anaheim-gazette 1933-05-04

HUNDREDS SEE NEW PLAN OF FRUIT POLISH Scott and Borden Install First Machines to Cut Packing Costs 4 Cents per Box Perfection of a new wax polishing system which saves more than four cents on the box of packed oranges, at the same time producing a lustre which in trials last summer brought an additional 25 cents per box on the open market, is underway this week at Scott and Borden's packing house, 709 East Center-street. T. V. Scott and V. W. Borden, owners of the house which this year is operating under the California Fruit Growers Exchange, declare that the new method is the first installation of its kind. Previous experiments were with polishing by hand, while perfection of machinery awaited development during recent months. The type of wax and method of applying complies with all pure food regulations. No estimate as to cost of installation was made. During recent weeks hundreds of growers and interested packing house managers and association leaders throughout the state have inspected the local installation, Mr. Scott states. To accommodate the number of people looking at it, a special ladder and CARL MONAHAN NEW LEADER OF SUNKIST CHIEFS Manager Carl E. Monahan of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit association was elected president of the Sunkist Managers' club at the meeting in the Green Cat cafe, Santa Ana, Tuesday evening. Other officers named were: C. E. Dunbar, Vice-President; Edward Mills, secretary-treasurer; and Marion Ross, assistant secretary. The managers discussed the newly-adopted stabilization agreement, prospects for the valencia season, and other problems of co-operative association work. Legion Sponsors Memorial Rites Names Committee to Draw Resolutions Protesting Against Roosevelt’s Economy Program Plans for the Memorial day program to be held at the Anaheim cemetery this week were being worked out by an American Legion committee chairmaned by Ray E. Smith, following appointment Monday evening by Commander J. Fred Sidebottom. Other matters coming before the local Legionnaires and acted upon included: Announcement that H. G. Merrill of the Patten-Blinn Lumber company would have plans and specifications for the proposed new Legion building ready for Previous experiments were with polishing by hand, while perfection of machinery awaited development during recent months. The type of wax and method of applying complies with all pure food regulations. No estimate as to cost of installation was made. During recent weeks hundreds of growers and interested packing house managers and association leaders throughout the state have inspected the local installation, Mr. Scott states. To accommodate the number of people looking at it, a special ladder and plank-way have been constructed in order to minimize accidents to spectators. The method is copyrighted under the name of Brytine. It uses a liquid wax emulsion, sprayed on an applicating towel. First experiments were by hand with dipping. This polished 20 boxes per gallon. Then the towel was applied, doubling that number, and now the spraying method, which polishes 120 boxes per gallon of emulsion. The special wax is obtained from dates, treated and mixed with water. "Last year a half a car was polished by the special method by hand at Tustin for experimental purposes," Mr. Scott said. "The fruit not only kept exceptionally well, but brought an extra 25 cents above market prices because of its higher lustre. The best part of the process is that it reduces the cost of preserving and polishing from the standard of five cents a box to less than one cent a box. With Brytine and a new strapping machine, also the first installation of its kind in manual control appliances, together with the elimination of much of the drying process after washing, will enable us to make savings of approximately eight cents a box, for packing costs. The new machine handles oranges while they are wet. For precaution an extra fan is being installed to take off part of the moisture, but the oranges will be shot onto the waxing towel while they are wet, propelled under the spray, fanned as they shoot along a 30-foot conveyor, where they will be thoroughly dried and polished. From this conveyor they will go to the sorting table, then to sizing conveyors for packing. "The wax is of a new type," Mr. Borden said. "It permits a certain amount of 'breathing' by the orange, allowing gas to emit and oxygen to be taken in. This preserves the fruit much longer than usual. In tests already made, the fruit is perfectly sound and in perfect selling condition 30 days after packing. Experiments have convinced us the new method is superior to any other, as well as much cheaper." May Field Day Being Planned Roosevelt's Economy Program Plans for the Memorial day program to be held at the Anaheim cemetery