September 17, 1969 (12 pages)

hs Wednesday, September 17, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 3 ‘UC seminar slated for Nevada City The University of California Extension at Davis has selected Nevada City as a locale of one of a series of seminars to be held this fall and winter in the Mother Lode country. A series of five-week seminars have been planned for three . communities — Nevada City, Folsom, and Columbia —in which the backgrounds of history, geography, art and architecture will be combined with community planning of human and natural resources. Five seminars will be held here during November and December. Dr. Turrentine Jackson, professor of history at the university, is coordinating and directing the program. He has appointed a local committee to help Savings Information on savings made through Nevada county's purchasing system was provided the board of supervisors Wednesday in response to questions asked at last week's meeting. Supervisor Dean Lawrence wondered whether the costs of transporting, handling and storing central stores items are added to the charge made to individual departments. The board was told this week plan sessions in Nevada City. Dr. Jackson and Dr. Glen Burch of the university met with the local steering group last week in the Osborne and Woods studio. Professor Jackson explained that these seminars have been designed to focus on each individual community, and its particular past, present, and pro-_ bable future. "We cannot hope to plan a truly effective seminar for your community without local involvement at the planning stage," Dr. Jackson told the group, ''The purpose of the seminars will be to introduce humanistic values into the normal processes of community planning and development, and to demonstrate the relationship of the past, present, and future in the local areas, The premise is that a thorough grounding in local history and the various humanistic studies will help citizens to make long-range planning decisions incorporating their own communities in art, architecture, and history." Audience participation will be . on an invitational basis to help ’ secure a diversity of opinion, and to allow control over the size and continuity of the group. Prospective participants are planners, city officials, teachers, members of local historical societies, landmark preservation committees, planning and fine arts commission members, and interested citizens. Dr. Jackson and selected lectureres will conduct lectures and discussion in history, geography, art and architecture as applied to the local scene. Lectures will be supplemented with audio-visual materials, exhibits, and field trips. Dr. Jackson explained ‘that "we envision a format which in. cludes both lecturing and participating discussion."" He said that at the end of the seminars, "We would like to devote some time to future plans for local planning groups, with objectives set down." The history professor said Nevada City, in the past has responded warmly to other programs the university has conducted, and cited experience here as a reason for selecting the town for the new series. According to Dr. Jackson, the program is funded by a national grant. The federal government is interested in "this type of thing", and government agencies have an interest in preserving history and humanities to make "life more bearable in the pressures of modern society." Local people participating in the pilot meeting were Robert Paine, Lon Cooper, Arch McPherson, Charles ‘Woods, David Osborne, John Campbell, Margaret Trivelpiece, Sharon Fairclough, Marian Conway, FlHosbein, Pat Jones, Sally Lewis, and Ernie Harries. Other interested citizens will be asked to aid as plans progress. through county purchasing system told cost $276 for transportation and meals, but the county obtained $8, 500 worth of material at a cost of $2,800, ‘ Hughes maintained that the net cost of central store purchases in 1968-69 was "much less than 50 per cent of market value." Trauner contended the statistics "indicate clearly to me that Nevada county enjoys a situation envied by many counties, That is, we can buy many items cheaper than wholesale costs for local merchants." Supervisor William Thomas said, "I have every confidence in Mr. Hughes; he is doing an outstanding job." See it like it is. Get Color TV. that a 10 per cent levy is added to each item. The exact percentage that should be applied to exactly cover handling costs is not known because a storekeeper Football, baseball, golf. are more exciting in color. They happen in color. They’re more enjoyable in color. So why watch them All kinds of TV shows..news, drama, variety, space shots.. are telecast for color viewing. Are you missing half the picture? Get -all sports is just being added to the system. John T.-However, -Auditor, Trauner “indicated that standard markups for such purchases is eight per cent, so the 10 per cent figure actually may be high. After Trauner and Purchasing Agent Clare Hughes presented their data, Mrs. Lawrence said her request "was not meant as criticism in any way. It was meant to get information because I was approached by more than’ one merchant. Local merchants pay taxes, and if we can patronize local merchants and still do the best thing by the county, we should." She added though that she agrees with a contention by Supervisor Ralph Buchanan that when major savings canbe made through outside purchases this benefits the entire le taxpayers, Mrs, Lawrence: closed by saying she feels no action is needed on the subject at this time, although there was talk of firming up a definite policy on pur, chases. During the presentation, Hughes said he does "buy locally whenever possible. But when there is a great difference in price, we always take that into consideration. I feel obligated to department heads and taxpayers to buy the best quality at the lowest price and at the earliest delivery date.” He and Trauner outlined some of the differences which have been obtained; in some cases, the county has been able to buy items more cheaply than local’ merchants could obtain them wholesale, they said. . Trauner said the county bought staples for 33 cents, but one supervisor had to pay $3,50 buying them retail in Sacramento; four shovels were bought for $1.90 which would have cost $6.85 at retail locally. He added that seven trips to buy supplies in San Francisco ORIGINAL DEF ECTIVE, ee in black and white? 4 4aPt ete + ae Cee CRA OW eat OZ Color TV now.Seeitlikeitis. PW GanwE

