September 29, 1971 (12 pages)

a SL IO YO rs eee RR ge Sag <3 / "40 The Nevada County Nugget, SEPT, 1 29, 1971 ] Grass Valley, Co. Ph. 265-6166 From the files of The Nugget FROM THE YEAR 1929 Richard Nickless is recovering from a case of the small pox, , *** * Rarry sec 7 Jr., is visiting relative in San Francisco, * * * *K A buck stew'served by the Peardale Farm Center last week proved an enjoyable. affair. re * KOK A largely attehded meeting of the Nevada County Promotion Boar d was staged at the National Hotel Saturday evening. * kK OK Nadine Sutton was named editor of the Nevada City High School News column in the Nugget. Bob Polglase was named senior reporter; Harriet Bleakley, junior reporter; Barbara McMinn, sophomore reporter; and Warren Chapman, freshman reporter. * Ok KX The recent dance at Downieville given by the Nevada City Elks netted the fire department there $153, * * OK *K Harold George, leader of the Grass Valley choir, was a business visitor in San Francisco Monday, * * * Mr, and Mrs, Ray Pengelley spent the New Year's holidays in Del Monte. : * * OK Embarrassing moments: When Gen Evans lost her gym bloomers in Physical Education and Marg's hose were found in study hall. * * * Miss Winifred Tyrell spent last weekend in Berkeley. * * * Construction work on the new turpentine factory of the California Timber Products Company will be started this week with the building of a 15 ton concrete storage vat and the office building which will be welcome news, * * * Cinema photographers from the Fox Movietone laboratories are to be at the Idaho-Maryland mine probably on Wednesday of this week to take sound movies of the mine workings above and below the ground. ** * G, J, Rector, Fred F, Cassidy, Raglan Tuttle,C, E, Parsons, W. E. Wright, and W. B, Celio have been anmed as directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, ** * Nevada Masonic Lodge received an invitation to attend the laying of the cornerstone of the new State Teacher's college at Chico on March 8th, * * * Mr, and Mrs, E, T. R, Powell have had as visitors, Mrs, Henry Schaffer of Davis and Edwin Powell of San Francisco, * * * A, H, Moser has been elected again to the presidency of the Nevada County Golf Association, R, J, Bennettes reelected as vice resident and Lynne Kelly as secretary, in the director's meeting held last week. * * * C. R. Clinch has been named as Exlated Ruler of Grass Valley Elks Lodge for the coming year. BUSINESS BILLBOARD . Engraving tool donated for Operation ID Curnow Halls Insurance Agency has donated an engraving tool to the Nevada City Business and Professional Women for use in their Operation Identification Project. The club loans the tool toresidents who in turn engrave their drivers' license numbers on valuable possessions and return it to the club, It presently is operating with eight tools, Bob McMasters, above engraving a gun, and Jim Kendricks,. representatives of the insurance company, urge their policy holders and others to take advantage of this free opportunity. They both believe it to be a deterrent to thefts, Police Chief Jim Moon concurs in the recommendation and said that through this process items suspected of being stolen can be identified within minutes, _#Oryel Stone, shown with the insurance representatives, is one of the club members who take turns manning the booth in the city hall. The engraving tool may be checked out from 1 fo 4 p.m.-Mondays through Fridays, The project is operated with the cooperation of the police department, Mrs, Clara Peterson, chairman of the BPWC project, feels the public is not yet fully aware of the advantages of the free offer and urges all to participate to help reduce thefts in this area, If people without a driver's license wish to -participate in the program they may obtain an identification number, similar to a driver's license, through the Department of ‘Motor Vehicles, Mrs, Peterson said. CHP man gets refresher duty Traffic Officer Arthur F. Loveland of Grass Valley area of the California Highway Patrol completed an eight-day in-service refresher training class at the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento Sept. 22. The training curriculum insis on civil disturbances, driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, vehicle code and enforcement tactics, Classified Ads, the little felows with the THE GIPSON’S 279-2969 Len Gilbert — HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main = P.O. Box 1034 unstoppables. even after they mature. Bonds continue to earninterest — big pulling power. Everybody’s Feverie cluded 17 subjects, with empha. By Judith If you are a regular reader of this column, you may recall my mentioning the Bookmobile a -few weeks ago. I said at that time how the people of this community look forward