September 20, 1972 (12 pages)

ha BE Sats ible = ied 4 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1972 “Notes off the Cuff’ By P. L. Smith Small children and old men Side, however, is the fact that -.-.and understands,' " xe * seem to take a particular deI've found it the better part of The late, great Will Rogers light in the role. of "sidewalk valor to leave my little chisuperintendent" as Broad Street huahua Jo-Jo at home during was quoted in a syndicated ardaily gets its insides uprooted in these hectic "reconstruction" ticle first published in the early preparation for the new beauty days. He is accustomed to the hot summer of 1931 as follows: treatment. Anxious mothers, office routine..but all that fe“Politics has got so expensive with kiddies in tow while downverish activity outside really that it takes lots of money to ~ town on shopping trips surely shook him up last week. He even get beat with." If old Will have their hands full. The issued challenge after challenge were alive today what might small fry simply can't resist to each earthmover, backhoe he not find to say on the same a closer look at all those big and tractor going up or down subject? Much of Rogers' mamachines and the wonderful men Broad; and when he failed to terial was, in essence, many who run them up and down over deter them in their travels he years ahead of his time and the hills and mountains of choptook on the human traffic in some of the more barbed reped up concrete and asphalt, front of the office..and gave his marks about politics and polold streetcar rails, etc., that tiny lungs a surprising and faiticians might now be viewed served for so many years. And tiguing workout. So home he as having been "predictions of the elders of the community stays until the job is finished and things to come" rather than arrive early and stay late, gathings are more normal on our. comments on events of his day and time. A good friend of thering in little knots on favcorner. * * & ' mine who dabbles in some pretorite street corners..to be sure Oh, yes..speaking of dogs. ty liberal "grass roots" polthey don't miss anything the -.have you ever read Don Blanditics down in Southern Califleast bit out of the ordinary or exciting in the big project. ing's touching tribute to "man's ornia, tells me that a speakers Their staying. powers are exbest friend"? I mean that beaubureau in one large south state thing from ‘'Vagabond city depends in great part on traordinary! Allinall..there's tiful House"..it goes like this: Roger's old material for "quoreally something for each of us " * There are times when table quotes" provided their serto watch and ponder..but, Glory only .a dog will do for a vice club and labor group "orBe, in a few brief weeks all this friend..When you're beaators." His criticism is that racket and dust and inconventen, sick and blue and the the bureau writers take some ience will be a dimming memworld's all wrong, For he. pretty ghastly liberties with the ory..and just think how beauwon't care if you break original at times and that this tiful Broad Street will be when and cry, or grouch and “mis-use" of Will's brainchilseen in the soft glow of those swear, For he'll let you dren is stirring up the mighty beautiful gaslights! * * A bit more on the personal know ashe licks your hands wrath of some of his fans down That he's downright sorry yonder. What PG&E is doing to keep you from running out of gas. Sportsmen do great deal for wildlife ‘By RAY ARNETT, Director dation has given $2,500 to aid California Department of Fish in the preservation of the tule elk in the Owens Valley, a Deand Game Sportsmen do a great deal partment of Fish and Game promore for fish and wildlife conject, and has agreed to hire servation than buy licenses and a mountain lion hunter to aspay their taxes on fishing tackle sist in the DFG survey of lion and sporting arms and ammunpopulations in the state, Other foundation funds have ition. Particularly Bs thetek ganized sportsmen, license buygone to: (1) Ducks Unlimited ing and tax paying is only the in California and Arizona; (2) be ia Ae and fishermen have heard about the constructive work done by local, state and national organizations. These are the men--and often women too--who, through their dollars and many hours of vol the Serengeti Game Reserve in Tanzania to provide rifles and ammunition so that game rangers can defend themselves in the deadly war waged against unteer, wana to provide water for ani unpaid work fight the poachers there; (3) the Mari cari Pans (cq) Game Reserve in the Kalahari Desert in Bots battle of conservation, generally mals which otherwise would die in face of misunderstanding. of thirst during dry season mi Less widely known, perhaps, gration; (4) the Zambian Game are the efforts of international Department for a helicopter to groups of sportsmen, those con control poaching and help pre in Africa or India. build roads into areas overrun cerned with conservation vent decimation and possible exthroughout the world. But don't tinction of the black