anaheim-gazette 1930-02-27

Making Tests for Soil Reclamation Orange County Seeks Answer to Alkali Land Problem A soil laboratory has been maintained by the Orange county farm adviser’s office for several years, in which tests and analyses are made for sulphates, chlorides, carbonates, bicarbonates and calcium. A total of 911 determinations were made on 135 soils and fifty determinations were made on water samples during 1920s enabling the laboratory to give advice to 108 persons interested in the reclamation of their soils. In addition to the laboratory, several tests in the reclamation of alkali soils are being conducted in co-operation with farmers in various parts of the alkali areas of the county and on different kinds of alkali soils under varying conditions of drainage and irrigation water. Gypsum and sulphur are used both alone and in combination for black alkali reclamation. Some of these tests are already providing interesting and valuable data on reclamation, and more is expected at the close of the present winter season. Interest in the so-called "Zawadke" grass is increasing, and it is expected that a considerable number of fields will be sown to this grass this winter, at the preliminary results secured late last winter were encouraging. It is hoped that this grass will be able to grow on black alkali areas where other plants are not able to survive. The drainage systems existing under previously constructed drainage districts in Orange county have been extended during the year by the laying of 100,807 feet of clay tile, and 113,000 feet of cement tile, according to the annual report of the extension service. A problem has arisen in connection with tilting that has not yet been solved entirely. The low water table induced by the past series of dry years has caused some tiles to be laid in dry ground. Under this condition the covering of the tile is imperfect, and subsequent irrigation of the overlying land has in some cases caused the tile to flare. In the nation, with a large percentage of principals and supervisors of elementary and secondary schools, The business of the organization is conducted in Washington, D.C., where a permanent headquarters staff of 125 members is housed in an office building owned by the Association. A seventy annex is soon to be added to the building. The Association is engaged in extensive projects of research in education. It issues THE JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION which circulates to the entire membership, and publishes more than one million pages yearly of reports, proceedings, and other material of value to educators. The attendance at annual conventions of the Association numbers between ten and fifteen thousand. The next annual meeting will be held in Columbus, Ohio, June 28 to July 4. The Department of Superintendence, a major division of the Association, will hold its annual meeting at Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 22-27. J.W. Crabtree has been secretary of the Association since 1917. The present president is Miss B. Ruth Pyrtle, principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln Nebraska. Weed Blackballed by Farm Bureau Nightshade Is Alternate Host to Pepper Weevil The extermination of all black night-shade plants in pepper producing districts and environs was determined at a recent meeting of the pepper growers department of the Orange County Farm Bureau. Representative of the United States Department of Agriculture's bureau of entomology and the Orange county agricultural commissioner's office were present, and affirmed that they had the necessary data to prove that black nightshade is an alternate host of the pepper weevil, and so far as is now known, the only plant upon which the pepper weevil can winter over. This finding is the result of several The drainage systems existing under previously constructed drainage districts in Orange county have been extended during the year by the laying of 190,807 feet of clay tile, and 113,000 feet of cement tile, according to the annual report of the extension service. A problem has arisen in connection with tilting that has not yet been solved entirely. The low water table induced by the past series of dry years has caused some tile to be laid in dry ground. Under this condition the covering of the tile is imperfect, and subsequent irrigation of the overlying land has in some cases caused the tile to fall up with soil and cause function. Practical methods of overcoming this difficulty are being sought. Considerable work was done on the Hellman and Bixby ranches in western Orange county, in extending the one-ditch systems which are being constructed on the four sides of each 169 acres. On the Hellman ranch allied analyses show that the salt content has greatly decreased in the area due to ditching was first begun. Because of the series of dry years, there has been no agitation for the creation of new drainage districts during the past year in Orange county. State Ranks High More than half of the teachers of the State of California are members of the National Education Association, according to the current report of the Division of Records and Membership of the organization. California stood third among the states in 1929 with 25,888 members, an increase of nearly 1,500 1928. For five years prior to 1928 California led all states in membership. Last year Ohio won first place by four members. California stood second. This year Pennsylvania nosed California out of second place by 319 members. In the National Education, California has enrolled 52 per cent of her teachers while Ohio and Pennsylvania have only 50 and 33 per cent enrolled respectively. Los Angeles rates second among the cities of the nation for the largest total National Education Association membership with 5,044. Detroit leads with 5,630. Los Angeles has 113 schools with one hundred percent membership, and 59 life members. The National Education Association enrolled one fourth of all