September 6, 1961 (10 pages)

A AS BRE NE NOT ORE aS ERIE Ait PN ae NEVADA COUNTY ake CE SE oe nee a on ane CRE NEE gay Serving the communities of Nevada Grass V Graniteville, North ie of ca iy, Gea alter, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Sailor F! Flat, Sebastopol, _ Hill, Brandy Relief Hill, W: Lake City, Selby Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Seonta & Indian Flat, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Ontega, Fren ko Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walle ouge E Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Hosth Cobustihis, Cohunbin Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Fiat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 36 Number 36‘. 10 Cents A Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesday, Nevada City, September 6, 1961 aati NOT FOR ANOTHER WEEK.Students of the Nevada Union High School District have one more week of vacation before starting classes in the new school. Officials blame a shippimg delay of certain equipment for the postponement. RELUCTANT.Ricky Addleman, ll, freedom andreturntoclasses. His friends Russel Thomas,, 12, Wilson, 12, hold open the door at Nevada City Seven Hills Intermediate School. All three are 7th. grade students in Mr. Norman Weitzels class. dis (L) seems reluctant to give up his summer (center) and Bobby nia State Fair, Sept. 10, will feature a rally and entertainly members of the California Institute of Social Welfare. George McLain("Mr, Senment program staged by elderGrass Valley C of C Meetings Cancelled GRASS VALLEY. The & scheduled Thursday luncheon meetings of the Grass Valley Chamber of Comcerce have been cancelled recently due to the lack of suitable private dining facil. ities within walking distance . of the shopping area. Accommodations are expectedto be forthcoming in . the near future. Until that ‘. time, committee chairmen and directors are meeting at the chamber office. Senior CitizenDay At Fair y. SACRAMENTO---"Senior Citizens Day” at the Califorior Citizen"), chairman of the CISW, has been invited by Fair officials to greet the old folks at the bandstand, north end of the Fair Grounds off "Y" Street, at 1 p.m. Persons 62 or over will be admitted to the Fair free that day and entertained by a cast of Senior Citizens headed by Dolly Dimples, formerly world-famous 550-pound circus fat lady, now at 60 trimmed down to a petite 110 pounds. In a letter to State Fair officials offering the assistance of the CISW to make the event a "fitting tribute” to California's elderly. CISW chairman McLain wrote "any effort to establisha dignified image of our Senior Citizens has our wholehearted support. “ Included in the program will be square dancers, instrumentalists and vocal soloists. School High School To Open Monday NEVADA CIT Y, . More than 2365-elementary school and kindergarten students returned to classes Tuesday in western Neveda County, according to an incomplete tally today by the office of County Superintendent of Schools Ed Fellerson. Largest enrollment was in the Grass Valley district where 1068 students appeared for the first day. Last year, however, first day student total was 1105. Grass Valley's school totals included 60 kindergarten and 95 first and second graders at Washington School; 60 kindergarten and 121 first and second graders at Bell Hill School; 722 first through sixth graders at Hennessy School. In Nevada City district, the student total was 711, up from 626 last year. The total included 80 in the kindergarten annex, 331 first through fourth graders at Nevada City School; and 300 fifth through eighth graders at Seven Hills School. Other district attendance included Blue Tent, 9; Kentucky Flat, 22; North San Juan, 52; Pleasant Valley, Al; Pleasant Ridge, 180; Cherokee, 21, Ready Springs, 80; Union Hill, 155; and Washington, 18; Chicago Park, 32; and Clear Creek 12, High school and junior high school students in the Nevada Union High School District are scheduled to.begin classes Monday after a week delay due to equipment problems at the new high school plant sewage disposal system. MISSLE? ??.No, it's the HEWGAG belonging to the William