September 12, 1963 (16 pages)

w a 00 S a, pay = 3 a o a be oD i<e) ® ec CS) et hes © 2 E 4 a. o 2) re y) bo os a. Hold Meeting c++ FSB 44 +E eee EE Fe eee eB 6s FES Ht oO Assessments Must Be Boosted TAILINGS Specks Of Blood Were In . His Hair And On His Face GOUGE EYE 1855 clothes. A pocket of his shirt was By Hollis Bentley solid red. But the blood was not With his back flat against the Tinker's. wall, Tinker slidaroundthe “I have seen a thing,” Tinker crowded room until he found a whispered and he went on to tell vacant corner where he dropped atale that silenced the great Far tohis haunches and stared without West Saloon that night. seeing at the floor. His entrance Tinker was mining witha intothe Far West Saloon in Nevcompany of Frenchmen on Hunt's ada City was unnoticed in the Hill on Greenhorn Creek. This busy evening hours and he sat very evening as the crew rested alone most of the night. When a and supper was cooking on the miner who knew Tinker noticed stove, a gang of claim jumpers him and squatted down beside him swooped down from the trees onto he found the little man trembling the tiny cabin. and wet from sweat andtearsthat The Frenchmen roared their left channels of grime on his dirty foreign oaths and swung at the face, At the other's greeting thieves with axes and picks until Tinker turned up a face covered the cabin walls gave in. Unable with matted, muddy beard above tosee inthe semidarkness, Tinker which his eyes were red and Cfaw led beneath a bunk for safety. watery. Specks of blood were in He was immediately hawled out nie had aad we ek face and his feet. A falling man freed : him from his tormentor but sent him back tothe floor beneath the weight, The roof slid off and the light showed him pinned under a a thrashing, screaming body whose disconnected eye was dangling and dripping in Tinker's face. The thing fell loose and when Tinker felt it hit him he rose up from that floor and ran.He ran from the shouts and screaming and he ran and'ran and ran. And now T inker trembled in the silence of the Far West Saloon, Noman spoke and no man drank and every man looked at the bloody bulge in Tinker’s poc~ ket. Thetownthat grew at the base of Hunt's Hill called itself that for.a while, It tried to be known as Camden, too, but too many people had heard the story, had Soroptimists The Soroptimist Club of Western Nevada County held its first birthday meeting of the new year at Hazel's on Wednesday, honoring those whose birthdays came in July, August and September. Gifts from secret pals were exchanged afterwhich all enjoyed a. birthday cake. Sept. 19 the club will meet at the Gold Nugget for cocktails from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. followed by dinner. Speaker of the evening will be Malcolm Mau, architect with Mau& Barnum, Sacramento, well known in this community for having designed the new Spring Street apartments being constructed by The Nevada Company, the new annex of the Nevada City Courthouse and the Truckee county building, and some work onthe Sierra Memorial Hospital. Oct. 15 the Soroptimists will hold a whist party at the Veterans Memorial Building, Nevada City. They are offering not only an enjoyable evening of cards, but some lovely door prizes. DEL ORO PHONE 273-6952 Gouge Eye was the name that lasted. Lasted beyond the short life of the town. evenseen Tinker that night, and (Continued from Page 3) determine the amount necessary for a school district to raise by normal taxation for a minimum educational program. For this purpose, the county assessment roll total is compared with what that roll would have been had it been average in order to determine a factor---Nevada County's factor this year is 1.21, compared to the average, 1.00. The assessed valuation of the school district is then multiplied by this factor to give the total difference between what the law ‘figures should have been available under an average assessment roll compared with what would be available under the county's subaverage roll. This difference in Nevada County came to over $70, 000--an estimated 18 cents in the tax rate. By law, the Board of Equalization made public these Collier Factors Sept. 3, and must notify the State Board of Education officially Oct. 1. By law, the Neva da County Supervisors were not required to act on the ratio until after notification by the State Board of Education. The law, however, required the county to levy the special tax and Nevada County Supervisors were only acting in advance of requirement last week when they levied the special 18 cent tax rate. ' Thirty-thrée other counties within the state are below average this year and face the same need for a special county-wide tax to provide funds for districts within these counties, unless there is no district within the county that is receiving equalization aid. There is another aspect. The California Board of Equalization has the task annually of NEAL’S FLYING A SERVICE and NORA'S CAFE Sale FRIDAY & SATURDAY.SEPT. 13 & a substantial increase in taxable sales, All these