued, Curran said. When the meeting opens at 10 a.m. supervisors will sit as directors of Sanitation District No. 1 to ‘prepare for consideration of annexing and accepting the Cascade Shores Grass Valley area thefts Grass Valley Police are investigating two residential burglaries and a petty theft reported over the weekend. The first burglary occurred sometime Saturday night at the East Main Street home of Robin Halberson, 20. The culprit entered the home through an unlocked door and removed $300 in cash from a drawer; nothing else was disturbed. A green wallet containing $15 and several gasoline credit cards was taken Sunday evening from the Mill Street home of Adele Hodge. She told officers someone opened her unlocked front door, scattered the contents of her purse and removed the items. Sometime between midnight ° and 8 a.m. Saturday an unknown person or persons removed: the two front>tires and an ignition key from a vehicle owned by Miles Stephen Rodney, 25, of Grass Valley. The vehicle, sarked in a parking lot on ‘ain Street, was pushed to t! rear of the lot, the front e was jacked upandtheiter ken. Loss is estimated at: «. CDF controls fires The California Division of Forestry and the Gold Flat and Ophir Hill Fire Depart-ments responded to six small fires late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The fires were located at Forest Knolls, Banner Mountain, East Empire and Lower Brooks Road. Two air tankers: and two Washington Ridge crews aided the state agency in battling a three acre blaze near Scotts . Flat Reservoir Saturday. * Sewage System into the

sanitation district. Department heads. will report during the morning and the board also will consider proposed resolutions and communications. The following public hearings are slated when the board reconvenes at 1:30 after lunch: —Modified zoning petition of Delano Faraco to rezone property within the Cascade Shores Subdivision. -Rex Downing’s petition to rezone property in the Scotts Flat area, east of Nevada City. LOLA MONTEZ HOUSE Restoration Fund drive is officially open:Sources of Energy—.No. . of a series If it rained all the time, electricity would be cheaper. i laine PG&E employs five sources of primary energy —oil, natural gas, natural steam (geothermal), nuclear fuel and falling water (hydro power)—to turn turbogenerators which produce the electricity for its interconnected network system. They are “mixed” for maximum efficiency to generate power at the lowest possible cost. Tc harness water for power. we have built,one of t::2 nation’s greatest hydroelectric systems. In “average” rain and snowfall years, hydro provides about 50% of our electric energy. The force.of falling water makes the wheels go ’round in the generating plants. Hydro generation neither contaminates nor consumes the water itself. It is returned to the rivers undiminished. to serve agriculture and other vital needs. Building hydroelectric facilities is expensive, but they are economical to operate. The low cost of hydroelectricity is one reason why our rates, despite récent increases, remain among the lowest in the nation. Diversity: Other sources of energy Oil and natural gas have become more prominent in our energy mix in recent years because nearly all economically acceptable hydro sites have been developed. But the costs of these fossil fuels have been skyrocketing. In just 5 years, the prices for gas have more than doubled and the cost per barrel of low-sulfur fuel oil has quintupled. All but two of the PG&E electric rate increases requested in the past five years were to offset these higher fuel costs. The altérnative to oil and gas, which are getting more scarce September 10, 1975 Wed., The Nevada County Nugget 3 and more‘costly, is uranium. tively inexpensive source of never become practical for vided with adequate energy and ’ Nuclear power plants can propower, it presently supplies large-scale commercial use. but reliable service at the lowest duce electricity at half the cost only about 4% of our customers’ research continues. possible cost. And for our part, of a new oil-fired plant. Our two needs. Its most optimistic potenThe demand for electricity we intend to do just that. nuclear units.at Diablo Canyon tial would supply only about 10%. . continues to grow, partly s For your part, we hope you will save our having to buy 24 Coal one day may, be our sixth . because population itself conwill continue your efforts to tonmillion barrels of expensive, source of primary energy. We tinues to grow. In 1974 alone, serve energy. It is too precious imported oil a year. are in the process of acquiring about 100,000 more people were to waste. These are the good reasons reserves in Utah. added to PG&E’s service area. why PG&E and other utility Recent developments in solar Energy conservation efforts systems, at home and abroad, power show interesting promise, must continue, but conservation are building nuclear plants. but its use as a major source is. efforts alone will not eliminate PG&E operates The Geysers, . at best, many years away. Tidal our need to build ahead today PGE the nation’s only geothermal and wind power are still in , for your tomorrow. ; power plant. Although a rela, , ,. , Jimited. development, and may. ’ It’s oun job ¢o"keép you pro” Pe Parhicea Fee eV ER ees : ae be a % eee 6 l gutiatinaanncne tn 19X-w875 ’ ee ae ee