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NORTHERN MINES Brush Fires
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10f the
Vienna
trauss,
ams of
; "Pro1 a
iggiero
season the brush that blankets
ung by
finally
much of the state is natural
tinder for any wildfire,
"Yet there is no real excuse for brush fires in resi
briccio
Parker
dential areas, Brush is the
fuel. Re move it and there
can be no fire fromthat
sd that
ets are
sidents
source at least," says the U.
town
C. publication, Leaflet No,
tickets
. Grass
Barber
While
142,
Last season's disastrous Bel
Air fire and others along the
brushy slopes of Southern
4 club
rs of
rofes
California and theSierra
Nevada foothills might have
caused less damage if home
oS.
U. C. foresters and horticulturists recommend:
1, Removal ofall brush
and dty trash for 30 feet
around the home,
2. Thinning out the natural brush for another 70 feet.
f this
Some plants may be left for
rfortates
ed to
appearance, but should be
kept trimmed,
y 4-H
3. Covering the
> Are
ional
of special fire hazard," the
U.C. report says,
Leaflet 142 and other U.
C. publications on land
scaping and brush control to
prevent fires are available
from county farm advisors"
offices and from Agricultural
Publications, 207 University
Hall, University of Califor
Lecture Series Slated For Yuba College
pearance of William Lederer
ranged by the Community as lecturer on the night of
Services Division of Yuba Oct. 31.
College. The program,
Lederer is the author of
which will be presented free, the widely read and discus
ican”, and "A Nation of
irs
County Democrats
Confer With Candidate
GRASS VALLEY ---Nevada
County Democrats conferred
at an informal meeting last
month with Dan Rose, candi
date for secretary of state.
In the County withhis
wife, Roma, the candidate
the Democratic State-Gentral Committee
in 1950, and
has served_on that body and
its executive committee for
12 years. Ten of those years
Rose has been chairman.
In 1960 Rose joined the
briefed local Democratic
Brown administration when
leaders on his campaign.
he was appointed executive
Rose worked in New York
after graduation from the
University of Kansas, moving to California in 1948.
He was first appointed to
secretary to Lt. Governor
Glenn Anderson. Heheld
that post until he resigned
to run for secretary of state.
Sheep”. He is also known to
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of books of humor, notably
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Generator Bids
To Be Opened
By NID Sept. 28
Cichorium intybus
ment that if the city did not
Carl Swendsen
GRASS
live up to it's own code that
VALLEY ---Bids for
generators for two power houses on the Bear River, will
be opened by NID directors
Sept. 28
The directors opened bids
for supplying the huge turbines to turn the generators
onits$65 million Yuba Bear
Project Wednesday, The low
bidder was the James Leffel
Company,
of Ohio, with a
bid of $962,516.
The bid and others have
been submitted to the engineering department for analysis.
The power plants will be
on the Bear River near Dutch
Aboard USS Perry
EASTERN ATLA NTIG---Garl
J. Swendsen, Jr., fire controlman second class, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs, Carl J,
Swendsen, Sr., of North
Bloomfield, is serving aboard
he would not take out any
permits,
The mayor said that after
he had informed Foster the
investigation
was soon to
Start Foster had appeared in
the City Hall and taken out
two job permits totaling $90,
Hodge said that if any jobs
the destroyer USS Perry, a had been done without
a perunit of the Second Fleet and mit, the contractor or instaltheNorth Atlantic Treaty ler of the plumbing would be
Organization (NATO) strikprosecuted to the full extent
ing force which participated of the law,
in a special exercise "RipOne way to speak out for
tide III," Aug. 17-20, in
freedom is to buy an extra
the Eastern Atlantic,
U. S. Savings Bond during
the Freedom Bond Drive.
After the opening of the
generator bids, NID engineers can complete the power house designs,
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WELER bare
Blight Cause Of
218 Broad St., Nevada City ———S 2 __
Flat and Chicago Park.
-CHICORY--Composite family
GRASS VALLEY ----Follow -* systematic searchof the files
ing Wilmer Foster's revealto make sure that all work
ing that the city plumbing done inside the city limits
at the new Memorial Park was done by permit issued at
bath house was sub-standard City Hall,
the city has launched into a
Mayor Jack Hodge said
that the permit checking was
prompted by Foster's state
Reduced Pear Crop
GRASS VALLEY---Blight was '
—
—
T, H. McGuire « ‘SON
rated as the principal cause
of-a decline in Nevada County's pear crop from 711 tons ,
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
last year to 495 tons in the .
GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
1962 harvest now nearing’
PHONE 273-7281
311 Near Sracer
?. ©. Box 1118
completion. In 1960 2,413
tons were shipped from Nevada County,
John Phillips, county ag
ing to make an understanding
of science an easier matter
ricultural commissioner, said
Surveying The County Since 1906
4
T.H. McGuire, C.E. No,
Paul Jones,
the average price this year
E.A. Bailey,
was $60 per ton.
