September 14, 1960 (10 pages)

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, anit North Bloomfield, Graniteville, North San Juan, Relief Hill; Wi Lake City, Selby Little Yi fooney I itland, Al French Corral, and Ready, a 10 Cents aCopy . “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES": Published Weekly Vol. 34 No. 37/ . Getting ready for the coming season, John raye, Miner quartNevada City councilmen Monday night became involved in a sometimes heated discussion of police and other sersonnel problems, Fuel was added to the verbal fire when City Manager James (Admiral) Ray de_ plored the “secret meeting” at which he indicated the council decision on three items was made. The words “secret” and "illegal" brought requests for lage ctacigreation, and City Attorney Bill Wetherall was asked by councilmen to clear them of blame. Wetheralltoldthe council the law covering executive meetings in relation to personnel problems was one that does not adequately define the legal limits of discussion at such meetings. Generally, however, the meetings are construed to be legalif a particular person's work is discussed and if the councilmen limit the meeting to discussion and not decision. Any decisions that . were tocomeat such a meetNew Police Job Brings ‘Sec Charge At Nevada City Council Session Personnel Meeting Defended By Council fr » P tm oe a ; sonnel” meeting following . the last adjourned meeting, i in late August. Councilmen : remained in the City Hall after the city clerk, city i manager, city attorney andj members of the press left. ' There were no other visitors at that meeting. The fireworks followed an outline by Councilman Jack . Brickell of three itmes that had been discussed (and de-cided?) at the special meet. ing: 1, Establishment of the [eM position of City Police In. vestigator with a$ 5 increase} in salary; the position to go to Harold Knox, who comterback, receives instructions from coach, Ursal Snapp, in preparation for the first game at Reno on Saturday. The Nugget is pleased to print in full this cogent summary of the Nevada City freeway story by Otis Gaylord of the Citizens for Progress Committee. Gaylord has mailed copies of this report to state highway officials, including Robert B. Bradford, chairman of the state highway commission, whowrote in reply that he read the report with interest and hoped to visit Nevada City soon for an on-the-spot survey. Prepared by Otis H. Gaylord, Chairman Citizens for Progress Committee of Nevada City DRASTIC CHANGES IN NEVADA CITY The delay in the proposed freeway through Nevada City, from inception to completion, will have spanned a generation, an unprecedented situation inthe light of drastic economic changes within the community. When the initial agreement was reached between the Division of Highways and the City Council in 1952, the area relied heavily on a substantial mine payroll. In that year Nevada County led all gold mining counties with nearly four million dollars in gold production. Today the mining payroll has shrunk to virtually zero. Our second largest industry, lumber, is by its very nature a decreasing industry because of the high cost of reforestation leaving Nevada City ‘s economy increasingly dependent ontourism. These developments call for a consideration of alternate routes. HISTORY OF THE AGREEMENT OF 1952 When it was discovered that the proposed freeway to Nevada City wasto extend through the heart of the city, there were immediate indications of deep seated objections. In August of 1951 a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce found the audience unanimously opposed to the plan and President Kenneth Wray appointed Secretary H.F. Sofge to write the State Division of Highways protesting the route, In that same month twenty-eight persons attended the City Council meeting where twenty-four voiced opposition with only four in favor. In response to prevailing objections and opposition to the Plaza route, the City, Council in September, 1951, appointed a three man committee to appear before the regular meeting of the Divi-sion of Highways to officially protest the route. This committee was composed of Mayor Thomas H. Taylor; City Attorney John Larue; and City Engineer Ed Uren. In October, 1951, the city mailed ballots with the quarterly water bills. The results showed 69 in favor of a bypass.and fifty in favor of the Plaza route. Nevertheless, at a meeting in May of 1952 the City Council under new officers approved the route sought by the State over objections of the citizens. A major factor in this