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b* The Chester Lions Club is said
have taken on the task of emu-
mg Quincy by starting devel-
0praent of a community park for
area. Like airports, Greenville
need one unless she wants
to keep "in the swim" . . . if reas-
Onable support is given the newly
aQttvated Chamber of Commerce
here, both may be obtained for
the Indian Valley folk one of these
days. We'd like to suggest, how-
V0r, that the best way to build
Rn organization is from the inside
"--not from the sidelines! Cecil and
Vadney and their committeemen
ltre showing indications that they
Will accomplish a great deal, but
let's work with them for a year
d give them some good support!
Getting ready for the county fair
lways gives us a bad time for a
tow weeks beforehand, so we try
to plan taking two or three days
ff to attend the annual event and
Pend them where we can have the
Qatisfaetion of giving a bad time
to Tulsa Scott, Ji mZeno, Mary
Alice Smith, Lois Kehrer and all
thers who contributed in any way
tO our delinquency . . . This year
Mike added to our problems by de-
to stage his big sale this
We0k--and one just doesn't get
head of Mike. Well, sounds like
the fair is good. We'll be seeing
Y0tl over there!
ILR,.TC RACES TO
A special hard top program will
presented Sunday night, Aug-
lint 12 at the Plumas County Fair,
Quincy, Tulsa E. Scott, secre-
announced.
• hls will be the first time the
hard tops have performed in
quincy.
The show will be sponsored by
the COnico Hard Top Association
llnder the direction of Bob Durst.
'Pae first event will get under way
tt 7: 30 p.m.
Among the drivers who will
ompete are:
Pete Peterson :of Orland, Ben-
Harshbarger, Buzz Remington,
Harris, Harold Cole, Jim Slack
Willis Horn of Marysville;
Dunwoody, Johnny Cambra,
Barrett, Dale Patterson
d Earl Holtman of Chico; Bill
TOWnsend, Joe Perry, Jack Owen,
Pilot and Homer Garrett of
ridiey. Don Connoily of Oroville,
ob Patrie of Meredish; Merle
heeler, of Live Oak; Pat Nichols
0f Wheatland, and Harold Ceccone
Of Hamilton City.
DE BEEF
4-H 00!ICTION
'Phe annual 4-H auction will be
bne of the features of the Fair.
Thirty bead of baby beef will be
bffered during the traditional sale
10 a.m. Sunday, Alton Young,
advisor for Plmas and Sier-
t'a Counties announced.
"Fair visitors will have an op-
to obtain a supply of the
meat in California," Young
Bald.
• Over 100 4-Hers will participate
a series of events embracing a
review, .beef showmanship,
trod homemaking activities.
The youngsters will also per-
rom during the horse show on the
Pening night of the Exposition.
VALLEY OBSERVATIONS
:Mxs. Eva Hall of Spokane,
gton, is enjoying a couple
Weeks visit in Greenville with
mother, Mrs. L. J. Cessna.
Hall says that this country
many advantages not to be
in eastern Washington, but
he still thinks highly of her home
terrain.
lIrs. Lorene Harrelson and son
arrived from San Francisco
Saturlay to spend a couple of
vacation visiting at the
of her sister, Jewell Stan-
dart, and at Lake Tahoe. She
accompanied home by Shirley
Standart who spent a week
OakLand visiting at the O. H.
home.
1Vr. and Mrs. Billy Murray,
Sally and son Bill J.
Saturday from Sunnyvale
spend a week visiting his par-
atS, Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Murray
d brothers, Vadney and John-
ly, of Greenville. His sister, El-
len Taresh. and baby are also
a week at the parental
having been brought Up by
last week.
Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m.
of Plumas Chap-
Western Mining Courmll, at
Hall, Greenville. Anyone[
I in mining matters is]
.t :attend the dinner or[
meeting; or both.
S00COi00iD
?P3T B/tSEBALL
! ?AcITE STANDINGS
J q'he Greenville Indians made a
record 12 errors to the visitors'
3 in Sunday's game abainst Her-!
long on the local diamond, losing I
to the league leaders by the score
of 14-10, when Casteel and Thur-!
man served as batteries for the!
home team and McElroy for thai
visitors.
Herlong got off to a good start
with four runs in the first inning
adding one in the second and four
more in the fourth, making ad-
ditional singles in the 6th, 8th and l
9th, while the Indians took the!
first two frames to warm up,
making three in the 3rd, one each
in the 4th, 5th and 7th, and two
each in the 8th and 9th.
