September 22, 1971 (12 pages)

i TBE agg 2 The Nevada County Nugget, Sept. 22, 1971 North San Juan News. By Idabel Covert The WSCS of the North San’ Juan United Methodist Church held a combined bake sale, rummage sale, and a Silent auction Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Fire Hall, Rummage sales are familiar to us all, as are bake sales, but a silent auction is something else, Where else can you see three normally well-behaved sensible ladies bidding to the skies on a used alarm clock? A hardly-used wig in its cute little case went for. $2, Then there was the toothbrush glass adorned with a flirtatious mermaid that nobody wanted, Oh . well, These affairs are surefire money raisers, and this is where you have the rare opportunity to buy a loaf of delicious home-baked bread, an apple pie fresh from the oven, or if you are really lucky, one of Nellie Dudley’s "Crazy Cakes," Phyllis and Fred Butz of Celestial Valley celebrated Phyllis's birthday last Sunday by taking in the Constitution Day parade in Nevada City, then driving to Foresthill to visit, their son Fred Jr. and his wife Ada, They stopped for dinner at Thelma and Bob Gates home inGrass Valley on their way back, Fred's friends will be pleased to know he is feeling very well in spite of his recent illness, Visiting Cecile Wilson for the weekend were Mr. and Mrs, Charles ‘Hutchison and Mrs, Hilda Wilson, all from Seattle, Hilda Wilson is Cecile's sisterin-law, . and sister of Mrs, Futchison. Mrs. Leroy Elam reported that her nephew Warren Hamilton, of Grass Valley, is home on leave from the Navy. He is stationed in Vallejo. It is a pleasure to announce that Mary Brown, (Mrs, Henry), won one blue and one red ribbon for her lovely oil paintings at the County Fair, Mrs, Brown's work is representational in nature, bright and colorful, and quite professional in quality, The Browns celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last June 8, with a dinner with all their family in attendance, NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406. Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00. 196'7 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION including 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. ~ Speaking of grandchildren, Evelyn and Grant Dahle spent three days last week taking care of theirs while their parents, Calvin and Claudette Milhous, visited relatives in Modesto, oo is the Dahle's daugher. Mr, and Mrs, Pat Moore have had as visitors recently Mrs, Lois Rutherford of Long Beach and her son and daughter-in-law Mr, and Mrs, Jack Rutherford, of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Mr, and Mrs, Joe Wedgewood, also of Guadalajara, Mr, Rutherford was the art critic at the Art Museum in Guadalajara, and Mr, Wedgewood is a sculptor. Also visiting th Moores were the L, E,. Walker family of Chico and their five children, over the Labor Day weekend. Mrs, Walker is Pat's daughter. Last weekend his granddaughter, JoAnn, and her husband Earl Anderson of Pleasanton made a repeat visit, having been here earlier in the summer, Clyde McGinnis and, family of Watsonville visited Eleanor Becky of Oak Tree Road recently. Mr. McGinnis is Mrs, Becky's brother, Taxpayer must pay despite court decision The State Superme Court's decision on the constitutionality of California's public school financing system does not relieve any taxpayer of his obligation for paying his 1971-72 property taxes on time, in the view of the State Board of Equalization, This opinion was expressed today by Board Member William M. Bennett of San Rafael, in response to recent questioning by taxpayers~ as to whether the recent State Supreme Court decision, which ruled that the public school.financing system of California is unconstitutional, excuses taxpayers from paying any part of their 1971-72 property taxes, The first installment of 197172 property taxes will become delinquent Dec, 10, 1971, Bennett pointed out that the Supreme Court decision of Aug. 30 did not involve the granting of an injunction against the collection of taxes, or any final order respecting any taxpayer's ‘ obligation to pay his property , taxes, The Supreme Court's action was to send the case back to the Superior Court of Los Angeles county for trial, The lawsuit was brought by a group of Los Angeles county . public school children and their parents as a class action against county and' state officials, seeking a judicial declaration that California's school financing system is unconstitutional, Classified ads work OT ee ERY By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 