anaheim-gazette 1930-01-30

Read it in the Gazette ALL THE LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS THE GAZETTE CALL SEVEN-TWO VOLUME LX ANOTHER STEP TAKE FLOOD CONTROL AGAIN TO BE UNDERTAKEN THREE NOTED ENGINEERS TO HAVE CHARGE OF THE WORK IN THIS COUNTY Survey Will be Made of County and Best Method of Conservation of Water and Controlling Floods Recommended to the Board of Supervisors; Engineers Will Also Act in Advisory Capacity During Progress of the Work. In the flood control and water conservation project which has been under discussion in Orange county for years, Three Boys Lost On Saddleback Found By Searching Party Monday Morning Three half forzen Santa Ana youths, lost in the Santa Ana mountains near Saddleback peak since Sunday afternoon, when they discovered that they could not find their way back from the mountains, were found at 8:30 a.m. Monday by their fathers, who left that morning to search for them. They were found in comparative short time after the search was started, but not until after two airplanes had been dispatched from Los Angeles, and Sheriff's officers and Forest Ranger Herbert Litsett had been notified and started a tramp through the snow-covered areas around the peak of Orange county's highest mountain. The boys were: George Reeves, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Esterbrook, of Tustin; Ted Lansdowne, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lansdowne, of Grant street and Rodney Yould, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Yould, of 2412 Riverside Drive. The fathers of the boys, after an all Survey Will be Made of County and Best Method of Conservation of Water and Controlling Floods Recommended to the Board of Supervisors; Engineers Will Also Act in Advisory Capacity During Progress of the Work. In the flood control and water conservation project which has been under discussion in Orange county for years, a new angle was injected into it Tuesday when the board of supervisors appointed three expert engineers to make a survey of the county, report the best method of procedure, and act as a consulting board. The new board, composed of leading men in the engineering field, was selected through the recommendations of the president and directors of the Northern California branch of the State Association of Civil Engineers, who at the request of the Orange county supervisors, submitted a list of some 20 names of men who would be competent to act in the matter. After a thorough investigation and interviews with engineers relative to their qualifications, the following men were selected to act as the board for the new survey) G. A. Elliott and Thomas H. Means, of San Francisco, and B. A. Etcheerry, of Berkeley. Willard Smith, chairman of the board of directors of the water district, announced in a statement issued following the meeting of the board that they had gone to the northern part of the state for the personnel of the new staff of engineers to avoid contacts with engineers who already had been in touch with the situation and thus to obtain an entirely fresh consideration of the vital problem confronting Orange county with relation to water. Recommendations of the list of names for selection of the board was made by Henry D. Dewell, of San Francisco, president of the northern branch of the state engineering association, following conferences with his board of directors. This action was taken following an outline of the situation as presented in correspondence by members of the Orange county board of supervisors, in an attempt to secure competent and unbiased advice on the matter. The new board will be authorized by the water district to make a sweeping survey of the matter and to work out and present the best solution for the problem. The first meeting will be arranged as soon as possible to suit the convenience of the three members of the consulting board and is expected to be within the next 60 days, it was indicated by Willard Smith. It is anticipated that other engineers will be employed by the district to assist the board and to carry out such recommendations as they may make, provided they are accepted by the district and the citizens of the county. Elliott is general manager and chief engineer of the Spring Valley Water company, supplying water to the city of San Francisco. He was also supervising engineer with the United States short time after the search was started, but not until after two airplanes had been dispatched from Los Angeles, and Sheriff's officers and Forest Ranger Herbert Litsett had been notified and started a tramp through the snow-covered areas around the peak of Orange county's highest mountain. The boys were: George Reeves, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Esterbrook, of Tustin; Ted Lansdowne, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lansdowne, of Grant street and Rodney Yould, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Yould, of 2412 Riverside Drive. The fathers of the boys, after an all night vigil awaiting their return, started for Saddleback at 2:30 o'clock Monday morning in the Yould machine. They carried with them sandwiches, milk, coffee and dry