The short score follows:
HERLONG
AR R H
Rederford, ss .................... 6 2 1
herman, 2b .................... 6 2 1
"Williams, lb .................... 6 1 2
McElr)y, c ........................ 6 3 2
Wright. p ........................ 5 2 2
Lewis, 3b ............................ 3 F. 0
V;oods, cf ........................ 3 0 3
}[ickens, if ..................... 1 0
aker, If ....................... ] 0 0
Washington, rf ................ 5 0 0
GREENVILLE
AR R H
-oer. 3b ............................ 5 2 2
:r.)ng, ss .................... 5 0 0
mmman, lb ................ 5 1 4
Cleland, rf .................... 5 3 4
.yers, If ............................ 4 1 0
Darlington, cf ................ 5 1 2
Casteel, p ........................ 5 0 1
Holt, 2b ........................... 3 1 1
Evans, 2b ....................... 2 0 0
Therman, c ........................ 4 1 2
Following a game between
Chester and Quincy Sunday, in
which the former won 20-9, the
Herlong and Chester squads went
into a percentage fie for first
place in the Feather River League
standings. American Valley won
its second game of the season by
defeating Westwood 10 to 9. the
former scoring six runs in the
ninth inning to upset the game.
League standings are:
W L Pet
Herlong ........................ 8 4 .667
Chester ........................ 6 3 .667
Quincy ........................ 6 5 .545
Westwood .................... 6 5 .545
Petrols ....................... 4 5 .444
Greenville .................... 4 6 .400
American Valley ........ 2 8 .200
BELL PROPERTY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The D. A. Beel residential prop-
erty, located just beyond Sleepy
!-Iollow on the road to Crescent
Mills, was almost a total loss fol-
lowing a fire about 4 o'clock Tues-
day afternoon.
The Greenville Fire Department
was summoned from a call box
sear Cheney's mill, and the blaze
is believed to have started from
an overheated wood range. Inter-
ior of che building was completely
gutted, with flames doing con-
siderable damage to the exterior.
Prompt action by the firemen
prevented the fire spreading to
adjacent buildings. The place was
said" to have been occupied by
two men, nd no insurance was
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Ye Editors. " "
GENESSEE LUMBER r0000ILL
TOTALLY I00$00ROYE!)
I00HRE SUNDAY
Fire .vchich.completely razed the
Genessee Lumber mill early Sun-
day afternoon spread to the near-
by wood and burned over about
500 acres of timberland before it
was halted late Monday night.
The blaze, estimated to have
done damage amounting to some
$200,000, was- believed to have
started as the result of a welding
torch being in use at the time,
More than 350 men were detMled
to the. area, including the crew of
the Almanor Lumber Co., Green-
vil!e and Taylorsvillc forest set-
vice units, and many raner sta-
tions from as far away as Red
Bluff.
The mill has been in operation
for the past three years by
Messrs. Burford, Cherry and Tack-!
son, employing a crew of about
25 and cutting some five million
feet of lumber a year. It was
stated yesterday that plans for re-
building the mill are being made.
It was partially covered by in-
surance.
TOP STATE LIVESTOCK
WILL, BE SEEN AT
P!JN00S COUNTY FMR
One of the outstanding livestock
shows in the history of the Plumas
County Fair will spark the four-
day Exposition that opens Thurs-
day, President Arthur Peter an-
nounced.
Top herds from throughout
Northern California are expected
to vie for premium money and
LINK PECKINPAH, chairman ot the Paacific Coo, st Logging championship Saturday night,
discussed the big show with "Plumas Pete," mascot for the titula meet. More than $2500
in premium money Is being offered in the log qnq contests this year.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WORKS
DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed proposals will be received
at the office of the State Highway
Engineer, Room 510, Public Works
Building, Sacramento, California,
until 2 o'clock p.m. on August 15,
1951, at which time they will be
publicly opened and read in the
blue ribbon laurels.
