September 16, 1965 (20 pages)

. Mountain areas. a rey ree eteseoser ee TY oT @aeee 0000 c4ese 22 08 @eGe 1 ROEM NRRL RET OST EH Y ONLI TNT PARSER Fo IO ROREE SAA POL SRS EID — Te ON a Town Talk Changing Fall Color..Freeway Lillan( Mel PP RC IONE ESA OBOE AES EM Fe Work..Principal..Big Hole Last year the virginia creeper vines which adorn so many of our, * trees each fall with flaming red didn't reach the height of color until November, This year the creepers are already flaming in the Union Hill area and elsewhere. In fact, in coming so early to western Nevada County the fall season has not gotten around to hitting the higher Around Reno and Lake Tahoe the quaking aspen have just begun to turn gold. s *e+8s8 8 Don McCool, project manager for Norman I. Fadel on the Nevada City freeway job, is reportedly ahead of his construction schedule, yet he takes the time to cooperate with residents in solving small problems as-they come up. That big blast you heard week before last was the work of 1,300 pounds of dynamite, below the National Hotel Annex. McCool says such blasting isneeded to cut down to the roadbed for the freeway on-ramp. He points out that the Annex foundations have not been disturbed, as so many predicted they would be. oes 8 8 John Woolman School, the Friends boarding school on Jones Bar Rd., has opened for its third year with 48 students, several new faculty members, and a new principal. Heis Harold Blickenstaff, a former high school teacher in Placerville and a veteran leader inFriends summer camps. He and his wife Dorothy have five children. ees 6 $ One of these years someone is going to fall down the stairway next to Tess's store on Mill St. in Grass Valley. A firm railing anda gate in front of that gaping hole would be reassuring. eee ¢ @ Localresidents have been spotting bucks (and does) in sizable numbers during the past week, many of them right in the Twin Cities area. They may be planning to hide in that least expected spot--your own back yard--for the duration of the season. But don't mistake that neighbor with the big ears for the real thing. He may think you have declared GATHERING MOSS The Mania To Lure The Tourist And His Money Is Ruining The County Life Since enshrining the tourist as the patron saint of the present day land of the 49ers, it has become almost sacrilegious to utter a word against his weekend invasions of our peaceful towns and countryside. After all, we are told, itisthe tourist who supports our antique shops, saloons, service stations and motels, the very foundation of our modem economy, Iam all in favor of people spending their weekends seeing America and enjoying the out of doors, but it makes me shudder to think that our Mother Lode communitieswhichhaveso much to offer should embrace the shoddy tourism industry with open arms. With just a little more pushing in that direction Nevada City can well become another Virginia City, its main artery lined with clip joints and honkeytonks, the streets littered with candy wrappers, andthe adjacent camps and lakes cluttered with beer cans. What a future to anticipate! Is it really necessary to justify every projected civic improvement project, every park, lake or public building as a possible tourist attraction? I believe that ' historic buildings, artifacts of mining days and relics such as the Malakoff hydraulic workings should be preserved just because they are an important and interesting part of our history. If they can't be saved except as a tourist trap they aren't worth saving at all. We should have a com munity theater, owned and made a living part of the community by the people in the community. Theatrical productions, written, acted and produced by home talent, musical productions such as the Sacramento Music Circus puts on every summer and all types of concerts could keep a theater busy most of the year. We don't need tourists to support such a project. People seriously interested in seeing, photographing and enjoying the variety of scenery available ‘in California eventually discover our Mother Lode towns and countryside and a lot of them stay to make their permanenthome with us. We enjoy having these people as visitors and neighbors. However when we goall out to lure in every person with a car, a boat, a pair of skis and a bulging pocketbook, with the unconcealed intention of milking him dry, weare destroying the very atmosphere which makes the area attractive. Already we have heard the cry “Tourist go home!” We'll be hearing it loud and often unless we quellthis mad mania to mine the tourists. open war, and start shooting back. e¢$es8e 8 6 ! Every so often people begin