this week were being worked out by an American Legion committee chairman by Ray E. Smith, following appointment Monday evening by Commander J. Fred Sidebottom. Other matters coming before the local Legionnaires and acted upon included: Announcement that H. G. Merrill of the Patten-Blinn Lumber company would have plans and specifications for the proposed new Legion building ready for submission to interested contractors Wednesday morning; report by William P. Webb Jr., post service officer, on reduction in compensation to veterans of all wars as a result of the economies effected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; hearing Huntington Beach's Herb Grey, twenty-first district commander, who spoke on Legion ideals and complimenting the local post for exceeding its membership quota in 1933; announcement of the second annual district pilgrimage to be held at Huntington Beach July 1 and 2. The Anaheim post named Committee Webb, Dr. H. C. Wilhelm and R. J. Lyons to draw up resolutions to be sent to California senators, congressmen, President Roosevelt, state and national departments of the Legion, protesting reductions in disability and pension pay to become effective July 1 when Roosevelt's economy program begins. Sponsors Meeting On School Expense The farm bureau will sponsor a meeting to be held in the study hall of the Anaheim union high school Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, where representatives of the farm bureau, and of the local elementary and high schools will discuss proposed economies in the educational system. The farm bureau recently completed a study of school costs, valuations and other data, and this week sent committees to nearly every school board meeting in Orange county, requesting an average cut of 30 per cent in costs. Tax Moratorium Is In Effect Now Taxpayers of Anaheim have a 60-day leeway in paying their second installment taxes. This decision became definite when Miss Etta Williams, deputy tax collector, City Clerk John C. Price and City Attorney George Holden received copies of the state tax moratorium granting the holiday. Taxes which were due April 20 now become due June 20, after which the same penalties as formerly will be applicable. Until copies of the law were received in these important respects. 1. Restricts maximum tax for class B, or nothing in the state I present regulation of class salers for which three been granted. Whether or not license of $300 a yr tainted is entirely up to City Attorney George Fry. Additional changes in ordinance, which will somewhat along the line ordinance passed by County District of Columbia, class A groups to sell baskets to be taken off the class B group to do as a case of 24 pint bottles; class C, or what would be limited to ame be sold to a customer. The state law permits a tax of not exceeding $10 per beer. In this difficulty of checking exactly the amount of beer in the city. Council no indication as to what tax would be levied by... May Field Day Being Planned Director of Physical Education Samuel E. Loose of the Anaheim elementary schools this week was preparing an elaborate program for the annual May Field Day celebration, to be held this year on May 12 at the baseball diamond in the city park. In years past the entire enrollment of the elementary schools, wearing visors, would march upon the field, following the high school band. After a series of group exercises, special contingents and classes would put on games, pyramids and other features, winding up with the May Pole dance, which is considered one of the most impressive of the series of entertainments. Follow BRUCE BARTON'S series of articles on "The Life of Christ" appearing every week in the Gazette. This sympathetic study of Christ is enlightening and interesting. Taxpayers of Anaheim have a 60-day leeway in paying their second installment taxes. This decision became definite when Miss Etta Williams, deputy tax collector, City Clerk John C. Price and City Attorney George Holden received copies of the state tax moratorium granting the holiday. Taxes which were due April 20 now become due June 20, after which the same penalties as formerly will be applicable. Until copies of the law were received it was questioned whether the city's taxes would be governed by the state measure. Attorney Holden holds in the affirmative. No financial difficulties for the city are foreseen because of the tax holiday, although some shifting of money from one fund to another to provide cash for certain departments may be necessitated. Spear to Repeat Earthquake Talk Because of exceptional interest in geological subjects since the earthquake of March 10 a capacity crowd is expected at the Wesley M. E. church, South, pot-luck dinner-meeting Tuesday evening to hear Engineer M. A. Spear of Huntington Beach talk on "Earthquakes," President E. J. Walthall of the church brotherhood announced this week. