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September 5, 1962 (8 pages)

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ee —_ pf oe NEVADA COUNTY NUGGE Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Gleenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, . eed Vol. 37 No. 38.10¢A Copy Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Plumbing Sad, But Not Too Bad GRASS VALLEY+==T he plumbing in the new Memorial Park bath house is not up to the specifications outlined in the city's building code. This was the decision of a master plumber whowas asked by the Grass. Valley City Council to check the work following contractor Wilmer Foster's charges that the work was sub-standard made last w eek at the City Council's meeting. The master plumber wishes to remain anonymous, but the city said he is a retired master plumber who still retains his license to work and contract in Grass Valley. He stated that while the plumbing is sub-standard it will still work and will cause no trouble. He added that if the chargeshad been made earlier, before the cement floor had been poured, that he w ould have advised the city totear the work out and re-do it correctly. Mayor Hodge said that the city will go ahead with the little work left to finish the building andthat some changes in the above floor plumbing would be made to help assure that no problems Oya aie 8 one NOT UP TO CODE---Mayor John Hodge points to some of the city's plumbing that has been ruled to be sub-standard, but useable. Subdivision Code Gets County OK NEVADA CITY---After a brief question to establish the procedure for obtaining variances, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon passed by a 4-1 vote the subdivision. The actioncame more than more than a year after deliberations on the ordinance began in the county planning commission, : The first draft of the ordinance came under heavy fire in public hearings, and the ordinance was adjusted to comply with the wishes of most groups. Washington Water Dist. Election Set NEVADA CITY ----Nevada County Supervisors yesterday gave approval to the placing of the formation of the Washington Township Water District on the Novy. 6 ballot, The district would serve more than 100 persons living in the township, as well as those residing adjacent to the Yuba River upstream from the townsite, COUNTY TAX RATE UP 16¢ NEVADA CITY----Nevada County supervisors yesterday set the tax rate for fiscal 1962-63 at $2.36 per $100 assessed valuation, a 16 cent increase over last year's rate. The tax rate breaks down as follows: general fund, $2.03; exploitation, .015; accumulated capital outlay, . 30; and aviation fund, .015. Constable Hutchinson Dies At Home GRASS VALLEY --Grass Valley Constable Harold Hutchison died suddenly at his home last night at the conclusion of the Giant-Dodger telecast, presumably of a heart attack. Although details of the constable'srites are pending, itis known that services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the chapel of the HooperWeaver Mortuary in Grass would arise, At last week's council meeting, Foster stated that he had seen the faulty plumbing some two weeks before _ but had been called out of town the day the council met. This would have been Aug. 14, Hodge hastened to add that the city was not disregarding the code but, since work had progressed so far, that it would be very uneconomical to tear out all the work and Childs To Tour Europe WASHINGTON D.C, ---Columnist Marquis Childs, whose nationally recognized column appears inthis newspaper, will depart for the centers of Europe Sept 4 for a period of four to five weeks for an on-the-scene study .of European economic growth andthe progress of the Common Market. start over, Childs, Washington Bureau Chief for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and whose column is syndicatedby United Feature Syndicate, is a veteran reporter of the world scene ‘and his byline this trip will come from London, Paris, The Hague, Rome, Brussels, Madrid and Lisbon, Watch for Marquis Childs’ informative and responsible reports from Europe Valley. Appointed to his position by the county board of supervisors, Constable Hutchison won his elective post in the June primary election. He was at home with his wife, Melita, at the time of his death, CELEBRATION C HAIRMAN---Tom Ess "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1962’ Dolley, g DONNER MONUMENT...Dignitaries of the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West as they attended the corner stone laying ceremonies at Donner Monument June 10, 1910. Sunday another group of men and women will gather to dedicate the Emigrant Trail Museum and proclaim Donner Park tobe a National Historic Site. DONNER PARK MUSEUM SET FOR DEDICATION eneral chairman for the dedication of the Pioneer-Donner Museum and weekend ‘celebration set for Truckee tomorrow through Sunday, paid an