646
GE: No. 2311 R.J. McGuire, M.E. No. 5886
G.EZNo. 621
¢ 7. McGuire,!L.S. No, 2089
ternational Law of the School
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QUANTA
ELECTRIC
of his wide travels during the
past four years, during which
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mills, compressors, dynamos
and other water powered
_ Grass Valley Checking
(From Grass Valley or Nevada
On Plumbing Permits
City drive out Ridge Road to
the new high
electric power on a large
scale,
Sept. 13. Co-hostesses Jean of Law, New York University,
Roese, Katherine Celio, and Thomas M. Franck, will
Frieda Jensen helped in serlecture on May 1 onthe topic
ving a pot-luck luncheon. “How Free is The Free
Harriet Kittrege introduced W orld ?" He is prepared to
her guest Mrs, Mary Perkins, discuss this matter because
NOW OPEN
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geared to operate stamp
bases throughout the world,
This inventor has been help
NEVADA CITY---The Nevada City Garden club met at
Harold T. "Bizz" Johnson,
it was announced by the
Chamber of Commerce President Chas. E. Gorman.
center aswell as a gold producing center,
Wheels from four inches
hundreds of museums, colleges, and military training
forthenon “scientifically
Committee by Congressman
over the world, Nevada City
became a manufacturing
by Lillian Mott
Following this, Dr, Ar
trained public. This lecture
is scheduled for March 20,
Finally, a Professor of In
sented to House Interior Sub
Fame of the wheel spread
and orders poured in from all
--+Of the Week
mand N, Spitz will give a
lecture, "Face to Face with
Space". Dr. Spitz is the inyentor of the "Spitz Planetariums”, which are used in
Holds Luncheon
lotte, Willow Valley Rd.,
perfectly and the Pelton
Water Wheel Company was
launched,
Ow
and appraise its results,
Supports Gold Bill
the home of Isabell T ourtel
Creek. The wheel worked
gold mines of California.
The invention of the Pelton
integrated basis.
the Latin American policy of
the Kennedy administration,
NC Garden Club
County Chamber of Commerce is in full support of
the gold bill recently pre
It is estimated that in the
United States 95 per cent of
the commercial broiler
chickens are produced on an
“All the Ships at Sea" and
“Ensign O'Toole and Me”,
Three other lecturers are
scheduled to follow in the
series, On Nov, 27, Dr. Hubert Herring, authority on
Latin America, will present
a-lecture which -will-diseuss
Amador County
JACKSON---The Amador
Pelton's original model
was made of wood. This
proved impractical because
of expansion and contraction
wheel helped make practical
the generation of hydro
PELTON WHEEL---Water under pressure
is directed through a nozzle against the
split buckets onthe perimeter of the wheel
which turns a shaft. Gears then take over
the job of converting the
energy to any
number of uses.
he did extensive research had
discussions with the leaders
of 37 different countries,
The Governing Board of
Yuba College, and the As
chicory blossoms will transform manya
lush green brook-bank or grassy roadside
into a strange new firmament. If the stems
are cut and placed in water, one or two
sociated Students of Yuba
College are jointly sponsoring and financing this
lecture-forum series,
Centrai California
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Ethereal blue like the sky, a galaxy of
ADDING
MACHINE
new heads will spread their delicate rays
each day for ten days or two weeks and
supply an artistic bouquet in the Japanese
style. The dr-ied roots of this plant are
used commercially here and abroad as a
substitute for
coffee. This blue
may be found now and all
underwood
hearty
summer along
olivett
most every roadside.
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BALANCE
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** EXTREME PORTABILITY
* * EFFICIENCY at LOWEST
UPHOLSTERY
203 West Main St., Grass Valley.. Phone 273-2739
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Foundry) in Nevada City.
to 34 feet in diameter were
sed books, "The Ugly Amera large group of the Amer
The Pelton Water Wheel
was invented in 1878 by Lester Allan Pelton at Camptonville and perfected at the
Allan Foundry (now Miner's
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willcommence
with the ap
MARYSVILLE---An evening
lecture series has been ar
In Nevada City
Community action also is of the wood caused by water.
needed. “Every population He next cast a two foot wheel
centerin hilly or mountainin iron which was tested or
ous areas has around it zones the Piety Hill side of Deer
LITTLE BLAZE.. .Jerry Clark, it; son. Mr. and ee.
ee
Clark of Peardale takes his three months old colt Blaze along
on his regular Sunday ride. Blaze is half Welsh, a quarte
r
Shetland anda quarter American Saddle Bred. Jerry sits astride
Princess, Blaze’s mother.
Ch
ground
with fire resistant or fire retardant plants, irrigated if
possible,
, Stu
— ee
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Pelton Perfected Wheel
owners and communities had
taken certain precautions,
holdickets
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“Fire! It can be Con
trolled, “
ill be
‘11
No Excuse
BERKELEY ----Thousands of
California homes are surrounded by uncounted tons of
dry kindling.
"Sooner or later fire sweeps
most brushlands,” says a
leaflet published by the University of California, pointing out that during the dry
es Belllow a
fi)
Sierra Sights..
RN
Horses & Riders..
1e Band
other
FTS
The Nevada County NUGGET..Wednesday, September 19, 1962..Page 3