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STAXiS LHUiAHY, CapUcl 1514. SAC2USIOTO BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS COUNT Yt NEWSPAPER 78ih Year of Continuous Publication QUINCY, CALIFORNIA COUNTY SEAT of PLUMAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Thursday. December 231943. Vol.

78. No. 19. 5c REG. U.S.

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Flour nov Resigns from School; Board Tom D. Ayoob Stricken, Dies Here Sunday TOM D. Ayoob of Quincy, who emigrated from Syria 34 years ago to become a successful American business man and to establish his family here, will be laid at rest in the soil of his adopted country this afternoon. 1 7 ALL right, kids, you can go to the movies tomorrow night. Permission was given to the theatres in Quincy by Dr D.

J. Bleiberg; county health officer, to lift the ban that had kept school age youngsters away from the shows for the past 10 days. The influenza epidemic is definitely on the wane here, Dr Bleiberg states. He said this noon he cannot make a statement regarding reopening other movie theatres in the county until he has further reports regarding the epidemic there. Very few new cases of the flu appeared yesterday.

The health officer repeated his warning, however, that at any sign of cold, a doctor should be called, and the patient should stay indoors, preferably in bed. If influenza is contracted, the Services Tomorrow for Ted Nave GREETING Tom Ayoob had this writer come in to see him last Wednesday morning about his ad in Thursday's paper. It was to call attention to his Christmas merchandise. As we were leaving. Tom said, "Next week be sure to tell everybodies a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years for me." It was the last time we saw him alive.

We aren't running the ad, as we would have had, us do if he were here today, but we feel sure that Tom would sort of like to have the folks know he thought of them and wanted to extend season's greetings. DEAR SANTA CLAUS: For Christmas we want: A promise of victory for America's righteous cause in 1944, and a safe and worthy world forever after. An-understanding in all the people that everyone must do his utter best for his country, from working hard at his job to buying War Bonds to the limit. Food for our sustenance, and freedom from sickness in our land. Wisdom and understanding in our leaders.

A new schoolhouse for Quincy. Radio news commentators who will cut out the attempts at oratory, and just talk like ordinary folks. Lots of flowers in the Springtime, and frost-free Victory Gardens. Fewer ruts on the road to Qxiincy Junction. A fly that the trout in the Middle Fork will take.

A nice, shiny new automobile. Five new rubber tires. A tub of butter. A trip over the Alcan Highway. If all that adds up to too much, Santa, we'll settle a stick of genuine Wrigley's Spearmint.

HELP ERNIE Leonhardt has had various people helping him in his store this week. Mrs Wayne GeiL who manages his hardware department, is ill with influenza, and' so is Geil, who helps out in the grocery store as well as hardware section. Reuben Woods, who had taken the place of Dean Atkinson as clerk in the grocery store, was also ill. So is Melvin Elwood, a clerk. Atkinson resigned to return to rail road work.

So Paul Koff and X. E. "Jim" Schwartz have been taking their places temporarily. Mr Schwartz is principal of the" grammar school. Koff is waiting for a call to go to San Francisco for his tests as a diver, with prospects that he will be employed by the Navy Department.

TRIP MRS John W. Moore had an airplane trip this week she won't iorget soon. Accompanied by Stewart Montmorency, Gail left Quincy last Thursday, destination Phoenix Sky Harbor. She ran out of daylight 35 miles from Phoenix, made an emergency landing on a small Army auxiliary field. Mrs Moore visited her brother, L.t.

David Rogers, and the latter's bride and started for home, but found fog here and had to land at Beckwourth last night, FR. JOHN McGOLDRICK was down from Portola Tuesday afternoon to make his regular visit to the patients at the county hospital. MR AND MRS G. W. SAPP of Sloat and their daughter, Wil-lomae, were in town Saturday.

Mr Sapp came down to see his doctor. A SON, WILLIAM ARD EN, was born at Santa Cruz Sunday noon to Mr and Mrs Tulsa Scott. He has an older brother, Johnny. Mr Scott has gone to Santa Cruz to see his family. BUD KERR is now at NATS 29, wherever that is, his father, M.

C. Kerr, reports. A yeoman in the Navy, Bud wras stationed at San Francisco before being Bent to sea. MR AND MRS A. L.

Olsen were in town last week-end. Mr Olsen, formerly a high school teacher here, is principal now at Hopland. He came up to interview the draft board, which has classified him 1-A. FUNERAL TOMORROW SERVICES will be held at Chico tomorrow for J. H.