hs Wednesday, September 17, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 3 ‘UC seminar slated for Nevada City The University of California Extension at Davis has selected Nevada City as a locale of one of a series of seminars to be held this fall and winter in the Mother Lode country. A series of five-week seminars have been planned for three . communities — Nevada City, Folsom, and Columbia —in which the backgrounds of history, geography, art and architecture will be combined with community planning of human and natural resources. Five seminars will be held here during November and December. Dr. Turrentine Jackson, professor of history at the university, is coordinating and directing the program. He has appointed a local committee to help Savings Information on savings made through Nevada county's purchasing system was provided the board of supervisors Wednesday in response to questions asked at last week's meeting. Supervisor Dean Lawrence wondered whether the costs of transporting, handling and storing central stores items are added to the charge made to individual departments. The board was told this week plan sessions in Nevada City. Dr. Jackson and Dr. Glen Burch of the university met with the local steering group last week in the Osborne and Woods studio. Professor Jackson explained that these seminars have been designed to focus on each individual community, and its particular past, present, and pro-_ bable future. "We cannot hope to plan a truly effective seminar for your community without local involvement at the planning stage," Dr. Jackson told the group, ''The purpose of the seminars will be to introduce humanistic values into the normal processes of community planning and development, and to demonstrate the relationship of the past, present, and future in the local areas, The premise is that a thorough grounding in local history and the various humanistic studies will help citizens to make long-range planning decisions incorporating their own communities in art, architecture, and history." Audience participation will be . on an invitational basis to help ’ secure a diversity of opinion, and to allow control over the size and continuity of the group. Prospective participants are planners, city officials, teachers, members of local historical societies, landmark preservation committees, planning and fine arts commission members, and interested citizens. Dr. Jackson and selected lectureres will conduct lectures and discussion in history, geography, art and architecture as applied to the local scene. Lectures will be supplemented with audio-visual materials, exhibits, and field trips. Dr. Jackson explained ‘that "we envision a format which in. cludes both lecturing and participating discussion."" He said that at the end of the seminars, "We would like to devote some time to future plans for local planning groups, with objectives set down." The history professor said Nevada City, in the past has responded warmly to other programs the university has conducted, and cited experience here as a reason for selecting the town for the new series. According to Dr. Jackson, the program is funded by a national grant. The federal government is interested in "this type of thing", and government agencies have an interest in preserving history and humanities to make "life more bearable in the pressures of modern society." Local people participating in the pilot meeting were Robert Paine, Lon Cooper, Arch McPherson, Charles ‘Woods, David Osborne, John Campbell, Margaret Trivelpiece, Sharon Fairclough, Marian Conway, FlHosbein, Pat Jones, Sally Lewis, and Ernie Harries. Other interested citizens will be asked

to aid as plans progress. through county purchasing system told cost $276 for transportation and meals, but the county obtained $8, 500 worth of material at a cost of $2,800, ‘ Hughes maintained that the net cost of central store purchases in 1968-69 was "much less than 50 per cent of market value." Trauner contended the statistics "indicate clearly to me that Nevada county enjoys a situation envied by many counties, That is, we can buy many items cheaper than wholesale costs for local merchants." Supervisor William Thomas said, "I have every confidence in Mr. Hughes; he is doing an outstanding job." See it like it is. Get Color TV. that a 10 per cent levy is added to each item. The exact percentage that should be applied to exactly cover handling costs is not known because a storekeeper Football, baseball, golf.. are more exciting in color. They happen in color. They’re more enjoyable in color. So why watch them All kinds of TV shows...news, drama, variety, space shots... are telecast for color viewing. Are you missing half the picture? Get -all sports is just being added to the system. John T.-However, -Auditor, Trauner “indicated that standard markups for such purchases is eight per cent, so the 10 per cent figure actually may be high. After Trauner and Purchasing Agent Clare Hughes presented their data, Mrs. Lawrence said her request "was not meant as criticism in any way. It was meant to get information because I was approached by more than’ one merchant. Local merchants pay taxes, and if we can patronize local merchants and still do the best thing by the county, we should." She added though that she agrees with a contention by Supervisor Ralph Buchanan that when major savings canbe made through outside purchases this benefits the entire le taxpayers, Mrs, Lawrence: closed by saying she feels no action is needed on the subject at this time, although there was talk of firming up a definite policy on pur, chases. During the presentation, Hughes said he does "buy locally whenever possible. But when there is a great difference in price, we always take that into consideration. I feel obligated to department heads and taxpayers to buy the best quality at the lowest price and at the earliest delivery date.” He and Trauner outlined some of the differences which have been obtained; in some cases, the county has been able to buy items more cheaply than local’ merchants could obtain them wholesale, they said. . Trauner said the county bought staples for 33 cents, but one supervisor had to pay $3,50 buying them retail in Sacramento; four shovels were bought for $1.90 which would have cost $6.85 at retail locally. He added that seven trips to buy supplies in San Francisco ORIGINAL DEF ECTIVE, ee in black and white? 4 4aPt ete + ae Cee CRA OW eat OZ Color TV now.Seeitlikeitis. PW GanwE