lechwe; and write these off as groups inter(5) the Serengeti National Park ested only in what is happening for a motor grader to help Take the case of the Mzuri by poachers. The whole tenor of the Mzuri Safari Club, currently let by Rinaldo Pepi of San Francisco. Safari Club's approach to the It was organized 15 years ago need for conservation is proaround a dinner table by a group bably best reflected in a recent of San Francisco Bay Area saissue of the foundation's magfari enthusiasts, The clubname azine “Mzuri Drumbeat". An was taken from a Swahili word editorial notes that members pronounced "um-zuri" meaning of the Mzuri Safari Club "will "good". not answer hysteria with hyster A few years ago, this group 1a This monthly magazine goes became vitally interested in hunter-conservation oriented proto some 10,000 hunters and other jects because of what was hapconservationists throughout the It is intended to meet pening in Africa and elsewhere world, in the world, including Califthe “need for an honest forum ornia. So they established the where professional wildlife sciMzuri Safari Club Foundation tc entists and others involved in raise funds for projects around the management of the world's resources can be heard without the world. The money is raised through editorial muzzling."' The people who make up the sale of paintings, sculpture, camping equipment, and a wide membership of this group are variety of merchandise and serthe new big game hunters. They bear little resemblance to the vices including safaris. At times, the results are specHemingway characters who ag For years, natural gas has been an abundant, economical fuelandthe & 2. Encouraging California suppliers to find new fields within the state. 38. Studying the potential of fe se synthetic natural gas and the import #%a ge major source of clean energy in this area. However, gas reserves are geome diminishing and the price is going up. In some parts of the nation there are natural gas shortages . already. Not so here, now. Our residential, commercial and stan dard rate industrial customers néed not be concerned at this time about our capability to Ps _serve their requirements. ,9%% However, we may have to curtail the gas service of our lower g ¥ if 1 5. Investigating coal reserves in the United States and Canada suitable for gasification. m, 6. Planning and building nuclear-fueled power plants which do not use gas or oil as fuel. rate “interruptible” industrial ‘i customers during ¢ cold spells this coming winter season in order to meet the public’s heating requirements. Faced with thegrowing gas supply problem, here’s what we’re doing: 24x-T972 It all boils down to this: The era of abundant, lowcost natural gas _. in this nation has ended. The cost Be % Ser 4 Fes of gas has been rising. New gas supis Heeetes 4 plies will be more diffi: se cult to obtain and probably will come from more distant places, hence will be even more costly. Inevitably, our rates will have “a 1, Participating finan cially in gas exploratory projects in the Rocky Mountains, Canada and Alaska. of liquefied natural gas from other continents. 4. Contributing $335,000 per year for four years to industrywide research on gasification of coal. : & to reflect these rising costs. We urge all our customers to make prudent use of this natural resource. PG2¥E , tacular. At one point, the group onize over the meaning of courcame up with $150,000, all markage and the question of their ed for worldwide conservation wives' fidelity. They are sea projects. soned sportsmen--conservation The results of these fund raisists but not crybabies. ings can best be seen in some It is organizations such as of the help this foundation has this that can make us all feel been able to give various congood about the future of conservation efforts throughout the servation and the world of wildworld. life on all the continents of the The Mzuri Safari Club founglobe. Theater restoration work is approved The first phase of restoration ible. The north wall foundation of the Old Nevada Theater, rewill be repaired, sealed and a storing the facade, was approved by board members of. Liberal drainage system laid. At the special board meeting Arts Commission, a letter of commendation on the Bob McCabe, restoration spenew Nevada City brochure was cialist from Sacramento, is the consulting architect on the work. approved to be sent tothe ChamLoacl builders hired are Dorber of Commerce, Allen Rogers ville-Gallino, for the construcwas appointed liaison officer to tion; Hansen Bros,, to do the the chamber. foundation work on the north A harvest barn dance-day ride wall; Osborn-Woods, interior dewill be held Nov. 11 at the armory, ways and means commit Signers and color consultants, The facade will be restored to its original design which had two sidewalk entrances and two second story windows with iron doors and shutters, The original brick will be used where poss tee members announced, Gene Bozarth is chairman for the Hallowe’en haunted house, Lynn Schugren Morin will hold a piano concert at the theater on Oct. %

