anaheim-gazette 1929-06-06

Forest Fires Are Menace to State Wahlberg Urges Steps to Curtail the Destructive Evil "The fire demon has succeeded again in giving California the doubtful distinction of being at the head of the class in fire destruction and losses. In 1928, the state suffered 4,000 brush fires covering 1,500,000 acres. The United States has the highest fire losses of any nation and we lead the country. We must make the biggest kind of effort if we are to keep our golden commonwealth safe and prosperous for present and future generations. Last year's experience, when we had one of the worst fires in our fiery history, compels all loyal citizens to pause and reflect the awful consequences if such losses are suffered every year." Woodbridge Metcalf, extension forester of the University of California, tells us that the area burned over last year actually exceeded 1,500,000 acres, is 25 per cent greater than the entire area of the Cleveland National Forest with which we in Southern California are familiar. Imagine the burning over of an area three times as large as Orange county! That is the black and sooty record for California in 1928. The increasing use of our forests by millions of citizens is making it more and more necessary for us to exert every care and precaution to prevent fires. Some 9,000,000 persons visited the eighteen national forest reserves in California last year, according to government figures. These forests embrace about seventeen and a half million acres. With this tremendous migration into the open each year, it becomes increasingly evident that every means of education must be extended to familiarize the public with the fire hazard arising from the recreational use of forest lands and with the means of prevention and control in our forests. An analysis of fire statistics, according to Mr. Metcalf, shows that 85 per cent of the 4,000 open fires last year can be traced to human carelessness or ignorance. Sixty per cent of the uncalled-for loss can be traced directly to smokers. Less than 15 per cent county amounts to $1044 every minute. Something like 15,000 persons are burned to death each year in cities and rural districts—a tremendous toll that alone should challenge thought and bring about a vigorous attempt to thwart the fire demon. It is stated that enough buildings are burned every year to provide one on every lot on both sides of a street long enough to reach fro mChicago to New York. Two rural districts are now organized in Orange county—Garden Grove and Buena Park. Other districts are being considered. The boar dof supervisors is now investigating legislation in connection with a county unit. With or without the advantages of a fire district, every farm owner should make a survey of hazards on his property and provide himself with emergency equipment. This will often prevent a serious fire if it is nipped in the bud. Some of the safety factors to be considered are the proper storage of petroleum products, condition of stoves and chimneys, materials that are subject to spontaneous combustion, and all electrical connections and contacts. Gas and oil storage should be at a reasonable distance from buildings, or underground. If a rubber hose is used to empty gasoline tanks, the precaution should be used of having a metal tip attached to the end of the hose. The metal tip should be in contact with the receptacle being filled to release the charge of static that would otherwise accumulate and make a possible spark. Mr. Fairbank says that one gallon of gasoline has stored up within the potential explosive power of eighty-five pounds of dynamite. Non-explosive clothes cleaners should be used instead of highly explosive gasoline, carbon tetra-chloride being recommended as safe. Safety gasoline cans with automatic stoppers will materially reduce the gasoline hazard. Hand extinguishers or hand pumps are indispensable to home protection. There are several types to select from. Those that meet the requirements of the Underwriters' Association are very reliable. Such common tools as the rake, hoe, axe and mattock, along with burlap sacks and water pails, are all valuable in emergencies and could well be made a part of the fire equipment. Preparedness is the key to successful fire control. Take stock of the hazards and plan for the unexpected. SHRINERS OPEN NATION Nearly three hundred years opened the 1929 season with the arrival West of the Union Pacific of Paleo Providence, R. L., and Saturday of the Isis Temple Kansas, and the Zembab Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. By special arrangement Union Pacific the Shriner to stop at the Zion National Grand Canyon, and Bryce their westward trip to their annual Shrine convention, Angeles. Many additional accords were installed for the visitors at the lodges and are operated by the Union the Southern Utah Park "backyard playground" in California. The official summer season opened Saturday to the public first all-expense personal tour to the parks over the cific will leave Los Angeles it was announced by Georgetown man, general passenger tour. The all-expense tour is vacation leaving Southern at night and arriving there at Cedar City, Utah. The Union Pacific rallies follow breakfast the time in a deluxe motor coach Parks company to Zion Canyon he spends the remainder and one night. The next goes by bus over the Carmel highway to the Goforth North Rim, where one day and two nights there