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the brotherhood. Pot luck dinner will be observed at 6:30 o'clock, with the regular meeting scheduled an hour later. Mr. Spear recently appeared before a local group, displaying charts and giving figures which he has secured from various seismological stations in Southern California, as to the effects and extent of the recent quake. His talk received such wide attention that the brotherhood secured him as soon as possible to make the same explanation to the church members. "The meeting is open to everybody," Walthall said in announcing it. "We will welcome anybody, whether a member of this church or not, to hear Mr. Spear." AHEIM GAZETE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933 BEER LICENSE REFUNDS LOOM FOR 2 CLASSES State Law Supersedes City Ordinance in Maximum Fees; Council Gets Redraft Refunds of not less than $980 to 14 class A, and $1100 to 10 class B, making a total minimum return of $2080, will be made by the city of Anaheim to 24 beer licenses. This step, together with somewhat drastic changes in regulatory provisions of the city's beer ordinance, is being considered for submission next Tuesday to the city council following receipt of a copy of the state law governing sale of three point two beer and wine. The state law was enacted after the city law, thus superseding the local ordinance, most provisions of which, however, remain in force. The state law differs with the Anaheim ordinance in these important respects: 1. Restricts maximum license fees to $50 a year for class A, or on-sale licenses, such as at restaurants, cafes, hotels, clubs, etc. 2. Limits to a maximum fee of $10 for license for class B, or off-sale types. Nothing in the state law governs the present regulation of class C, or wholesalers for which three licenses have been granted. Whether or not the present license of $300 a year will be retained is entirely up to the city council, City Attorney George F. Holden states. More Lobbyists Than Legislators Present For Famous “Back Scratching” Ceremonies Poetic Justice Seen as “People’s Representatives,” as Lobbyists Style Themselves, Concentrate on Each Other for Vote-trading Purposes; Swapping Votes in Hotly-contested Bills By RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary, Agricultural Legislative Committee Lobbying the lobbyists, an "old Spanish custom" in California politics, has hit a furious pace during the current session of the state legislature, with both curious and serious results. Mainly a casual and occasional practice in times past, the business of high-pressuring their fellow high-pressurists has reached such proportions this year that many of the lobbyists have found it impossible to get time to lobby the lawmakers. There is more than a tonne of poetic justice, perhaps, in the all too-frequent picture of harassed lobbyists, seeking to escape from other lobbyists repeating the familiar formula: "You do this for me and I’ll do that for you." To the senators and assemblymen, undoubtedly, there is satisfaction in the fact that the lobbyists are getting a dose of their own medicine. But the serious aspect of the phenomenon is the implication that vote trading, between various interests represented at the legislature as well as between the members of the two houses, has reached a new high in the legislative halls and corridors. California agriculture, represented through the major farm organizations, has thus far managed to keep free of "entangling alliances," refusing to espouse the doctrine of "You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours." The farm representatives, however, have found it difficult to keep a vigilant eye on the hundreds of bills pending before the legislature which affect agriculture, either favorably or adversely, and at the same time listen to the pleas of lobbyists for other interests. Vote trades, during the present session, have ceased to be semi-secret; on several occasions they have been openly discussed on the floors of the senate and assembly, with the members of one house warning the other that there would be retaliation unless the opposite... Old-time fishermen of Southern California blinked their eyes in a knowing way, and then dropped their jaw in real amazement when they found their own joke turning on them this week. For years they had Joshed about catching some nice mountain trout in a bass lake. That was the height of fun, to corral some greenhorn and kid him a bit. This was the practice, resulting finally in a sort of legend growing up about Lake Wolford near Escondido. Stories came back about trout being found, but nobody ever saw anybody who had actually seen or caught any. It was regarded by the wise anglers in about the