The Placer Herald from Rocklin, California • 1

JQ) it hi tf Mm) January 15, 1964 SUBSCRIPTION: $4.00 Per Year byMo.l.Poid in Advance QC Vol. CXI I No. 18 BAYS Lambert Is County Board Chairman George Lambert, a Roseville undertaker, was elected chairman of the Placer County Board of Supervisors last week. Lambert, elected to the board in 1962, succeeds Supervisor William S. Briner of Tahoe City as chairman.

The election of Lambert by the other supervisors was unanimous. Declared Lambert "I want to thank the board for its confidence in my appointment 111 do the best job I know how." Supervisor Robert Radovich of Lincoln, a veteran officeholder, was chosen vice chairman. Placer Co, Chamber Of Commerce Will Meet Jan. 16th George Campbell, Chairman of the Promotion Committee of the Placer County Chamber of Commerce announced that his committee will hold it's next meeting on Thursday, January 16th. The meeting will be held at the new Foothills Motel Restaurant at 7:30 p.m.

He stated that the main topic on the agenda would be the approval of the preliminary sketch for the State Fair booth. Other business would consist of the progress being made on the new Placer County brochure. Placer Water Project Now In Preparation John Bernard, general manager of the Placer County Water agency, announced he is preparing a financial report of the agency's $92 Middle Fork American River project and will present it to the board of directors at its February meeting. Bernard said the report, being compiled after meeting with the agency's consultants, is a midyear report including information on the retirement of bonds and other financial accounting of the water development 17 Tahoe Cattlemen tAay form Unit of Cow Belles Soon Tom Allen, Cow Track Canyon Ranch, Lincoln was named membership chairman at the Tahoe Cattlemen's Association directors meeting held Tuesday noon, January 7th, in the Fern Room at Foothills Motel, Auburn. This association is comprised of cattlemen from Nevada, Placer and northern El Dorado Counties.

Membership eligibility established by the directors is as follows: "Any persons interested in the breeding, production, maturing or feeding of cattle may become a member of this association by paying dues." Application for membership may be made by writing the Tahoe Cattlemen's Association, Rt. 1 Box 1814, Loomis, or by communicating with a member of the board. Headed by George Meredith, president, of Loomis, the directors are D. O. Newton, Grass Valley, and Henry Ma-gonigal, Smart ville; J.

A. Bick-ford, Lincoln, and T. L. Chamberlain, Auburn represent Placer County, and E. A.

Long of Cool, representing northern El Dorado County. Charles A. Hay-den of Auburn is treasurer. Agenda also included a report by Dixie Meredith, Flying Circle Ranch, Loomis, relative to the purpose and methods of organizing in Placer and Nevada Counties a unit of the California Cow Belles, Inc. The Cow Belles are comprised of the vives of cattlemen and are usually associated with the cattlemen associations in the counties and state, and are contiguous with but not contingent upon the cattlemen groups.

Adjourned meeting of the directors will be held at a noon luncheon meeting on Tuesday, January 21, in the Foothills' Fern Room, Auburn. Indians made flour of the buckeye fruit after extracting the poison. Qtwf A. Candidate Screening Grass Valley's "fighting grandma" candidate for the Sixth Assembly seat, Margarette Brown Meggs, is still fighting mad. The latest surge of fighting words came as a result of what shecalleda "strange" Republican meeting Sunday in Jackson- that's in Amador County, one of 11 counties in the Sixth Assembly district.

It was a meeting of the Sixth District Republican Committee, called to hear all four candidates for the Republican nomination to run in the November general election for the Assembly seat. But the relatively new Sixth District Republican Committee is more than just a platform from which candicates can have an interested audience. According to Nevada County Republican Central Committee Chairman Ralph Schorr, the group was set up to screen candidates in the hope that the list of candidates could be pared down to one so that Republicans would be united in the primary election in June as they hope to be in November. The committee, made up officially of one member of each of the 11 ounties'Republican Central Committees (with an alternate from each county), asked each candidate if he or she would agree to drop from the race if the committee agreed to support one of the other candidates. Apparently all three male aspirants said, But Mrs.

Meggs, her fur ruffled, said, "NO!" "I don't know you, and you don't know me. That's what she said she told the committee (and the balance of the 30 or so in attendance), and the fuss her answer kicked up caused such a discussion that the committee never did get around to hearing from each of the candidates on issues of the day. Mrs. Meggs said the attempt to limit the number of candidates for the Assembly seat was downright undemocratic and she would have no part of it. Although there was no official representativ of the Nevada County Republican Central Committee at the Mrs.