the teachers in the United States in 1929, with a total membership of 205,631, the largest membership the organization has ever had, and a gain for the year of 12,536. The National Education Association, which has been for some years the largest professional organization in the world, was organized in 1857 for the purpose of promoting the welfare of childhood and the cause of education in the United States. The Association enrols practically all school superintendents. Eating Rice To educate Californians to eat more rice, H. P. Royer of Sacramento has been appointed manager of the educational division of the Rice Growers Association. Few persons realize Royer said that California is one of the greatest rice-producing sections in the world. The rice grown by this state is of high quality, and is much sought after by The National Education Association, which has been for some years the largest professional organization in the world, was organized in 1857 for the purpose of promoting the welfare of childhood and the cause of education in the United States. The Association enrolls practically all school superintendents. FOX THEATRE ANAHEIM MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY RONALD COLMAN CONDEMNED BY ANN HARDING In Response to Hundreds of Requests, a Return Engagement THURSDAY and FRIDAY The Virginian A Paramount Picture ALL-TALKING With GARY COOPER, MARY BRIAN, RICHARD ARLEN, WALTER HUSTON ALSO Marion Davies in "Not So Dumb" All-Talking With Elliott Nugent ANAHEIM GAZETTE Fire Losses Greatest Last Year More Destruction Wrought than Any Previous Time More forest, brush and grass fires occurred in California during the notably long dry season of 1929 than in any previous year since organized fire protection has been in force in the State, according to the combined report of the United States Forest Service and the Division of Forestry, State Department of Natural Resources. A total of 1,403 fires which burned over 1,153,462 acres and caused damage amounting to $2,773,245 was the past year's fire record. Adding to these damage figures the money spent by State, Federal, county and private forestry agencies in preventing and suppressing fire, the loss is estimated at over 5½ million dollars, not including the ¼ million dollars of property destroyed by the Mill Valley fire which started within the city limits on the brush slopes of Mt. Taundalpals. Compared with 1928, the past year's record shows an increase of 632 fires, but the area burned was smaller by 400,000 acres than in the previous year and the total damage was $100,000 less. One of the most disturbing features of the 1929 fire record, according to forestry officials, is the large increase in man-caused fires, which numbered 4,424 or 82 per cent of the total number of fires in 1929, as compared to 1,567 or 85 per cent of the total in 1928, showing that in spite of educational work, appeals, and signs, carelessness with fire is still all too prevalent, and that there is a marked lack of fire consciousness on the part of many citizens. A large measure of the increase in man-caused fires is attributed to incendias, who set a total of 700 conflagrations that burned 589,172 acres and caused damage amounting to over $1,000,000. This nefarious practice, which in many parts of the State is said to be openly aided and abetted by reputable people who, contrary to law, advocate the burning of brush fields and forests to lessen the fire losses. Water Problems Before People National Government to Cooperate with State in Dealing with Important Matter A statewide coordinated water program—in which the United States government will cooperate to the fullest extent—will be presented to the 1931 legislature and probably laid before the voters of California in 1933, if plans of several agencies now working on the problem are carried out. These agencies include the Hoover Young water committee, which held its most important meeting thus far at Oakland February 25. As representative of President Hoover, Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of the federal reclamation bureau, will attend the meeting. California farmers have much to owe for in the water studies now being pursued by the state in conjunction with the government, according to members of the legislative water committee, which is carrying on its own investigation. At the last session of the state legislature, the legislative group presented a development program including an $80,000,000 storage dam at Kennett, in Shasta county, to be used for flood control, power production, salt water control, and a new source of water for southern San Joaquin valley; a $24,000,000 pumping system at the mouth of the San Joaquin river to transfer this surplus water to parched lands in the valley, and $15,000,000 toward the Santa Ana flood control project. Because of opposition developing at the last minute, the $45,000,000 salt water barrier on Carquinez straits was not included. After much political pulling and hauling the entire proposal was finally shelved. Now, however, the coordinated plan has a splendid prospect of final consummation, according to state officials. Any program agreed to by federal sources must have the unanimous support of the entire state. Each fact-finding group has its work Biscailuz Corrects Erroneous Reports The Division of Motor Vehicles is not recommending, suggesting or prohibiting brake testing or adjusting machines and equipment of any type or character in the official brake stations to be established shortly throughout California. This announcement was made by Eugene W. Biscailuz. Superintendent of the California Highway Patrol. In an effort to correct erroneous reports that certain types of equipment would be required as a prerequisite to the issuance of permits for official testing stations. Nor is the Division giving any garage "exclusive rights" to any given territory in designating such garage as an official station. Biscailuz said. "In designating stations