anaheim-gazette 1932-03-10

PAGE EIGHT 25¢ Kids a Dime Loges 35¢ SUN., MON. MARCH 13-14 CONTINUOUS SHOWS SUNDAY 2:30 TO 11 P.M. RICHARD BARTHELMESS in "Alias The Doctor" NOVELTY ROSCOE ATES COMEDY NEWS TUES., WED. MARCH 15-16 "LADIES OF THE JURY" with Edna May Oliver COMEDY PARA ACT NOVELTY NEWS THURS. ONLY MARCH 17 Nancy Carroll - Richard Arlen in "WAY WARD" COMEDY NOVELTY NEWS FRI., SAT. MATINEE SAT AT 2:30 MARCH 18-19 "POLLY OF THE CIRCUS" with Marian Davies Clark Gable GANG COMEDY NEWS SCREEN SONG NOVELTY CHAPTER NO. 2 "THE LIGHTNING WARRIOR" WANT ADS RATE: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. Apartments For Rent FOR RENT—1-room nicely furnished family flat. Sun parlor, 2 beds, laundry, electric washer and ironer. Garage. Close in. Reasonable rent. Phone 2360. 201 N. Emily Street. Poultry WE PAY CASH for poultry; any quantity Market or laying Will call Phone 1401, R. D. Taylor. 3-20tle Two Animals Victims of Week-End Mishaps More animals than pedestrians—twice as many—were injured in automobile accidents over the week-end in Orange county. One person, J. R. Hudson of 722 South Main street, Santa Ana, was injured when he was struck by an automobile driven by T. J. Van Horn on South Main street Saturday evening. Hudson was taken to the Santa Ana Valley hospital where his condition was pronounced serious. A cow, wandering along Talbert road Saturday night in a dense fog, was struck by a car driven by Frank Doty, 22, of 333 North Chapel street, Alhambra. Two persons, John Guppy, 25, of 31 Hampton court, Alhambra, and Jennie L. Crouch, 200 West Eulalia Street, Glendale were slightly injured Political Actions On Funeral The board has been too much emphasizing the for fear of impairment is one of the richest ties in the United States forced to pay what the exact花费 expressed in figure county's budget checked by the super ways as relating to vent the citizens being misinformed all possible under not being done for and unemployed and in need of employment fleeing that the concealing funds for further unemployment making the statement were exhausted. The public trust has be should resort to rude is obviously a reason statements application are either of making political misery or by an incite jealousness. It should be paid per cent reduction that the board long the minimum conditions and with public rights and that acts the board has unemployment relief regular welfare we county in the sun $95,000. Of this taken from the mental budget, $103,000 budgeted reserve from the county. Money No With the balance estimated income the fiscal year, th Apartments For Rent FOR RENT—4-room nicely furnished family flat. Sun parlor, 2 beds, laundry, electric washer and ironer. Garage. Close in. Reasonable rent. Phone 2360. 201 N. Emily Street. Poultry WE PAY CASH for poultry; any quantity. Market or laying. Will call Phone 1401, R. D. Taylor. 3-20tfc BABY CHICKS—This is a Leghorn year. Quick profit in Katella chicks. Expert breeding insures your success. Katella Leghorn Farm, Katella Road, Anaheim. Phone 3132. Painting & Paperhanging Painting, paperhanging. J. E. Saylor, 616 S Philadelphia St., Phone 2761. Situations GENERAL repairing and odd jobs. Gene Adams, 416 S. Olive. 3954. Tailoring ALL KINDS of suits altered and mended at reasonable cost. Expert tailoring, latest styles, newest materials HENRY BREMER 3-20-tf 124 E. Center—Phone 3232 Financial LOANS TO INDIVIDUALS $100-$120 MAKERS OR COLLATERAL Autos Refinanced THE MORRIS PLAN INVESTMENTS 119 N. 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B. Serven of Long Beach when it wandered on to the highway on Ocean avenue near Lewis street Sunday morning, was so badly injured it was shot. St. Patrick's and Easter tallies, napkins and party goods at Weber Book Store. THE SCRAP BOOK HOME By Edward Rowland Sill There lies a little city in the hills; White are its roofs, dim is each dwelling's door. And peace with perfect rest its bosom fills. There the pure mist, the pity of the sea, Comes as a white, soft hand, and reaches o'er. And touches its still face most tenderly. Unstirred and calm, amid our shifting years, Lo! where it lies, far from the clash and roar; With quiet distance blurred, as if through tears. O heart that prayest, so for God to send Some loving message to go before And lead the way to where thy longings end. Be sure, be very sure, that soon will come His kindest angel, and through that still door Into the infinite love will lead thee home. While it is true money budgeted funds