Fagg, division manager of the who died there Tuesday night. HARLEY C. Flournoy, member of the county high school board of trustees since the resignation early this year of Everett Pierce, this week filed his Resignation with the superintendent of schools, Tillie N. Kruger. Mr Flournoy served as clerk of the board.

His resignation, he was made necessary by an increasing impairment of his hearing, making it difficult for him to follow the proceedings of board meetings. -Mr Flournoy retired at the beginning of 1943 as county assessor. He had also served as county his service dating back to 1896, the years between his tenure in the clerk's office and assessor's office being devoted to He was one of the founders of the Plumas County Bank. He found on retiring from public office that the demands for his services was by no means over, and he was appointed to the ration board as well as school board. Miss Kruger, in accepting his resignation, said she regretted the high school district losing Mr Flournoy's services.

She has not announced whom she will appoint to succeed him. Greenville SaAvnmill Ends Season Rim GREENVILLE Dec 23 The Setzef Box Co. sawmill ended its season's run Friday. Logging operations were discontinued Sunday, a heavy downpour of rain making this decision necessary. It was planned to do more logging if weather had permitted.

The box factory will be shut down for about 10 days during the holidays, but otherwise will operate throughout the winter. Weather Shuts Down Twain Mill TWAIN Dec 23 The Metz-ker Dellinger Lumber Co. sawmill was forced to close down last week because of weather condi-. tions. The mill was completed late this Fall and operated about two months.

It is owned by J. K. Metzker and A. C. Dellinger of Quincy.

Christmas Program at Church Sunday THE Community Church Sunday School will present its Christmas program Sunday evening the program that had to be postponed two weeks ago because of influenza. Santa Claus will be featured for the benefit of the tinier tots between 7 and 8 P. M. Starting at 8, the children of the upper classes will present a program for the congregation and the public. WHO AT the open house given Monday evening by Mr and Mrs L.

D. Craig for members of the American Legion and Auxiliary, the Legionnaires brought 1917 and 1918 pictures of themselves and the guests spent an hilarious hour figuring out who was who. RATION BOARD THE county ration board office will be closed from 4:30 tomorrow afternoon (Friday) until Monday morning. A telephone number will be posted on the door tor emergencies. A.

T. DIETLE, Optometrist 1925 Montgomery. SL, Oroville patient should no attempt to return to work or otherwise go out doors for at least two or three days after getting out of, bed. The one case of mumps discovered in Quincy last week was apparently an isolated case. No others have been reported.

A second case of scarlet fever developed at Twain. Its victim, Alice Mae Anthony, was placed in county hospital isolation ward. The extreme cold spell which gripped this area during the first part of the month has broken. Lingering fogs kept the weather on the miserable side in Quincy. J.

C. Lee is featuring the great dog story, 'Lassie Come Home," at the Town Hall Theatre starting Sunday. It is filmed in Technicolor. His special Christmas program features Ann Sothern in "Swing Shift Maisie." and Javanese waters against heavy Jap odds following the fall of Manila, cannot be here for his father's funeral, which is to be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow, Friday, afternoon. Earl is sick in bed with influenza.

Ted is to be buried in the Quincy Cemetery at the side of his mother. His father is buried at Gibsonville. Besides Mrs Finlayson, another sister, Mrs Thos Jones of Duns-muir also survived. Other relatives mcluiie twa nephews, Dei-1-mar Nave and Chester Nave of Oakland; two nieces, Mrs Blanche McGeough and Mrs Louisa Benson of -Los Angeles; two aunts, Mrs Hattie Alldredge Kinnear of Sacramento, and a cousin, Beulah Stansf ield of Sacramento. Mr Nave's wife and Earl's mother was Hazel iSquires, also a member of a pioneer Gibsonville family.

She is buried at Willows. When Ted was a boy, Gibsonville was a thriving mining town, with from 400 to 500 men working for the Belleview and other big properties. The community was usually snowbound from Oct. 1 ot Nov. 1, and, oftentimes the residents would not see bare ground again until the following Aug.