Morris Stewart Chapter of EClampus Vitus and guarded by (center) Sen. Swift Berry of Placerville. The HEWGAG will bray Sunday Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. in the little town of Washington to call the brothers together for some important clampbusiness. ‘ Historical Society Meets Tomorrow ROUGH AND READY,.The first meeting this fall of the Nevada County Historical Society will be held tomorrow evening here at the Odd Fellows Hall at 8 p.m. Elmer Stevens, Nevada Union High School teacher , will show slides taken in Norway during the year he spent there as a Fulbright exchange teacher. ' DeTurk, Officials To Visit Malakoff Supervisors Endorse Site, Countywide: Committee At Work SACRAMENTO. CharlesA. DeTurk, Chief of the Division of Beaches and Parks, Clyde Newlin, supervisor of the third district of the division, State Senator Ronald Cameron and Assemblyman Paul Lunardi will inspect the proposed Malakoff State Park site the morning of Sept. 18. Senator Cameron announced today that the group will also visit the Manzanita cut, Banner Mountain, and will examine the Jackson Meadow dam recreational possibilities if time permits. kkkkk NEVADA CITY. Official 1500 Acres Burned Heavy Timbered Areas Are Safe NEVADA CITY. Division of Forestry crews were busy over the Labor Day weekend containing several fires in Nevada and Yuba counties. It was the worst fire weekend in California history , and local fire officials were thankful that fires in this area were not in areas with heavy timber. Largest of the fires in which crews from numerous local districts aided was the Rackerby fire which burned 750 acres and at one time threatened the towns of Rackerby and Brownville in Yuba County. Another 700 acres was burned near the Brown's Valley turnoff from Highway 29 in Yuba County. A third fire burned 40 acres off McCourtney Road in Nevada County, while a fourth in the Starbright Acres . area was contained in less than an acre, In addition to Division of Forestry firefighters, men from T ahoe National Forest , and volunteers from the following fire districts responded to the task of dousing the blazes; Grass Valley , Nevada City, 49er, Gold Flat, Alta-Oaks-Sunset, and ' Watt Park. Crews fromthe California Youth Authority at Smartville and from Porterville also worked on the fires. steps toward presentation by the county pf a MalakoffNorth Bloomfield State Park package to the California Division of Beaches and Parks are proceeding as rapidly as possible this week. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors Friday passed a resolution endorsing the Malakoff area as a potential state park site. A coordinating committee composed of county chamber of commerce representatives and the Nevada County Broad of Tradeheld its first meeting Thursday night and placed the Malakoff-North Bloomfield State Park project onthe schedule for immediate work. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Aug. 30 83 51 -Aug. 31 85 53 os Sept. 1+ 87 49 -Sept. 2. 88 45 -Sept. 3 79 45 -Sept. 4 88 44 -Sept. 5 87 45 -Rain tedate. 4. 218 Rain last year .3, . . . «16 Grass Valley Aug. 30. 84 +59 -Aug. 31 87 62 -Sept. 1 88 58 -Sept. 2 84 50 is Sept. 3 84 52 -Sept. 4 90 50 -Sept. 5 89 58 -i Rain last year. . .25 Rein tO date. cs 2k 4 688 EAGER.Conditioned to the Tim Moule 8,:(L) and Douglas Hammes, 6, both 2nd. graders at Mount St. Marys Academy in Grass Valley. The parochial school has been in session for over a week. "grind" are Total for season to date: 168 TAHOE FOREST FIRES Fires this past week: 26 All small, 2 Man Caused 24 Lightning 29 Man Caused 139 Lightning 395 Acres Burned Crew sent toRanchero, Sutter Creek fire, now contained. . Acres burned there, 30,000. Tanker with three men sent to Oroville, C, P, Mine fire; Tankers released to California Division of Forestry for use on numerous weekend fires. b al i ’ yEe i oo, SS BE %, se cgaeene= ae NORTH BLOOMFIELD SCHOOL HOUSE.It’s been years since children played in the now overgrown school yard or scampered back to class when the bell called them from their play. This old white building with a good aluminum roof stands vacant on the outskirts of North Bloomfield.