could be used employment for the fer it would not ment as it would employ the employees of the but one step f would endanger the leave unprotected dollar investment roads, an asset that not be denied. Experience Road maintenance for the road requires experience not be done by the county up to Wedding solely to relieve Also, transfer funds to unempl repudiate obligation various cities and construction by the on receiving a share from the auto license would result in an increase in employment Welfare Day Against the are $1,275,598.59, the expenditures of $ reserve of $64,514 received that $50,000 will be spent from relief of dritte reserve shrimps to 000; insufficient the week of the una And the sum, it be wiped out before year. Of the budget $1,211,084.07, government and operation share, $438,328.13 control of the sur without impairing county government expenditures are relief, welfare and general roads, bribe $410,226.65, and $978.17. VOTE FOR EDWARD B. MERRITT (Incumbent) For City Clerk ELECTION MONDAY APRIL 11, 1932 Political Attack On Funds Is Told (Continued from Page 1) The board has been reluctant to place too much emphasis upon the financial stringency of the county government for fear of impairing the credit of what is one of the richest agricultural counties in the United States, but finds itself forced to point out definitely what the exact financial situation is expressed in figures compiled by the county's budget control authority and checked by the superintendent of highways as relating to road funds, to prevent the citizens of the county from being misinformed into believing that all possible under present conditions is not being done for the county's needy and unemployed and to prevent those in need of employment relief from believing that the board is deliberately concealing funds that might be used for further unemployment relief while making the statement that such funds were exhausted. That persons to whom public trust has been repeatedly given should resort to purposeless subterrure is obviously ridiculous, for which reason statements conveying that implication are either inspired by a hope of making political capita out of human misery or by an inexplainable desire to incite jealous men to riot. Revenues Cut It should be pointed out here that a 40 per cent reduction in assessed valuation has reduced the county revenue, that the board long ago has reduced to the minimum consistent with the law and with public necessity its expenditures and that even in face of these facts the board has spent $272,980.08 on unemployment relief in addition to the regular welfare work carried by the county in the sum of approximately $95,000. Of this $164,868.09 has been taken from the regular road department budget, $103,821.13 from the unbudgeted reserve fund and $4,290.85 from the county general fund. Money Not for Relief With the balance on hand and the estimated income to July 1, the end of the fiscal year, the board will have a total of $1,475,598.59 from the county general fund. In the first item, maintenance will require $72,809.11, raised from a levy made to maintain roads built under the bond issue of 1912. Seventy-five percent of that goes to labor, or employment, an dthe rest to material, the bulk of which is purchased in the county and provides more labor. The men who are doing this work are employed from two to four days a week. It would be folly to discharge experienced men to hire others who could not do their work. The bridge fund now is $96,593.82. From this fund, the Talibert bridge and the Santiago creek bridge, now in process of construction, need $10,727.46 to complete. Maintenance of present bridges to keep them safe requires $4,618.73. Four new structures are contemplated; the Seal Beach bridge at $25,000, already under contract with Los Angeles county; the La Palma avenue bridge over Coyote creek, $3000, already under contract with Los Angeles county; the Olinda overhead, $6,931.35, which our engineers declare is necessary to public safety, and the Seventeenth street bridge in Santa Ana, $46,316.28, which in addition to being pledged to the city of Santa Ana is of necessity to public safety. As this money will ultimately be spent largely on labor, no benefit would be derived from eliminating the projects, whereas public convenience requires their construction. Funds Rise Curbed In the auto license fund, which comes from the state gas tax, auto license fees and motor bus franchises and is legally required to be used