September 11, 1968 (8 pages)

Pi OF i >-“GONSTITUTION WEEK September 17 through 23, Constitution Week, will be a good time for all Americans to ponder some things too many among us have lost sight of. Unalienable rights, for example. Some have forgotten that those rights are unalienable for everyone, whether his grandfather was a slave, a robber baron, a businessman, a laborer. Some of those who feel they have been deprived of those rights now seem to feel that others should be deprived of them, too, in retaliation. The Constitution was not written as a guarantee of success for everyone. It is a guarantee of the right to strive for success on equal terms under the law. As Governor Reagan has put it, the basic law offers “equal i rare at the starting line in life, but no compulsory tie at the finish.” Government, society, each individual, must do all they can to fortify the basic rights of mankind. After that, it is pretty much up to us. BOO! If black cats and ladders and broken mirrors give you the jumping willies, watch it. Friday the 13th is coming up. We're always reminded, when the superstitious day comes around, of the old Scottish prayer to the effect: “From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggity beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us!” With all the things that are going bump in the nights and days around the world, Friday the 13th really is rather an anticlimax. But we just thought we’d warn you. And by the way; don’t throw away: your talisman on the 14th. You can use it again in December. Washington District's mills and logging started early By Rye Syle From the time the first lumber was cut by whipsawstobuild . Canyonville at the mouth of Canyon Creek»in 1849-59, to the large operation of the Tahoe Sugar Pine Company at Washington, 1945-62, many lumber mills "ran" from time to time in the Washington District. They were mostly very small mills, powered by water or steam and limited by lack of roads or other transportation to "getting out" in the summer months rough lumber for flumes and mines. * OK "In 1858 there were 42 lumber mills operating in Nevada County. Two of these mills were in the Washington District." (History of Nevada County, Thompson and West) * * * Skillman's Flat Mill burned in 1858 with 300,000 board feet of lumber. This mill made the newspapers between 1858 and 1870 several times with fires. Omega Mill, owned by A. W. Riley, burned in 1859. At least six different mills operated at times in the Omega Mine area, Murdock and Company Mill, near Alpha, burned in 1859, (Nevada Journal) 3k "The Old Meeker Saw Mill, six miles above town on the Washington Ridge, caught fire. this forenoon from the burning woods and was consumed," (Nevada City Daily National Gazette September 5, 1870) ** * Buckthorn Mill andthe Fowler Mill operated on Fowler's Flat (Dr. Allen place 1967) near Highway 20, from time to time. Several small mills operated above Gaston in the late 1880's and early 1900's. Just over the line, in Granitville District, the Condon and the Marsh Mills carried on good size operations for many years, being © the source of supply for the miles of flumes of the North Bloomfield and other large ditches, "A Chinaman" with his patience and low overhead, produced mine lagging, posts and timbers, split shakes and boards, by hand ax methods, in large quantities during the heyday of mining in the District. There was no U.S. Forestry Dept. in those days — "you just . cut down the tree you wanted that was the easiest to reach." * * * "E, T. Worthley has built a sawmill in God's Country, Managed by Bill Mead. Running to capacity. (Nevada City Daily Transcript August 3, 1894) * Ke * "The oxen used by M.L.& S. Marsh in hauling logs to their sawmill above Washington, were brought up yesterday from the ranch where they have been wintered. When the weather clears, they will be shod and sent in to work." (NCDT, May 2, 1895) * * * "Arrangements to begin building asawmill at Omega are under way, Lumber and shakes will be turned out. The proprietors, Omega Sawmill Works, have been manufacturing an excellent quality of glue." (NCDT, June 4, 1901) * kk "The Car] Schmidt sawmill on Washington‘ Ridge, above the Central House, has a contract to furnish a San Francisco firm 500,000 feet of lumber. Teams will haul the lumber to Nevada City, where it will be shipped by rail." (NCDT, April 1, 1901) USA today Mac’s mulligan By ROBERT M. SMALLEY Classroom doors may now be swinging wide on a new school year' in which. the rough stuff is not restricted to the gridiron. According to a study conducted by the Lemburg Center at Brandeis University, endowed to research the causes of violence in American life, there will be widespread violence this year in “schools everywhere, both at Lee ee and pre-college evel”, Behind this ominous forecast is the growing record of recent campus turmoil. The number of all civil disorders involving schools is up from 17 percent last year to 44 percent this year, and the national student association says there were at least 221 major college campus demonstrations just in the first six months of 1968. NSA cited many political reasons for the demonstration. The Lemburg Center attributed the unrest to students’ desire for excitement, specific grievances on education and facilities, and to “rising antagonism between. white and black students.” It laid no blame to breakdowns in parental responsibility, to any of the specifics of the age of permissiveness, or to delibérate political agitation. If still more violence is on the