clothing. At day break the search was started and the boys were found several hours later. They had followed a fire trail up the mountain and thought they were following the same one down. When they suddenly discovered that the trail was not the same, they began to wander about the mountain and darkness found them in a position where they could not tell which way to go. They continued to roam about the valleys and hillsides for a number of hours. The snow was almost a foot deep in places and they decided to "put up for the night." They cuddled close to each other to keep warm, under a tree, and spent the night there, the rain drenching them and causing their legs and arms to become numb. Several attempts were made by the boys to cover themselves with leaves and brush to keep warm. They could not start a fire, having no matches, and the dampness of the leaves preventing them from starting a fire without their lips and faces were blue from the cold when they were found, and they were extremely hungry. Sandwiches which their fathers had taken with them were eaten hurriedly. Council Orders Palm Street Paving Will Issue Bonds to Pay for Widening West Center Street One block'of South Palm street from South street to Vermont was ordered paved by the city council at the session Tuesday night. A sufficient number of property owners on the thoroughfare whose holdings are within this block have signed a petition asking for the improvement. The street will be paved to a width of 51½ feet, and the total cost of the work, as estimated by City Engineer Hapgood, will be $43,000. A resolution of intention will be adopted at the next meeting of the council, and the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible. A resolution of intention authorizing the issuance of bonds for the widening of West Center street from Palm to West, was adopted. The money secured by these fact that effected this company, can be faced by your that cannot be owed. Elliott is general manager and chief engineer of the Spring Valley Water company, supplying water to the city of San Francisco. He was also supervising engineer with the United States army in 1917-18. He is a member of the consulting board to the state engineer on investigation and reports for development conservation and use of all the water resources of the state of California. He has also been consulting engineer on various water development projects and dams and was a member of the board that rejected the San Gabriel dam site. Etcheverry is a member of the faculty of the University of California, professor of irrigation engineering, and is also a member of the state board on development, conservation and use of water resources of the state. Means is a specialist on water percolation, which is regarded as an important factor in the county situation, and has served with various engineering and irrigation projects of the United States government. Permanent Registration Petitions are already out, the Secretary of State's office is informed, to place a measure for permanent registration of voters on the ballot at the general election in November. The first petitions will be circulated in San Francisco and Los Angeles, until the required number of electors, 91,000, have been secured. Only persons who have been registered this year may sign an initiative petition. According to measurements just made by scientists the earth is twenty-six miles greater in girth than it is in height. Yet most of us will be just as well pleased if Mother Earth doesn't start any reducing exercises. RELIEF MAP OF STATE A large relief map of California, showing its hills, valleys, rivers, seaports and cities, is about finished on the fourth floor of the capitol building, and is to be thrown open to public inspection this week. The map, considered one of the finest of its kind in existence, required many months to complete and is finished in colors. T. Wallop the total for the year aggregation of the total operating leaving a balance of $13,832.04. The report on says: "While a great deal and written action in this County indicates regardless how we about the bonds which the election held in one fact that effect of this company, we can be faced by your that cannot be over that during the pwr water secured from River has graduated year during the suit it is most needed by each year we are by pumping an extinction to the loss free In addition to the tion the cities are water each day. "The following some idea of how in our own case past few years. "In 1909 all the irrigators under the Water Co. system river and supplied improved land at the time we have each and more water by the present time thirteen pumping pwr which means we are lifting water tion 153 feet and it er each year than." "When we take that at one time we water at the corne Orangethorpe Aven below the surface owe are compelled to the Bixby ranch and Yorba Irrigation Co 200 inches for our how serious this wwly getting." "Another effect tha NAHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, January 30, 1930 KEEP TAKEN IN MOVE FOR CO WATER COMPANY HOLDS MEETING SATURDAY NO QUORUM PRESENT AT THE SESSION OF STOCK-HOLDERS SATURDAY Old Board of Directors Holds Over for Another Year; More Water Sold During Past Year Than in Any Previous Year; Balance Sheet Shows a Credit of More Than $13,000 for Year. Only 2800 shares of a total of 8004 were voted at the Anaheim Union Water Company's annual meeting Saturday. It was anticipated that no quorum would be present as nothing of grave Many Varieties of Fruit Grown On Town Lot Orange county's citrus belt extends to the sea, where lemons, for instance, get to weighing around the two-pound mark. One specimen of Ponderosa lemon, grown by Stuart H. Lucas in his back yard at "Snug Harbor," Corona del Mar, on view at the office of the Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce, weighs a pound and 14 ounces. It looks more like a large grapefruit than a lemon. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have a veritable fruit ranch in the backyard of their Corona del Mar home. No less than 35 different varieties of fruit are grown, in addition to 100 rose bushes and numerous other kinds of flowers. If one has never heard of some of the following fruits, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas may be prevailed upon to show them, and discourse on them with great enthusiasm and considerable erudition: Valencia and navel oranges, Eureka lemons, cherymoya (custard apple), sapota blanca, Chinese jubbe, persimmones, apples, peaches, GROWERS WILL HOLD ANNUAL SESSION ANAHEIM CITRUS FRUIT ASSOCIATION TO HEAR GOOD REPORTS Manager W. H. Schureman to Tell Stockholders Next Thursday of Business Transacted During the Past Year; Heavy ...Crop Marketed, and Prices Good; Receipts $422,000 More Than Previous Year. Stockholders of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit association, together with their wives, will meet in annual session next Thursday to hear reports of the past year's activities and to discuss plans Season Happy R It looks for farm those suites now nearly up. The site but not a happy as A genie little, if it longed dread feel the at least Many hard hit new grow pering and should Livestore suffered from the week we buying figures and stockmen Old Board of Directors Holds Over for Another Year; More Water Sold During Past Year Than in Any Previous Year; Balance Sheet Shows a Credit of More Than $13,000 for Year. Only 2800 shares of a total of 8004 were voted at the Annaphelm Union Water Company's annual meeting Saturday. It was anticipated that no quorum would be present as nothing of grave importance was scheduled to come up for consideration. The stockholders were satisfied with the management of the present board of directors and the officers and were content to permit them to hold over for another year. Those who managed the affairs of the company during the year were: Directors: Bert Annlin, H. H. Hale, J. H. Brunworth, C. L. Hansen, J. Chas Thainer, A. G. Miller, J. C. Tuffree. Officials: H. H. Hale, president; J. C. Tuffree, vice president; J. C. Sutherland, secretary; First National Bank, treasurer. Operating Staff: Wm. T. Wallop, general superintendent; W. B. Parrett, assistant staff; O. A. Schenck, Fullerton zanjero; O. A. Dodge, Placentia zanjero; Ralph Navarre, Yorba Linda zanjero; M. W. Archer, chief mechanic; A. E. Holditch, yard foreman and electrician. The report of the board of audit, Arthur Staley and S. C. Hartraunt, shows that the company's finances are in a satisfactory condition at the close of the year. "While the water receipts were the largest in the history of the company, $105,402.80, an increase of $3458.28 over the previous year, nearly half of this, $49,601, was spent for equipment and the production of water But considering this expense, we ended the year with a net profit of $13,832.00, which shows that while we are compelled to spend more each year for the production of water our expenses on other items of operation are being greatly reduced each year." According to the report of Supt. W. T. Wallop, the total assets of the company at the close of the year were $1,272,922.85. The total oil production on the company's property during the year was 199,733.93 barrels, which was 46,000 barrels shorter than that of a year ago. The royalty paid to the company was $26,614.04. According to the report of Supt. W. T. Wallop, the total operating expenses for the year aggregated $99,504.95, and the total operating income $113,336.99, leaving a balance on the credit side of $13,832.04. The report on the water situation says: "While a great deal has been said and written about water situation in this County in the past year and regardless how we individually feel about the bonds which were defeated at the election held in June, 1929, there is one fact that affects every stockholder of this company, and one which must be faced by your Board of Directors, that cannot be overlooked and that is Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have a veritable fruit ranch in the backyard of their Corona del Mar home. No less than 35 different varieties of fruit are grown, in addition to 100 rose bushes and numerous other kinds of flowers. If one has never heard of some of the following fruits, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas may be prevailed