A AS BRE NE NOT ORE aS ERIE Ait PN ae NEVADA COUNTY ake CE SE oe nee a on ane CRE NEE gay Serving the communities of Nevada Grass V Graniteville, North ie of ca iy, Gea alter, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Sailor F! Flat, Sebastopol, _ Hill, Brandy Relief Hill, W: Lake City, Selby Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Seonta & Indian Flat, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Ontega, Fren ko Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walle ouge E Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Hosth Cobustihis, Cohunbin Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Fiat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 36 Number 36‘. 10 Cents A Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesday, Nevada City, September 6, 1961 aati NOT FOR ANOTHER WEEK..Students of the Nevada Union High School District have one more week of vacation before starting classes in the new school. Officials blame a shippimg delay of certain equipment for the postponement. RELUCTANT..Ricky Addleman, ll, freedom andreturntoclasses. His friends Russel Thomas,, 12, Wilson, 12, hold open the door at Nevada City Seven Hills Intermediate School. All three are 7th. grade students in Mr. Norman Weitzels class. dis (L) seems reluctant to give up his summer (center) and Bobby nia State Fair, Sept. 10, will feature a rally and entertainly members of the California Institute of Social Welfare. George McLain("Mr, Senment program staged by elderGrass Valley C of C Meetings Cancelled GRASS VALLEY.. The & scheduled Thursday luncheon meetings of the Grass Valley Chamber of Comcerce have been cancelled recently due to the lack of suitable private dining facil. ities within walking distance . of the shopping area. Accommodations are expectedto be forthcoming in . the near future. Until that ‘. time, committee chairmen and directors are meeting at the chamber office. Senior CitizenDay At Fair y. SACRAMENTO---"Senior Citizens Day” at the Califorior Citizen"), chairman of the CISW, has been invited by Fair officials to greet the old folks at the bandstand, north end of the Fair Grounds off "Y" Street, at 1 p.m. Persons 62 or over will be admitted to the Fair free that day and entertained by a cast of Senior Citizens headed by Dolly Dimples, formerly world-famous 550-pound circus fat lady, now at 60 trimmed down to a petite 110 pounds. In a letter to State Fair officials offering the assistance of the CISW to make the event a "fitting tribute” to California's elderly. CISW chairman McLain wrote "any effort to establisha dignified image of our Senior Citizens has our wholehearted support. “ Included in the program will be square dancers, instrumentalists and vocal soloists. School High School To Open Monday NEVADA CIT Y, . More than 2365-elementary school and kindergarten students returned to classes Tuesday in western Neveda County, according to an incomplete tally today by the office of County Superintendent of Schools Ed Fellerson. Largest enrollment was in the Grass Valley district where 1068 students appeared for the first day. Last year, however, first day student total was 1105. Grass Valley's school totals included 60 kindergarten and 95 first and second graders at Washington School; 60 kindergarten and 121 first and second graders at Bell Hill School; 722 first through sixth graders at Hennessy School. In Nevada City district, the student total was 711, up from 626 last year. The total included 80 in the kindergarten annex, 331 first through fourth graders at Nevada City School; and 300 fifth through eighth graders at Seven Hills School. Other district attendance included Blue Tent, 9; Kentucky Flat, 22; North San Juan, 52; Pleasant Valley, Al; Pleasant Ridge, 180; Cherokee, 21, Ready Springs, 80; Union Hill, 155; and Washington, 18; Chicago Park, 32; and Clear Creek 12, High school and junior high school students in the Nevada Union High School District are scheduled to.begin classes Monday after a week delay due to equipment problems at the new high school plant sewage disposal system. MISSLE? ??..No, it's the HEWGAG belonging to the William Morris Stewart Chapter of EClampus Vitus and guarded by (center) Sen. Swift Berry of Placerville. The HEWGAG will bray Sunday Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. in the little town of Washington to call the brothers together for some important clampbusiness. ‘ Historical Society Meets Tomorrow ROUGH AND READY,.The first meeting this fall of the Nevada County Historical