for construction and maintenance of roads, bridges and culverts, there is budgeted $240,823.72. A new state regulation on distribution to counties of the gas tax funds and the winter reduction in the amount of the tax deprive the county of $84,458.82 which it had anticipated and which must be removed from the $240,823.72 budgeted in the auto license fund. Among road projects partly to be financed from this money are the widening of North Spadra road in the city of Fullerton, $35,000, and the Ortega highway and road constructions in the cities of Santa Ana, Seal Beach and Laguna Beach, $54,751.28, all of which have been promised to the cities or districts concerned and the work started or the contract awarded with the full council Acts To Curb Close-Outs (Continued from page 1) read to the city council Tuesday; City welfare (Mrs. Mona Price, superintendent): February expenditures. $119.90, divided as follows: Groceries, $54.25; milk, $9.56; shoes, $1.95; water and lights, $10.48; gas, $34.46; medicine, $1.20; laundry, $2; rent, $5.56; lodging, 50 cents. Calls, 231 office and home; rendered aid to 36 families representing 153 individuals, examined 55 babies at clinic. Police (Chief James S. Bouldin): 41 arrests as follows; Intoxication, 17; possession of liquor, 12; driving while intoxicated; 3; robbery; 3; grand theft; 2; for other departments; 2; check counts, 1; bench warrant, 1. Five cars reported stolen. Officers found 11 doors and windows open in business district at night and notified owners, patrolled two funerals. Citations for ordinance No. 387, 338; violation of motor vehicle act, 22. Business license sales net $95.50, dog license, $1. Fire department (Chief R. Nyboe): Total damage, $250. Street department (Superintendent J.W.Price): Time spent, 1459 hours in trash collection, 584 hours for garbage collection, 1399 hours on maintenance, 149 hours repairing curbs, 280 hours ranch No. 1, 527 hours sweep. Water and light (Superintendent V.W.Hamum): permits granted, 12; fees,$24.80. Library balance as of March 1., $14,-517.21. Public service: Cash received., 20,-367.95 of which $13,-284.40 for lights; $3897.15 for water; $3171.40 for power and $15; interest. E.B.Merritt,city clerk,and Charles A.Boege,treasurer,show cash on hand of $190,-900.65. Demands approved for $16,-794.04 from general fund,and $184.-10 from improvement fund,totalling $16,-978.14. Beautiful mirrors free with Wallhide,the wonder wall finish.See our window.Spencer Store，166 W.Center St. and with public necessity its expenditures and that even in face of these facts the board has spent $272,980.08 on unemployment relief in addition to the regular welfare work carried by the county in the sum of approximately $95,000. Of this $164,868.09 has been taken from the regular road department budget, $103,821.13 from the unbudgeted reserve fund and $4,290.85 from the county general fund. Money Not for Relief With the balance on hand and the estimated income to July 1, the end of the fiscal year, the board will have a total sum in its hands of $1,275,598.59, as seen in the accompanying table. At first glance this may seem to be a large sum from which certain money for unemployment relief could be obtained. But an analysis by any fair person familiar with county requirements will show a quite different situation. While it is true that portions of this money budgeted in the road district funds could be utilized for providing employment for the jobless, to so transfer it would not alleviate unemployment as it would result in discharge of employees of the county who are now but one step from unemployment, would endanger the public safety and leave unprotected an eight-million-dollar investment of the county in good roads, an asset the value of which cannot be denied. Experienced Help Needed Road maintenance, for which a majority of the road funds would be spent, requires experienced labor and could not be done by the crews which the county up to Wednesday had been hiring solely to relieve unemployment. Also, transfer of remaining road funds to unemployment relief would repudiate obligations of the county to various cities and prevent public road construction by those cities predicated on receiving a share of county support from the auto license funds. This also would result in a decrease rather than increase in employment. Welfare Demand Heavy Against the anticipated funds of $1,275,598.59, the county has budgeted expenditures of $1,211,084.07, leaving a reserve of $64,514.52. But