official visit to Nevada City recently to invite everyone to Truckee for the event. husband. Mrs. Dolley made the trip with her VAN DALIS M---These stone barbecue ovens in Pioneer Park were wrecked last weekend by vandals. Nevada City police are seekinga group of teenagers reportedly seen in the area of Pioneer Park when the damage occured. Sierra College Classes Begin Tuesday Morning ROCKLIN --Class instruction will begin at Sierra College on Tuesday, Sept. 11 for an estimated 1100-plus students, Counselling and programming of all students is expected tobe completed this week, with special meetings for new instructors, for the entire faculty and for all new students scheduled for next week, President Harold Weaver announced today. DOCTORS URGE VACCINE USE AUBURN---Establishment of 14 clinic sites in Placer and Nevada Counties to accommodate the area's 70, 000residents in a mass polio immunization program has been announced as the first step in Project S.O.S,--Sabin Oral Sundays--scheduled for September 23, November 4, and December 16. Sponsored by the PlacerNevada County Medical Society, the program's goal is the polio immunization of every man, woman and child with Sabin oral vaccine in the most extensive medical attack on a single disease in the history of the two counties. The immunization will be financed by the medical society to give every member of every family a chance to receive the vaccine, Persons receiving the vaccine will be invited to contribute, if they can, 25 cents for each dose received, tohelp defray the cost of the program, Theclinic sites, to be announced soon, will be set up by the doctors at the schools inthese areas, They will be manned by several hundred volunteers, including the doctors and nurses, Western Ne vada County residents will take their vaccine at Nevada Union High School. Dr. John Mathewson of Auburn is chairman of the society's S.O.S, project in the two=county area, Dr. Mathewsonurges everyone to take the new Sabin vaccine, even those who have already had their Salk shots. He explained that not only doesthe Sabin vaccine work much more effectively against polio than the older Salk serum, but it also prevents children and adults from being a carrier of the disease to others--something the Salk serum cannot do, “The Sabin vaccine, the doctor said, is administered by placing two drops on a cube of sugar. The vaccine is harmless, and causes no after-effects, and has been tested successfully on tens of millions of people in the United States and other countries, The attack on polio in Placer and Nevada counties willbe conducted simultaneously with similar campaigns in 14 Sacramento Valley counties} and six Bay Area counties, with each program under direction of local county medical societ1eSe ’ For complete immunization of each individual, three vaccinations must be administered to guard against the three types of polio virus which attack and cripple children and adults, Dignitaries Will Attend TRUCKEE--A four day celebration will begin tomorrow and culminate Sunday with the dedication of Donner State Park.as a national historic site, the dedication of the Emigrant Trail Museum at the park, and the dedication ofthe HaroldT. (Bizz) Johnson room in the museum, High state and national officials will be onhand for the ceremonies Sunday, the Truckee-Donner Chamber of Commerce announced today, The festivities be gintomorrow with the assembly of the Truckee Donner Horsemen Wagon Train in Reno at noon, followed by the horsemen's dinner at Harrah's Club at 8 p.m. Friday the wagon train will leave Reno for Dog Valley enroute to Truckee. They will camp Saturday night at Alder Creek. A Clamper parade and band concert is scheduled for Saturday atl p.m. , with initiationtothe historic E, Clampus Vitus scheduled at3 p.m. A street dance and entertainment in Truckee will fill out the Saturday program, Truckee Donner Horsemen will serve a public breakfast at Alder Creek Sunday morning. A square dancing exhibition will begin at 10 a.m, Sunday, followed by a parade at 1 p.m. from downtown Truckee to Donner State Park along Emigrant Way, Memorial services at 2:45 p.m. for all pioneer emigrants under the direction of the Truckee Donner Horsemen will precede the dedication ceremonies at the park, Robert Paine, of Nevada City, will act as master of ceremonies, Invocation will be by Father Patrick Coffee, benediction by Rev. Sidney C, Smith, Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 29 88 41 00 30 80 44 -00 31 84 32 -00 Sept. 1 86 (45 . 00 . 20 8a) ‘47 00 3 90 465 -00 4 89 45 00 Rainfall this year -38 Rainfall last year -18 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 29 91 56 .00 30 84 53 ,00 31 87 56 .00 Sept. 1 90 59 .00 2 9 62 .00 3 95 60 .00 4 94 89 -00 Rainfall this year 44 Rainfall last year 35 ~ $20,000 DAMAGE---A mechanic surveys the damage to th > ES £e landing gear, propeller . andborate tank. Airport manager Bob Stevenson estimated the damage at “around $20,000" and said the plane would be out of service for the balance of the year. *3T1BO ‘6 OfUetivanes AABIQTT 0989S *JT1ED. uotgces ST ectpotvad