way, Dr. Grayson Kirk may have retreated unnecessarily from the presidency of Columbia University. After saying categorically that he would not retire before age 65, despite the “Kirk must go” rebellion of last spring, he did—at age 64. Saying he was stepping down “to insure the prospect of more normal operations” in the new academic year, Kirk will be succeeded by a 67 year old acting president whose appointment was immediately branded “an affront” by the school’s antiauthoritarian New Left extremists. Predictably, more troubles rae expected soon at Columja. Meanwhile, education troubles of a different sort are brewing at a lower level in New York City, where the Board of Education has proposed a plan to decentralize some authority over teacher hiring, tenure, curriculum and funds, by investing limited powers in the city’s. 30 local school boards and three experimental school districts. Several Black Power groups have been threatening violence unless they obtained complete local control. This has caused fear among many white teachers and administrators for their jobs, their careers, even their personal safety. The Board’s compromise proposal has become both a hot potato and an embarrassment to the militant AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers. Once hard liners on civil rights, they are now apparently fearful of local school board power and have refused to endorse community control, to the anger of many of their own negro members. Ultimately the decentralization move may satisfy everybody, or nobody—but it looks like an interesting winter for U.S. education. GUZZ ZILZCH, one of California's many voters whorefuse to be linked with either major political party, faces abigproblem November 5, He says he's partial to the letter z and can't make up his mind whether to vote for Bizz Johnson or Oz Dunaway. If I were Dunaway I'd add another z to my handle, * * * S OR NO. Spelling of the name of the town of Smartville (or is it Smartsville?) causes a problem now and then, Usually it is written Smartville without an ess before the ville. But a sign prominently posted there reads like this: Smartsville Like Heaven Don't Drive Like Hell! * * * POLITICIANS could beef up their campaign funds by allowing two votes for every $5 contributed. Might not be constitutional, but what is nowadays? * * YULETIDE — It. may be too early to pass this on to you, but Nevada Irrigation District does not plan selling any Christmas trees this year. * * * MR, JODY HAWHEE, all of six years old, has a talent for asking his folks difficult-to-answer questions, and he also comes up with some precocious answers. Mother Marilyn said she was urging Jody to get ready for his Sunday school class in Penn Valley when he asked her why. "Because it is good for you and you learn things," she explained. "Oh yeah? All they teach us about is people who are already dead." That boy will never make a historian. * * * UNRECORDED RECORDING, Dialing the telephone operator the other day I heard: "This is a recording. Oops, wait a minute." So I waited, pondering the while the wonders of our scientific age and the advancements made in the field of electronics. Something science couldn't properly reproduce, however, was the charming giggle of the operator who had goofed. This gives me great hope for the eventual victory of man over the robot, who ain't got no sense of humor. * * * POLICE BRUTALITY? From the log of a local department these words: "Owner of keys found and placed in miscellaneous property drawer in file cabinet." Poor guy. It must be stuffy in there. * * OK INTERESTING WORD, Coalpex has nothing to do with coal but concerns stamps and stamp collectors. The word evidently was coined from the Contra Costa-Alameda Philatelic Exhibit, And with a handle like that it's no wonder Coal-pex is used. If you are a philatelist you might take in the exhibit in Concord September 13-15, On the same two days, Lodi will be holding its Grape Festival and National Wine Show. Should get some vino there. Or if you prefer suds, there's the Oktoberfest at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds, also September 13-15, Wonder why they call it the Oktoberfest and hold it in September? “ix OTHER EVENTS this month include the Sixth Annual Trade Fair Bazaar on the 14th and Constitution Day on the 15th, both in Nevada City, and the Auburn District Fair 13th-15th. The district fair will have, among other attractions, a "'psychedelic happening", and I may go just to find out what that means, * KOK INFLATION — What this country needs is a good 25-cent cigar. * * * THAT WARNING SIGN compulsory on every pack of cigarettes may start a trend with the federal government insisting on such labels as "This hamburger colored with tomato juice’ or "These pills could knock ‘you cockeyed" or "Drink this hooch at your own risk." A few such warnings would make us thé most label conscious people in the world, And that might be-good. * * * GIVINTAKE, The small boy watched as his father reached to put a coin in the church collection box, then asked, ''How much did you get?” About 1529, Hernando Cortez planted the first European grape vines in the New World. Veterans Administration hospitals are affiliated with 75 of the nation's 88 medical schools, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudpaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960, DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5. 00, 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION "NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. icated a legal news «. x }