as it is expected that $50,000 more than budgeted will be spent from the welfare fund for relief of definite unemployment that reserve shrank to approx. $14,000; insufficient to carry on a single week of the unemployment program. And the sum, it is fully expected, will be wiped out before the end of the fiscal year. Of the budgeted expenditures of $1,211,084.07, general county government and operation take the lion's share, $438,328.13 a sum beyond the control of the supervisors to reduce without impairing the operation of county government. The rest of the expenditures are divided as follows: relief, welfare and hospital. $149,551.12; general roads, bridges and auto license. $410,226.65; and road districts. $212,978.17. Surplus Lacking Pencil and paper will show that all that remains in the auto license fund to take care of road projects which has been contemplated this year is $17,223.96, whereas those contemplated projects total $71,682.78. It becomes obvious that in this budget for general roads, bridges and auto license and gas tax fees, there is not only no surplus, but projects which engineers, after careful study, recommended for this year, in spite of the reduced budget cannot be taken care of. This leaves only the road district fund of $212,978.17. Money for this fund is raised in the four districts of the county outside of the cities, and must be spent on maintenance and construction of roads in those districts. The tax is levied by the district and is handled by the supervisors as a trust. From these funds, the only item of new construction amounts to only $825. The rest will be spent for maintenance or projects connected with maintenance. While perhaps few realize it, the county has approximately 1190 miles of country roads to be maintained. It this fund were diverted to unemployment relief such as the county was carrying on until funds became exhausted. It would mean that the county roads would be found in a state of disrepair that would cost two or three times as much later surely an unwise business policy. It would leave unprotected an investment of $8,000,000 in road improvements and it would mean the discharge of 250 regular county road employees who are now working from two to four days a week on weekly wages that barely furnish a living. Recapitulating the above, it will be found that in no fund as budgeted is there an available surplus and that from the reserve which remains when... And the sum, it is fully expected, will be wiped out before the end of the fiscal year. Of the budgeted expenditures of $1,211,084.07, general county government and operation take the lion's share, $438,328.13 a sum beyond the control of the supervisors to reduce without impairing the operation of county government. The rest of the expenditures are divided as follows: relief, welfare and hospital, $149,551.12; general roads, bridges and auto license, $410,226.65; and road districts, $212,978.17. The general county government fund must cover operation of courts and salaries of the judges, juries, operation of the sheriff's office, the district attorney's office, the county clerk's office and the recorder's office, purchasing agent, farm advisor, flood control, fire protection, compensation insurance, conducting of elections, etc., all of which are either fixed by law or of vital necessity to the welfare of the county. Hospital Needs In the relief, welfare and hospital fund, the hospital required $62,772.73 for salaries, drugs and maintenance of the hospital and poor farm, welfare work which the supervisors can not very well eliminate. The health department will spend $20,171.66. The health of the county requires that that fund be no further curtailed. As has already been mentioned, the welfare fund, in which $65,606.73 remains for the care of widows, orphans, indigents and aged, will be overdrawn by at least $50,000 due to the added requirements caused by the same things which cause the unemployment the board has sought so desperately to alleviate. Thus it is seen that this fund will prove inadequate to meet requirements despite the close paring of expenses to avoid increasing the tax rate when assessed valuations were reduced in an effort to relieve the taxpayer. Differences Explained The last two funds, general roads, bridges and auto licenses and road districts, were where basis was found for statements that $400,000 was still available for unemployment relief and from which the Associated chambers of commerce committee found the $310,846 