decision was undoubtedly a promise made by a Division of Highwaysrepresentative that Federal Aid Funds would be used immediately to construct a temporary bypass to remove dangerous truck traffic from Broad Street. . /if the Council approved the freeway route forthwith. —~_ The problem lay dormant until 1960 when the State offered a sketch of the impending freeway. Renewed objections before the Council brought opportunity for an open hearing. Both sides were urged to attend by both the Grass Valley Union and the Nevada County Nugget . Some two hundred and fifty persons attended. When arguing would be illegal, he indicated, The council held a "perRhoads City Frscway At A Glance ments had been heard, one hundred and fifty citizens came to their feet in favor of rerouting. Only twentyfour still favored the Plaza route, and the City Council promised to act. OnJune 13, 1960, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution officially requesting the State to review the route and plan of the proposed freeway. CHANGED STATUS OF THE FREEWAY Since 1952 the route has been changed from a “terminal" freeway serving traffic between Grass Valley and Nevada City to part of the 1959 statewide plan. Under this new plan all traffic flowing east from the Sutter Basin will pass through Nevada City. Yet, the State case for the present route is based on a single traffic study made in 1948 and revised in 1952! A city of considerable size might be able to absorb such a potential flow oftraffic, but a small town of 2,000 would be engulfed , Governor Brown anticipated our problem when he stated, "Freeways should be more than a way of moving motor traffic rapidly. They can and must be related to other aspects of a community's life; its historic landmarks; its parks and residences; its plans for urban renewal; its closed mines and other nenedy accompanied County Kennedy campaign. natural beauty. " ( Cont. on page 2:3 Borate Activity Tabulated . Nearly 1000 flights from Loma Rica Airport by borate planes dumped 589, 400 pounds of the fire containing chemical on nearby fires between Aug. 13 and Sept. 9. This was revealed today by Downey C. Clinch, chairman of the Nevada County Airport Commission. A total of 955 take-offs and landings was necessary to fight the Donner and minor lightning set blazes . during the period. “These take-off and landings do not include take-off and landings in airplanes used exclusively for the transportation of firefighters, and or spotting aircraft,” Clinch said. He expressed thanks to the © local press for support of the .airport and publicity both . . Foresthill fires in addition to six other large fires and 42 anes during and before the fire‘. THE PAST IN PICTURES Foul Play On Rocky Bar mr 8y Jack Miner james D, White wrote a sketch on Washington Township, Nevada County for Bean's Directory of 1867, and he said the following about one of the small. mining camps of the township: icky Bar is pleasantly situated on the north bank of the South Yuba river, about one-half mile above the town of Washington, and contains a population, at presnte, of thirty persons, among whom are four families. As a clags, there aré no more steady, intelligent and enterprising citizens to be found in the county. Their homes andcomforts are contained in the dozen houses they oc‘cupy: their hopes are centered in the substrata of the Rocky Bar, that recedes gently from their dwellings toward the river's front." _ I presume he meant they expected to find plenty of gold " im the gently receeding flats. What happened to corrupt this righteous community following 1867? Did the substrata betray its hopes, making the population move out? And, then, did some of the ladies of our oldest profession move into the abandoned houses to more conveniently serve the needs of bustling, humming Washington a half mile away? At least one did aladynamed Lou, and the house she ran became known.as Cornish Lou's, Here, sixteen years before this picture was taken, a jealous gambler named Heneman stabbed to death William Searls, a bachelor miner out on a Saturday whind-ding. Ten years later in the same shack, a David Steele murdered a Richard Chappell out on a similar spree. ; On the night before this picture was snapped, Lillian May Riley, Cornish Lou's successor, and her "steady", . Charles Moreno, were killed by an unknown suitor who ae them unceremoniously out the door, where you see them Soe sprawled, no longer caring about the problems of Bar, or their own forthat matter. = = Much water has passed under the Yuba bridge below the house