anaheim-bulletin 1954-05-11

Editorial Page Tuesday, May 11, 1954 ANAHEIM (Cal.) BULLETIN — 0 Published Daily Evenings Except Sundays and Holidays by ANAHEIM BULLETIN PUBLISHING CO., INC. 222 S. Lemon St. Anaheim, Calif. Phone KE 5-6051 HAZEL D, LOUDON, President L. H. LOUDON, Jr., Vice-President and Co-Publisher STANLEY LOUDON, Co-Publisher and Treasurer MILDRED TAGGART, Member of Board RICHARD FISCHLE, Jr., Secretary and Business Manager DON SHAFFER, Editor CARRIE LOU SUTHERLAND, Society and Women's Department C. Wm. BLAND, Advertising Manager Legalized in accordance California State Law December 28, 1951. Entered as second-class mail matter August 11, 1923, at the post office at Anselm, California, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription Rates—1 month, $1.00; 3 months, $2.75; 6 months, $5.00. 1 year, $9.50. No additional charge for mailing within the continental United States. Sales tax will be added to quoted prices on taxable items appearing in the advertising columns of the Anaheim Bulletin, same to be paid for by the purchaser as required by law. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES WEST-HOLLIDAY CO., INC. UNITED PRESS New York—37 East 10th St.; Chicago—560 N. Michigan Ave.; San Francisco—625 Market St.; Detroit—319 Stephenson Bldg.; Vancouver, B.C.—711 Ball Bldg.; Los Angeles—139 So. Spring St.; Portland—528 W. Sixth St.; St. Louis—411 North Tenth St.; Seattle—603 Stewart St.; Atlanta—926 Grant Building. A New Approach Like Topsy, the smog nuisance has "just growed." A minor and scattered annoyance a few years back, it has become a menace that concerns health authorities and plagues millions of citizens in and around metropolitan areas. As industrialization spreads among smaller cities, smog will spread with it. The problem has created some measure of hysteria. Crackpot inventors of smog "consumers" have had a publicity field day. Cries have been raised for the "government," State or national, to take over—a rash suggestion for political footballing which, fortunately, has not made headway. Now before Congress is a proposal that has a ring of practicibility, a bill to permit income tax deductions by both firms and individuals for money spent on smog abatement equipment. Such equipment is expensive, and without at least a tax break on its purchase, many businesses likely would kind it difficult, if not impossible, to install it. publicity field day. Cries have been raised for the "government," State or national, to take over—a rash suggestion for political footballing which, fortunately, has not made headway. Now before Congress is a proposal that has a ring of practicibility, a bill to permit income tax deductions by both firms and individuals for money spent on smog-abatement equipment. Such equipment is expensive, and without at least a tax break on its purchase, many businesses likely would kind it difficult, if not impossible, to install it. The smog-abatement legislation has one supreme virtue—it would encourage smog-producers to do a practical job on their own initiative, without inviting direct governmental meddling. Governor Knight, who favors the legislation, evidently had that virtue of the bill in mind when he took the strictly non-partisan step of discussing it with all members of California's congressional delegation, Democrat and Republican, on his recent visit to Washington. The new approach to the problem certainly seems a promising one and may well be a tremendous help in solving it. We Are Being Punished There is food for disturbing thought in the report of Jack Shelley, San Francisco Congressman, that there is evidence of a revenge motive in the Military Sea Transport Service decision to move its main troopship operations from San Francisco to Seattle. Some time ago, as reported in the press, California business and industrial leaders and shipping men appeared at a congressional hearing on maritime matters. "All the witnesses at those hearings were asking for," commented Shelley, "was that MSTS vessels not carry cargoes which belong to merchant ships. There is evidence that Vice Admiral F. C. Denebrink, MSTS commander, has been making cracks he would get back at San Francisco for the testimony before that committee." Shelley denounced as "untrue" the MSTS official explanation that the switch to Seattle is necessitated for economy reasons, asserting that figures on costs and transport distances show that no economies can be effected. Whatever the real reasons for the move, any "punishment" of any California port, or of the shipping industry, is punishment of the entire economy of this maritime State. Shelley said he has asked the Defense Department to hold up the shift in troopship headquarters "until we have all the