same light as the old trick of getting youngsters to take gunny sacks out to catch snipe. This week Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Scott and the latter's father returned from a two-day journey to Lake Wolford. Mr. Scott caught seven rainbow trout, Mrs. Scott caught three, and her father caught three, making a total catch of 13 for the party. All the fish were between 11 and 13 inches long. Confronted with actual rainbow trout caught in Lake Wolford, the old time fishermen now are telling the old bromide as the latest evidence that truth is stranger than fiction. However, they are wondering how trout, and rainbow of all trout, happened to get into the lake. There are some who venture to guess that seines at Henshaw dam have broken, permitting the sporty trout to disport themselves in exclusive bass waters. The eight probationary teachers in the Anaheim elementary school system voluntarily and unanimously offered to waive the tenure clause of their contracts at the meeting of the board of trustees Monday evening. This action, according to President Frank M. Gibbs, was accepted. The teachers affected are: Frances Gilbert, Alice Williamson, Emily Ranow, Lorene K. Ziegler, B. F. Maddux, T. S. Deane, Jean McKinnon and Margaret Smith. Mr. Gibbs was re-named president and Miss E. Kate Rea re-elected secretary; the third member of the board is Leonard Evans. A tentative salary schedule was adopted but final action was delayed until May 9. For Buyers and Sellers GAZETTE WANT ADS GBT RESULTS THE GAZETTE CALL TWO-FOUR-ONE-FOUR NUMBER 30 VALENCIA CROP STABILIZATION PLAN IN EFFECT Rush to Complete Setting Up of Executive Machinery to Ship First Cars by May 20 Scarcely two weeks remain for perfection of three committees and issuance of regulations controlling the 1933 valencia orange crop under the tri-counties committee of the farm bureau, of which Dr. D. D. Waynick of Anaheim is chairman. The agreement went into effect Monday. By Wednesday it had obtained 94.6 per cent of the total crop and will remain in effect until a minimum of 90 per cent is signed. President C. C. Teague of the exchange appointed the following committee members: Growers' arbitration committee, E. A. Beck, Placentia; D. E. Myers, Covina; H. A. Lynn, Riverside, all three of whom are prominent orange growers. Exchange representatives on the distribution committee are T. H. Powell, general sales manager; H. H. Harlow, manager O. K. Fruit Exchange, Upland; C. C. Hills, manager Orange County Fruit Exchange, Orange, and on the local regulation committee, Robert Gross, manager Santiago Orange Growers' Association, Orange; W. E. Spencer, manager Murphy ranch, Whittier; William Hartley, manager West Ontario Citrus Association. Present ceremonies as Lobbyists Vote-trading Bills Senate Committee Favors Bill After Appearance of Several Local Experts California legislature's upper house this week has under consideration the proposed Orange county water district measure submitted two weeks ago by various county agricultural interests. The bill received a "do pass" recommendation of the senate committee, following hearings Monday when R. J. McFadden of Placentia, as president of the Orange county farm bureau; Earl Campbell of Orange, A. W. Rutan, Paul Bailey and A. J. McFadden of Santa Ana; H. H. Hale of Placentia and William P. Wallop of Anaheim appeared to favor the creation of the district. Opposition to the bill was led by Ross Shafer of Tustin, and V. M. Taylor of Los Angeles. Shafer claimed the measure as submitted is "unfair". He carried with him a resolution passed by the Associated Chambers of Commerce last week opposing the bill. The measure for the creation of a water district in the Santa Ana river basin, comprising approximately 110,000 acres with an assessed valuation of $80,-000,000. It permits assessment up to five cents' per $100 valuation to raise funds for adjudication of water right suits, surface and below surface, in this basin. As submitted provisions pertaining to the three Meropolitan Water District cities, Santa Ana, Fullerton and Anaheim, were stricken out. Endorse Hopper For Postmaster Members of the Orange county democratic central committee by telephone action last week recommended appointment of Lee Hopper, part owner of the La Habra Star, for the postmastership at La Habra. The endorsement followed an urgent telegraphic request by Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Incumbent George Eaby states he still has a year and a half to serve, and has no intention of resigning. committee, E. A. Beck, Placentia; D. E. Myers, Covina; H. A. Lynn, River-side, all three of whom are prominent orange growers. Exchange representatives on the distribution committee are T. H. Powell, general sales manager; H. H. Harlow, manager O. K. Fruit Exchange, Upland; C. C. Hills, manager