Society will be held tomorrow evening here at the Odd Fellows Hall at 8 p.m. Elmer Stevens, Nevada Union High School teacher , will show slides taken in Norway during the year he spent there as a Fulbright exchange teacher. ' DeTurk, Officials To Visit Malakoff Supervisors Endorse Site, Countywide: Committee At Work SACRAMENTO. CharlesA. DeTurk, Chief of the Division of Beaches and Parks, Clyde Newlin, supervisor of the third district of the division, State Senator Ronald Cameron and Assemblyman Paul Lunardi will inspect the proposed Malakoff State Park site the morning of Sept. 18. Senator Cameron announced today that the group will also visit the Manzanita cut, Banner Mountain, and will examine the Jackson Meadow dam recreational possibilities if time permits. kkkkk NEVADA CITY.. Official 1500 Acres Burned Heavy Timbered Areas Are Safe NEVADA CITY.. Division of Forestry crews were busy over the Labor Day weekend containing several fires in Nevada and Yuba counties. It was the worst fire weekend in California history , and local fire officials were thankful that fires in this area were not in areas with heavy timber. Largest of the fires in which crews from numerous local districts aided was the Rackerby fire which burned 750 acres and at one time threatened the towns of Rackerby and Brownville in Yuba County. Another 700 acres was burned near the Brown's Valley turnoff from Highway 29 in Yuba County. A third fire burned 40 acres off McCourtney Road in Nevada County, while a fourth in the Starbright Acres . area was contained in less than an acre, In addition to Division of Forestry firefighters, men from T ahoe National Forest , and volunteers from the following fire districts responded to the task of dousing the blazes; Grass Valley , Nevada City, 49er, Gold Flat, Alta-Oaks-Sunset, and ' Watt Park. Crews fromthe California Youth Authority at Smartville and from Porterville also worked on the fires. steps toward presentation by the county pf a MalakoffNorth Bloomfield State Park package to the California Division of Beaches and Parks are proceeding as rapidly as possible this week. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors Friday passed a resolution endorsing the Malakoff area as a potential state park site. A coordinating committee composed of county chamber of commerce representatives and the Nevada County Broad of Tradeheld its first meeting Thursday night and placed the Malakoff-North Bloomfield State Park project onthe schedule for immediate work. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Aug. 30 83 51 -Aug. 31 85 53 os Sept. 1+ 87 49 -Sept. 2. 88 45 -Sept. 3 79 45 -Sept. 4 88 44 -Sept. 5 87 45 -Rain tedate. 4.. 218 Rain last year .3, . . . «16 Grass Valley Aug. 30. 84 +59 -Aug. 31 87 62 -Sept. 1 88 58 -Sept. 2 84 50 is Sept. 3 84 52 -Sept. 4 90 50 -Sept. 5 89 58 -i Rain last year.. . .25 Rein tO date. cs 2k 4 688 EAGER..Conditioned to the Tim Moule 8,:(L) and Douglas Hammes, 6, both 2nd. graders at Mount St. Marys Academy in Grass Valley. The parochial school has been in session for over a week. "grind" are Total for season to date: 168 TAHOE FOREST FIRES Fires this past week: 26 All small, 2 Man Caused 24 Lightning 29 Man Caused 139 Lightning 395 Acres Burned Crew sent toRanchero, Sutter Creek fire, now contained. . Acres burned there, 30,000. Tanker with three men sent to Oroville, C, P, Mine fire; Tankers released to California Division of Forestry for use on numerous weekend fires. b al i ’ yEe i oo, SS BE %, se cgaeene= ae NORTH BLOOMFIELD SCHOOL HOUSE..It’s been years since children played in the now overgrown school yard or scampered back to class when the bell called them from their play. This old white building with a good aluminum roof stands vacant on the outskirts of North Bloomfield.