to its coming. Well this Thurs. day it did not come, There were many people sitting around for about an hour after the designated time. Shortly we learned that the Bookmobile had engine trouble and would not be able to make it to Washington this time. We now know the feeling of being without our Bookmobile. It was not good. You may have heard that there is, a possibility that we may loose the services of our Bookmobile, The people at .the Nevada County Library Project feel that it will be left up to the voters of the county to decide, On Wednesday, September 22, the Friends of the. Library had avery successful. dinner meeting which lasted about.three hours, There was a lively interchange of ideas, The group included three of the supervisors, Bob. Long, Dean Lawrence, and Ralph Buchanan, Mayor Rankin of Nevada City, Ed Fellerson the County Superintendent of Schools, to name a few. Mr. Bacon of the Mountain Valley Library System was the guest speaker, He saidthere are 1,700,000 books in the system of Painted shingles among items at NC Trade Fair Painted shingles and other wooden art items, cards and stationary will be among the many displays to be featured at the 9th annual Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Trade Fair, The old fashioned bazaar is slated for Oct, 9 in the veteran's building on Pine Street. “The event annually attracts visitors from afar, Hand crafted items, art work, food, clothing, antiques, books, pottery, woven goods, stationary, candles, incense, jewelery, bottles, white elephants Spaces and entry forms are now available for groups or individuals who want to display and sell their handiwork, Clara Peterson, chairman of the fair said, i Tne entry blanks and more information are available at the chamber office in the city hall, from Gene Rial, president, at Novak's Men's Wear, or from. Mrs, Peterson, telephone 2654136, The chamber telephone number is 265-2692, Wet ereereee ces eee sere eee ee es ‘Washington . News eeeweeweeroewe’ i J my > i) x] ‘ @ : c] Stewart & which the Bookmobile is a part, That means with the Bookmobile, the people of Washington have available to them, 1,700,000 books, For 2 little town ‘that has nothing in the way of a library that is a lot of books! We sure hope that if the people of Nevada County have the say they will vote to keep it, The people of Grass Valley and Nevada City. may not miss the Bookmobile if we lost it, they have libraries in their communities, but the people of the small mountain communities such as Big Bend, Floriston, Cedar Ridge, Chicago Park and Washington, would very much, We have some very interesting people living in the Washington area, and as space permits, I am going to tell you about some of them, The person I -have learned about this week is W. PE. Murbarger, known in Washington as "Blake", He has made his home here off and on since 1931, He came here looking for gold. He was mining on the Middle Yuba and some other miners told him about Washington and the South Yuba, So he came over to try his luck. Now he claims he-is "high manon the river".No one else gets as much gold ‘as he does, Blake. is a wonderful story teller, and has had lots of experiences in his lifetime to tell about, He is an archeologist and knows a great deal about the Indians of the Western states, His interest in Indians and. Indian relics began when he was just 6 years old, In 1899, his father, George W. Murbarger took his wife and two small boys to live on Chicken Creek on the Middle Fork of Forty Mile River, 99 miles from DawsonCity, Alaska, There. had never been any white women or children in that region before and the Indians, being curious, visited the little family and brought trinkets for the two children, Blake assembled his trinkets and began a collection of Indian relics, All his life he has added to his collection and now it is in several museums in California and some is in the Smithsonian Institute, A museum in Colorado has a large Indian bead collection of his, Blake served inGermany during World War I, He has been a forest ranger and waspresented a badge and made honorary State Deputy Sheriff of California, When Washington still had its jail he was jailer, and when the building was torn down he was presented the key as a_ rememberance, Blake enjoys telling his tales to anyone who will listen and many a Saturday night he will lecture to groups that come to Washington to camp. He likes to teach people to pan for gold, He himself finds much gold and sells it to jewelers and interested people, He also makes and sells Indian bead necklaces which are very popular with young people these days, Blake also writes poems for his own enjoyment and the enjoyment of his friends, He has written one about the Yuba river miner, which is very much true to his life now,