ha BE Sats ible = ied 4 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1972 “Notes off the Cuff’ By P. L. Smith Small children and old men Side, however, is the fact that -.-..and understands,' " xe * seem to take a particular deI've found it the better part of The late, great Will Rogers light in the role. of "sidewalk valor to leave my little chisuperintendent" as Broad Street huahua Jo-Jo at home during was quoted in a syndicated ardaily gets its insides uprooted in these hectic "reconstruction" ticle first published in the early preparation for the new beauty days. He is accustomed to the hot summer of 1931 as follows: treatment. Anxious mothers, office routine....but all that fe“Politics has got so expensive with kiddies in tow while downverish activity outside really that it takes lots of money to ~ town on shopping trips surely shook him up last week. He even get beat with." If old Will have their hands full. The issued challenge after challenge were alive today what might small fry simply can't resist to each earthmover, backhoe he not find to say on the same a closer look at all those big and tractor going up or down subject? Much of Rogers' mamachines and the wonderful men Broad; and when he failed to terial was, in essence, many who run them up and down over deter them in their travels he years ahead of his time and the hills and mountains of choptook on the human traffic in some of the more barbed reped up concrete and asphalt, front of the office...and gave his marks about politics and polold streetcar rails, etc., that tiny lungs a surprising and faiticians might now be viewed served for so many years. And tiguing workout. So home he as having been "predictions of the elders of the community stays until the job is finished and things to come" rather than arrive early and stay late, gathings are more normal on our. comments on events of his day and time. A good friend of thering in little knots on favcorner. * * & ' mine who dabbles in some pretorite street corners....to be sure Oh, yes....speaking of dogs.. ty liberal "grass roots" polthey don't miss anything the -.have you ever read Don Blanditics down in Southern Califleast bit out of the ordinary or exciting in the big project. ing's touching tribute to "man's ornia, tells me that a speakers Their staying. powers are exbest friend"? I mean that beaubureau in one large south state thing from ‘'Vagabond city depends in great part on traordinary! Allinall....there's tiful House"....it goes like this: Roger's old material for "quoreally something for each of us " * There are times when table quotes" provided their serto watch and ponder...but, Glory only .a dog will do for a vice club and labor group "orBe, in a few brief weeks all this friend...When you're beaators." His criticism is that racket and dust and inconventen, sick and blue and the the bureau writers take some ience will be a dimming memworld's all wrong, For he. pretty ghastly liberties with the ory....and just think how beauwon't care if you break original at times and that this tiful Broad Street will be when and cry, or grouch and “mis-use" of Will's brainchilseen in the soft glow of those swear, For he'll let you dren is stirring up the mighty beautiful gaslights! * * A bit more on the personal know ashe licks your hands wrath of some of his fans down That he's downright sorry yonder. What PG&E is doing to keep you from running out of gas. Sportsmen do great deal for wildlife ‘By RAY ARNETT, Director dation has given $2,500 to aid California Department of Fish in the preservation of the tule elk in the Owens Valley, a Deand Game Sportsmen do a great deal partment of Fish and Game promore for fish and wildlife conject, and has agreed to hire servation than buy licenses and a mountain lion hunter to aspay their taxes on fishing tackle sist in the DFG survey of lion and sporting arms and ammunpopulations in the state, Other foundation funds have ition. Particularly Bs thetek ganized sportsmen, license buygone to: (1) Ducks Unlimited ing and tax paying is only the in California and Arizona; (2) be ia Ae and fishermen have heard about the constructive work done by local, state and national organizations. These are the men--and often women too--who, through their dollars and many hours of vol the Serengeti Game Reserve in Tanzania to provide rifles and ammunition so that game rangers can defend themselves in the deadly war waged against unteer, wana to provide water for ani unpaid work fight the poachers there; (3) the Mari cari Pans (cq) Game Reserve in the Kalahari Desert in Bots battle of conservation, generally mals which otherwise would die in face of misunderstanding. of thirst during dry season mi Less widely known, perhaps, gration; (4) the Zambian Game are the efforts of international Department for a helicopter to groups of sportsmen, those con control poaching and help pre in Africa or India. build roads into areas overrun cerned with conservation vent decimation and possible exthroughout the world. But don't tinction of the black lechwe; and