With 13 inches of snow in Denver it seems wise to get busy with winter chores early this vear. We love the actual heat as well as the aesthetic warm Sf open wood fires and keep two of them going all winter. Mr. Gleason who supplies the wood to keep them, cut it months ago so it would be just right. Soon he will be racking it in the breezeway where we can get it easily. The chimneys are all cleaned fire safe, The chimney hood of the kitchen one, which is also a two burner cook stove when the electricity fails, had burned through and Mr, Browning had to install a new one, It does pay to start early, Our winter hay man is looking around for some real good alfalfa, I feel so sorry for the livestock on a snowy cold day when their nice fragrant green alfalfa turns out to be weedy and absolutely without any smell, It must be just as tasteless too. Yes, I know and all the neighborhood can plainly see I do keep our cows too fat, There is an old saying, I don't know the exact words or where it came from but, it goes something like this "it's a contented man who has a big barn and a plump wife," Well my husbanddoesn't like plump women but I think plump contented cows make him happy even if he does chide me a bit about them, Two lambs are ready for the butcher, Their timing was good, Last years lamb is down to some riblets and a couple of shanks, When Mr, Doolan of the Mobile Village checks roofs next week it will complete the winter preparations except cleaning ditches, This is young Mike Jontes job and we got some new boots to inspire him to get right in and dig deep, He has done a beautiful job of keeping the hill pastures green all summer but at present his only real interest seems to be football, All summer he had me convinced that baseball was the only thing that really mattered, Mike just started to NUHS this year, If enthusiasm will do the job they are in for some good football years, They sure started off right, The junior varsity played Reno last Friday and won, If I try real hard I can remember when the most important thing in the world to me was the huge yellow chrysanthemum with the big blue and gold "Bruins" on it which I always managed to afford for the big games, That was almost 50 years ago tho’ and my enthusiasm now is for easy chairs and lots of peace and quiet, i * Mrs, Marguerite Payne who lives down Highway 20 a piece from us, on the old Eugene Walter Sr. ranch, is going to leave our community for a couple of years, She is going on a mission to Germany for the Mormon Church, Marguerite tends her flock of sheep and works at the Grass Valley Library at present, She will leave the ranch at the end of September and her pet Rathsheba will come to live with us for a time, Bathsheba is a sheep, Marguerite will remain at her job until the middle of October when she will go to the Mission House in Salt Lake, Later,she will spend a couple of months brushing up on her German in preparation for the mission and will go to Germany the first of the year. ‘I feel a kind of kinship with Marguerite tho’ I am not of the Mormon faith, We have a nephew in Italy on a mission just now, It's an unselfish thing thesémissionaries. do but they win too, Our young nephew Lynn went away a gangling youngster and from his letters we can tell he will be coming home a fine weal man, j * Bathsheba will not be joining our flock until October, but this morning Myrtle Jane came to visit, Myrtle is most unhappy. It nearly broke her heart when her family left her, Mrs, Tinsley tells me she recognizes the school bus and waits for it to arrive because she knows it's going to bring someone to talk to her, Her conversation is limited to Baa but she sure loves people. When I go out into the pasture she leaves the sheep to join me, Of course, when Cynthia washere she didn't know I was on earth but even I am better than another sheep, Myrtle Jane is’ a beautiful well kept ewe that was a 4-H project of Cynthia Tinsley's several years ago, Now she just supplies locker lambs for the family. : . * Dr. Bert Spaite and his brother Gale. of Oakland have just returned from a trip to Spain, They planned on visiting such other romantic and exciting spots as Morocco and Algiers, Dr. Bert looked forward to these as the outstanding points of their itinerary, but they found lots of other interesting adventures to relate, z : ‘ * It was wonderful to see. the Mexican Villa and Gift Shop on the front page of the Nugget last week, Mexican food is kind of, special .but, the Solis family Arnold, Ardith, Marcia, Melinda, Michelle, and Melanie are special too, and we are