upon to show them, and discourse on them with great enthusiasm and considerable erudition: Valencia and navel oranges, Eureka lemons, cherymoya (custard apple), sapota blanca, Chinese Juice, persimmona, apples, peaches, pears, apricots, plums, prunes, kumquats and loquat white, brown and black figs, filoella guavas, strawberry guava and yellow strawberry guava, tangelo (being a cross between janglerine and grapefruit). King mandarin (not a Chinaman), but a citrus fruit), salsa orange, Foster pomelo (grapefruit), three varieties of avocado, seedless grapefruit, everbearing mulberry and others. Youth Held Up and Car Stolen Bold Bandit Uses Gun on Busy Street of Fullerton Police are conducting a sweeping search for the man who held up Joe W. Johnson, 19-year-old Fullerton union high school boy of Yorba Linda Friday night and stole his automobile and cash, leaving him bound and gagged in an orange grove on N. Cypress avenue. The car was found on the La Habra road near the Edison sub-station, apparently undamaged. The motor meter had been removed. Johnson had just come out of a store at Chapman and Harvard avenues, Fullerton about 6:35 p.m. As he entered his car from the left, the stranger with his coat collar turned up and hat pulled well down over his eyes, stepping in the opposite side and poking a large black revolver in the lad's ribs. "Keep quiet and drive ahead slow." Do what I tell you," the handit ordered. "Go slow, I don't want to get picked up for speeding." The holdup man warned. The youth was ordered to turn his car to the left at Cypress avenue, driving north to where the road turns toward the east. At this point he was ordered from the car, walked into an orange grove at the point of the revolver, his hands tied behind him with a bandana handkerchief his own handkerchief removed from his pocket and used as a gag. About $4 in cash was taken from the victim's pockets. The bandit then knocked Johnson down, warning him not to move. The boy remained quiet until he heard the man return to his car, then leaped up and ran to the road in time to see the Manager W. H. Schureman to Tell Stockholders Next Thursday of Business Transacted During the Past Year; Heavy ...Crop Marketed, and Prices Good; Receipts $422,000 More Than Previous Year. Stockholders of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit association, together with their wives, will meet in annual session next Thursday to hear reports of the past year's activities and to discuss plans for the present year. While the chief duty of a board of directors is the election of a board of directors, the most interesting part of the days proceedings will be listening to and reading the report of W. H. Schureman, secretary and manager, who has for eleven years piloted the house through good and bad seasons. The report is a comprehensive one covering all the activities of the house during the year. Here is a summary of the season's business: 362 active accounts; 3229½ acres; 1212½ carloads (462 boxes cach)—total; 1155 carloads of which were Valencias; 1,$160,971.83 banked; 69½% more fruit received than previous year; 1,075,976% loose boxes of oranges received; $1.14 averages net per loose box on all varieties and sizes, as received; $2.09 net per packed box on all grades and sizes of Valencias, including with "Memorandum for comparison with others;" $4426.42 paid to growers for culla, as such, and so shown on their statements. Each grower is paid for his culls in proportion to the quantity furnished; 450 tons of commercial fertilizers handled and many carloads of manure; $132,-550.31 grand throughout the season. This is figured on the same basis as some other organizations' refunds. For us it includes the revolved Fruit Growers Supply Company stock, Equalization Fund, cull money, redemption of Anaheim Citrus Fruit Association stock, refund from the central and the district Exchanges. The previous season says the report, we shipped 210,442 boxes for which we received $1,128,961.26 not including refunds. During the season covered by this report we shipped 560,329 boxes for which we received $1,580,971.83 not including refunds which is 69½% more fruit than the previous year and a difference of about $423,000.00. This crop of citrus fruits was by far the largest ever produced in California,and was the most difficult to handle from the point of sizes. Relative to the labor situation the report says: "On account of the extraordinary large crop this past season we were considerably bothered at times with the labor situation, particularly the pickers." "White labor will not pick oranges." We made a real effort to organize a crew of high school boys who worked after a fashion for about three days and who we now believe were the direct cause of our losing one member.Most boys are evidently not raised to work these days.We also undertook to get white pickers through the Bureau of Labor of Los Angeles; quite a num- Little if any longed drear feel at least two Many hard hit new growing area should be livestock suffered from this week were buying for figures at stockmen; chase it saddlerable. Acres on available state land from here. In the last year tree can