facts and can make a proper presentation." We hope he makes that stick! Whatever the real reasons for the move, any "punishment" of any California port, or of the shipping industry, is punishment of the entire economy of this maritime State. Shelley said he has asked the Defense Department to hold up the shift in troopship headquarters "until we have all the facts and can make a proper presentation." We hope he makes that stick! Cold Shivers in Florida We don't blame climate-conscious Floridans for being embarrassed by that six-foot-long iceberg found floating off their shores. But they'll make nobody believe their story that the thing floated through the Panama Canal from California. Impartial investigation has disclosed that the so-called berg was just a refrigerator ice cube dropped overboard from one of California's smaller liners which happened to be passing by. SONGS OF A SONNETEER BY R. LOUIS SCOTT "NUIT D'AMOUR" Dream fabric! Essence of blossoms! Moonshine; Aspen leaves fluttering to the caress Of evening breezes—scatt'ring their largess! The rose shatters her girdle, to repine No single moment as her wealth of scent, Is taken by the night! She'll acquiesce To her own rape—and all her hope resign— That her heart be distilled in drops divine Of attar—which men hunger to possess! Stuff of dreams, stars that shine, the trembling leaf Shielding the garden thru which blossoms throng: Where rhapsody enthralls both sage and thief— When jewelled nightingales pounce forth their song That all who hear may share their joyous grief! Fantasy—2/29 AMERICAN CREDO Othman’s Views on Washington State By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN McLEAN, Va. — I was sailing along in the back pasture aboard the red tractor with headlights front and rear (in case I want to plow backwards at night) mowing the grass with the sickle bar. There was plenty of grease in the Pittman bearing, which once before went up in blue smoke, and the blade was snicking down the hay in rhythmic fashion. The newmown grass smelled as described in poems and to me this was a pleasant interlude between sessions of McCarthy-Army imgrogillo. Then I backed up to disentangle the cutter bar from a wad of wet grass. My troubles began. That tractor now wouldn’t travel any way except to the rear. The more I struggled with the gearshift lever, the more stubborn it became. I finally gave it a mighty yank and the whole business came out in my hand -- lever, bolts, nuts and some peculiar black grease. The machinery still would run backward, so I backed it all the way to the barn, where I got my tools and where I have been up to my elbows in grease ever since. I'm not allowed to eat dinner in the house. My bride says I am too dirty; she hands me sandwiches out the kitchen window. One of the troubles seemed to be that I was too strong. That jerk disconnected the gearshift lever completely from the collar that held it tight. This sent the spring that held the whole works shooting into space and caused the cotter pin that held the other end of the spring to drop into the gear box. City dwellers, if you never have tried to bend your arm around a set of gears, while your fingers feel in the grease for a cotter pin one half inch long, you have not experienced the emotional depths to which a farmer can sink. Eventually, I did locate the pin, which I placed in an empty milk bottle until needed. Then I took the collar and the lever to a rural welder, ed me 75 cents for joining gether. The blister I got ing up my hot machinery was free. Came next the slow assemblying the cogs, spikes. This proved to me a farmer working on a trunk is three hands. At one step my teeth; I can report grease tastes almost exact good grade of salad dressing. So I finally got the wha assembled and installed bolts sunk tight against washers. I rinsed my kerosene, climbed aboar the engine, and shifted gear. With a roar that tractor backward, and nearly re-end of the barn. I slammed brakes in the nick. Then I had to undo all and start over again, find the proper niche in gear lever was supposed never saw so many posses are contained in a gear. My problem simply w didn’t know what I was do and error eventually did and after the seventh try ed those bolts once again machine traveled in the intended. A mechanic doubtless have done in minutes me days, but he wouldn’t triumphant feeling. I'm grass - cutting busines through my own efforts does it matter if the w meantime have gone to soon as I do a little blast on my cutter blade w chisel, punch and some rivets. I'll mow 'em doing further mechanical hands may even co-enough for me to eat fro cloth. (Copyright, 1954, by Utreme Syndicate, nc.) EVERYDAY, MAY 12—Born today here is considerable of the crea-genius in your