anaheim-gazette 1933-05-25

State Printing Requires Speed Printing of Budget Done in 534 Instead of 6,000 Hours of Labor Some people may long for the "good old days"—but not when it comes to legislative printing. While detailed figures of this expensive and exacting sidelight of the legislature are not as yet available, a study of the work and materials necessary to put out the biennial budget is revealing. Officials of the state printing plant, statistically inclined, worked out the following complications: The budget required 6,209,433 pieces of type, which required 242 impressions a minute for 4,276 hours on the type-setting machines. Had it been necessary to set the budget by hand it would have required 6,000 instead of 534 man hour of labor. It required 2½ tons of paper to make the 2,000 copies of the budget, the pages of which, if laid end to end, would reach from Sacramento to San Francisco. "Had it been necessary to use an old-type, hand operated press, such as was used by Benjamin Franklin, it would have required 280 days, or over nine months to print the budget," Cal J. Doggett, foreman of the state press room said. Interpreted through the "eyes of technocracy" by Rolland A. Vandegrift, state director of finance, it all boils down to this: "If the machine age had not come into being, the tremendous undertaking of printing the budget, to say nothing of its preparation, would be an impossible task to perform within the limited time available for its compilation and printing. "The budget of the state of California is much more than just a compilation of financial statistics and facts; it is a very compendium of state government, evolved through long experience and developed side by side with mechanical improvement." CANCER DEATH RATE IN '32 IS SLIGHTLY LESS Victims From Disease Are Preponderantly White; 7451 Die of Cancer Last Year For the first time in years California's death rate from cancer showed a decrease in 1932, according to the state department of public health. While there was actually a small increase in the number the rate per 100,000 population fell from 124.5 in 1931 to 120.7 last year, state records revealed. "There has been an increase in the number of cancer deaths in California during the past decade, however," a department report said. "There were 4,025 deaths due to cancer in 1921 and 7,451 such deaths in 1932, and increase in the rate from 107.2 to 120.7. Next to heart disease and diseases of the circulatory system, more deaths are due to cancer than to any other cause. Eleven per cent of all deaths in the state are due to this disease." Nearly all the cancer deaths, the report pointed out, are in persons over 65 years' age, and as a cause of death cancer is a "negligible factor among individuals who are under 45." Relatively few deaths occur in individuals of races other than white. Out of the 7,451 deaths last year, 7,005 were among individuals of the white race. "The increase in cancer deaths has been conspicuous during recent years. The most important factor in this increase lies in the provision of improved facilities for accurate diagnosis. Undoubtedly, more cases of cancer are discovered now than were discovered a decade ago. Furthermore, the former prejudice against giving cancer as the cause of death upon the death certificate has disappeared. "It is true that many people fear cancer unnecessarily; at the same time it is important that medical advice be secured promptly upon the appearance of any symptoms," the report concluded. Legislators Work 3,634 Bills and ing Hectic Decision With the readlegislature has reit considered 3,634 Legislators will gue balancing and reaing the polls June 27the legislature's shall be accepted. The people's veion plan will gue mid-summer r calls for an "ad gas tax diversion peal of amendmenl state's separation tem; limitation o and relieving counmentary and high The legislature's on approval of thie is for raising appo t apply against current biennium deficit of over $5 includes levying a trers sales tax whi 000,000 in two y would be used to school charges of pupil and $60 per Emergency relief distress in busin was a major legislalt Bills helping Cali economic storm im moratorium; mortatorium; emergenl and loan associatl 000,000 unemploym which will be on ballot; 30-hour w irrigation district ling limited payme constitutional am quake damaged pr assessed on the ba tion; revision of legislation; repeal Trash Collection Schedule Is Told Trash Collection Superintendent R. Nyboe, in response to demands of business men and residents, this week announced the newly-adopted schedule for trash collection. Instead of collecting daily in the business districts, collections now are scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Merchants are requested not to place trash in the allies on other days, as a means of discouraging scavengers. In the residential districts where the former schedule was Mondays and Thursdays, it is Mondays; where Wednesdays and Saturdays were the rule, it now is Wednesdays; where Tuesdays and Fridays were scheduled, now it is Fridays. FOX THEATRE Gen. Adm. 25c—Children 10c Fri., Sat. May 26-27 Matinee Saturday at 2:30 “ZOO IN BUDAPEST” with Loretta Young - Gene Raymond — ALSO — Clark & McCullough Comedy Cartoon News Sun., Mon., Tues. May 28-29-30 Sunday and Tuesday Continues from 2:30 JAMES CAGNEY in “PICTURE SNATCHER” — ALSO — Harry Sweet.Comedy — News Organologue Burns & Allen Wed. Only May 31 RICHARD DIX in “THE GREAT JASPER” Horse Betting Bill Up Again Orange County Cast Two to One Vote Against Measure In Last Election For the third time in nine years California's electorate will go to the polls June 27 to decide whether or not pari-mutuel horse race betting will become legal in