to ask what's happening on the Malakoff State Park project. This week the Division of Beaches and Parks put its first full-time ranger in residence at North Bloomfield, and the Division expects state negotiations with San Juan Gold for about 1,200 acres of land to begin to move faster. see 8 6 The face of Grass Valley's business section has been in a constant state of flux in recent months. First, Jerry Brust cut his store on Mill Street in half and Collier's Store moved across the street into the other half, Scott's Photo Studio moved from the other end of Mill Street into the former Collier Store. Rasco Stores then built a new facility at the Purity Shopping Center. The former Rasco Store was then occupied by the new Value Mart Store. Nearby on Mill Street, Merritt's hobby store opened. On Main Street, two old buildings were demolished’ to make way for the new 88 cents store. Now back on Mill Street, things have come the full cycle. Jerry Brust has vacated the other half of his store andthis will be occupied by Bennetts and Steele men's store which is moving across Mill Street. What is causing all this shifting about and what effect it will have on the business life of Grass Valley remains to be seen. WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK G96T ‘QL Jequiaidag* **1033nN Aiuno>5 epeAon’** Rabbitbrush-Goldenweed, Haplopappus bloomeri, Composite family. Brilliant yellow flowered shrubs gather along sandy roadways in rich profusion to add a touch of gaiety to waning summer. Flower heads are few to many to the cluster towards the ends of the stiff woody stems, the ray flowers having from two to five petals. This gives the appearance of unfinished or ragged flowers. Narrow leaves one half to one and a half inches long are alternate on the stem and the shrubis much branched, compact and grows from one one half to two feet tall. As does its close relative, the common rabbitbrush, this also has a pungence of odor, i This Haplopappus is found in sandy or rocky places between 3,500 and 9,500 feet elevations and blooms from late July through October. It is found more scattered in the Sierra Nevada and locally is found in the drier areas of our mountains. CRAYON CORNER coast J as CD % fj 44 / ) Lf > Ps SoS ede. "I Am Going to be A Pilot in A Bomber" by Danny Delgado, Mrs. Hughes' First Grade, Hennessy School

. Mountain areas. a rey ree eteseoser ee TY oT @aeee 0000 c4ese 22 08 @eGe 1 ROEM NRRL RET OST EH Y ONLI TNT PARSER Fo IO ROREE SAA POL SRS EID — Te ON a Town Talk Changing Fall Color...Freeway Lillan( Mel PP RC IONE ESA OBOE AES EM Fe Work...Principal...Big Hole Last year the virginia creeper vines which adorn so many of our, * trees each fall with flaming red didn't reach the height of color until November, This year the creepers are already flaming in the Union Hill area and elsewhere. In fact, in coming so early to western Nevada County the fall season has not gotten around to hitting the higher Around Reno and Lake Tahoe the quaking aspen have just begun to turn gold. s *e+8s8 8 Don McCool, project manager for Norman I. Fadel on the Nevada City freeway job, is reportedly ahead of his construction schedule, yet he takes the time to cooperate with residents in solving small problems as-they come up. That big blast you heard week before last was the work of 1,300 pounds of dynamite, below the National Hotel Annex. McCool says such blasting isneeded to cut down to the roadbed for the freeway on-ramp. He points out that the Annex foundations have not been disturbed, as so many predicted they would be. oes 8 8 John Woolman School, the Friends boarding school on Jones Bar Rd., has opened for its third year with 48 students, several new faculty members, and a new principal. Heis Harold Blickenstaff, a former high school teacher in Placerville and a veteran leader inFriends summer camps. He and his wife Dorothy have five children. ees 6 $ One of these years someone is going to fall down the stairway next to Tess's store on Mill St. in Grass Valley. A firm railing anda gate in front of that gaping hole would be reassuring. eee ¢ @ Localresidents have been spotting bucks (and does) in sizable numbers during the past week, many of them right in the Twin Cities area. They may be planning to hide in that least expected spot--your own back yard--for the duration of the season. But don't mistake that neighbor with the big ears for the real thing. He may think you have declared GATHERING MOSS The Mania To Lure The Tourist And His Money Is Ruining The County Life Since enshrining the tourist as the patron saint of the present day land of the 49ers, it has become almost