make-up. In which direction it will develop all probability depends upon the my influences in your life. Murder, drama, the arts—and even medical inventions—are all things which you are vitally interested. You have a good head for business, and even though it may take a little longer than some to get started and make your “pile,” you every apt to end up with a force on your hands before you are reached middle life! You have strong likes and dislikes and once you are set in your opinions, you have a dogged stubbornness which crops up and stays with you until you get what you want. You are attractive to members of the opposite sex but it is only that there will be one great in your life. If that does not eliminate in marriage, you might ever wed at all. Among those who were born on the same date are: Walter de Voe, philopher; Irving Berlin, composer; Jacob Towne, philosopher; Robert E. Sands, author-poet, and O. Grenfell, inventor. To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday start and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. Wednesday, May 12 CURUS (Apr. 21-May 20)—Optimum will pay excellent dividends today. Keep your chin up, so matter what happens. MINI (May 21-June 21)—Break the week by getting outdoors this Film Shop By CLEMENT D. JONES United Press Staff Correspondent Hollywood — Victor Mature one Hollywood star who will ever return to the stage—and despite the fact that it was his beautiful hunk o’ man” role in Lady in the Dark” on Broadway it vaulted him to overnight star. I hear and read statements by other actors about the value of age experience, the necessity for picture actor to make contact with a live audience every once in while, the terrific thrill of a first sight, the need to get away and get the people across the foot-steps in order to attain a more extended career.” Mature said. “To do this I say ‘nuts.’ I’m happy in Hollywood. I like making pictures. Compared to and that’s not living for me. I’m a confirmed Californian, and when I finish this picture, my wife, son and I are going down to Del Mar for a couple of months and bask in the sun and listen to those melodic ocean waves. The others can have Broadway-I’m happy here.” Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD (UP)—All Hollywood wives don’t lounge around their swimming pools and count their mink coats. One group of show business spouses told today how they’ve organized a charity club. This new group, Share, Inc., represents a nobler side of Hollywood you don’t often hear about. While Dean Martin, Gary Cooper, Gordon MacRae and Forrest Tucker are tolling in the flicker into space and caused the cottar pin that held the other end of the spring to drop into the gear box. City dwellers, if you never have tried to bend your arm around a set of gears, while your fingers feel in the grease for a cotter pin one half inch long, you have not experienced the emotional depths to which a farmer can sink. Eventually, I did locate the pin, which I placed in an empty milk bottle until needed. Then I took the collar and the Ambling With Ann By Ann Wardell Saunders Gene Tierney is playing a stellar role in “The Egyptian”, and at the same time, she is being courted by Prince Aly Khan, the most famous playboy in the world. It’s a situation requiring tact, diplomacy, an even temper and a cast-iron constitution. So far, Gene has jugged the volatile elements of the dilemma very defily. When Gene, wearing a fortune in diamonds which the adoring heir to the throne of the Moslem faithful has hung on her, arrived in Cinema land, she was besieged by the combined news services of America to know if she were going to marry this most eligible bachelor of the day. The diamond bracelet, earrings to match, and the huge diamond solitaire which she wears on the fourth finger of her right hand, all proclaimed Aly’s devotion. But Gene, who didn’t deny she could marry the prince if she so wished, hedged about a definite answer on the grounds that there were too many factors involved in such a marriage for her to make a hasty decision. All we could get out of Gerie was “we may possibly marry in Paris lat-r on.” Aldo Ray spent his evenings while on the island of Vieques to film “Battle Cry,” studying German, French and the history of the world’s religions. When he completes these courses, he will have the credits necessary for a B.A. degree. Aldo said his education was interrupted in his senior year, when he ran for constable of Crockett, Cal—and won. Ben Alexander, Jack Webb’s police partner in the “Dragnet” air series, will be “reporting the facts,” overheard a Hollywave say: “She took him for worse, but he was worn took him for.” are available at all local fence offices. Women Key to P The next step is the “dispersal”. If there I bear and read statements by older actors about the value of age experience, the necessity for picture actor to make contact with a live audience every once in while, the terrific thrill of a first light, the need to get away and meet the people across the foot-ights in order to attain a more rounded career," Mature said. "To of this I say 'nuts.' I'm happy in Hollywood. I like making pictures. Compared to age work, it's easy and I'm a man who likes easy living." He demonstrated this by relaxing luxuriously in his dressing from chair-between scenes of his current RKO radio picture, "Ran. Mrs. of the North." I earn more money by making a picture that takes maybe six-even weeks to film than I could appear in a play on Broadway for an entire year, six nights week and two matinees. And I take it whether the picture is a for a flop. Confirmed Californian "That's not true with a play. And just look at the percentage of plays produced. You've had about one chance in 10 of being hit. And what good is that evening night thrill if two days after you get your closing night notice." Sure, if your play is a success and you get those fine notices, it's terrific boost to your ego, and acts are known to have pretty full-nown egos. But if it's a flop, those New York critics blast you with everything they've got, and a little more just because you're from Hollywood. I like to gamble, but only on sure things, and plays aren't that. It may go along for a couple of pictures without a hit, but then song comes a trio like 'The Robe,' "Gladiator" and "Dangerousasion." Believe me, that's a thrill stack against any opening night kick. Besides, if you work on Broadway you've got to live in New York, HOLLYWOOD (UP)—All Hollywood wives don't lounge around their swimming pools and count their mink coats. One group of show business spouses told today how they've organized a charity club. This new group, Share, Inc., represents a nobler side of Hollywood you don't often hear about. While Dean Martin, Gary Cooper, Gordon MacRae and Forrest Tucker are toiling in the flicker factories, their wives are not whiling away hours over a third cup of coffee. Mostly Show Wives They and 20 other Hollywood wives, divorcees and actresses meet twice a month to plan ways to raise money for various charities. "Most of us are much more fortunate than a lot of other people," explained Mrs. Marjorie Chandler, president of the group and divorced wife of actor Jeff Chandler. "We have excessive time on our hands and we want to put that time to good use by helping other people." Share, Inc. was founded a year ago by Mrs. Gordon MacRae, Mrs. Gene Nelson, Mrs. Dean Martin and Mrs. Sammy Cahn, wife of the songwriter. They brought in their friends, mostly show business wives plus actresses Barbara Britton, Arlene Whelan and Jane Withers. Husbands to Help So far the group bought a bus for the McKinley home for boys and a dormitory for their summer camp. They took food and toys to the 15 neediest families at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and collected two station wagonsful of clothing for the Pacific Colony mental hospital near Pomona. Currently the girls are plotting to haul their husbands and friends to a dinner dance at a night club May 24 to raise money for a training center for mentally retarded children. Women's Work WASHINGTON (P)—Bigger and more destructive H-bombs won't require a "new look" in civil defense, just a longer look at the same old problem, says the woman who is second in command of the nation's Civil Defense program. "The H-bomb is a bigger A-bomb", said Mrs. Katharine Howard, deputy administrator of the Civil Defense Administration. In short, defense is the same problem—increased. After a year in the topflight post Mrs. Howard is an optimist. She said in an interview that she is sure Americans, women especially, will rise to the occasion if necessary. Women Should Study "Women have a carry-on spirit even in the direst of circumstances," said Mrs. Howard. And since civil defense beins in the home, it's up to the women to bone up on the simple rudimenta of self-protection and protection of tha family in case of national emergency. Women will be better off in "the age of peril", she said, "if they face up to the possibility of an H-bomb attack. Emotionally and psychologically it is better than an ostrich-like attitude of not wanting to think about it." Mrs. Howard believes much can be done in preparation. She recommends that women take the free Red Cross home nursing courses. If she hasn't time for outside classes, she at least can put her family through home protection exercises, recommended by the civil defense authorities. Booklets on all forms of emergency action are available