Orange County Fruit Exchange, Orange, and on the local regulation committee, Robert Gross, manager Santiago Orange Growers' Association, Orange; W. E. Spencer, manager Murphy ranch, Whittier; William Hartley, manager West Ontario Citrus Association. First shipments of valencias, expected about May 20, will come under the new stabilization plan. Since the agreement has been effective only since Monday, officials of all organizations concerned were busy getting executive machinery functioning to handle the present crop. Picking of valencias is expected to start about the middle of the month, although conditions of the market may warrant a delay until a week later. Announcement that the agreement was in effect followed a meeting of marketing agency representatives and packing house managers at Riverside Monday. Provision for appointment of three committees as follows: 1. Distribution committee of seven members, three of whom shall be selected by the California Fruit Growers' exchange, two by the Mutual Orange Distributors and two by the aggregate of all other shipping parties combined. The committee shall pro-rate shipments to continental United States and Canada on the basis of percentage controlled by each shipping organization. 2. Local regulation committee of seven members, selected as in the distribution committee. This committee shall, in consultation with the distribution committee, determine areas in which loose and place-packed fruit may be sold. The committee is to have powers to enforce its rulings and to see that all fruit not pro-rated is kept from the fresh fruit trade channels. 3. Growers' arbitration committee. This committee will be organized under the rules governing the two other committees and will be set up to arbitrate differences arising under the stabilization agreement. Withdrawal of any member from the group can be accomplished by giving a four-week notice. First attempt at stabilization came under the proration agreement of 1932 which succeeded in raising prices approximately 50 cents a box, but the plan was abandoned after a four-week trial Failure of the first plan led to renewed efforts when Dr. H. R. Wellman's report indicated that returns from the 1932 crop would have been about $17 an acre more had the agreement been carried through the entire year. Acting Endorse Hopper For Postmaster Members of the Orange county democratic central committee by telephone action last week recommended appointment of Lee Hopper, part owner of the La Habra Star, for the postmastership at La Habra. The endorsement followed an urgent telegraphic request by Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Incumbent George Eaby states he still has a year and a half to serve, and has no intention of resigning. Gallagher Named K. of C. Delegate Members of the Knights of Columbus lodge last week named Stephen F. Gallagher delegate and A. L. Erickson alternate for the state convention to be held May 14, 15, and 16 at St. Mary's college, Moraga, California. Special Agent Hallahan praised the financial report of the local council, and said that the Knights of Columbus insurance is rated exceptionally high. He cited figures to show its solvency and the number of policies carried. 24 Building Permits Are Issued In April Building permits numbering 24 and valued at $12,872 were issued by Inspector R. Nyboe during the month of April. Total building permits for the year to date is $30,709. For the same month last year there were 10 permits issued at a valuation of $37,466, while the total to May 1, 1932, for the year, was $67,350. Growers Invited to Hear C. C. Teague Citrus growers are invited to attend the inter-service club meeting May 9, of the Whittier 20-30 club to hear C. C. Teague, president of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, give an address of interest to growers. The meeting will be at 6:30 o'clock. Withdrawal of any member from the group can be accomplished by giving a four-week notice. First attempt at stabilization came under the proration agreement of 1932 which succeeded in raising prices approximately 50 cents a box, but the plan was abandoned after a four-week trial. Failure of the first plan led to renewed efforts when Dr. H. R. Wellman's report indicated that returns from the 1932 crop would have been about $17 an acre more had the agreement been carried through the entire year. Acting upon this information, the farm bureau appointed the following committee to work out details of a plan, eliminating the objectionable restrictions of the first; D. D. Waynick chairman; J. A. Baker and Perry W. Mathis, Anaheim; Jack Crill, Garden Grove; A. J. Crookshank, Santa Ana; C. E. Hawley, Santa Paula; M. W. H. Williams, Allen Wheaten, E. D. Patterson and Volney Kincaid, Redlands; Dr. N. Matzen, Escondido, and H. A. Lynn, Riverside.