this state. Such a proposal was voted down by over a 300,000 majority in 1926. It was again defeated in 1932, but by a close margin of 52,000 votes. Percentage of votes cast against the proposition was 51.41; for it, 48.59 per cent. Proponents will launch their campaign to swing this slight negative margin onto their side, using as an argument that the present proposal is far different and more just than the horse race betting proposition submitted to the people the last general election. In the 1932 election Orange county cast 27,364 votes against horse race betting and 13,429 votes for it. The total for the state was: yes, 904,493; no, 956,895. The pari-mutuel betting proposal that will appear on the June special election ballot contains precisely the same provisions that appeared in the bill passed by the legislature and vetoed by Governor Rolph. Instead of trying to override the veto, the legislature submitted the issue to the people. In newspapers, via radio and from the speaking platform, supporters of the pari-mutuel plan will argue that objectionable features of the 1932 proposal have been stricken out. Under the latter proposition, all races, both professional and amateur, would have come under control of a state racing board. It was argued then that track meets, mortorcycle, automobile, yacht, harness and foot races, and even the Olympic games could not be held unless a daily fee of from $1,500 to $2,000 was paid. These provisions, it is now set forth, have been removed and the proposal limited solely to horse races. Provisions of the measure which goes on the June ballot include: 1—appointment of a California horse racing board by the governor which will exercise facilities for accurate diagnosis. Undoubtedly, more cases of cancer are discovered now than were discovered a decade ago. Furthermore, the former prejudice against giving cancer as the cause of death upon the death certificate has disappeared. “It is true that many people fear cancer unnecessarily; at the same time it is important that medical advice be secured promptly upon the appearance of any symptoms,” the report concluded. The legislature pone bone; finally turnover budget; thus reduce cost approximately; the present biennial original budget will assembly cut it upon the upper hickory $6,000,000. Few new revenue passed. That dismay undertaken, in this summer session. Did increase utility for the biennium; trucks $1,500,000 and payment of personal automobiles, thus national $1,250,000. The assembly killed governmental economy program of territorial fact finding with alacrity by the down in the asses cluster of drastic down the cost of edited with equal emp house. Even revision was killed, after eded the very threshhest important school recluded one giving right of review of raising the kindergartens to five years. The fact finding eliminated many gags and provided for warts and economies. The legislature added the people the comment empowering them take the state water proved measures to $30,000,000 veterans purchasing bond issuance $000 irrigation refining The $160,000,000 borrowing Great Central Vale first unit of the water by the assembly and by the senate during session. Progressive and was, in the main, partly killed in the Sunday and Tuesday Continues from 2:30 JAMES CAGNEY in “PICTURE SNATCHER” — ALSO — Harry Sweet.Comedy — News Organlogue Burns & Allen Wed. Only May 31 RICHARD DIX in “The Great Jasper” — ALSO — Andy Clyde Comedy Cartoon News Thurs., Fri., Sat. June 1-2-3 Janet Gaynor - Henry Garat in “ADORABLE” W-A-N-T A-D-S RATE: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. REV. COMMIE I. DAVIES Ordained Medium — Reading Daily 621 E. 5th St., Phone 4066-W Santa Ana, California Painting & Paperhanging Painting, paperhanging. J. E. Saylor, $40 S. Los Angeles St., Phone 2761. Planos For Sale 100 PLANOS to choose from; Knabe, Bechstein, Steinway, Chickering, Kimball, etc., new and used, $35 up. Danz, Anaheim. $10 FREE! Send name of friend who wants piano and get $10 Free when we sell. Danz, Anaheim. Hospital Patient Once In 104 Years Adolph Von Hindenberg, 104 years of age, denied he was sick when Sacramento emergency hospital attendants found him in the "jungles" weak from lack of food and medical attention. “Sick? 'Course I'm not sick. I'm just gettin' a mite feeble and you're not going to put me in one of them hospitals!" Adolph, in answer to questions, added that he was born in Germany in 1829 and "haven't been sick a day in my life." Despite protestations, he was taken to the county hospital. After a warm meal and a clean bed the aged German admitted "these hospitals ain't such bad places after all." Legislators Return July 17 to Take Up Work of State; Recess to Await Voting 3,634 Bills and 169 Constitutional Amendments Considered During Hectic Three and One-Half Months’ Toil, With Final Decision to Await Action by Citizens On June 27 With the realization that its major jask lies ahead of it, California’s 50th legislature has recessed after three and one half months’ toil during which it considered 3,634 bills and 169 constitutional amendments. Legislators will return for a mid-summer session July 17 to pass a budget balancing and real property relief program. Meantime, the electorate will go to the polls June 27 and decide whether the legislature’s tax revision program shall be accepted. The people’s verdict on the tax revision plan will guide the legislature at the mid-summer session. The program calls for an “advisory vote” on the gas tax diversion issue; proposed repeal of amendment “number 1”—the state’s separation of sources tax system; limitation of governmental cost and relieving counties of the fixed elementary and high school charges. The legislature’s program, contingent