since then. Rocky Bar has returned to re populated by intelligent and enterprising people. & pleted a police school moaeisst WAITING AT THE WHISTLE STOP. .pictured waiting to board (Continued on page 4) . sanator John F. Kennedy"s campaign train atMdatysvillelast W th Thursday afternoon was the Nevada County contingent of (1 tor) ed er Harold Berliner, Mrs. Ed Nygard, Mrs. Elmer Lewis, and Nevada City Alfred Heller. Max. Min. Rain sept. 7 “as “1 Kennedy To Keep Nevada County Sept. 8 87 44 == d db Sent. 9 91 47 Ae G Id Q O D k esigned by artist George ha 10 80 52 Ae ‘“ Oo vartz n es Mathis depicting historic Sept. 11 90 55 ss Four Nevada Countians glected matters need early Ott’s Assay Office in Nevada Sept. 12 91 54 -. rode on Senator JohnF. attention." City. j Sept. 13 91 44 -. Kennedy’ campaign "whistle Mrs. Nygard has long been On the card was lettered } te stop” train between Marysactivein county Democratic the following citation, which 4 Rain todate.. 16] Ville and Sacramento last activities. Herhusbandis Kennedy read slowly and ' Rain last year. . .07 . week, and presentedtoKenco-chairman of Kennedy's carefully: i nedy a piece of gold-bearing local campaign with Harold “This piece of gold bearing i Grass Valley quartz from a local mine. _ Berliner, who also rode on quartz fromthenow dormant: { Kennedy wasclearly the train and spoketothe Mines of historic Nevada Sept. 7 87 58 -. pleased and surprised by the Presidential candidate. County isa token of our high Sept. 8 90 58 -. gift, which was presented to . Thetwoothersinthegroup hopes for your election to the Sept. 9 95 64 --]. himbyMrs, EdNygardofthe meetingKennedy were Mrs. Presidency in 1960. Sept. 10 85 63 -. Gold Zuartz Democratic Elmer Lewis, wife of the “Presented to Senator John Sept.11 93 65 --. Ckub. Onreceiving it and Democratic county central Kennedy onbehalfofhis NeSept. 12 95 68 -. reading thenotation, hesaid, committee chairman, and vada County supporters, Sept.13 92 59 --. "I really appreciate this, 1 Alfred Heller. September 8, 1960. really do, I'm goingto The quartz slab with the (signed) Ed Nygard Rain todate.. ,27 . treasure itandkeep it on my shiny veins of gold clearly Harold A. Berliner Rain last year. . 02 . desk as a reminder that your visible was presentedtoKenCOo-chairmen, N evada

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, anit North Bloomfield, Graniteville, North San Juan, Relief Hill; Wi Lake City, Selby Little Yi fooney I itland, Al French Corral, and Ready, a 10 Cents aCopy . “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES": Published Weekly Vol. 34 No. 37/ . Getting ready for the coming season, John raye, Miner quartNevada City councilmen Monday night became involved in a sometimes heated discussion of police and other sersonnel problems, Fuel was added to the verbal fire when City Manager James (Admiral) Ray de_ plored the “secret meeting” at which he indicated the council decision on three items was made. The words “secret” and "illegal" brought requests for lage ctacigreation, and City Attorney Bill Wetherall was asked by councilmen to clear them of blame. Wetheralltoldthe council the law covering executive meetings in relation to personnel problems was one that does not adequately define the legal limits of discussion at such meetings. Generally, however, the meetings are construed to be legalif a particular person's work is discussed and if the councilmen limit the meeting to discussion and not decision. Any decisions that . were tocomeat such a meetNew Police Job Brings ‘Sec Charge At Nevada City Council Session Personnel Meeting Defended By Council fr » P tm oe a ; sonnel” meeting following . the last adjourned meeting, i in late August. Councilmen : remained in the City Hall after the city clerk, city i manager, city attorney andj members of the press left. ' There were no other visitors at that meeting. The fireworks followed an outline by Councilman Jack . Brickell of three itmes that had been discussed (and de-cided?) at the special meet. ing: 1, Establishment of the [eM position of City Police In. vestigator with a$ 5 increase} in salary; the position to go to Harold Knox, who comterback, receives instructions from coach, Ursal Snapp, in preparation for the first game at Reno on Saturday. The Nugget is pleased to print in full this cogent summary of the Nevada City freeway story by Otis Gaylord of the Citizens for Progress Committee. Gaylord has mailed copies of this report to state highway officials, including Robert B. Bradford, chairman of the state highway commission, whowrote