a SL IO YO rs eee RR ge Sag <3 / "40 The Nevada County Nugget, SEPT, 1 29, 1971 ] Grass Valley, Co. Ph. 265-6166 From the files of The Nugget FROM THE YEAR 1929 Richard Nickless is recovering from a case of the small pox, , *** * Rarry sec 7 Jr., is visiting relative in San Francisco, * * * *K A buck stew'served by the Peardale Farm Center last week proved an enjoyable. affair. re * KOK A largely attehded meeting of the Nevada County Promotion Boar d was staged at the National Hotel Saturday evening. * kK OK Nadine Sutton was named editor of the Nevada City High School News column in the Nugget. Bob Polglase was named senior reporter; Harriet Bleakley, junior reporter; Barbara McMinn, sophomore reporter; and Warren Chapman, freshman reporter. * Ok KX The recent dance at Downieville given by the Nevada City Elks netted the fire department there $153, * * OK *K Harold George, leader of the Grass Valley choir, was a business visitor in San Francisco Monday, * * * Mr, and Mrs, Ray Pengelley spent the New Year's holidays in Del Monte. : * * OK Embarrassing moments: When Gen Evans lost her gym bloomers in Physical Education and Marg's hose were found in study hall. * * * Miss Winifred Tyrell spent last weekend in Berkeley. * * * Construction work on the new turpentine factory of the California Timber Products Company will be started this week with the building of a 15 ton concrete storage vat and the office building which will be welcome news, * * * Cinema photographers from the Fox Movietone laboratories are to be at the Idaho-Maryland mine probably on Wednesday of this week to take sound movies of the mine workings above and below the ground. ** * G, J, Rector, Fred F, Cassidy, Raglan Tuttle,C, E, Parsons, W. E. Wright, and W. B, Celio have been anmed as directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, ** * Nevada Masonic Lodge received an invitation to attend the laying of the cornerstone of the new State Teacher's college at Chico on March 8th, * * * Mr, and Mrs, E, T. R, Powell have had as visitors, Mrs, Henry Schaffer of Davis and Edwin Powell of San Francisco, * * * A, H, Moser has been elected again to the presidency of the Nevada County Golf Association, R, J, Bennettes reelected as vice resident and Lynne Kelly as secretary, in the director's meeting held last week. * * * C. R. Clinch has been named as Exlated Ruler of Grass Valley Elks Lodge for the coming year. BUSINESS BILLBOARD . Engraving tool donated for Operation ID Curnow Halls Insurance Agency has donated an engraving tool to the Nevada City Business and Professional Women for use in their Operation Identification Project. The club loans the tool toresidents who in turn engrave their drivers' license numbers on valuable possessions and return it to the club, It presently is operating with eight tools, Bob McMasters, above engraving a gun, and Jim Kendricks,. representatives of the insurance company, urge their policy holders and others to take advantage of this free opportunity. They both believe it to be a deterrent to thefts, Police Chief Jim Moon concurs in the recommendation and said that through this process items suspected of being stolen can be identified within minutes, _#Oryel Stone, shown with the insurance representatives, is one of the club members who take turns manning the booth in the city hall. The engraving tool may be checked out from 1 fo 4 p.m.-Mondays through Fridays, The project is operated with the cooperation of the police department, Mrs, Clara Peterson, chairman of the BPWC project, feels the public is not yet fully aware of the advantages of the free offer and urges all to participate to help reduce thefts in this area, If people without a driver's license wish to -participate in the program they may obtain an identification number, similar to a driver's license, through the Department of ‘Motor Vehicles, Mrs, Peterson said. CHP man gets refresher duty Traffic Officer Arthur F. Loveland of Grass Valley area of the California Highway Patrol completed an eight-day in-service refresher training class at the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento Sept. 22. The training curriculum insis on civil disturbances, driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, vehicle code and enforcement tactics, Classified Ads, the little felows with the THE GIPSON’S 279-2969 Len Gilbert — HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main = P.O. Box 1034 unstoppables. even after they mature. Bonds continue to earninterest — big pulling power. Everybody’s Feverie cluded 17 subjects, with empha. By Judith If you are a regular reader of this column, you may recall my mentioning the Bookmobile a -few weeks ago. I said at that time how the people of this community look forward to its coming. Well this Thurs. day it did not come, There were many people sitting around for about an hour after the designated time. Shortly we learned that the Bookmobile had engine trouble and would not be able