on approval of the tax revision program, is for raising approximately $43,000,000 to apply against the state’s estimated current biennium and ensuing biennium deficit of over $50,000,000. It also includes levying a two per cent consumer sales tax which would raise $45,-000,000 in two years. This revenue would be used to relieve counties’ fixed school charges of $30 per elementary pupil and $60 per high school pupil. Emergency relief to relieve economic distress in business and home alike was a major legislative accomplishment. Bills helping California weather the economic storm included: 60-day tax moratorium; mortgage foreclosure moratorium; emergency bank and building and loan association relief bills; $20,-000,000 unemployment relief bond issue which will be on the June 27 election ballot; 30-hour week public works bill; irrigation district moratorium providing limited payment of obligations; a constitutional amendment providing quake damaged property should be reassessed on the basis of present valuation; revision of deficiency judgment legislation; repeal of obnoxious special Ichthyologist Reaps Rewards Veteran State Official in Fish, Game Department Honored at Big Banquet Fifty years of continuous state service reaped a bountiful reward in testimonials, tributes and praise for William H. Shebley, 67, connected with the state fish and game department. Shebley’s devotion to duty and constructive work for the state were lauded at a dinner in his honor attended by heads of all bureaus of the fish and game department and by members of the fish and game commission. Shebley was appointed assistant fish culturist of California May 16, 1883. Since that time he has served under 15 governors. Governor Stoneman was the incumbent when he first took office. During his state service, Shebley has supervised the distribution of over one billion trout and salmon in California’s lakes and streams—probably an all-time record in the United States. For 21 years, he was head of the California fish and game commission’s bureau of fish culture. When Shebley, then 17 years old, was hired by the state, there were only three trout hatcheries in California. He was assigned to the Shebley hatchery. GRAIN GROWERS STUDY CONTROL ON FIELD DAY Improvement Program Along Three Lines Designed to Develop Best Grains Grain growers of the county had an opportunity Friday of visiting the variety and disease control plots under the auspices of the agricultural extension service. The grain improvement program, according to W. M. Cory, assistant farm advisor, has been conducted along three lines: (1) to determine the variety of barley, wheat, and oats best adapted to local soil and climatic conditions; (2) to obtain an adequate supply of pure seed of these varieties; and (3) to secure field control of the two most serious grain diseases—smut and barley stripe. After conducting variety tests, where measured yields could be obtained, together with observations from field plantings over a ten-year period, the first phase of this program has been accomplished. Likewise, evidence accumulated here and elsewhere in the state indicates a control for smut and barley stripe disease, the third phase of the program. Seed that is badly infested with either of these diseases should be dusted with Ceresan, a mercuric compound, at the rate of 5 ounces to the sack. When the infection is reduced to 4 or 5 percent, it can usually be kept under control through annual seed dusting with copper carbonate applied at the rate of 5 ounces to the sack. This latter fungicide being less expensive but not quite so efficient in the control of these diseases as the former. This year steps were taken, in cooperation with the Irvine company, to bring about progress in the second phase of the program, namely to build up a supply of pure seed of the recognized superior varieties. Sufficient pure seed of Hero and Oregon Club Mariott barley was obtained to plant 20 acres each. The yield from these fields will form a nucleus for future Bills helping California weather the economic storm included: 60-day tax moratorium; mortgage foreclosure moratorium; emergency bank and building and loan association relief bills; $20,000,000 unemployment relief bond issue which will be on the June 27 election ballot; 30-hour week public works bill; irrigation district moratorium providing limited payment of obligations; a constitutional amendment providing quake damaged property should be reassessed on the basis of present valuation; revision of deficiency judgment legislation; repeal of obnoxious special assessment legislation and many other relief bills of less importance. The legislature pared expenses to the bone, finally turned out a $246,770,000 budget, thus reducing state government cost approximately $40,000,000 under the present biennium. The governor's original budget was $258,000,000. The assembly cut it to $241,000,000 whereupon the upper house upped it about $6,000,000. Few new revenue measures were passed. That disagreeable task will be undertaken in the main during the summer session. But the legislature did increase utility taxation $6,000,000 for the biennium; banks $3,000,000; trucks $1,500,000 and tightened up on payment of personal property tax on automobiles, thus bringing in an additional $1,250,000. The assembly killed many school and governmental economy measures sent over by the senate. Almost the entire economy program offered by the senatorial fact finding committee—approved with alacrity by the senate—was voted down in the assembly. Moreover a cluster of drastic bills aiming to cut down the cost of education were defeated with equal emphasis by the lower house. Even revision of teachers' tenure was killed, after the bill had reached