still eter padern and O Bldwell Behind tree from whichemeralized. Rumors Northern snow and district hail false. No age was at there say. Speaking one is rement of this tree located in tree location from whichemeralized. Walmu Dr.H.H. dent o AnnualtheAnabelmionwaslwhousewhohissubmittedbusiness.reportandwasa satisfied.ManagerwH.H.SchuremantoTellStockholdersNextThursdayofBusinessTransactedDuringthePastYearHeavy...CropMarketed,andPricesGood;Receipts$422，000MoreThanPreviousYear. Young Widgetext from orderderessionnumbernightighereblockforthepavedthetotalboyCityAcoustizingholdtolimefirminatureofthecompanytounderseyearandregardlesshowweindividuallyfeelaboutthebondswhichweredefeatedattheelectionheldinJune1929thereisonefactthataffecteverystockholderofthiscompany,andonewhichmustbefacebyyourBoardOfDirectorsthatcannotbeoverlookedandthatis T. Wallop the total operating expenses for the year aggregated $99,504.95, and the total operating income $113,336.99, leaving a balance on the credit side of $13,322.04. The report on the water situation says: "While a great deal has been said and written about water situation in this County in the past year and regardless how we individually feel about the bonds which were defeated at the election held in June, 1929, there is one fact that effects every stockholder of this company, and one which must be faced by your Board of Directors, that cannot be overlooked and that is that during the past dry years the water secured from the Santa Ana River has gradually decreased each year during the summer months when it is most needed by our irrigators and each year we are compelled to develop by pumping an extra amount in proportion to the loss from the gravity flow. In addition to the demands for irrigation the cities are demanding more water each day. The following schedule will give us some idea of how the water situation in our own case has changed in the past few years. In 1909 all the water used by the irrigators under the Anaheim Union Water Co. system was taken from the river and supplied the needs of all the improved land at that time. Since that time we have each year developed more and more water by pumping until at the present time we are operating thirteen pumping plants and 3 boosters by which means we develop and deliver the summer months 3600 inches of water. "When we first started pumping, the water at the corner of Placentia and Orangentepe Avenues, stood at 60 feet below the surface of the ground. Today we are lifting water at this same location 153 feet and it is going down faster each year than the year previous. "When we take in to consideration that at one time this summer all the water we were getting from the river was 500 inches, of which amount we are compelled to deliver 100 inches to the Bixby ranch and 200 inches to the Yorba Irrigation Company, leaving but 200 inches for our selves, we can see how serious this water shortage is really getting." Another effect the long dry spell had on our plants can readily be appreciated from the following: In the early part of the season we get as high as five hundred inches of water from pumping plant No. 1, which is situated at the upper end of our district just below the Bixby Ranch. Toward the end of this season we were getting less than 200 inches from this source. Relative to the labor situation the report says: "On account of the extraordinary large crop this past season we were considerably bothered at times with the labor situation, particularly the pickers." "White labor will not pick oranges. We made a real effort to organize a crew of high school boys, who worked after a fashion, for about three days and who, we now believe, were the direct cause of our losing one member. Most boys are evidently not raised to work these days. We also undertook to get white pickers through the Bureau of Labor of Los Angeles; quite a number reported from there but only one started to work after learning the proposed wage and he worked about two days. "Much of the time the picking labor situation was exasperating; notwithstanding we were doing the best we could under the circumstances to get the crop picked in the face of the almost overwhelming demands on the part of the growers. Most of the picking was done on the box basis, but was not altogether satisfactory on account of great differences in the pickling." The officers and directors who served during the past year are: Ben Baxter, president; Dr. J. W. Harpster, vice president; J. J. Dwyer, O. E. Steward, S. C. Hartrantt, B. L. Chandler, F. H. Zaiser, L. H. Hoskins, director; W. H. Schureman, secretary; Carl E. Monahan, assistant secretary and manager; Anaheim National Bank, Treasurer; Julius Gonzales, field superintendent; W. H. Harris, East house foreman; Otto Idso; West house foreman; Margaret D. Elliott, stenographer and assistant bookkeeper. STATE POSITIONS Only citizens of the United States need apply for state positions in the California government. An opinion declaring allens barred from permanent work as state employees has been rendered by Attorney General U.S.Webb (in a communication to Leroy R.Bruce, secretary of the state department of institutions). An exception is made