he goes to Bryce other Union Pacific operators and following an afternoon spent there embarks for where he boards the train Southern California and refreshed and rested on of the seventh day. According to the Boston epidemic of influenza hit Boston less than any large cities. Maybe this is why the flu bacteria are not griture. million acres, with this tremendous migration into the open each year, it becomes increasingly evident that every means of education must be exerted to familiarize the public with the fire hazard arising from the recreational use of forest lands and with the means of prevention and control in our forests. An analysis of fire statistics, according to Mr. Metcalf, shows that 85 per cent of the 4,000-open fires last year can be traced to human carelessness or ignorance. Sixty per cent of the uncalled-for loss can be traced directly to smokers. Less than 15 per cent of the fires was caused by lightning. In fact, lightning is a small factor in California fires, as compared with eastern fires. Fire prevention should be the concern of both rural and urban interests, because of the intimate relation between the protection of our watersheds and water supply for power purposes, city consumption and farm irrigation. Experiments by soil physicists show that soils devoid of humus because of fire erode fifty times as much as a similar soil containing a normal humus content in the forest and brush covered area. A typical case of excessive erosion following a fire devastation is that of the Harding Canyon reservoir near Modieska's home in Orange county. This reservoir was almost completely filled with soil in the first heavy storm after the Hathaway fire of 1926 that burned over an area of 7,000 acres. Incidentally, heer is a case of carelessness that could have been prevented with a little forethought on the part of a cabin owner who thoughtlessly started to burn leaves in a period of low humidity and desert winds. The Forestry Department and county of Orange are endeavoring to meet these emergencies by the building of firebreaks, trails and truck roads throughout the Cleveland Reservation within Orange county, according to Supervisor Willard Smith. These trails and roads coordinate with similar systems in adjacent counties. During the past four years Orange county has spent almost $60,000 for trail and road construction, which matches a similar amount from the Federal Forest Department. This does not include the sums that have been needed for fire suppression during these years. This year for the first time the State Forestry Board has allotted money to Orange county, according to D. Eyman Huff of Orange, a member of the board. The sum, amounting to $5,000, will be used for the furtherance of fire control in the county. Mr. Huff reported to the Orange County Forest Protective Association the other day that the budget for the next biennium for the State Forestry Board has been increased 40 per cent, which is a larger increase than was secured by any other department of the state government. He declares that the department has been and still is under-financed for really accomplishing the important work before it. At the present time the state is cooperating with twenty-seven counties in forestry programs. During recent rural fire control demitatic stoppers will materially reduce the gasoline hazard. Hand extinguishers or hand pumps are indispensable to home protection. There are several types to select from. Those that meet the requirements of the Underwriters' Association are very reliable. Such common tools as the rake, hoe, axe and mattock, along with burlap sacks and water pails, are all valuable in emergencies and could well be made a part of the fire equipment. Preparedness is the key to successful fire control. Take stock of the hazards and plan for the unexpected. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A great many learned arguments have been advanced for the abolition of the death penalty, but it remains for Governod Fred Green of Michigan, in his veto of a bill to restore capital punishment, to present one of the most potent points against legal executions. Governor Green's chief basis for opposing restoration of the death penalty to Michigan's statutes, is that the law bears down more heavily upon the poor than upon the rich. It is a striking contention, but one which is amply justified. No candid observer of the records relating to homicide trials in this country can deny that the rich or well-do defendant has a vastly greater chance of cheating the gallows or the chair than the poor defendant. A good lawyer can make an able defense even with a poor case; and a poor lawyer can make a failure of the best possible case. Legal experts—who cost greatly—can twist indictments and utilize objections and exceptions where mediocre, cheaper lawyers cannot, timely and even jurors. These are hard things to say, but everybody knows they are true. The time element alone in a murder case is so important that the defendant who can afford to drag his case along, with the eventual goal of carrying it to the highest courts, usually feels that he has practically insured acquittal or a minimum sentence. It takes money to hire lawyers by the year and it takes money to carry cases from court to court. Theoretically, of course, these matters are less an argument in favor of abolishing capital punishment than an indictment of our criminal procedure. In practice, however, the