write these off as groups inter(5) the Serengeti National Park ested only in what is happening for a motor grader to help Take the case of the Mzuri by poachers. The whole tenor of the Mzuri Safari Club, currently let by Rinaldo Pepi of San Francisco. Safari Club's approach to the It was organized 15 years ago need for conservation is proaround a dinner table by a group bably best reflected in a recent of San Francisco Bay Area saissue of the foundation's magfari enthusiasts, The clubname azine “Mzuri Drumbeat". An was taken from a Swahili word editorial notes that members pronounced "um-zuri" meaning of the Mzuri Safari Club "will "good". not answer hysteria with hyster A few years ago, this group 1a This monthly magazine goes became vitally interested in hunter-conservation oriented proto some 10,000 hunters and other jects because of what was hapconservationists throughout the It is intended to meet pening in Africa and elsewhere world, in the world, including Califthe “need for an honest forum ornia. So they established the where professional wildlife sciMzuri Safari Club Foundation tc entists and others involved in raise funds for projects around the management of the world's resources can be heard without the world. The money is raised through editorial muzzling."' The people who make up the sale of paintings, sculpture, camping equipment, and a wide membership of this group are variety of merchandise and serthe new big game hunters. They

bear little resemblance to the vices including safaris. At times, the results are specHemingway characters who ag For years, natural gas has been an abundant, economical fuelandthe & 2. Encouraging California suppliers to find new fields within the state. 38. Studying the potential of fe se synthetic natural gas and the import #%a ge major source of clean energy in this area. However, gas reserves are geome diminishing and the price is going up. In some parts of the nation there are natural gas shortages . already. Not so here, now. Our residential, commercial and stan dard rate industrial customers néed not be concerned at this time about our capability to Ps _serve their requirements. ,9%% However, we may have to curtail the gas service of our lower g ¥ if 1 5. Investigating coal reserves in the United States and Canada suitable for gasification. m, 6. Planning and building nuclear-fueled power plants which do not use gas or oil as fuel. rate “interruptible” industrial ‘i customers during ¢ cold spells this coming winter season in order to meet the public’s heating requirements. Faced with thegrowing gas supply problem, here’s what we’re doing: 24x-T972 It all boils down to this: The era of abundant, lowcost natural gas _. in this nation has ended. The cost Be % Ser 4 Fes of gas has been rising. New gas supis Heeetes 4 plies will be more diffi: se cult to obtain and probably will come from more distant places, hence will be even more costly. Inevitably, our rates will have “a 1, Participating finan cially in gas exploratory projects in the Rocky Mountains, Canada and Alaska. of liquefied natural gas from other continents. 4. Contributing $335,000 per year for four years to industrywide research on gasification of coal. : & to reflect these rising costs. We urge all our customers to make prudent use of this natural resource. PG2¥E , tacular. At one point, the group onize over the meaning of courcame up with $150,000, all markage and the question of their ed for worldwide conservation wives' fidelity. They are sea projects. soned sportsmen--conservation The results of these fund raisists but not crybabies. ings can best be seen in some It is organizations such as of the help this foundation has this that can make us all feel been able to give various congood about the future of conservation efforts throughout the servation and the world of wildworld. life on all the continents of the The Mzuri Safari Club founglobe. Theater restoration work is approved The first phase of restoration ible. The north wall foundation of the Old Nevada Theater, rewill be repaired, sealed and a storing the facade, was approved by board members of. Liberal drainage system laid. At the special board meeting Arts Commission, a letter of commendation on the Bob McCabe, restoration spenew Nevada City brochure was cialist from Sacramento, is the consulting architect on the work. approved to be sent tothe ChamLoacl builders hired are Dorber of Commerce, Allen Rogers ville-Gallino, for the construcwas appointed liaison officer to tion; Hansen Bros,, to do the the chamber. foundation work on the north A harvest barn dance-day ride wall; Osborn-Woods, interior dewill be held Nov. 11 at the armory, ways and means commit Signers and color consultants, The facade will be restored to its original design which had two sidewalk entrances and two second story windows with iron doors and shutters, The original brick will be used where poss tee members announced, Gene Bozarth is chairman for the Hallowe’en haunted house, Lynn Schugren Morin will hold a piano concert at the theater on Oct. %