anaheim-gazette 1925-08-20

Orange County Cuts Its Expenditures More Than Half Million Dollars Saved During Year Transacting a $7,000,000 business, Orange county, during the year just closed, improved its financial situation by trimming expenditures more than $500,000, by whittling its outstanding debts to the extent of more than $300,-000, adding $171,000 to its property holdings, which now run to nearly $10,000,-000, and doing all this while relieving the taxpayers of an $82,955 burden in the form of lowered receipts. County Auditor William C. Jerome revealed the county's sound financial condition today in making his annual report to the state. The auditor's report includes statements of receipts and disbursements covering the entire range of public affairs. Public income for the year was $7,462,823.06, compared to $7,545,833.24 paid into the coffers last year. Expenditures amounted to $7,353,639.25, a decrease of $564,317 from last year's figure, $7,916,956.24. Last year's expenditures were greater than the receipts, due to the large building program. This year the county spent $166,000 in building and equipping the new county jail, and paid the final $5000 on the cost of the hall of records, built last year. The expenditures still remained $110,288.81 under the income. Although the county has $1,893,132.68 cash on hand, of which $1,145.300 is loaned to banks at 3 per cent interest, this is not a real cash surplus. Jerome made known. Most of it is collections of personal property taxes made by Assessor James Sleeper, and for which a place awaits in the expenditures of next year, he said. Including the schools, which are valued at $7,736,000, the public property holdings have reached a mark of $9,436,-500. Jerome's report disclosed. The last two years, with erection of the hall of records, county jail, juvenile home and various new school buildings, have made a vast increase in this total. Orange county owes $5,363,875 in the The Traffic Officer And the Motorist The traffic cop is a much maligned individual. Employed to make the highways of California safer for the motorist, he is often looked upon as an outcast, an enemy, rather than in his proper position as a friend. "Take him off the road and the law abiding motorist would take his life in his hands every time he took the wheel," declares Major James S. Greene of the National Automobile Club. "The reckless driver, uncurbed by the law, would soon make the highways of the state unsafe for the majority of motor car owners and the accident toll would be increased an hundredfold. "The traffic officer patrols the highways because you put him there. He is a public servant. He's there to see that you are protected, as well as to see that you do not endanger the lives of others. He is frequently—the object of abuse and insult; he risks his life a hundred times a day; he's a friend of yours, not an enemy. "Remember that the traffic officer is a human being and, in the pursuit of his duty, he has sometimes a very unpleasant task to perform. If you happen to encounter him in your travels when your speedometer didn't happen to read quite right or when you didn't happen to notice that you had reached a zone of limited speed, don't blame him for the episode. Give him a cheerful word for being on the job." Bones of Mammoth Revealed by Quake A gigantic petrified skeleton, which scientists have not yet decided was a mastodon or prehistoric toothed whale, has been discovered on Green mountain, highest point on historic San Miguel island, 30 miles from Santa Barbara's shore line. San Miguel island was badly rocked during the recent earthquake, and many of its tall cliffs tumbled into the sea. The skeleton's tusks measure 15 feet in length and together with the mammal's skull, were found protruding above ground at the summit of the mountain. The balance of the bones Fairs Bring 25,000,000 Approaching Coholical of Growth Exhibition In 1810, one fair; In 1810, an attendee in 1925, an attendance 25,000,000. These figures, in story of the marvel American fair, from ginning to its present important factor in exhibition. They are of ease in view of the appraisal fair, which will be held. While the fair idle hold of tremendous States, it is not natual Fairs back to town in the olden times ther manner of a bazaar held with less free like the fairs in vogue other European coun American fair trace only to about the nineteenth century, where grevive farmers valley in northeast to bring their live comparison. It has first agricultural model after which hundreds of counties in England. Elkanah Watson been credited with organizing the Agricultural Bany, N. Y., and praising cattle shooting counties. In his influence, the N appropriated $10,000 for premiums on agriculture produce State Agricultural Service work started in But while Watson w farms and legislator fairs, the