facts cited defeat the chief end of justice, which is to treat every man aloke. As matters stand, we find the death penalty applied to the poor and not applied to the rich. Certainly whatever deterrent force there might be in the death penalty is thus minimized by the popular notion that money can beat the gallows or the chair. And equally certain it is that juries being human, are going to be more and more reluctant to convict the poor man with a weak defense when the rich man with an able defense is allowed to escape. I thhere is one thing which Americans resent more than another it is discrimination in the application of laws. Disregarding various arguments as to the wisdom or unwisdom other Union Pacific operators and following an afternoon spent there embarks for where he boards the train Southern California and refreshed and rested on one of the seventh day. According to the Boston, the epidemic of influenza hit Boston less than any large cities. Maybe this is in line with the flu bacteria are not grown. "We are witnessing the end to the air of the private party for fun of the thing course of his daily routine ginnning to make his appearance there and everywhere. The rapidly coming within one of the average wage earners." "Many improvements can be in process. To name experiments just recently shown that, by clever soil no noise within the cabenger plane, which in turn been so clangrous as to deafen, can be reduced of the previously existing problems." "What part you may see Department of Commerce activity. The Air Commission 1926 assigned to our deputy promotion and regulation nautics. So the Aeronautics of which I am privileged head, inspects all planes they are 'airworthy.' I rates and licenses the pilots chances. It establishes an air-traffic rules." "Civil airways and their with intermediate landing con lights and radio app other aids to air navigation and maintained through mentality of this service.ishment of airports is courageed. Air maps are Scientific research and are being constantly carried." "Some four-score millions are now flown annually port and air services in States. The operation of passenger routes is provided to some of the carriers of aviation equipment are creasing." "At the end of the century 1928, air mail and transports were in operation or sold 20,788 miles of airways. Of pounds of air mail tripled in one year, from 20,788 miles per cent for 1928, as compared with preceding year, and that persons carried was nearly "Extraordinary advances achieved in the adequate our airways." During recent rural fire control demonstrations, J. P. Fairbank, extension specialist, pointed out the hazards of the highways. Referring to the experience in Kern county last year, where forty-nine fires had to be fought he said that the majority of these fires had started along the three main highways of travel. The Highway Commission and some of the countries are now recognizing the value of roadside clearing and destruction of weeds. Very rapid weed destruction can be effected by spraying, according to Mr. Fairbank. It costs between $22 to $24 per mile for this work. As a means of preventing a large portion of the roadway fires, the legislature has recently enacted a law, according to Commissioner Huff, making it compulsory to equip all automobiles with cigar ash receivers. There is also another bill before the legislature proposing to place a state tax on all tobacco, such funds to be used for fire control purposes. Aside from brush and forest fires, the entire state is confronted with the problem of fire losses on the farms. Rural districts, for protection, have been formed in several counties. Possibly the most thoroughly organized are those of Los Angeles county. Nor man Johnson, Los Angeles county fire warden, tells us that there are twenty-eight rural fire districts now operating in his county with up-to-date equipment and paid firemen or call men. National statistics show that ninety six farm buildings are destroyed by fire every twenty-four hours. The losses caused by fire throughout the country is under construction, and one can anticipate launching devices and arresting gear to commercial flight. Certainly whatever deterrent force there might be in the death penalty is thus minimized by the popular notion that money can beat the gallows or the chair. And equally certain it is that juries, being human, are going to be more and more reluctant to convict the poor man with a weak defense when the rich man with an able defense is allowed to escape. I there is one thing which Americans resent more than another it is discrimination in the application of laws. Disregarding the various arguments as to the wisdom or unwisdom of capital punishment from an ethical and social viewpoint, we think the mass of our citizens will agree with the basic reason for Governor Green's veto. AVIATION PROGRESS No country is making faster progress in aviation than the United States. There has been a great impetus given to this science during the past few years owing to the exploits of Lindberg and other American aviators. Great progress has been made since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright but aviation is still in its infancy, according to William P. McCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. In an interesting article in the current number of the National Republic on aviation progress in America, Mr. McCracken says of the future of