Pi OF i >-“GONSTITUTION WEEK September 17 through 23, Constitution Week, will be a good time for all Americans to ponder some things too many among us have lost sight of. Unalienable rights, for example. Some have forgotten that those rights are unalienable for everyone, whether his grandfather was a slave, a robber baron, a businessman, a laborer. Some of those who feel they have been deprived of those rights now seem to feel that others should be deprived of them, too, in retaliation. The Constitution was not written as a guarantee of success for everyone. It is a guarantee of the right to strive for success on equal terms under the law. As Governor Reagan has put it, the basic law offers “equal i rare at the starting line in life, but no compulsory tie at the finish.” Government, society, each individual, must do all they can to fortify the basic rights of mankind. After that, it is pretty much up to us. BOO! If black cats and ladders and broken mirrors give you the jumping willies, watch it. Friday the 13th is coming up. We're always reminded, when the superstitious day comes around, of the old Scottish prayer to the effect: “From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggity beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us!” With all the things that are going bump in the nights and days around the world, Friday the 13th really is rather an anticlimax. But we just thought we’d warn you. And by the way; don’t throw away: your talisman on the 14th. You can use it again in December. Washington District's mills and logging started early By Rye Syle From the time the first lumber was cut by whipsawstobuild . Canyonville at the mouth of Canyon Creek»in 1849-59, to the large operation of the Tahoe Sugar Pine Company at Washington, 1945-62, many lumber mills "ran" from time to time in the Washington District. They were mostly very small mills, powered by water or steam and limited by lack of roads or other transportation to "getting out" in the summer months rough lumber for flumes and mines. * OK "In 1858 there were 42 lumber mills operating in Nevada County. Two of these mills were in the Washington District." (History of Nevada County, Thompson and West) * * * Skillman's Flat Mill burned in 1858 with 300,000 board feet of lumber. This mill made the newspapers between 1858 and 1870 several times with fires. Omega Mill, owned by A. W. Riley, burned in 1859. At least six different mills operated at times in the Omega Mine area, Murdock and Company Mill, near Alpha, burned in 1859, (Nevada Journal) 3k "The Old Meeker Saw Mill, six miles above town on the Washington Ridge, caught fire. this forenoon from the burning woods and was consumed," (Nevada City Daily National Gazette September 5, 1870) ** * Buckthorn Mill andthe Fowler Mill operated on Fowler's Flat (Dr. Allen place 1967) near Highway 20, from time to time. Several small mills operated above Gaston in the late 1880's and early 1900's. Just over the line, in Granitville District, the Condon and the Marsh Mills carried on good size operations for many years, being © the source of supply for the miles of flumes of the North Bloomfield and other large ditches, "A Chinaman" with his patience and low overhead, produced mine lagging, posts and timbers, split shakes and boards, by hand ax methods, in large quantities during the heyday of mining in the District. There was no U.S. Forestry Dept. in those days — "you just . cut down the tree you wanted that was the easiest to reach." * * * "E, T. Worthley has built a sawmill in God's Country, Managed by Bill Mead. Running to capacity. (Nevada City Daily Transcript August 3, 1894) * Ke * "The oxen used by M.L.& S. Marsh in hauling logs to their sawmill above Washington, were brought up yesterday from the ranch where they have been wintered. When the weather clears, they will be shod and sent in to work." (NCDT, May 2, 1895) * * * "Arrangements to begin building asawmill at Omega are under way, Lumber and shakes will be turned out. The proprietors, Omega Sawmill Works, have been manufacturing an excellent quality of glue." (NCDT, June 4, 1901) * kk "The Car] Schmidt sawmill on Washington‘ Ridge, above the Central House, has a contract to furnish a San Francisco firm 500,000 feet of lumber. Teams will haul the lumber to Nevada City, where it will be shipped by rail." (NCDT, April 1, 1901) USA today Mac’s mulligan By ROBERT M. SMALLEY Classroom doors may now be swinging wide on a new school year' in which. the rough stuff is not restricted to the gridiron. According to a study conducted by the Lemburg Center at Brandeis University, endowed to research the causes of violence in American life, there will be widespread violence this year in “schools everywhere, both at Lee ee and pre-college evel”, Behind this ominous forecast is the growing record of recent campus turmoil. The number of all civil disorders involving schools is up from 17 percent last year to 44 percent this year, and the national student association says there were at least 221 major college campus demonstrations just in the first six months of 1968. NSA cited many political reasons for the demonstration. The Lemburg Center attributed the unrest to students’ desire for excitement, specific grievances on education and facilities, and to “rising antagonism between. white and black students.” It laid no blame to breakdowns in parental responsibility, to any of the specifics of the age of permissiveness, or to delibérate political agitation. If still more violence is on the way, Dr. Grayson Kirk may have retreated unnecessarily from the presidency of Columbia University. After saying categorically that he would not retire before age 65, despite the “Kirk must go” rebellion of last spring, he did—at age 64. Saying he was stepping down “to insure the prospect of more normal operations” in the new academic year, Kirk will be succeeded by a 67 year old acting president whose appointment was immediately branded “an affront” by the school’s antiauthoritarian New Left extremists. Predictably, more troubles