lucky to have them here in Rough and Ready, : * f * : * * Miss Dee Dee Moore spent Labor Day night with her friend, Miss Nola Vogt, so that they might go to school together the next morning, The girls are both Sheep (men?) and both started to NUHS this year, Dee Dee is going on with her sheep but for this year, while recuperating from her recent surgery, she will start a new strain and so will only have a few to tend. Nola has just completed a very successful breeding season, She entered nine animals at the Sacramento fair and most of the ‘entries and classes placed 2nd or 3rd, The Hampshire competition was very. heavy but she brought home a 2nd place for her best Hampshire yearling Ewe and did very well with her choice Hampshire Ram Lamb, Her Cheviot Ram was Champion of the show. At the District Fair the same Cheviot Ram took Champion again and the Hampshire Ram Lamb was also Champion, The yearling Hampshire Ewe that placed second at Sacramento also won Champion, The other 10 entries here at home did very well, She also had two Fat Lamb winners for the auction on Sunday. In showmanship she placed 3rd, Meg Sailor also of Rough and Ready took top honors, Young Dan Jauregui was the second place winner, * ok * : * The Allan Campbells killed a rattler on their ranch last week, Mrs, Campbell said it was about three feet long and had five rattles, The family was inside when they heard the noise which they recognized immediately, even though they are city folk, They found their cat outside playing with the treacherous creature, Mrs, Campbell hopes there won't be any more but even if there is she thinks maybe the cat will protect them, * * _ * ’ ze, The John Schusters have kept their small trailer parked on Hat Creek between Lassen and Burney this past summer and have spent many happy hours there, Last weekend they visited Mrs, Schuster's mother Mrs, Zimmerman in the Bay Area, When they aren't away somewhere, their son and grandchildren are usually visiting here, * * * Mrs, Lillian Nolan and daughter, Mary Ellen, of Hayward, niece and grandniece of Mrs, Martina Paull, are visiting the area for a few days, They have been enjoying visits with Martina at Holiday Hills, Mrs, Nolan spent much of her younger years with Martina and Ray Paull at the old Morrison home in Rough and Heady. * * * *

i TBE agg 2 The Nevada County Nugget, Sept. 22, 1971 North San Juan News. By Idabel Covert The WSCS of the North San’ Juan United Methodist Church held a combined bake sale, rummage sale, and a Silent auction Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Fire Hall, Rummage sales are familiar to us all, as are bake sales, but a silent auction is something else, Where else can you see three normally well-behaved sensible ladies bidding to the skies on a used alarm clock? A hardly-used wig in its cute little case went for. $2, Then there was the toothbrush glass adorned with a flirtatious mermaid that nobody wanted, Oh . well, These affairs are surefire money raisers, and this is where you have the rare opportunity to buy a loaf of delicious home-baked bread, an apple pie fresh from the oven, or if you are really lucky, one of Nellie Dudley’s "Crazy Cakes," Phyllis and Fred Butz of Celestial Valley celebrated Phyllis's birthday last Sunday by taking in the Constitution Day parade in Nevada City, then driving to Foresthill to visit, their son Fred Jr. and his wife Ada, They stopped for dinner at Thelma and Bob Gates home inGrass Valley on their way back, Fred's friends will be pleased to know he is feeling very well in spite of his recent illness, Visiting Cecile Wilson for the weekend were Mr. and Mrs, Charles ‘Hutchison and Mrs, Hilda Wilson, all from Seattle, Hilda Wilson is Cecile's sisterin-law, . and sister of Mrs, Futchison. Mrs. Leroy Elam reported that her nephew Warren Hamilton, of Grass Valley, is home on leave from the Navy. He is stationed in Vallejo. It is a pleasure to announce that Mary Brown, (Mrs, Henry), won one blue and one red ribbon for her lovely oil paintings at the County Fair, Mrs, Brown's work is representational in nature, bright and colorful, and quite professional in quality, The Browns celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last June 8, with a dinner with all their family in attendance, NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406. Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00. 