in reply that he read the report with interest and hoped to visit Nevada City soon for an on-the-spot survey. Prepared by Otis H. Gaylord, Chairman Citizens for Progress Committee of Nevada City DRASTIC CHANGES IN NEVADA CITY The delay in the proposed freeway through Nevada City, from inception to completion, will have spanned a generation, an unprecedented situation inthe light of drastic economic changes within the community. When the initial agreement was reached between the Division of Highways and the City Council in 1952, the area relied heavily on a substantial mine payroll. In that year Nevada County led all gold mining counties with nearly four million dollars in gold production. Today the mining payroll has shrunk to virtually zero. Our second largest industry, lumber, is by its very nature a decreasing industry because of the high cost of reforestation leaving Nevada City ‘s economy increasingly dependent ontourism. These developments call for a consideration of alternate routes. HISTORY OF THE AGREEMENT OF 1952 When it was discovered that the proposed freeway to Nevada City wasto extend through the heart of the city, there were immediate indications of deep seated objections. In August of 1951 a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce found the audience unanimously opposed to the plan and President Kenneth Wray appointed Secretary H.F. Sofge to write the State Division of Highways protesting the route, In that same month twenty-eight persons attended the City Council meeting where twenty-four voiced opposition with only four in favor. In response to prevailing objections and opposition to the Plaza route, the City, Council in September, 1951, appointed a three man committee to appear before the regular meeting of the Divi-sion of Highways to officially protest the route. This committee was composed of Mayor Thomas H. Taylor; City Attorney John Larue; and City Engineer Ed Uren. In October, 1951, the city mailed ballots with the quarterly water bills. The results showed 69 in favor of a bypass.and fifty in favor of the Plaza route. Nevertheless, at a meeting in May of 1952 the City Council under new officers approved the route sought by the State over objections of the citizens. A major factor in this decision was undoubtedly a promise made by a Division of Highwaysrepresentative that Federal Aid Funds would be used immediately to construct a temporary bypass to remove dangerous truck traffic from Broad Street. . /if the Council approved the freeway route forthwith. —~_ The problem lay dormant until 1960 when the State offered a sketch of the impending freeway. Renewed objections before the Council brought opportunity for an open hearing. Both sides were urged to attend by both the Grass Valley Union and the Nevada County Nugget . Some two hundred and fifty persons attended. When arguing would be illegal, he indicated, The council held a "perRhoads City Frscway At A Glance ments had been heard, one hundred and fifty citizens came to their feet in favor of rerouting. Only twentyfour still favored the Plaza route, and the City Council promised to act. OnJune 13, 1960, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution officially requesting the State to review the route and plan of the proposed freeway. CHANGED STATUS OF THE FREEWAY

Since 1952 the route has been changed from a “terminal" freeway serving traffic between Grass Valley and Nevada City to part of the 1959 statewide plan. Under this new plan all traffic flowing east from the Sutter Basin will pass through Nevada City. Yet, the State case for the present route is based on a single traffic study made in 1948 and revised in 1952! A city of considerable size might be able to absorb such a potential flow oftraffic, but a small town of 2,000 would be engulfed , Governor Brown anticipated our problem when he stated, "Freeways should be more than a way of moving motor traffic rapidly. They can and must be related to other aspects of a community's life; its historic landmarks; its parks and residences; its plans for urban renewal; its closed mines and other nenedy accompanied County Kennedy campaign. natural beauty. " ( Cont. on page 2:3 Borate Activity Tabulated . Nearly 1000 flights from Loma Rica Airport by borate planes dumped 589, 400 pounds of the fire containing chemical on nearby fires between Aug. 13 and Sept. 9. This was revealed today by Downey C. Clinch, chairman of the Nevada County Airport Commission. A total of 955 take-offs and landings was necessary to fight the Donner and minor lightning set