1. Every child learned to ride snowshoes, or "Skiis," and Ted was an expert snowshoe rider all his life. He frequently made the trips to La Porte, seven miles distant, for the mail and newspapers. Logger's Skull Broken by Limb WALTER "Red" Dillard of American Valley, employed by the Skyline Logging suffered a frontal skull fracture Saturday wnen he was struck by a tree limb. The tree he.

was falling struck another, causing the limb to snap off from a standing tree. He is a patient at the Plumas Industrial Hospital, where his condition is reported to be satisfactory. Bill Winter Killed on Makin Island BLAIRSDEN, Dec. 23 Edward Bill Winter, 23-year old son of Mr and Mrs Geo. H.

Winter of Feather River Park, has been killed in action, the War Department notified his parents this week. He was killed on Makin Island in the South Pacific. He had been in the Army nine months. SCOUTS THE weekly troop meetings of the Quincy Boy Scouts have been suspended until January 3 because of the influenza epidemic. Mr Ayoob died very suddenly this week.

He was at work in his store when a stroke siezed him at 9:30 Friday morning. His heart stopped beating at 1:05 Sunday afternoon. His assistant. Miss M. Geney, heard him fall to the floor and she ran to his side.

She was able to understand him say 'My. whole right side Daughter Called from Portola, He was taken to the 1 a Industrial hospital, and Miss. Geney summoned Olga Ayoob, one of Mr Ayoob's daughters from Portola. Olga reached her father's side within the He seemed to recognize her, but he was never able to speak after his stroke, and Friday night he lapsed into a coma. Adwim Ayoob, who helps Olga manege the store at Portola owned by their brother, George, while George is in the Army, and Melba Ayoob, who has lived with them for several months while recuperating from a broken hip, came down to Quincy Friday afternoon.

Tom Ayoob jr, employed at the Bethlehem Shipyards on San Francisco Bay, arrived at 5:30 Saturday morning. Ll. John Ayoob, the eldest son, is on duly in the South Pacific with, the U. S. Army Engineers.

2 Nicky, stationed at Santa Maria, reached Quincy Sunday night. George, stationed at Fort Ben-ning, came in on last night's Exposition Flyer. He left as soon as his sister, telephoned him that their father had been stricken, and not know until his sisters met him at Quincy Junction that he was dead. Services Tomorrow Services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the -Moody Chapel, with interment in Quincy Cemetery at; the side of the- children's mother, Olive Ayoob, who died six years ago. Tom Ayoob, was born at Nehi, near Beyruth, Syria, December 15, 1885.

He and Olive were married in 1908, and they emigrated to America in 1909, landing at Galveston, Texas. Two of Tom's brothers Mike and Sol, had already come to the U. S. and were working in San Francisco. Mike, a salesman, travelled to Yuba and Butte counties, and the brothers determined to establish a business in the mountain country in Plumas county, which was having a railroad construction boom.

As partners, they opened a store at Greenville. Tom was a roving salesman for the firm, calling at logging camps and elsewhere throughout the county. His children John and George had been born at San Francisco. Tom jr and Adwina were born at Greenville, Melba and Nick after the family moved to Crescent Mills. Mr Ayoob started his own little store at Crescent in 1914.

Here 21 Years In 1922 he moved his family to Quincy, and he and his brother Sol started Ayoob Brothers' store here. Mike remained at Greenville, and after Sol died the partnership was dissolved. Tom later bought the K. Sudaha Son store at Portola, andGeorge became its manager and eventually owner. Until Sol died, Tom continued to make his selling trips through the county, but after the brother died, he devoted his time to the Quincy store.

His children helped him, and the business flourished. Mr Ayoob was civic-minded and was one of ihe original boosters for ihe Feather River Highway. One of ihe stunts used to stimulate action by the stale government towards constructing ihe road was a pilgrimage to Pulga during 1928, Plumas county and Reno boosters meeting those from Butte county, Oakland and elsewhere ai ihe central point. The "North Fork Highway Association" was organized at Pulga after Mr Ayoob mounted a flat-car and tossed into a hat the first "DUNC" ROBERTSON SON of Mrs Willie Robertson of Quincy, Sgt. Donald Duncan Robertson is serving the Army at Fort Gruber as a laboratory technician.

He is a graduate chiropractor and was prepared to start practicing when the war interrupted. Dune was born at Sacramento March 15, 1915, being brought home to Quincy as a tiny baby. He grew up here, graduating from Quincy High School with the class of 1933. For several years before the war he worked at San Francisco. NAME A NAME renowned in Plumas county Arthur Keddie has been given by Mr and Mrs E.