196'7 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION including 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. ~ Speaking of grandchildren, Evelyn and Grant Dahle spent three days last week taking care of theirs while their parents, Calvin and Claudette Milhous, visited relatives in Modesto, oo is the Dahle's daugher. Mr, and Mrs, Pat Moore have had as visitors recently Mrs, Lois Rutherford of Long Beach and her son and daughter-in-law Mr, and Mrs, Jack Rutherford, of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Mr, and Mrs, Joe Wedgewood, also of Guadalajara, Mr, Rutherford was the art critic at the Art Museum in Guadalajara, and Mr, Wedgewood is a sculptor. Also visiting th Moores were the L, E,. Walker family of Chico and their five children, over the Labor Day weekend. Mrs, Walker is Pat's daughter. Last weekend his granddaughter, JoAnn, and her husband Earl Anderson of Pleasanton made a repeat visit, having been here earlier in the summer, Clyde McGinnis and, family of Watsonville visited Eleanor Becky of Oak Tree Road recently. Mr. McGinnis is Mrs, Becky's brother, Taxpayer must pay despite court decision The State Superme Court's decision on the constitutionality of California's public school financing system does not relieve any taxpayer of his obligation for paying his 1971-72 property taxes on time, in the view of the State Board of

Equalization, This opinion was expressed today by Board Member William M. Bennett of San Rafael, in response to recent questioning by taxpayers~ as to whether the recent State Supreme Court decision, which ruled that the public school.financing system of California is unconstitutional, excuses taxpayers from paying any part of their 1971-72 property taxes, The first installment of 197172 property taxes will become delinquent Dec, 10, 1971, Bennett pointed out that the Supreme Court decision of Aug. 30 did not involve the granting of an injunction against the collection of taxes, or any final order respecting any taxpayer's ‘ obligation to pay his property , taxes, The Supreme Court's action was to send the case back to the Superior Court of Los Angeles county for trial, The lawsuit was brought by a group of Los Angeles county . public school children and their parents as a class action against county and' state officials, seeking a judicial declaration that California's school financing system is unconstitutional, Classified ads work OT ee ERY By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 With 13 inches of snow in Denver it seems wise to get busy with winter chores early this vear. We love the actual heat as well as the aesthetic warm Sf open wood fires and keep two of them going all winter. Mr. Gleason who supplies the wood to keep them, cut it months ago so it would be just right. Soon he will be racking it in the breezeway where we can get it easily. The chimneys are all cleaned fire safe, The chimney hood of the kitchen one, which is also a two burner cook stove when the electricity fails, had burned through and Mr, Browning had to install a new one, It does pay to start early, Our winter hay man is looking around for some real good alfalfa, I feel so sorry for the livestock on a snowy cold day when their nice fragrant green alfalfa turns out to be weedy and absolutely without any smell, It must be just as tasteless too. Yes, I know and all the neighborhood can plainly see I do keep our cows too fat, There is an old saying, I don't know the exact words or where it came from but, it goes something like this "it's a contented man who has a big barn and a plump wife," Well my husbanddoesn't like plump women but I think plump contented cows make him happy even if he does chide me a bit about them, Two lambs are ready for the butcher, Their timing was good, Last years lamb is down to some riblets and a couple of shanks, When Mr, Doolan of the Mobile Village checks roofs next week it will complete the winter preparations except cleaning ditches, This is young Mike Jontes job and we got some new boots to inspire him to get right in and dig deep, He has done a beautiful job of keeping the hill pastures green all summer but at present his only real interest seems to be football, All summer he had me convinced that baseball was the only thing that really mattered, Mike just started to NUHS this year, If enthusiasm will do the job they are in for some good football years, They sure started off right, The junior varsity played Reno last Friday and won, If I try real hard I can remember when the most important thing in the world to me was the huge yellow chrysanthemum with the big blue and gold "Bruins" on it which I always managed to afford for the big games, That was almost 50 years ago tho’ and my enthusiasm now is for easy chairs and lots of peace and quiet, i * Mrs, Marguerite Payne who lives down Highway 20 a piece from us, on the old Eugene Walter Sr. ranch, is going to leave our community for a couple of years, She is going on a mission to Germany for the Mormon Church, Marguerite tends her flock of sheep and works at the Grass Valley Library at present, She will leave the ranch at the end of September and her pet Rathsheba will come to live with us for a time, Bathsheba is a sheep, Marguerite will remain at her job until the middle of October when she will go to the Mission House in Salt Lake, Later,she will spend a couple of months brushing up on her German in preparation for the mission and will go to Germany the first of the year. ‘I feel a kind of kinship with Marguerite tho’ I am not of the Mormon faith, We have a nephew in Italy on a mission just now, It's an unselfish thing thesémissionaries. do but they win too, Our young nephew Lynn went away a gangling youngster and from his letters we can tell he will be coming home a fine weal man, j * Bathsheba will not be joining our flock until October, but this morning Myrtle Jane came to visit, Myrtle is most unhappy. It nearly broke her heart when her family left her, Mrs, Tinsley tells me she recognizes the school bus and waits for it to arrive because she knows it's going to bring someone to talk to her, Her conversation is limited to Baa but she sure loves people. When I go out into the pasture she leaves the sheep to join me, Of course, when Cynthia washere she didn't know I was on earth but even I am better than another sheep, Myrtle Jane is’ a beautiful well kept ewe that was a 4-H project of Cynthia Tinsley's several years ago, Now she just supplies locker lambs for the family. : . * Dr. Bert Spaite and his brother Gale. of Oakland have just returned from a trip to Spain, They planned on visiting such other romantic and exciting spots as Morocco and Algiers, Dr. Bert looked forward to these as the outstanding points of their itinerary, but they found lots of other interesting adventures to relate, z : ‘ * It was wonderful to see. the Mexican Villa and Gift Shop on the front page of the Nugget last week, Mexican food is kind of, special .but, the Solis family Arnold, Ardith, Marcia, Melinda, Michelle, and Melanie are special too, and we are lucky to have them here in Rough and Ready, : * f * : * * Miss Dee Dee Moore spent Labor Day night with her friend, Miss Nola Vogt, so that they might go to school together the next morning, The girls are both Sheep (men?) and both started to NUHS this year, Dee Dee is going on with her sheep but for this year, while recuperating from her recent surgery, she will start a new strain and so will only have a few to tend. Nola has just completed a very successful breeding season, She entered nine animals at the Sacramento fair and most of the ‘entries and classes placed 2nd or 3rd, The Hampshire competition was very. heavy but she brought home a 2nd place for her best Hampshire yearling Ewe and did very well with her choice Hampshire Ram Lamb, Her Cheviot Ram was Champion of the show. At the District Fair the same Cheviot Ram took Champion again and the Hampshire Ram Lamb was also Champion, The yearling Hampshire Ewe that placed second at Sacramento also won Champion, The other 10 entries here at home did very well, She also had two Fat Lamb winners for the auction on Sunday. In showmanship she placed 3rd, Meg Sailor also of Rough and Ready took top honors, Young Dan Jauregui was the second place winner, * ok * : * The Allan Campbells killed a rattler on their ranch last week, Mrs, Campbell said it was about three feet long and had five rattles, The family was inside when they heard the noise which they recognized immediately, even though they are city folk, They found their cat outside playing with the treacherous creature, Mrs, Campbell hopes there won't be any more but even if there is she thinks maybe the cat will protect them, * * _ * ’ ze, The John Schusters have kept their small trailer parked on Hat Creek between Lassen and Burney this past summer and have spent many happy hours there, Last weekend they visited Mrs, Schuster's mother Mrs, Zimmerman in the Bay Area, When they aren't away somewhere, their son and grandchildren are usually visiting here, * * * Mrs, Lillian Nolan and daughter, Mary Ellen, of Hayward, niece and grandniece of Mrs, Martina Paull, are visiting the area for a few days, They have been enjoying visits with Martina at Holiday Hills, Mrs, Nolan spent much of her younger years with Martina and Ray Paull at the old Morrison home in Rough and Heady. * * * *