aviation in the United States: "What does the immediate future hold? It would be rash. I think, to venture a prediction. Great projects 'are in the air'—for the air. An intense and almost feverish activity is everywhere in evidence. "We may see in the near future, passenger planes controlled by automatic pilots. Deisel-type engines are already here—gas-burning plants are thought of—adjustable propellers promise to provide the airlane with the equivalent of the speed-changing mechanism of the automobile. The floating airport is under construction, and one can anticipate launching devices and arresting gear to commercial flight." NOTICE INVITING Santa Ana, Calif., Mt. In pursuance of a Resolution Board of Supervisors of the Orange, California, adopted 1929, directing this notice, HEREBY GIVEN THAT Board will receive at its Court House at Santa Ana the hours of 11:00 o'clock June 11th, 1929, sealed bids for the widening of a route, a distance of approx. one-quarter miles in ROAD DISTRICT, Orange California. Bids must be made on time with the profiles, plans, specifications adopted by the Boat visors, on file in the office or in the office of the Contintendent of Highways, Inc. Records. The bidder must submit proposal a satisfactory check by the order of the County or a bidder's bond for the ample sum of the bid as a guaranty bidder will enter into the contract if the same is awarded and in the event of failure into such contract said clauses shall become the proper County. The amount of the bond SHRINERS OPEN National Park Nearly three hundred visiting Shriners opened the 1929 season at the Southern Utah National Parks last week, with the arrival Wednesday over the Union Pacific of Palestine Temple of Providence, R. L., and the arrival Saturday of the Isis Temple of Salinas, Kansas, and the Zembo Temple of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. By special arrangement with the Union Pacific the Shriners were able to stop at the Zion National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon, on their westward trip to the fifty-fifth annual Shrine convention, held in Los Angeles. Many additional accommodations were installed for the visiting Shriners at the lodges and resorts which are operated by the Union Pacific in the Southern Utah Parks area—the "backyard playground" of Southern California. The official summer season of 1929 opened Saturday to the public and the first all-expense, personally escorted tour to the parks over the Union Pacific will leave Los Angeles June 15. It was announced by George R. Bierman, general passenger agent. The all-expense tour is a seven-day vacation leaving Southern California at night and arriving the next morning at Cedar City, Utah, the end of the Union Pacific rails on the tour. Following breakfast the traveler rides in a deluxe motor coach of the Utah Parks company to Zion Canyon, where he spends the remainder of the day and one night. The next morning he goes by bus over the new Zion-Mt. Carmel highway to the Grand Canyon of the North Rim, where he spends one day and two nights, and from there he goes to Bryce Canyon—another Union Pacific operated resort—and following an afternoon and night spent there embarks for Cedar City, where he boards the train again for Southern California and arrives home refreshed and rested on the morning of the seventh day. According to the Boston Transcript the epidemic of influenza last winter hit Boston less than any of our other lage cities. Maybe this indicates that the flu bacteria are not germs of culture. to secure a faithful performance of the contract for said work shall be twenty-five (25) per cent of the contract price thereof, and an additional bond in an amount equal to fifty (50) per cent of the contract price of said work shall be given to secure the payment of claims for any materials for supplies furnished for the performance of the work contracted to be done by the contractor, or any work or labor, of any kind done thereon, and also will be required to furnish a certificate that he carries compensation insurance covering his employees upon work to be done under contract which may be entered into between him and the said County for the building of said road. Copies of the plans will be furnished intending bidders upon application to the County Superintendent of Highways, of said County for which a deposit of ten ($10.00) dollars will be required, same to be returned on the filing of bid, and the return of plans and specifications, provided said plans and specifications are returned within ten (10) days after contract is awarded. The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Orange, State of California. J. M. BACKS, (SEAL) County Clerk. 