at all local defense offices. Women Key to Poetry The next step is the "dispersal". If there warning of an attack Defense officials expect to have an adequate in two years, she said lies will be moved. "There's nothing like can women at making she said, "or at doing creating substitutes." In event of an attack ard said there would be a mammoth medicine and a welfare job. These would be kindred ural disasters this course has suffered—the floods does in which families ate. Survivors would be registered, housed and dren would have to be "Here," she said, "point out how much tha man's role." Farmer Moose It seems here lateen them Saintly Civic Lease us on some kind of drive to build something that'll help keep emm Juvenile Deliriquetns. Thy effort on their pa... how some ever... gered that ifffen the keep an eye on their kem some Chores to do be an occasional trip sbed, why there would enile Delinquents... too old fashioned. Farmme (all rights reserved.) Washington Scenes K C. OTHMAN The David Lawrence Dispatch By DAVID LAWRENCE lever to a rural welder, who socked me 75 cents for joining them together. The blister I got from pleking up my hot machinery too quickly was free. Came next the slow process of assembling the coga, springs, and keys. This proved to me that what a farmer working on a tractor need is three hands. At one stage I used my teeth; I can report that gear grease tastes almost exactly like a good grade of salad dressing. So I finally got the whole works assembled and installed, with all bolts sunk tight against their lock washers. I rinsed myself off in kerosene, climbed aboard, started the engine, and shifted into first gear. With a roar that tractor took off, backward, and nearly removed the end of the barn. I slammed on the brakes in the nick. Then I had to undo all the bolts and start over again, trying to find the proper niche in which the gear lever was supposed to fit. You never saw so many possibilities as are contained in a gear box. My problem simply was that I didn't know what I was doing. Trial and error eventually did the trick and after the seventh try, I tightened those bolts once again—and my machine traveled in the direction I intended. A mechanic doubtless could have done in minutes what took me days, but he wouldn't have that triumphant feeling. I'm in the grass—cutting business again, through my own efforts, and what does it matter if the weeds in the meantime have gone to seed? As soon as I do a little blacksmithing on my cutter blade with a cold chisel, punch and some soft iron rivets, I'll mow 'em down. Barring further mechanical crises, my hands may even come clean enough for me to eat from a table cloth. (Copyright, 1954, by United Feature Syndicate, nc.) grass - cutting business again, through my own efforts, and what does it matter if the weeds in the meantime have gone to seed? As soon as I do a little blacksmithing on my cutter blade with a cold chisel, punch and some soft iron rivets, I mow 'em down. Barring further mechanical crises, my hands may even come clean enough for me to eat from a tablecloth. (Copyright, 1954, by United Feature Syndicate, nc.) With Ann dell Saunders ma'am" in the feature-length "Dragnet" which Jack will direct and star in . . . Joy Kim, the petite Korean-American soprano who recently made a hit in San Francisco as Madame Butterfly, is taking Germany by storm . . . Ann Bexter said that when she visited Paris, her French was so good nobody tried to sell her anything . . . Bearded character star Arthur Hunnicutt has drawn up plans for a new ranch-type home in San Fernando Valley. Warner Bros. has developed a new type sound truck for desert locations as a companion to its recently developed camera car. The truck, a converted Army weapons carrier with 4-wheel drive and specially designed wheels, moves without difficulty through sand and over hills. On the front is a rack for the sound boom, permitting recording of dialogue directly from the truck. James Robertson Justice, who plays the Duke of Argyll in "Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue," says he did everything from driving a truck to working as a foreign correspondent for a London paper, before turning actor. Jean Simmons says don't invite her to your mountain retreat. When a location sequence for "She Couldn't Say No" called for a trip to a mountain stream, the journey to the 2000-foot-high location site over twisting and tortuous roads left her sicker than a patriotic Irishman after St. Patrick's Day. Overheard a Hollywood actress say: "She took him for better or worse, but he was worse than she took him for." are available at all local Civil Defense offices. Women Key to Problem The next step is the problem of "dispersal". If there's sufficient