E. Cronin of Portola to their son, born there Dec. 11. The mother is the former Peggy Palmer, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Palmer. Mrs Palmer's father was Arthur W.

Keddie; who brought about construction of the Western Pacific Railroad through Plumas county. GUNNERY LEE R. DeCamp, son of Mr and Mrs L. R. DeCamp of Quincy, has been sent to Jacksonville, for training; in the U.

S. gunnery school- there. He had been at the air, technical training center at Memphis, aviation radioman school. He is a seaman 1 c. Lee enlisted April 21 and had his boot camp training at Farra-gut.

$100 subscription for the operating expenses of the association. He was one of the original members of the Quincy Rotary Club and Quincy Golf Club. At one time he belonged to the Odd Fellows and Moose Lodges. He attended all county chamber commerce meetings when that organization was active. He was a contributor to the Red Cross, Boy Scouts and causes of a similar nature.

After his wife died, he made two trips to Syria. On the last, he matried the present Mrs Ayoob, Adele. They were stranded for nearly two years by the war, finally making their way back to America by way of India and Singapore. In recent years, Mr Ayoob ha 3 a great deal of trouble with his eyes, and San Francisco specialists performed several operations. His consultant here, Dr Bernard Holm, advised him to retire from business, but Tom didn't know how to quit working.

He was proud of his sons, three of them in military service, another in war industry, as well as of his All seven grew up in Quincy, graduating from the high school here. Mr Ayoob gave the boys university educations and the girls went away to school to complete their business training. One Grandchild He was proud, too, of his new grandson, son George's George "Little Shorty." The baby was born three weeks ago in Georgia and had been brought home from the hospital the day Mr Ayoob was stricken. Besides his immediate family and his brother Mike of Greenville, Mr Ayoob is survived by another brother, George Ayoob of Los Angeles, and a sister, Emily, who still resides in Syria. His mother died in Syria a year ago, his father this year in his 100th year.

There are also three nephews and a niece Mike's children Michael Ayoob jr, VS. Navy, and Helen and Carl; and David, Sol's son, who was brought up by Mr Ayoob after Sol died. 6 TED Nave died at the county hospital at 12:30 Monday morning. He was a Sierra Nevadan through and through, born at Gibsonville April 19, 1881 as the son of Solomon Edward Nave and Ida Marie Kinnear (Nave). His name was the same as his father's, but everybody knew him as Ted.

His father called him -Tot when he was a youngster, and this became "Ted." Ted grew up in Gibsonville, completing the nine grades in the school there. He followed mining, as had his father, working in the Wild Boar, Bunker Hill, Thistleshaft and Belleview mines, and became owner of his own mine, Gibsonville Townsite. Three years ago he came Quincy to his home with his Mrs J. E. Finlayson, and Mr Finlayson.

He suffered from an asthmatic heart, and Saturday afternoon tDr D. J. Bleibetg ordered him to the hospital. He went into a coma Saturday night, but Sunday rallied completely. The Fin-laysons visited him at the hospital Sunday evening, and ar-.

ranged to return Monday morning. A short time after they got home Sunday evening Dr Bleiberg telephoned the news that Ted had died suddenly. He was conscious up to the moment of death. Mr Nave's son, Earl Nave, member of an heroic submarine crew which fought in Philippine Greenville Home Hit by Two Fires GREENVILLE Dec 23 The Darrel Doan family had to call the fire department twice Monday morning. They reside near Greenville Hot Springs.

Their home was gutted by fire shortly after 5 o'clock, and an hour after the firemen left another fire was discovered in the sawdust-filled walls of the building. The Doans lost practically all their effects. Cause of the fire has not been determined. Service Stations To Close for Christmas ALL service stations in Quincy will be closed all day Satin day so that the owners and employees can enjoy Christmas, a check-up by the Bulletin yesterday disclosed. Automobile owners are asked to make their gasoline and other service station purchases tomorrow for any anticipated needs Saturday.

SPEED GREENVILLE Dec 23 Alvis F. Legate of Sacramento, a paint contractor, was found guilty Tuesday in the local justice court on a charge of violating the State speed limit. The charge was filed by Patrolman Eisenhuth on Nov. 28. Legate was fined $10.00..