in the opinion for members of the faculty of state colleges or universities. Specialists or experts temporarily employed by a state department are also exempt from this rule. Annual tothe Anaheion was L house, house submitted business report and was a satisfaction Manager than 900 t by the asses These ships the growers $150,000 hargrowers. At a recent directors or resignation president's illled by those who served dent. Wat en vice pro was elected board of D nation of C Seek Deal Afterma centia Trial of surviving asking $17 K. Rice in under way Judge H.C. B.W.H is defended was instituted Rice, and Marie, of H The autumn 12th centia availed in the car he following driven by lege that operation of the accel tiffs of the and care o GAZETTE SIXTY YEARS of Progress GROWING WITH ANAHEIM SINCE 1870 THE GAZETTE 108 N. EMILY Number 18 FOR CONSERVATION S. WILL ANNUAL ION RUS FRUIT TO HEAR PORTS Schureman to is Next Thursus Transacted Year; Heavy and Prices 422,000 More Year. Season's Rainfall Nearly Normal Happy Condition of Affairs as Result of Downpour It looked like a hard winter ahead for farmers of California, but one of those sudden vagaries of the weather has now brought the state's rainfall nearly up to normal. The situation has occurred before, but not always has the outcome been as happy as this time. A general survey of the field shows little, if any, damage done by the prolonged drought. Truck crops will still feel the effect of the rainfall lack for at least another month. Many of these vegetable crops were hard hit by the dry weather, but the new growth now coming along is prospering and by the middle of March all should be normal again. Livestock owners are believed to have suffered more than any other one group from the long dry period. Only last week were many of them able to stop buying feed for cattle. Although no figures are available on the loss to stockmen from this forced feed pur- CITY ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON APRIL 14 TWELVE CITIES IN ORANGE COUNTY WILL VOTE ON THAT DAY Anaheim to Elect Three New Members of the City Council; Terms of Grafton, Franzen and Koesel To Expire This Spring; Symptoms of a Warm Campaign are already Apparent; Miller and Lakeman Only Two Hold-overs. While the city election is more than two months away, the date for filing nomination papers is only two weeks Schureman to its Next Thursdays Transacted Year; Heavy and Prices $422,000 More Year. Anaheim Citrus farmer with their usual session next part of the past to discuss plans While the chief is the election, the most in-depth proceedings reading the re-entry secretary and eleven years much good and port is a comprehensive activities year. Here is Jon's business: 3229½ acres; cows each)—total; were Valenclas; 1¼% more fruit year; 1,075,876½ received; $1.14 box on all varieties; $2.00 not per pies and sizes of with "Memorandum with others;" cows for culls, as their statements. This culls in pro-furnished; 450 fertilizers handled manure; $122--highest the same basis' refunds. Revolved Fruit any stock, Equation, redemption Unit Association central and the says the report, is for which we not including reason covered by 60,329 boxes for 60,971.83, not inscribed 69½% more year and a dif-ferent units was by far used in California, built to handle situation the result of the extra-past season we were at times on, particularly it pick oranges. To organize a farm, who worked about three days here, were the di-gone one member but not raised to also undertook to though the Bureau quite a num-ber of stockholders of the Anaheim Walnut Growers association was held recently at the packing house, when Manager George Ross submitted a report of the season's business. It was a very satisfactory report and shows that the past year was a satisfactory one. Manager Ross reported that more than 900 tons of walnuts were shipped by the association during the season. These shipments are expected to yield the growers $180,000. Of this amount $150,000 has already been paid to the growers. THAT DAY Anaheim to Elect Three New Members of the City Council; Terms of Grafton, Franzen and Koesel To Expire This Spring; Symptoms of a Warm Campaign are already Apparent; Miller and Lakeman Only Two Hold-overs. While the city election is more than two months away, the date for filing nomination papers is only two weeks distant. Election day is Monday, April 14, and candidates may begin filing their nomination papers on February 13. The terms of three Anaheim councilmen expire this spring. They are W. D. Grafton, A. W. Franzen and Fred Koesel. Whether or not these gentlemen will be candidates for re-election is not yet announced. There has been little discussion yet relative to the election, that is, on the surface, but it is understood the discontented are preparing to launch a ticket and endeavor to get a controlling power at the council board, wholly in opposition to the present board. This is usually the case here as in most other cities, but of course the names of candidates will not be made public until the last day permitted under the law for filing nominations is reached. Signs of political activities, and preparations for