historians will say, was the reusal of Britain and our other allies in 1950 to sanction the plan of General MacArthur to pursue enemy planes into Manchuria and to destroy Communist bases of supply in Red China. The Truman-Acheson administration failed to assert American leadership at that vital stage and the whole course of history was changed. Indeed when MacArthur was summarily dismissed by Truman, it was like notifying the Communist world that the United States and its allies were scared and were being bluffed into inaction by talk about the possibility of an enlarged war. It is too bad that Mr. Truman and the Democratic leader of the Senate, Lyndon Johnson, are indulging in political attack at this serious moment in world affairs. But if the Democratic party insists upon making such an issue in the coming campaign, there is plenty of proof in the files that the Truman-Acheson administration lost China by listening to unwise advisers, some of whom—including Alger Hiss—were sympathetic to the Communist cause and operated from within the United States government. For today's troubles of the allies stem largely from the fact that China was lost to the free world. There would have been no military aid for the Indo-China Communists if China itself were not controlled today by a Communist government, and there would have been no Communist control of Red China if the Truman administration had not allowed Chiang Kai-shek to be undermined by withdrawing American moral support at a critical juncture. There would also have been no chance for a build-up by Communist armies in North Korea to compel the armistice of today if Mr. Truman and the allies had stood firm and fought the Korean war vigorously in 1950 and 1951. The danger now is that weakness on the Indo-China question will incite the Communists in Moscow and Peiping to take steps that will bring on World War III. This grave situation is fully understood by at least some influential segments of opinion in all the allied countries. Thus, the 'London Economist' in a recent issue said: "Long drawn out though the fighting has been (in Indo-China), British public opinion has never been encouraged to think out what it means; and as a result, now that a crisis has blown up, people are inclined simply to cry for peace without caring who wins or loses. Any war can always be about the danger to America if the Western Pacific comes into Communist control, threatening Japan and the Philippines and affording bases for an attack on American outposts in the Pacific. There was time just before World War I for the British to "marry logic and courage" and avoid that war, and there was again time between 1936 and 1939 for the British to "marry logic and courage" and avoid the second world war. It is an ironic coincidence that a British envoy was in Moscow early in 1939 to negotiate a security agreement to defend Poland and was double-crossed by Molotov, who was secretly dealing with Nazi Germany. Will history repeat itself, and is World War III only a question of two or three years now because the allies are again unwilling to act decisively against the inexorable advance of a dictatorship government? Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Ten Years Ago PFC Joe Mene, former Anaheim Athletic star and later a professional football player, was home on short furlough this weekend from San Luis Obispo. The Nazarene congregation extended farewells to the Rev. and Mrs. O. S. Hendricks at a recent party. The couple leave this week for Santa Cruz. Jean Sutherland, festival princess at Occidental, waited on Queen Jean Hartman of Glendale in the May 5 event on that college campus. Miss Sutherland is the daughter of Mrs. James P. Sutherland of Anaheim. Gil Henning and Mrs. L.E. Eifert placed in the Walther League Talent Quest at AUHS Sunday in woodcraft and publicity. This quest is traditional in the Lutheran church with Zion Lutheran of Anaheim assisting in arrangements. Cmdr. John A. Wood, Med. Det. USN arrived in Los Angeles Sunday after 20 months overseas duty. Lt (2nd) and Mrs. John Harpster are now living at Austin, Tex. Lieutenant Harpster is with the Troop Transport Command. If It's News You'll See It In The Bulletin Farmer McCabe May 11, 1954 It seems here lately that all them Saintly Civic Leaders are allus on some kind of a donation drive to build somethin fer kids that'll help keep em from being Juvenile Delirquetna. That's a worthy effort on their part I reckon . . . how some ever, I allus figered that iffen the parents ud keep an eye on their kids and give em some Chores to do, with maybe an occasional trip to the Woodshed, why there would be no Juvenile Delirquetna . . . maybe I'm too old fashioned. Farmer McCabe (all rights reserved)