Columbia clety held what is Including the schools, which are valued at $7,736,000, the public property holdings have reached a mark of $9,436,-500. Jerome's report disclosed. The last two years, with erection of the hall of records, county jail, juvenile home and various new school buildings, have made a vast increase in this total. Orange county owes $5,363,875 in the form of a bonded debt. Of this sum, $1,256,000 is unpaid county bonds, the rest being school bonds. The total amount was reduced $310,000 during the year, $68,000 in county bonds being retired and $24,000 in school bonds being redeemed. The item of law enforcement includes the upkeep of the offices of district attorney and sheriff, the various constables, all courts of the county and the support of prisoners. Conservation of health embraces activities of the health department and meat inspection. In addition to the above listed activities, the county expended $30,170 on elections, $12,700 for advertising, and $7734.85 for compensation insurance protecting county employees. The sum of $39,000 was paid to the state as inheritance taxes upon Orange county estates. Orange county teachers evidenced their faith in the state fund for teachers' retirement, or pensioning, by paying into it $10,590. As usual, the county spent nearly half of its money on education, the total being $3,231,376.74. There was a slackening, however, in the voting of school bonds, the total of $89,000 being the least amount issued for many years. Four other major activities of the county cost follows: Roads and bridges, $1,218,631.41. Law enforcement, $122,000. Charities (including juvenile corrections), $181,641. Conservation of health, $31,200. The cost of education includes $704,000 expended upon permanent outlay in buildings and other improvements. Maintenance amounting to $2,500,000. In addition to the $1,218,631.41 for roads and bridges, the county spent $31,-309 for right-of-way for the New Coast highway built by the state. Of the highway money, $880,000 went into permanent improvements, the rest for upkeep of dirt and paved roads. The sum of $450,000 was represented by bonds issued by road improvement districts, and was therefore not a general county expenditure. Preliminary work in connection with planning a Newport Harbor development program called for $4500 expenditure. Receipts from the county during the year were supplemented by $805,687.64 from the state, as this county's share of taxes paid to the state by residents of the county. This included $170,466 gasoline tax, $13,221.67 for support of widows and orphans, the balance being A gigantic petrified skeleton, which scientists have not yet decided was a mastodon or prehistoric toothed whale, has been discovered on Green mountain, highest point on historic San Miguel island, 30 miles from Santa Barbara's shore line. San Miguel island was badly rocked during the recent earthquake, and many of its tall cliffs tumbled into the sea. The skeleton's tusks measure 15 feet in length and together with the mammal's skull, were found protruding above ground at the summit of the mountain. The balance of the bones were buried in the earth's surface, but the entire skeleton was virtually intact. If the find proves to be a mastodon, it will disrupt the entire sequence of geology as worked out by scientists on the Pacific coast, according to D. B. Rogers, Smithsonian excavator. If it is a toother whale, its discovery will be an equally valuable contribution to science and history. "It if it is a whale," Rogers said, "it died about the time the bottom of the sea rose, as it has been exposed to the air during the process of petrification, and is therefore imperfect and brittle. If it had pitfall beneath the water I believe it would have been as solid and hard as other specimens we have in the museum." Capt. Bob Ord, veteran Santa Barbara navigator, made the discovery, and reported his find to scientific investigators. Except for the tusk of a sabretooth tiger found there 10 years ago, no mammal had ever been found on the quake-heaved island before. Kentucky Wonders Coming to Front Crop-Becoming Important One in Orange County Kentucky Wonder beans came to the front in Orange county this year, according to a recent survey, which revealed that several hundred acres were planted to that crop. One of the interesting plantings is a 32-acre field of these beans on the place of Ray McClintock, near this city. Mr. McClintock has picked more than 100 tons of the "Kentucks" from his field, and at times has had as high as 175 people picking at once. The beans are sold to markets in town on a small scale, and to canneries on a larger scale. Most of Mr. McClintock's beans were sold to the California Packing Corporation for canning. Many other fields of the Kentucky Wonders are scattered over Orange county, a great many being in the