blazes . during the period. “These take-off and landings do not include take-off and landings in airplanes used exclusively for the transportation of firefighters, and or spotting aircraft,” Clinch said. He expressed thanks to the © local press for support of the .airport and publicity both . . Foresthill fires in addition to six other large fires and 42 anes during and before the fire‘. THE PAST IN PICTURES Foul Play On Rocky Bar mr 8y Jack Miner james D, White wrote a sketch on Washington Township, Nevada County for Bean's Directory of 1867, and he said the following about one of the small. mining camps of the township: icky Bar is pleasantly situated on the north bank of the South Yuba river, about one-half mile above the town of Washington, and contains a population, at presnte, of thirty persons, among whom are four families. As a clags, there aré no more steady, intelligent and enterprising citizens to be found in the county. Their homes andcomforts are contained in the dozen houses they oc‘cupy: their hopes are centered in the substrata of the Rocky Bar, that recedes gently from their dwellings toward the river's front.." _ I presume he meant they expected to find plenty of gold " im the gently receeding flats. What happened to corrupt this righteous community following 1867? Did the substrata betray its hopes, making the population move out? And, then, did some of the ladies of our oldest profession move into the abandoned houses to more conveniently serve the needs of bustling, humming Washington a half mile away? At least one did aladynamed Lou, and the house she ran became known.as Cornish Lou's, Here, sixteen years before this picture was taken, a jealous gambler named Heneman stabbed to death William Searls, a bachelor miner out on a Saturday whind-ding. Ten years later in the same shack, a David Steele murdered a Richard Chappell out on a similar spree. ; On the night before this picture was snapped, Lillian May Riley, Cornish Lou's successor, and her "steady", . Charles Moreno, were killed by an unknown suitor who ae them unceremoniously out the door, where you see them Soe sprawled, no longer caring about the problems of Bar, or their own forthat matter. = = Much water has passed under the Yuba bridge below the house since then. Rocky Bar has returned to re populated by intelligent and enterprising people. & pleted a police school moaeisst WAITING AT THE WHISTLE STOP. .pictured waiting to board (Continued on page 4) . sanator John F. Kennedy"s campaign train atMdatysvillelast W th Thursday afternoon was the Nevada County contingent of (1 tor) ed er Harold Berliner, Mrs. Ed Nygard, Mrs. Elmer Lewis, and Nevada City Alfred Heller. Max. Min. Rain sept. 7 “as “1 Kennedy To Keep Nevada County Sept. 8 87 44 == d db Sent. 9 91 47 Ae G Id Q O D k esigned by artist George ha 10 80 52 Ae ‘“ Oo vartz n es Mathis depicting historic Sept. 11 90 55 ss Four Nevada Countians glected matters need early Ott’s Assay Office in Nevada Sept. 12 91 54 -. rode on Senator JohnF. attention." City. j Sept. 13 91 44 -. Kennedy’ campaign "whistle Mrs. Nygard has long been On the card was lettered } te stop” train between Marysactivein county Democratic the following citation, which 4 Rain todate... 16] Ville and Sacramento last activities. Herhusbandis Kennedy read slowly and ' Rain last year.. . .07 . week, and presentedtoKenco-chairman of Kennedy's carefully: i nedy a piece of gold-bearing local campaign with Harold “This piece of gold bearing i Grass Valley quartz from a local mine. _ Berliner, who also rode on quartz fromthenow dormant: { Kennedy wasclearly the train and spoketothe Mines of historic Nevada Sept. 7 87 58 -. pleased and surprised by the Presidential candidate. County isa token of our high Sept. 8 90 58 -. gift, which was presented to . Thetwoothersinthegroup hopes for your election to the Sept. 9 95 64 --]. himbyMrs, EdNygardofthe meetingKennedy were Mrs. Presidency in 1960. Sept. 10 85 63 -. Gold Zuartz Democratic Elmer Lewis, wife of the “Presented to Senator John Sept.11 93 65 --. Ckub. Onreceiving it and Democratic county central Kennedy onbehalfofhis NeSept. 12 95 68 -. reading thenotation, hesaid, committee chairman, and vada County supporters, Sept.13 92 59 --. "I really appreciate this, 1 Alfred Heller. September 8, 1960. really do, I'm goingto The quartz slab with the (signed) Ed Nygard Rain todate... ,27 . treasure itandkeep it on my shiny veins of gold clearly Harold A. Berliner Rain last year.. . 02 . desk as a reminder that your visible was presentedtoKenCOo-chairmen, N evada