" . Assembly Room of said building,
Rancheria Angust of Anoerson for constructing highway in ac-
heads the list of exhibitors with cordance with-the specifications
45 head, On submitting the entry, | therefor, to wPACh special refer*
• 1 en is made as follOw"
Rancher Charley Ryan dec axed: I p ..... .-. __ _
'¢ -- all out f r to / t*_n.ma uounty, a zna, an Creek
e are going o P[ Bridge, about 0.8 mile outh of
honors at the Plumas County Fair|Crescent Mills (11-Plu-1062),
because we have found its facili- i about 0.6 mile inlength to be grad:
........... ,, e(1 ancl surmceo wire roan-mixes
ues ne nnes m me country. ] surfacing on crusher run base and
'-" _ - -- - reinforced concrete bridge to be
constructed.
"tORMONIZED GREENVILLE
Ct,MBER OF COMMERCE
TO MEET ON WEDNESDAY
The first membership meeting
of the recently reorganized
Greenville Chamber of Com-
merce will be held at 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, August 15, at the
Greenville Inn, it is announced
by Secretry Vadney Murray.
A membership roll will be set
up at this time, reports heard on
projects already underway, and
plan will be discussed that is
of major interest to every busi-
nessman within a radius of 20
mil-s, It was said. President Ce-
cil Mclntyre urges everyone who
is interested in the growth or
business life of the area be
present, It will not be a dinner
meeting, he said.
Bids are required for the entire
work described herein.
In accordance with the provis-
ions of Section 1770 of the Labor
Code, the Department of Public
"Works has ascertained the gen-
eral prevailing rate of wages ap-
plicable to tle work to be done
to be as follows:
Classification Rate
Per Hour
Skilled Labor
Carpenter ................................ $2.39
Cement finisher (journeyman)
.................................................. 2.42
Concrete mixer operator
(up to one yard) ................ 2.13
Concrete mixer operator
(or er one yard I .................... 2.46
Derrick operator ................... 2.68
Operator of power shovel and/or
other excavating equipment with
shovel-type controls (up to and
including one yard) ..... 3.68
Operator of power sl.vel sad/gy
• otner excvaung eqmpment wire
shovel-type controls (over one
TAXPAYERS" ASSN. TO
00EET AT COURTHOUSE
THURSDAY. AUGUST 16
The anmml meetin0 of the
Plumas County Taxpayers' As-
sociation will be held in the
Superior Courtroom at Quincy
at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug-
ust 16, it was stated yester-
day by Secretary Herb Man-
sell.
At this time the county or-
ganization will hold election of
officers for the coming year and
will take up for discussion such
items of the county budget .as
members may desire, with a
view tie recommending changes
therein to the Board of Super-
visors.
Since there is a good deal on
the agenda, an evening session
may also be held that day, Man-
sell said. All taxpayers and in-
terested citizens areurged to at-
tend the meeting.
00.h.eT RIT00 S aRE HELD -
l r'a00 CY.WHIA KILEY
AU& 6
Funeral services were held at
Marysville on Monday for Mrs.
Cynthia Ann Kiley, 86, who suc-
cumbed at the Batson Hospital
last Saturday following a short
0000OULD-BE MINERS TO
ii00AVE BIG CHANCE IN
ii00LL P:,ffNIG EVENT
Amateurs will get a chance to
"strike it rich" in the gold )an*
ning contest during the fourday
Fair.
The event will be supervised by
the Plumas Chapter, Western
Mining Council with John ,Ronde,
veteran Elizabethtown m i n • r
helptlg" noYtces locate "color."
The eight winners will compete
in the finals Sunday night.
The special feature has its in-
spiration .from the early gold
seekers, who trekked up the hie-
torte Feathe2 River Canyon in the
mid-eightieS.
Oldtimers Still panning gold
from the Feather River and Itll
tributary creeks will participate
but will not be eligible for prizes,
Fairgoei;s will pan against time
and the special mining exhibit wil|
have a liberal quantity of gravel
salted wit " gold.
SOiiIE iiUNTING
TO START'SATURDAY
When the first of two Calif0r.
nia deer hunting seasons ope
at one-hour before sunrise, Sate
urday, August 11, prospects for
bagging a buck or two will ran
from excellent to very poor.
The advatce word on expet
carried on the building.
SONNY SORSOLI, aon o! Mr. and Mr rthur Sorsoli ot
Cresceat Mills, is seen here with the prLe exhibit which
he is preparing for the 4.H Auction to be held at the county
fair Sunday morning.
yard) .................................. 2.85
Painter (trm ................. .2.I5
Painter (ray) ................ g.