things are expected to be natural results of the fullscale activity of the Yuba-Bear Project construction, All of these favorable economic trends will react by increasing the state's estimate of what the county's as~sessment roll should be come 1964 and 1965. While the county's roll now is appraised as low, it apparently must increase more than just enough to balance it with this year's deficit if it is to be near average next year and the following year. Whether the population explosion materializes as is indicated by vastly increased property values or not, the property tax explosion is .almost sure to con~ tinue for two more years. approving or rejecting the asses~ sment rolls of the numerous California counties. In past years, the board has permitted a tolerance of four per cent in either direction from the state average. This year the board has approved all assessment rolls. This year's rolls ran from Nevada County.'s low of 19.1 per cent, exactly four per cent under average, to Sierra County's 27.0 per cent. It is assumed that if Nevada County ’s assessment roll had been one-tenth of one per cent lower, or had the state average been one-tenth of one per cent higher, the California Board of Equalization would have levied an addi-: tional county -wide tax or ordered a blanket increase in assessment. This becomes important in considering the 1964 and 1965 assesment roll, Goldman, in explaining the procedure for state estimates of county assessment rolls during intervening years, said that three factors’ w ere considered: school enrollment, unemployment, and taxable sales, Nevada County, with its assessment roll on the ragged edge of a general “over-ride” tax or blanket assessment increase order, is expecting in the next two years an abnormally high increase in school enrollment, It is expecting “WOMEN'S APPAREL WIDE SELECTION © ALL POPULAR SIZES: "personal shopping my pleasure” LOUISE'S n HOLIDAY VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER Open Evenings Til 6 pm Fridays Til 8 pm Compounded Quarterly On Savings NOW THRU NEXT TUESDAY PRESTONE ANTIFREEZE.2 12" ca MANY OTHER BARGAINS ALL MERCHANDISE MARKED DOWN . . . ~ . . ~~ _______INCOLOR * PANAVISION® STARRING FREE Coffee & Donuts Served Til Noon Saturday MIDVALLEY SAVINGS and Loan Association JANET — ANN LEIGH ~ MaRGICT plus OPERATION BIKINI Tab Hunter GRASS VALLEY HWY . . at RIDGE ROAD.Across from the State Forestry Station S&S Years at. 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w a 00 S a, pay = 3 a o a be oD i<e) ® ec CS) et hes © 2 E 4 a. o 2) re y) bo os a. Hold Meeting c++ FSB 44 +E eee EE Fe eee eB 6s FES Ht oO Assessments Must Be Boosted TAILINGS Specks Of Blood Were In . His Hair And On His Face GOUGE EYE 1855 clothes. A pocket of his shirt was By Hollis Bentley solid red. But the blood was not With his back flat against the Tinker's. wall, Tinker slidaroundthe “I have seen a thing,” Tinker crowded room until he found a whispered and he went on to tell vacant corner where he dropped atale that silenced the great Far tohis haunches and stared without West Saloon that night. seeing at the floor. His entrance Tinker was mining witha intothe Far West Saloon in Nevcompany of Frenchmen on Hunt's ada City was unnoticed in the Hill on Greenhorn Creek. This busy evening hours and he sat very evening as the crew rested alone most of the night. When a and supper was cooking on the miner who knew Tinker noticed stove, a gang of claim jumpers him and squatted down beside him swooped down from the trees onto he found the little man trembling the tiny cabin. and wet from sweat andtearsthat The Frenchmen roared their left channels of grime on his dirty foreign oaths and swung at the face, At the other's greeting thieves with axes and picks until Tinker turned up a face covered the cabin walls gave in. Unable with matted, muddy beard above tosee inthe semidarkness, Tinker which his eyes were red and Cfaw led beneath a bunk for safety. watery. Specks of blood were in He was immediately hawled out nie had aad we ek face and his feet. A falling man freed : him from his tormentor but sent him back tothe floor beneath the weight, The roof slid off and the light showed him pinned under a a thrashing, screaming body whose disconnected eye was dangling and dripping in Tinker's face. The thing fell loose and when Tinker felt it hit him he rose up from that floor and ran.He ran from the shouts and screaming and he ran and'ran and ran. And now T inker trembled in the silence of the Far West Saloon, Noman spoke and no man drank and every man looked at the bloody bulge in Tinker’s poc~ ket. Thetownthat grew at the base of Hunt's Hill called itself that for.a while, It tried to be known as Camden, too, but too many people had heard the story, had Soroptimists The Soroptimist Club of Western Nevada County held its first birthday meeting of the new year at Hazel's on Wednesday, honoring those whose birthdays came in July, August and September. Gifts from secret pals were exchanged afterwhich all enjoyed a. birthday