rae expected soon at Columja. Meanwhile, education troubles of a different sort are brewing at a lower level in New York City, where the Board of Education has proposed a plan to decentralize some authority over teacher hiring, tenure, curriculum and funds, by investing limited powers in the city’s. 30 local school boards and three experimental school districts. Several Black Power groups have been threatening violence unless they obtained complete local control. This has caused fear among many white teachers and administrators for their jobs, their careers, even their personal safety. The Board’s compromise proposal has become both a hot potato and an embarrassment to the militant AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers. Once hard liners on civil rights, they are now apparently fearful of local school board power and have refused to endorse community control, to the anger of many of their own negro members. Ultimately the decentralization move may satisfy everybody, or nobody—but it looks like an interesting winter for U.S. education. GUZZ ZILZCH, one of California's many voters whorefuse to be linked with either major political party, faces abigproblem November 5, He says he's partial to the letter z and can't make up his mind whether to vote for Bizz Johnson or Oz Dunaway. If I were Dunaway I'd add another z to my handle, * * * S OR NO. Spelling of the name of the town of Smartville (or is it Smartsville?) causes a problem now and then, Usually it is written Smartville without an ess before the ville. But a sign prominently posted there reads like this: Smartsville Like Heaven Don't Drive Like Hell! * * * POLITICIANS could beef up their campaign funds by allowing two votes for every $5 contributed. Might not be constitutional, but what is nowadays? * * YULETIDE — It. may be too early to pass this on to you, but Nevada Irrigation District does not plan selling any Christmas trees this year. * * * MR, JODY HAWHEE, all of six years old, has a talent for asking his folks difficult-to-answer questions, and he also comes up with some precocious answers. Mother Marilyn said she was urging Jody to get ready for his Sunday school class in Penn Valley when he asked her why. "Because it is good for you and you learn things," she explained. "Oh yeah? All they teach us about is people who are already dead." That boy will never make a historian. * * * UNRECORDED RECORDING, Dialing the telephone operator the other day I heard: "This is a recording. Oops, wait a minute." So I waited, pondering the while the wonders of our scientific age and the advancements made in the field of electronics. Something science couldn't properly reproduce, however, was the charming giggle of the operator who had goofed. This gives me great hope for the eventual victory of man over the robot, who ain't got no sense of humor. * * * POLICE BRUTALITY? From the log of a local department these words: "Owner of keys found and placed in miscellaneous property drawer in file cabinet." Poor guy. It must be stuffy in there. * * OK INTERESTING WORD, Coalpex has nothing to do with coal but concerns stamps and stamp collectors. The word evidently was coined from the Contra Costa-Alameda Philatelic Exhibit, And with a handle like that it's no wonder Coal-pex is used. If you are a philatelist you might take in the exhibit in Concord September 13-15, On the same two days, Lodi will be holding its Grape Festival and National Wine Show. Should get some vino there. Or if you prefer suds, there's the Oktoberfest at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds, also September 13-15, Wonder why they call it the Oktoberfest and hold it in September? “ix OTHER EVENTS this month include the Sixth Annual Trade Fair Bazaar on the 14th and Constitution Day on the 15th, both in Nevada City, and the Auburn District Fair 13th-15th. The district fair will have, among other attractions, a "'psychedelic happening", and I may go just to find out what that means, * KOK INFLATION — What this country needs is a good 25-cent cigar. * * * THAT WARNING SIGN compulsory on every pack of cigarettes may start a trend with the federal government insisting on such labels as "This hamburger colored with tomato juice’ or "These pills could knock ‘you cockeyed" or "Drink this hooch at your own risk." A few such warnings would make us thé most label conscious people in the world, And that might be-good. * * * GIVINTAKE, The small boy watched as his father reached to put a coin in the church collection box, then asked, ''How much did you get?” About 1529, Hernando Cortez planted the first European grape vines in the New World. Veterans Administration hospitals are affiliated with 75 of the nation's 88 medical schools, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudpaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960, DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5. 00, 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION "NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. icated a legal news «. x }