we will consider the reputation of the applicant, the ability of the men employed to do the adjusting, the location of garage, shop or service station, the demand for an official station in the community and other related qualifications," the patrol superintendent said. "These factors will be considered rather than the fact that a station has or does not a particular type of testing machine or device." "The use of a brake testing device alone is not a guaranty that such shop or garage will be considered." "ElEvery effort will be made to design stations having a reputation for fairness, honesty and efficiency and to refuse stations to those who do not have no lean record." "Pay no attention to the claims of salesmen or other unauthorized persons that a specific type of equipment will be required." Assistant Superintendent Roy Youngblood has designated Inspector-at-large Andrew J. Ford, head of the Bureau of Lights and Brakes to have charge of a corps of officers now engaged in the task of inspecting several hundred shops, service stations and garages that have filed applications for licenses as official brake testing stations. Approximately 500 places are to be designated as official stations in compliance with provisions of the motor vehicle act. Applications should be forwarded to patrol headquarters in Sacramento in care of Youngblood. showing that in spite of educational work, appeals, and signs, carelessness with fire is still all too prevalent, and that there is a marked lack of fire consciousness on the part of many citizens. A large measure of the increase in man-caused fires is attributed to incendiaries, who set a total of 700 conflagrations that burned 589,172 acres and caused damage amounting to over $1,000,000. This nefarious practice, which in many parts of the State is said to be openly aided and abetted by reputable people who, contrary to law, advocate the burning of brush fields and forests to lesson the fire danger, is claimed by foresters to be the most serious of all menaces to the forests of California. Careless smokers, who set 1,631 fires which burned 282,329 acres and did $518,225 of damage, are ranked next to the incendiaries as a fire menace. Carelessness in burning brush and debris caused 786 fires, nearly as many as the incendiaries, but the resulting damage was less than one-fifth as great, or 291,433. Campers set 253 fires, causing $67,192 damages, while railroads and lumbering come last with 170 and 118 fires respectively. Damage from railroad fires was $342,941, largely the result of one disastrous fire which occurred in the Modoc National Forest during a period of high winds. Lumbering has the best record with the least number of fires and $25,749 damages. Adverse weather, together with a fire season that extended two months beyond the normal, was in the opinion of forestry officials, responsible for these losses. So important have meteorological conditions become in the fire control problem that means are now provided for the forecasting of fire weather at the scene of the conflagration. This is done by a special truck equipped with meteorological instruments for making local forecasts, which maintains direct connections by radio with the main forecasting office of the Weather Bureau in San Francisco. The truck was put in commission by cooperation between the U.S. Weather Bureau, the Forest Service, and the State Division of Forestry. In addition, the State put into service last summer four fire trucks equipped with tools, hose, water tanks, and supplies for fire fighters, for general utility work on forest, trush, and grain fires. Four additional fire trucks are in process of construction for the 1:30 season. The Forest Service operates 11 fire patrol trucks equipped with fire fighting tools, power water pumps, hose and supplies, and 5 large tank trucks for use along roads and in towns, villages or summer camps. In 1929 the Forest Service constructed 256 miles of fire breaks and about 500 miles of motorways and roads primarily for the purpose of fire prevention and control. Assistant Superintendent Roy Youngblood has designated Inspector-at-large Andrew J. Ford, head of the Bureau of Lights and Brakes to have charge of a corps of officers now engaged in the task of inspecting several hundred shops, service stations and garages that have filed applications for licenses as official brake testing stations. Approximately 500 places are to be designated as official stations in compliance with provisions of the motor vehicle act. Applications should be forwarded to patrol headquarters in Sacramento in care of Youngblood. New Generator for Edison Company Bringing the system generating capacity of the Southern California Edison Company to more than a million and a quarter horsepower, the second turbine generator of 133,000 horsepower capacity to be installed at the company's Long Beach steam station was placed in service yesterday. George C. Ward, executive vice-president of the company, opened the throttle of the giant machine for the first time. The new generating unit, construction of which was begun in June, 1928. 6% and Safety ANNOUNCEMENT Anaheim Bay Loan Association From 114 North To Larger and More Convenient 187 West Center Where we will be, more than ever before Christian Science Church. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and one that overth him that beget lovers him also that to begiten of him." These words from the first epistle of John constitute the Gutenberg Text in the Lesson-Sermon on "Christ Jesus" Sunday in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. One of the Scripture selections in the Lesson-Sermon cities instructions of Christian Jesus in sending forth the seventy disciples, in which the Master said, "And lead the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come high unto you." It contains also the report of the seventy when they returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." Correlative passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," present these words by Mary Baker Eddy: "Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing." "Jesus established what he said by demonstration, thus making his acts of higher importance than his words. He proved what he taught." Much color was displayed in the convention of tailors in Chicago recently, it is said, and one of the gems was a male bathing suit of primrose and blue. It will be worn next summer by the lad who is wearing the beaver fur coat this winter. the rice-eating people of the Hawaiian islands, Porto Rico and European countries. His new job will be to introduce to the housewives of this state the countless ways in which they may include rice in their daily menus. To Larger and More Concern 187 West Center Where we will be, more than ever before We operate under strict state supervision turn 100 cents on the dollar. We pay in savings accounts. Our investment certificates are tax exempt free from care and worry. Interest and patrons when due. We accept savings in any amount and annum. Loans are made on real estate meeting. We solicit your business and invite you. OFFICERS F. A. Yungbluth, President William Falkenstein, Vice-President S. W. Todd, Vice-President Fred Koesel, Vice-Pres., & Mgr. F. F. Fowler, Secretary. Anaheim Building Association 187 West Center St. Officered and Directed by Corrects Reous Reports Motor Vehicles is not suggesting or prohibiting any type or character make stations to be established throughout California. The department was made by Euzu. Superintendent of Highway Patrol, in an erroneous reports that equipment would be requisite to the issuance of official testing station division giving any气动ights" to any given operating such garage as Biscailuz said. Stations we will condition of the applicant, the men employed to do the location of garage, station, the demand for in the community and qualifications," the patrol said. "These factors will rather than the fact that has not a particular machine or device, brake testing device warranty that such shop is considered. We will be made to de-having a reputation trusty and efficiency and to those who do not read. Tention to the claims of our unauthorized persons type of equipment will be engaged in the long several hundred stations and garages applications for licenses testing stations. Applicaces are to be designations in compliance of the motor vehicle should be forwarded quarters in Sacramento blood. was completed at a cost of $7,500,000. The first 133,000 horsepower unit, in the third plant of the company's steam station on Terminal Island, Long Beach, was placed in operation last year. Preliminary studies are being made on a construction of a three-unit electric capacity. R H Ballard, president of the Edison company, said that the completion of the new steam generating unit gives greater assurance of a fully adequate power supply for Southern and Central California territory served by the Southern California Edison Company. "Our company has long been recognized as a leader in hydro-electric generation of power," Mr. Ballard said. "We have maintained this position since the completion of our Big Creew-San Joaquin River project in the High Sierra and we are now exceeded by only two eastern utilities in capacity of steam-electric generating stations. It is a source of satisfaction to know that the constantly increasing efficiency of the Edison company steam-electric generating units is effecting substantial operating economies and that with our greater steam plant capacity we are able to give further aid toward conservation of California's water and petroleum resources. "The performance of Unit Ten, as our first 133,000 horsepower turbine is designated, is indicative of the advances in steam generation in very recent years. This machine generates 485 kilowatt-hours from a barrel of oil, compared to 240 kilowatt-hours per barrel from the finest turbine in service eight years ago. This unit alone last year generated more than seven hundred million kilowatt-hours, which was virtually the same output of all steam plants of the Edison company during 1924, a year of extremely little rainfall during which the steam plants were operated to their capacity. "The completion of the newest turbine, which was constructed at a minimum of cost due to the thoroughness of preliminary work accomplished at the time of installation of Unit Ten, marks another major step in the transition of steam from standby to power-supply service. The Edison company has turned its attention with economy and profit to steam generation, utilizing the wealth of natural gas and petroleum which is readily at hand. Of our total system during 1922, were in excess of $76,000,000; an increase of more than $100,000,000 over 1928. Carlson writings indicated a large increase 14 premiums for 1930. thirty-seven sportsmen were killed during the hunting season in Texas. Seems as though there ought to be so much room in Texas that the hunters could keep out of one another's way. 666 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Billious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known. INTRODUCING Removal of the Sim Building & Association From 114 North Lemon St. More Convenient Quarters at West Center Street more than ever before, able to serve the public. More Convenient Quarters at West Center Street more than ever before, able to serve the public. State supervision. State laws require us to reollar. We pay interest to date of withdrawal on all Taxes are tax exempt, non fluctuating in value and morry. Interest and dividend checks are mailed to Any amount and pay interest at the rate of 6% per Real estate meeting our approval. Press and invite your patronage. Sim Building & Loan Association Center St. Phone 960 Directed and Directed by Men You Know DIRECTORS F. A. Yungbluth William Falkenstein S. W. Todd Fred Koesel F. F. Fowler Dr. A. H. 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