5-23-3t NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the share holders of THE SAVINGS, LOAN, AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF ANAHEIM, a corporation, will be held at the office of the corporation at No. 115 South Los Angeles street, City of Anaheim, California, on Monday, June 10th, 1929, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.M., of said day, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for the corporation, and to consider and act upon the proposition of deocrasing the number of Directors from eleven to ten, and accordingly the proposition of amending the Articles of the corporation and the By-Laws of the corporation, and to transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. By order of the Board of Directors at a regular meeting of said Board, cured by said Deed of Trust, which Notice of Default and of Election to Sell was duly recorded in Book 242, page 317 of Official Records of said Orange County; and WHEREAS, more than three months have now elapsed since the recordation of said Notice and all of the sums and obligations secured by said Deed of Trust remain unpaid; and The Trustee's fees and expenses of sale incurred and to be incurred necessary to the execution of the trusts contained in said Deed of Trust are estimated at $223.00, and the re-payment of said sum is also secured by said Deed of Trust. NOW. THEREFORE, pursuant to said Notice recorded February 11th, 1929, and to the above mentioned demand of February 5th, 1929, and in accordance with the terms and underlined Deed of Trust, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the said Orange County Title Company will, on the 8th day of June, 1929, at the hour of eleven fifteen o'clock A.M., of said day, at the South door of the Orange County Court House in the City of Santa Ana, California, by virtue of the authority vested in it as Trustee under said Deed of Trust, sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, lawful money of the United States, all of the interest conveyed, to it by said Deed of Trust in and to all the following described property situated in the County of Orange, State of California, described as follows: to-wit: Lots Seventy (70) and Seventy-one (71) of "Tract No. 625," as shown on a Map recorded in Book 21, page 46 of Miscellaneous Maps, records of Orange County, California; According to the Boston Transcript the epidemic of influenza last winter hit Boston less than any of our other lage cities. Maybe this indicates that the flu bacteria are not germs of culture. "We are witnessing the entrance into the air of the private pilot who files 'for the fun of the thing' and in the course of his daily routine, he is beginning to make his appearance here, there and everywhere. The airplane is rapidly coming within the price range of the average wage-earner. "Many improvements of the plane are in process. To name only one: experiments just recently completed show that, by clever sound-proofing, the noise within the cabin of a passenger plane, which in the past has been so clangrous as to be well-nigh deafening, can be reduced to a quarter of the previously existing volume. "What part, you may ask, does the Department of Commerce play in this activity. The Air Commerce Act of 1926 assigned to our department the promotion and regulation of civil aeronautics. So the Aeronautics Branch, of which I am privileged to be the head, inspects all planes to see that they are 'airworthy'. It examines rates and licenses the pilots and mechanics. It establishes and enforces air-traffic rules. "Civil airways and their equipment, with intermediate landing fields, beacon lights and radio apparatus, and other aids to air navigation are set up and maintained through the instrumentality of this service. The establishment of airports is actively encouraged. Air maps are published. Scientific research and development are being constantly carried out. "Some four-score millions of miles are now flown annually by air transport and air services in the United States. The operation of air mail and passenger routes is proving profitable to some of the carriers. Our exports of aviation equipment are rapidly increasing. "At the end of the calendar year 1928, air mail and transport services were in operation or scheduled over 20,788 miles of airways. The number of pounds of air mail carried had tripled in one year, from 1927 to 1928. The passenger traffic, to be sure, is still relatively small, but there was an increase of four hundred and twenty per cent for 1928, as compared with the preceding year, and the number of persons carried was nearly 53,000." "Extraordinary advances have been achieved in the adequate lighting of our airways." NOTICE INVITING BIDS Santa Ana, Calif., May 21, 1929. In pursuance of a Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Orange, California, adopted May 21st, 1929, directing this notice, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the said Board will receive at its office at the Court House at Santa Ana, at or before the hours of 11:00 o'clock A. M. of June 11th, 1929, sealed proposals or bids for the widening of Lincoln avenue, a distance of approximately four and one-quarter miles in the THIRD ROAD DISTRICT, Orange County, California. Bids must be made on the form provided for the purpose, addressed to the Board of Supervisors, Orange County, California, marked "Bids for the Widening of Lincoln Avenue." The work to be done in accordance with the profiles, plans, and specifications adopted by the Board of Supervisors, on file in the office of said Board and in the office of the County Superintendent of Highways, in the Hall of Records. The bidder must submit with his proposal a satisfactory check certified by a responsible bank and payable to the order of the County of Orange, or a bidder's bond for the amount not less than five (5) per cent of the aggregate sum of the bid as a guarantee that the bidder will enter into the proposed contract if the same is awarded to him, and in the event of failure to enter into such contract said check or bond shall become the property of the County. 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