vicinity of Huntington Beach. The raising of the beans this year is proving profitable to the growers, all reports indicate. Ranchers in Orange county who are growing lima and blackeye beans this year are looking for good prices to prevail. An extremely dry season has prevailed with American fairy organizations like Agricultural Bany. N. Y., and prairie fairs and cattle shooting counties. In his influence, the N appropriated $10,000 for premiums on agriculture products State Agricultural Sector and work started in But while Watson w farms and legislator fairs, the Columbia clet held what is first exhibition of its ton. D. C., in 1810 shortly after he agricultural exhibit first small efforts g g national and international cover practically every country. The development United States has grown and expanded Samuel R. Guard, d Roeuck Agriculture one of the leading cultural exhibits in successful contestant in urally wished to co with those of win fairs. That was h e came to be. The wider appeal was th e and there county w h disputes on the rela products. Eventual petition between first in the inter-state national show and national exhibit champion grain g breeder today can some little honor ca fair years ago. The appealing this fair is the opportunity farmer to compare that of his neighbor him a healthy ambulance and his work. Within easy distance can examine the fruits and vegetables and determine where the mark. Likewise her needlework her cannaged fruits and those of other farmers thrill and rew victory. Altogether stimulates friendly behavior progress in the past. The educational vantage and equipment are part of all th e b l ost most commending to Mr. Guard g government exhibiting farmer lessons in g more economically household furnishin devices on view w improvement of con keep of dirt and paved roads. The sum of $450,000 was represented by bonds issued by road improvement districts, and was therefore not a general county expenditure. Preliminary work in connection with planning a Newport Harbor development program called for $4500 expenditure. Receipts from the county during the year were supplemented by $805,687.64 from the state, as this county's share of taxes paid to the state by residents of the county. This included $170,466 gasoline tax, $13,221.67 for support of widows and orphans, the balance being school apportionment funds. The county recorder's office again proved the greatest source of local revenue, the fees amounting to $45.039.80. The county clerk's office yielded $21,154.82. Both offices reported decreases in collections of about $2000, compared to the previous year. Right of Department Is Upheld by Court The right of the director of the California Department of Agriculture to refuse to register or cancel the registration of a firm which is attempting to sell fraudulent or worthless insecticides to the fruit growers of this state has been upheld in a recent decision in the Appellate court in the case of A. R. Gregory vs. G. H. Hecke as the director of the department of agriculture. Gregory was manufacturing and selling an insecticide under the name of "Qua-Sul," for which he made many claims. When the remedy was investigated by the department, it was found to have little or no value, and the power given the department through the economic poison law was used and license revoked. Gregory applied to the courts on the grounds that the law was unconstitutional, and while the Superior court sustained his contention, the Appellate court upheld the action of the department. Man has many advantages, but he can't slip 14 ounces of cloth over his head and call himself dressed. AUSTRALIAN RAISINS Australia is now the largest single source of British raisin supply. Imports of raisins into the United Kingdom during 1924 amounted to 136,000,000 pounds, of which amount 34 per cent was supplied by Australia, 22 per cent by Smyrna, 15 per cent by the United States and 14 per cent by Spain. South Africa also figures in the British raisin market, which was built upon a tastes for the American product. The mermaids were the original tale-bearers. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Fairs Bring Farm to 25,000,000 Persons Approaching County Fair Symbolical of Growth of Agricultural Exhibits in U.S. In 1810, one fair; in 1925, 2000 fairs. In 1810, an attendance of about 5000; in 1925, an attendance of approximately 25,000,000. These figures, in a nutshell, tell the story of the marvelous growth of the American fair, from the humblest beginning to its present-day status as an important factor in agricultural education. They are of especial interest here, in view of the approaching Santa Ana fair, which will be held September 22-26. While the fair idea has been taken hold of tremendously in the United States, it is not native to this country. Fairs run back to ancient days, but in the