'Pile driver-hoistman or operator
: ........................................ 2.50
-Pile driver man ................. [
F wer g. r operator ( [
Roller operator ...................... 2.5|
Tractor operator ............... = .... %52|
Truck driver (8 cubic . mac |
less than 14 cubic yards waer !
level capacity) .................... 2.04 [
Truck driver (14 cubic yards [
and less than 18 cubic yards
water level capacity) ........ 2.I1|
Truck driver (18 cubic yard
water level capacity or more)
Intermedlate Grade Labor
rentice (oiler, fireman or
chman) ......................... 2:0
llaster-powderman 1.
Rootman ......................... I:.93
*lreman in hot plant ..... 3
Operator of JackRamm
ors andall air, gas: md elee*
trio tooI .............. . ............. 1.80
Truck driver (lem than 4
yards water level eacRy) 1.74
Truck driver (4 etbic wat¢
leds than 8 cubic yar water
level ty) I.4
Unskilled Labor
Plagman t.0
Laborer ............................ .... 1.70
Positions not listed elme .will
be allocated in acco wit2t
the definitions which appem' in the
pe'ial p rovlsions, as. I..
;n 1he light of this etasslfleation.
[ he minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor, for which ratem are
not shown above, shall be not le
than 1.84 per hour. raid to all
The minimum wage
intermediate labor, or which
rates are rt shown above,
be not le $I.74 per hour... -
The w@e tmi m m
unskilled Ilmri for which rte
are not srn above, shah be
not less tlmr[ $1.70 per Imur.
illness.
Mrs. Kiley had been a resident
of Crescent Mills many years past
but until recently had made her
home in San Francisco. She had
recently been visiting at the Fic-
kardt home in Crescent Mils, un-
til taken ill last week.
Survivors include a son, Fred-
erick W., San Prancisco; three
grand children, John H. Fickardt
of Crescent Mills; Mrs. George
Bodman of Oroville and Mrs.
Melody Kiley of San Francisco.
'Five great grandchildren also
survive.
The remains were taken to
Marysville for interment under the
direction of Manes Funeral Home
of Greenville.
Overtime--not less than one and
one-half (1) times the above
rates.
Sundays and holidays--not less
than one and one-half (1½) times
the above rates.
The attention of bidders is di-
rected to the fact. that the work
herein proposed to ;be done will
be financed in whole or in part
with Federal funds and that there-
fore all Of the applicable Federal
statutes, rules, and-regulations will
apply to such work.
The attention of bidders is par-
tiularly directed to the provisions
of Section 7, article (a), subarticle
(6), of the Standard Specifications
regarding the use of domestic
materials; to the provisions of
Section 8, article (b), of the Stan-
dard Specifications regarding as-
signment of the contract; and to
the requirements of the special
provislorm regarding subcontract-
mgPlans may be seen, and forms
of proposal, bonds, Contract, and
hunting ,,0nditions comes from
the State S'n?ps of fish and game
wardens. !t#,tJelr annual pre-.
son predi{/ons, the men in green
put portigr:of Mendoelno and
Stanislaus:hntiee in the "ex.
cellent" class, while portions of
Los Angeles, Mendocino, and Mon-
terey cotmtle qualify for '.poor"
ratings Wliei the season opene,
Two bucks is the seasonal bag
limit in :the central and soutlt
coastal regions, which close to
hunting September 16, Portions of
27 Coast Range counties are in.
eluded in the early season,
speeiflcat.may be obtained at
the office; of ,'the State Highway
Engineer;:PUblie Works Building,
acramen, ,California, and they
may be at the office of the
District ers at Los An-
geles an4£San Francisco at the
office oftI4e T)tst.ric ,;ngneer-
of the ditldCt in which the work
Associate::eneral Contractors in
San Fr,_ and at the office
of the Couty Road Commissioner,
Court Hoie, Quincy.
o bid Will be considered unleee
it is mad on a blank form fur-
nished by the State Highway En-
gineer and is made in accordance
with the provisions of the Pro-
posal Requirements and Conditions
set forth under Section 2 of the
Standard Specifications. Each bid,
der must b licensed and also pre-
qualified required by law. (See
said Protitl and Requirement
and Condition)
The Department of Publl
Works reserves the right to re
ject any all bids.
DEPOT OF :PUBLIC ....
WOR_, DIVISION OF HIGH,
WA . .
State _t¢_Wa Engineer
Dated July: 20, 951.
(Publt July 26-Aug. 2-9)