to make it to Washington this time. We now know the feeling of being without our Bookmobile. It was not good. You may have heard that there is, a possibility that we may loose the services of our Bookmobile, The people at .the Nevada County Library Project feel that it will be left up to the voters of the county to decide, On Wednesday, September 22, the Friends of the. Library had avery successful. dinner meeting which lasted about.three hours, There was a lively interchange of ideas, The group included three of the supervisors, Bob. Long, Dean Lawrence, and Ralph Buchanan, Mayor Rankin of Nevada City, Ed Fellerson the County Superintendent of Schools, to name a few. Mr. Bacon of the Mountain Valley Library System was the guest speaker, He saidthere are 1,700,000 books in the system of Painted shingles among items at NC Trade Fair Painted shingles and other wooden art items, cards and stationary will be among the many displays to be featured at the 9th annual Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Trade Fair, The old fashioned bazaar is slated for Oct, 9 in the veteran's building on Pine Street. “The event annually attracts visitors from afar, Hand crafted items, art work, food, clothing, antiques, books, pottery, woven goods, stationary, candles, incense, jewelery, bottles, white elephants Spaces and entry forms are now available for groups or individuals who want to display and sell their handiwork, Clara Peterson, chairman of the fair said, i Tne entry blanks and more information are available at the chamber office in the city hall, from Gene Rial, president, at Novak's Men's Wear, or from. Mrs, Peterson, telephone 2654136, The chamber telephone number is 265-2692, Wet ereereee ces eee sere eee ee es ‘Washington . News eeeweeweeroewe’ i J my > i) x] ‘ @ : c] Stewart & which the Bookmobile is a part, That means with the Bookmobile, the people of Washington have available to them, 1,700,000 books, For 2 little town ‘that has nothing in the way of a library that is a lot of books! We sure hope that if the people of Nevada County have the say they will vote to keep it, The people of Grass Valley and Nevada City. may not miss the Bookmobile if we lost it, they have libraries in their communities, but the people of the small mountain communities such as Big Bend, Floriston, Cedar Ridge, Chicago Park and Washington, would very much, We have some very interesting people living in the Washington area, and as space permits, I am going to tell you about some of them, The person I -have learned about this week is W. PE. Murbarger, known in Washington as "Blake", He has made his home here off and on since 1931, He came here looking for gold. He was mining on the Middle Yuba and some other miners told him about Washington and the South Yuba, So he came over to try his luck. Now he claims he-is "high manon the river".No one else gets as much gold ‘as he does, Blake. is a wonderful story teller, and has had lots of experiences in his lifetime to tell about, He is an archeologist and knows a great deal about the Indians of the Western states, His interest in Indians and. Indian relics began when he was just 6 years old, In 1899, his father, George W. Murbarger took his wife and two small boys to live on Chicken Creek on the Middle Fork of Forty Mile River, 99 miles from DawsonCity, Alaska, There. had never been any white women or children in that region before and the Indians, being curious, visited the little family and brought trinkets for the two children, Blake assembled his trinkets and began a collection of Indian relics, All his life he has added to his collection and now it is in several museums in California and some is in the Smithsonian Institute, A museum in Colorado has a large Indian bead collection of his, Blake served inGermany during World War I, He has been a forest ranger and waspresented a badge and made honorary State Deputy Sheriff of California, When Washington still had its jail he was jailer, and when the building was torn down he was presented the key as a_ rememberance, Blake enjoys telling his tales to anyone who will listen and many a Saturday night he will lecture to groups that come to Washington to camp. He likes to teach people to pan for gold, He himself finds much gold and sells it to jewelers and interested people, He also makes and sells Indian bead necklaces which are very popular with young people these days, Blake also writes poems for his own enjoyment and the enjoyment of his friends, He has written one about the Yuba river miner, which is very much true to his life now,