cake. Sept. 19 the club will meet at the Gold Nugget for cocktails from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. followed by dinner. Speaker of the evening will be Malcolm Mau, architect with Mau& Barnum, Sacramento, well known in this community for having designed the new Spring Street apartments being constructed by The Nevada Company, the new annex of the Nevada City Courthouse and the Truckee county building, and some work onthe Sierra Memorial Hospital. Oct. 15 the Soroptimists will hold a whist party at the Veterans Memorial Building, Nevada City. They are offering not only an enjoyable evening of cards, but some lovely door prizes. DEL ORO PHONE 273-6952 Gouge Eye was the name that lasted. Lasted beyond the short life of the town. evenseen Tinker that night, and (Continued from Page 3) determine the amount necessary for a school district to raise by normal taxation for a minimum educational program. For this purpose, the county assessment roll total is compared with what that roll would have been had it been average in order to determine a factor---Nevada County's factor this year is 1.21, compared to the average, 1.00. The assessed valuation of the school district is then multiplied by this factor to give the total

difference between what the law ‘figures should have been available under an average assessment roll compared with what would be available under the county's subaverage roll. This difference in Nevada County came to over $70, 000--an estimated 18 cents in the tax rate. By law, the Board of Equalization made public these Collier Factors Sept. 3, and must notify the State Board of Education officially Oct. 1. By law, the Neva da County Supervisors were not required to act on the ratio until after notification by the State Board of Education. The law, however, required the county to levy the special tax and Nevada County Supervisors were only acting in advance of requirement last week when they levied the special 18 cent tax rate. ' Thirty-thrée other counties within the state are below average this year and face the same need for a special county-wide tax to provide funds for districts within these counties, unless there is no district within the county that is receiving equalization aid. There is another aspect. The California Board of Equalization has the task annually of NEAL’S FLYING A SERVICE and NORA'S CAFE Sale FRIDAY & SATURDAY..SEPT. 13 & a substantial increase in taxable sales, All these things are expected to be natural results of the fullscale activity of the Yuba-Bear Project construction, All of these favorable economic trends will react by increasing the state's estimate of what the county's as~sessment roll should be come 1964 and 1965. While the county's roll now is appraised as low, it apparently must increase more than just enough to balance it with this year's deficit if it is to be near average next year and the following year. Whether the population explosion materializes as is indicated by vastly increased property values or not, the property tax explosion is .almost sure to con~ tinue for two more years. approving or rejecting the asses~ sment rolls of the numerous California counties. In past years, the board has permitted a tolerance of four per cent in either direction from the state average. This year the board has approved all assessment rolls. This year's rolls ran from Nevada County.'s low of 19.1 per cent, exactly four per cent under average, to Sierra County's 27.0 per cent. It is assumed that if Nevada County ’s assessment roll had been one-tenth of one per cent lower, or had the state average been one-tenth of one per cent higher, the California Board of Equalization would have levied an addi-: tional county -wide tax or ordered a blanket increase in assessment. This becomes important in considering the 1964 and 1965 assesment roll, Goldman, in explaining the procedure for state estimates of county assessment rolls during intervening years, said that three factors’ w ere considered: school enrollment, unemployment, and taxable sales, Nevada County, with its assessment roll on the ragged edge of a general “over-ride” tax or blanket assessment increase order, is expecting in the next two years an abnormally high increase in school enrollment, It is expecting “WOMEN'S APPAREL WIDE SELECTION © ALL POPULAR SIZES: "personal shopping my pleasure” LOUISE'S n HOLIDAY VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER Open Evenings Til 6 pm Fridays Til 8 pm Compounded Quarterly On Savings NOW THRU NEXT TUESDAY PRESTONE ANTIFREEZE..2 12" ca MANY OTHER BARGAINS ALL MERCHANDISE MARKED DOWN . . . ~ . . ~~ _______INCOLOR * PANAVISION® STARRING FREE Coffee & Donuts Served Til Noon Saturday MIDVALLEY SAVINGS and Loan Association JANET — ANN LEIGH ~ MaRGICT plus OPERATION BIKINI Tab Hunter GRASS VALLEY HWY . . at RIDGE ROAD..Across from the State Forestry Station S&S Years at. Thts Location @eeeeevoeeseee28288080 GET-OUR NEW TRADING STAMPS-REDEEMABLE IN CASH or TRADE H MARYSVILLE GRASS VALLEY OFFICE : 152 So. Auburn St. _—