which it said was not under contract. The sum of $410,226.65 remains in the county good roads, bridge and auto license fund budgets and $212,978.17 in city roads would be found in a state of disrepair that would cost two or three times as much later surely an unwise business policy. It would leave unprotected an investment of $8,000,000 in road improvements and it would mean the discharge of 250 regular county road employees who are now working from two to four days a week on weekly wages that barely furnish a living. Recapitulating the above, it will be found that in no fund as budgeted is there an available surplus and that from the reserve which remains when the late red funds are subtracted from the accepted revenue and money on hand, a reserve of $64,514.52, as much as $90,000 will be required to care for destitute unemployed, leaving a balance of a little more than $14,000. Facts Explained This is not intended as an apology for the action of the supervisors in discontinuing its unemployment relief program, but a statement of bare and uncontestable facts explaining to Orange county citizens and to the unemployed just why the supervisors reluctantly took the action they did. It goes without saying that the supervisors would be the first to welcome any practical plan for continuing the unemployment program which they started and continued as long as they did at the risk of placing the county "in the red." The unemployment problem still remains to be met, but the board of supervisors cannot solve it by hiring men with money when there is no money. L. J. McKee Family Returns to Anaheim Mr. and Mrs. L. J. McKee and their two daughters, Dona Lee and Frances Darline, this week moved from Los Angeles to 1145 West Broadway, Anaheim. Mr. McKee, who worked for the Anaheim Gazette for nearly two years before going to the Southern California metropolis, returned to his former position here recently. Mrs. McKee, who formerly taught in the Middle West, was active here in Parent-Teacher association work. Dona Lee will enter Fremont junior high school. Acts To Job Close-Outs council Tuesday; february expenditures. as follows: Groceries, shoes, $1.95; water gas, $34.46; medicine, $2; rent, $5.50; lodging, 231 office and home; 36 families representing examined 55 babies at James S. Bouldin): 41 rows; Intoxication, 17; liquor, 12; driving while robbery, 3; grand theft, departments, 2; check warrant, 1. Five cars four recovered. Officers and windows open in at night and notified two funerals. Citizens No. 387, 38; violavehicle act, 22. case sales net $95.50, dog ment (Chief R. Nyboe): $250. treatment (Superintendent Time spent, 1459 hours action, 584 hours for gar1399 hours on maintenance repairing curbs, 280 no. 1, 527 hours, sweep night (Superintendent V. permits granted, 12; once as of March 1, $14,- Shanghai Letter of Japan Bombardment A letter written from battle-scarred Chapel in Shanghai area during the heat of a recent Japanese bombardment on the Chinese stronghold was received this week by Mr. and Mrs. Lowell E. Jessen of E. Wilhelmina Street. It was written by their friend, Frank Berry, a mercantile marine officer, who best describes the tense situation as follows: "I'm going to make this a very short note, as I'm down in Chapel and it is just my luck to be right in the middle of a bonbardment at the present time, so this is rather hurried. "Just came in here and read your letter and must go. The Japs are dropping bombs here and there. Chapel is on fire at a half dozen different points, and to add to the excitement the Chinese are shelling the city from outside. "It surely is some mix-up. I'll tell you all about it when I get home." Children's Shops, Well constructed for long wear and foot comfort. Prices range from $1.00 up. Economy Shoe Store Center at Lemon, Anaheim. Tune in KFI every Tuesday morning, 10:00 and hear National Lead Co., of Calif. (Bass-Hunter Palnts) "Home Beautiful" department program on "Color Harmony." Phone 2703 for details. Thin popples an dother plants while they are small. Give them room to grow. ATWATER KENT---- GOLDEN VOICE COMPACT $72.50 FEARN— Easy Parking, 273 E. Center St., Anaheim THE PERFECT EASTER CREETING ATWATER KENT---- GOLDEN VOICE COMPACT $72.50 FEARN— Easy Parking, 273 E. Center St., Anaheim THE PERFECT EASTER GREETING A photograph inscribed with the sentiment of the season expresses the warm feeling of close friendship. SPECIAL! Easter Greeting Cards. 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