Meggs drew some support from Schorrthis week when he said he feltitwasgoodtoattract as many candidates as possible to the race. "Let's get the people's viewpoint," Schorr suggested, calling for competition in order to bring forth the strongest Republican candidate. Schorr said the Sixth District Republican Committee's by-laws had arrived in Nevada County just this week and that the local cen Refuses By Party tral committee would look them over this month before deciding whether to participate in the committee or not. Ifthe local central committee decides to participate, it will name a delegate and alternate to attend a Feb. 2-meeting of the committee, again in Jackson.

Schorr said that is was his opinion that the committee could, if it wished endorse a single Republican candidate, since it is a separate organization and not a county central committee. County central committees are restricted by law from offering support to any single candidate in advance of a California primary election. Mrs. Meggs doesn't agree. She feels that since the committee is officially made up of central committee members 'only, it is bound by the law which forbids pre-primary endorsements.

Committees such as the Sixth District Republican Committee, (Continued on Page 3) Museum Grows On January 24th the Placer County Museum will have been existance for 16 years in the same location at the Twentieth District Agricultural Fairgrounds with May W. Perry the Curator. Each year the museum grows. This past year 139 articles were donated by 48 donors. More visitors come as we grow in popularity.

During 1963 the registered total was 11,802, even though we are off-the-beaten-path. The visitors came from most all states in the union and from 15 foreign countries. Nine months of the year the museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 A. M. to 5:00 P.

M. June, July and Au-ust open every day except Monday from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Our custom is to open special, by appointment for schools and groups. We had 13 such appointments, with guided tours for 697 students, who were studying California History.

Assistance is given to those who are doing research. The Rock-hound can spend hours looking at everything from Platinum to Indian Rocks. Many other hobbies can be seen, such bottles, coins, shells, watches, guns, bird eggs, bird nests, etc In fact there is something of interest to everyone. So come, pay us a visit, and make our 17 year even better. Establishment of a conservation and development commission to preserve San Francisco Bay has been recommended by a UCB study.

New Support for Auburn-Folsom SECRETARY of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has added his support to the enactment of Federal legislation to authorize the $425 million Auburn-Folsom South Unit of the Central Valley Project "as a model of multipurpose development" which has an "impressive margin" of a 4-to-l ratio of benefits to costs. Authorizing legislation, Senate Bill 351, introduced by Senators Clair Engle and Thomas H. Kuchel and five California Representatives in the House, has been expanded to provide a 2,500,000 acre-foot reservoir and an expandable power installation (maximum 400,000 kilowatts) with initial generating capacity of 240,000 kws. The Folsom-South Canal, to run some 67 miles from existing Nimbus Reservoir below Folsom Dam and Reservoir, itself below the proposed Auburn Dam, all on the American River, would be built to a capacity sufficient not only to provide a vital supplementary water supply to the Folsom South service area, including municipal and industrial needs in and around the City of Stockton, but also large enough to accommodate the needs of the long-awaited East Side Division of the Central Valley Project.

East Side Division The latter division is a logical next step in the continuing battle to supply water to an area of growing needs in the face of limited, unreliable precipitation patterns and increasingly dangerous overdrafts on dwindling under-ground water supplies. By providing for this increased incremental capacity of the Folsom-South Canal, this measure would thus not only provide for service to El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties, but would lay the most economical groundwork for service south through the Valley to the Counties of Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern, which will result from the East Side Extension of the canal. The East Side Division and its attendant facilities are well along in the planning stage. Other Features The legislation also would authorize the Sugar Pine Dam and Reservoir for the Forest Hill Divide area which lies between the arms of the proposed Auburn Reservoir, and the Folsom-Malby segment, between the American and Consum-nes Rivers. All these areas are growing rapidly and need supplemental water supplies badly.

TAH0E LEVEL STILL SHOWING DECLINE TAHOE CITY The level of Lake Tahoe still is dropping but there appears little chance it would even remotely approach the 1963 low. That was revealed Friday by Daryl De Walt, official observer here who reported a current mark of 6,226.08. The same reading had been recorded Thursday. The mark for 1963 was 6,233.46, which was up slightly from the 1962 minimum of 6,222.58. FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE I.

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