oiling and overhauling "machinery" and other appurtenances peculiar to politics may be expected in the near future with the approach of the opening date, February 13, for filing nomination papers with city clerks in the 12 cities of the sixth class in Orange county, preparatory to the elections in these communities on April 14. February 13 is the first date on which nomination papers may be signed or filed, together with the affidavit of acceptance of the person named therein, and whether that day is unlucky for this first step will not be known until after the votes are tallied after the polls are closed some two months later. Between February 13 and March 25 the public must be notified concerning the date of election, offices to be filled, propositions to be voted on—if any—description of the voting precincts and location of the polling precincts. All of which means that the clerks of the 12 sixth class cities will be busy during this period. March 15 is the last day for registration of voters who wish to cast ballots in the elections, and all persons who have moved must be sure that they are properly registered in the correct precinct by this date. This is also the last day for the appointment of election officials and the designation of polling places. Noon of the 25th day of March is the deadline for filing nomination papers, and all candidates must have their papers on file by this hour if they are to be declared in the race. Names of all candidates are required by law to be published two times before the election. Polling places are required to be open for eight hours on the day of the elec- Annual meeting of stockholders of the Anaheim Walnut Growers association was held recently at the packing house, when Manager George Ross submitted a report of the season's business. It was a very satisfactory report and shows that the past year was a satisfactory one. Manager Ross reported that more than 900 tons of walnuts were shipped by the association during the season. These shipments are expected to yield the growers $180,000. Of this amount $150,000 has already been paid to the growers. At a recent meeting of the board of directors officers were elected. The resignation of Gilbert Kraemer left the president's chair vacant, and it was filled by the election of Dr. H. D. Cook, who served the past year as vice president. Walter Muckenthaler was chosen vice president, and Edward Backs was elected to the vacancy on the board of directors caused by the resignation of Gilbert Kraemer. Seek Damages for Death of Husband Aftermath of Accident at Placentia Avenue and North St. Trial of a damage case in which the surviving members of the family are asking $175,000 for the death of Elder K. Rice in an automobile accident, got under way before a jury in the court of Judge H. G. Ames, Monday. B. W. Hardy, of Huntington Beach, is the defendant in the action, which was instituted by ythe widow, Marie C. Rice, and her baby daughter, Betty Marle, of Placentia. The auto crash, which occurred September 12, at the intersection of Placentia avenue and North street, resulted in the instant death of Rice, when the car he was driving was overturned following the collision with a machine driven by Hardy. The complaint alleges that the careless and negligent operation of Hardy's car was the cause of the accident that deprived the plaintiffs of the comfort, society, protection and care of the husband and father. Noon of the 25th day of March is the deadline for filing nomination papers, and all candidates must have their papers on file by this hour if they are to be declared in the race. Names of all candidates are required by law to be published two times before the election. Polling places are required to be open for eight hours on the day of the election, April 14, and the returns must be officially canvassed by April 21. County Clerk, J. M. Backs, who furnished the information relative to the steps outlined above for the elections, stated that Santa Ana is the only city in the county whose citizens will not go to the polls April 14, as it is the only city of the fifth class. The election in Santa Ana will come on later in the year, commencing with the primaries in August. Cities where elections will be held in April include Anaheim, Orange, Fullerton, Brea, La Habra, Placentia, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Tustin and San Clemente. Mrs. Edie Brock, of Logan, Utah, died Sunday at the home of her niece, Mrs. W. W. Crone, on South Citron street. Mrs. Brock came here several months ago in the hope of improving her health. She leaves one son and a number of brothers and sisters. The body was taken charge of by Backs, Terry and Campbell, and shipped to her. Home is where man can cut the head lettuce with a knife. Jurors who will determine whether any damages are due and in what amount, are Dewitt C. Wilson, Mrs. Eva Croshy, Mrs. Stella Farnsworth, Jennie E. Cook, Mrs. Carrie Drake, S. L. Carpenter, J. E. Kellogg, W. F. Crist, W. P. Quarton, Ida A. Spaulding, V. G. Yorba and H. H. Hanaford. The law firm of McFadden and Holden is representing the plaintiffs and Forgy, Heinhaus and Forgy are attorneys for the defendant.