older times they were more after the manner of a bazaar or market, only held with less frequency, very much like the fairs in vogue in Germany and other European countries today. The American fair traces its ancestry back only to about the middle of the eighteenth century, when a group of progressive farmers in the Tees River valley, in northeastern Britain, joined to bring their livestock together for comparison. It has been termed the first agricultural fair, and was the model after which were patterned the hundreds of county fairs both here and in England. Elkanah Watson of New York has been credited with being the father of the American fair. In 1815 Watson organized the Agricultural Society of Albany, N. Y., and proceeded to establish fairs and cattle shows in the neighboring counties. In 1819, due mainly to his influence, the New York legislature appropriated $10,000 a year for six years for premiums on agricultural and home manufacture products. In 1832, the State Agricultural Society was founded, and work started in other eastern states. But while Watson was busy converting farms and legislators to the value of fairs, the Columbian Agricultural Society held what is believed to be the vanla, Louisiana, New Jersey, California. During the six months referred to, the chief export from this state was rectified petroleum, the total value of which was $20,500,000. Fruits and nuts to the value of more than $10,000,000 were exported. California has quite recently become a cotton growing center, but already it is evident that the industry is destined to assume immense proportions in this state. During the past six months our cotton exports amounted to more than $4,000,000. And so it goes. California's productions are so great and so diversified in character that it would almost seem that anything produced elsewhere in the world can be produced with equal, and frequently with greater success in California. Boasting? Not at all. A mere statement of fact. Undoubtedly there will be greater development in foreign trade to and from California as the years go on. The products of this state—its oil, its nuts, its cotton, its canned and dried fruits, as well as the citrus fruits, are shipped all over the world. BATHES AU NATURAL The Rev. George A. Rodgers, pastor of the Methodist church at Yorba Linda, was expected to appear at the sheriff's office to explain why he was bathing "au natural" in the reservoir of the Anaheim Union Water Company at Yorba Linda, according to deputy sheriffs. Rodgers and two youths were taken in charge by Deputies Mozley and Westerman, when the officers went to the reservoir to investigate reports that nude bathers were taking advantage of the "swimmin' hole." They are alleged to have found the preacher in bathing. The trio were stopped for treapassing, but released and told to report to the sheriff's office. We are wondering whether the war in Morocco will last long enough for Abd-al-Krim to be able to float a loan in America. The crown of a woman's glory is a rolling pin. Lower Prices DODGE BROTHERS Motor Vehicles Dodge Brothers, Inc., announce a reduction in the prices of their motor vehicles, both passenger and commercial, with the exception of the roadster and chassis, effective TODAY. These new prices come at a time when Dodge Brothers product has reached the highest peak of mechanical perfection in its history. They cannot be overlooked by anyone who has the slightest interest in the value his dollars buy. CHAS. H. MANN DODGE DISTRIBUTOR 210 South Los Angeles Street, Anaheim Trade At Home! Keep the VALENCIA BRAND PRODUCTS ANAHEIM BEEF MEAT PACKET BEIGHT DAYS AHEAD "There is every indication that beginning with the fall months, the entire Pacific Southwest will experience better business than it has in many years," says Frank V. Stump, editor of Southern California Business, the official magazine of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, in the August issue of that publication. Continuing, he says: "The summer slow-down throughout the country and especially in the South-west has not been felt as much as usual or as much as might have been expected. Commercial agencies believe that there will be no slowing down during the next few months such as had been predicted. There is also the belief that Los Angeles has before her an unprecedented era of growth and progress. Men who make a study of such matters do not often miss their calculations, because their prophecies are based on past experiences." California Sixth In Foreign Trade Once more reverting to the statement sometimes made by detractors of this state, that "California has nothing but climate," striking evidence that the facts do not bear it out is afforded by the official figures showing California exports for the first three months of the present year. 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