sacrilegious to utter a word against his weekend invasions of our peaceful towns and countryside. After all, we are told, itisthe tourist who supports our antique shops, saloons, service stations and motels, the very foundation of our modem economy, Iam all in favor of people spending their weekends seeing America and enjoying the out of doors, but it makes me shudder to think that our Mother Lode communitieswhichhaveso much to offer should embrace the shoddy tourism industry with open arms. With just a little more pushing in that direction Nevada City can well become another Virginia City, its main artery lined with clip joints and honkeytonks, the streets littered with candy wrappers, andthe adjacent camps and lakes cluttered with beer cans. What a future to anticipate! Is it really necessary to justify every projected civic improvement project, every park, lake or public building as a possible tourist attraction? I believe that ' historic buildings, artifacts of mining days and relics such as the Malakoff hydraulic workings should be preserved just because they are an important and interesting part of our history. If

they can't be saved except as a tourist trap they aren't worth saving at all. We should have a com munity theater, owned and made a living part of the community by the people in the community. Theatrical productions, written, acted and produced by home talent, musical productions such as the Sacramento Music Circus puts on every summer and all types of concerts could keep a theater busy most of the year. We don't need tourists to support such a project. People seriously interested in seeing, photographing and enjoying the variety of scenery available ‘in California eventually discover our Mother Lode towns and countryside and a lot of them stay to make their permanenthome with us. We enjoy having these people as visitors and neighbors. However when we goall out to lure in every person with a car, a boat, a pair of skis and a bulging pocketbook, with the unconcealed intention of milking him dry, weare destroying the very atmosphere which makes the area attractive. Already we have heard the cry “Tourist go home!” We'll be hearing it loud and often unless we quellthis mad mania to mine the tourists. open war, and start shooting back. e¢$es8e 8 6 ! Every so often people begin to ask what's happening on the Malakoff State Park project. This week the Division of Beaches and Parks put its first full-time ranger in residence at North Bloomfield, and the Division expects state negotiations with San Juan Gold for about 1,200 acres of land to begin to move faster. see 8 6 The face of Grass Valley's business section has been in a constant state of flux in recent months. First, Jerry Brust cut his store on Mill Street in half and Collier's Store moved across the street into the other half, Scott's Photo Studio moved from the other end of Mill Street into the former Collier Store. Rasco Stores then built a new facility at the Purity Shopping Center. The former Rasco Store was then occupied by the new Value Mart Store. Nearby on Mill Street, Merritt's hobby store opened. On Main Street, two old buildings were demolished’ to make way for the new 88 cents store. Now back on Mill Street, things have come the full cycle. Jerry Brust has vacated the other half of his store andthis will be occupied by Bennetts and Steele men's store which is moving across Mill Street. What is causing all this shifting about and what effect it will have on the business life of Grass Valley remains to be seen. WILDFLOWER OF THE WEEK G96T ‘QL Jequiaidag* **1033nN Aiuno>5 epeAon’** Rabbitbrush-Goldenweed, Haplopappus bloomeri, Composite family. Brilliant yellow flowered shrubs gather along sandy roadways in rich profusion to add a touch of gaiety to waning summer. Flower heads are few to many to the cluster towards the ends of the stiff woody stems, the ray flowers having from two to five petals. This gives the appearance of unfinished or ragged flowers. Narrow leaves one half to one and a half inches long are alternate on the stem and the shrubis much branched, compact and grows from one one half to two feet tall. As does its close relative, the common rabbitbrush, this also has a pungence of odor, i This Haplopappus is found in sandy or rocky places between 3,500 and 9,500 feet elevations and blooms from late July through October. It is found more scattered in the Sierra Nevada and locally is found in the drier areas of our mountains. CRAYON CORNER coast J as CD % fj 44 / ) Lf > Ps SoS ede. "I Am Going to be A Pilot in A Bomber" by Danny Delgado, Mrs. Hughes' First Grade, Hennessy School