the very threshold of passage. Most important school measure passed included one giving boards of supervisors right of review of school budgets, and raising the kindergarten age from 4½ to five years. The fact finding bills would have eliminated many governmental offices and provided for widespread consolidations and economies. The legislature agreed to submit to the people the constitutional amendment empowering the state to undertake the state water plan. It also approved measures to submit for vote a $30,000,000 veterans farm and home purchasing bond issue and the $55,000,-000 irrigation refinancing bond issue. The $160,000,000 bond issue to finance the Great Central Valley water project, first unit of the water plan, was passed by the assembly and will be considered by the senate during the mid-summer session. Progressive and liberal legislation was, in the main, passed by the assembly and killed in the conservative senate. During his state service, Shebley has supervised the distribution of over one billion trout and salmon in California's lakes and streams—probably an all-time record in the United States. For 21 years, he was head of the California fish and game commission's bureau of fish culture. When Shebley, then 17 years old, was hired by the state, there were only three trout hatcheries in California. He was assigned to the Shebley hatchery, first in the state, in Nevada county. It had been established by his father, a noted fish culturist. Today there are 28 hatcheries in the state. The dean of state employees planted the first trout in Yosemite park waters, above the floor of the valley, in 1891. He also released the first trout in Bear Valley lake, San Bernardino county in 1886. Through his efforts, Brown trout, Lochleven trout, grayling, Machinaw trout and Black bass were introduced in California waters. In 1895 and 1896 he established for the United States bureau of fisheries, the spawn taking stations and hatcheries on the upper Sacramento river. Shebley's wide experience and deep knowledge of fish lore have established him as a nation-wide authority on the subject. He has served Oregon and Washington in an advisory capacity. The elderly and popular Shebley was born in Nevada City. August 6, 1866. His life has been devoted solely to game preservation and development; Fish and game officials said he is largely responsible for California's success in this field. Public Learning Lesson On Bonds Indebtedness of Counties Is Scaled Down, Cities and State Debts Growing For the first time in years the bonded indebtedness of California counties is on the down grade. A compilation of financial transactions compiled by Ray L. Riley, state controller, shows that the bonded indebtedness of California counties decreased from $304,632,034.78 in 1930 to $291,842,813.97 last year after a steady increase had been shown in the bonded debt which amounted to only $50,841,-291 in 1915. Taxpayers of Orange county are faced with a total bonded debt, including outstanding county and district bonds, amounting to $5,454,500, the report revealed. Progressive and liberal legislation was, in the main, passed by the assembly and killed in the conservative senate. Such was the fate of the anti-capital punishment, the Chatters county "Home Rule," the free primary, unemployment insurance and criminal syndicalism bills. The last named would have provided that mere membership in an organization designed to overthrow the government would not be constituted a criminal offense. The legislature did, however, pass the parimutuel horse race betting bill only to have it vetoed by the governor. The measure was passed again in the form of a constitutional amendment to be submitted to the people. It also passed "yellow dog" bill after first amending out its anti-injunction clause. The secondary state highway bill whereby 6,600 miles of existing and contemplated road would be added to the state highway system passed. The measure also provided cities would receive an additional quarter of a cent of the gas tax for street repair and maintenance. Outside of the reduced budget, primary economies included the $4,500,000 biennial reduction in state employees' salaries, the drastic cut in superior judges' salaries and abolition of over 40 jobs held by special state attorneys. The session was complicated by a running fight between the legislature and the governor. This was intensified by the Inman investigating committee reports which charged maladministration in several state departments. Climax of this phase of the legislative-executive battle came when first the governor answered the Inman committee and, the next day, the committee members bitterly criticized on the senate floor Rolph and his administration. A compilation of financial transactions compiled by Ray L. Riley, state controller, shows that the bonded indebtedness of California counties decreased from $304,632,034.78 in 1930 to $291,842,813.97 last year after a steady increase had been shown in the bonded debt which amounted to only $50,841,-291 in 1915. Taxpayers of Orange county are faced with a total bonded debt, including outstanding county and district bonds, amounting to $5,454,500, the report revealed. While counties apparently are learning the danger of such debts, the same cannot be said of the state and municipal governments. The bonded indebtedness of cities, for instance, increased from $413,665,832.34 in 1930, to $449,560,927, despite the fact that receipts fell off in the same period from $296,582,509 to $224,587,220. Referring to the state's problem, the report said: "In the period between 1930 and 1932 state receipts have increased only 7.18 per cent while state disbursements have increased 21.11 per cent." "This alarming difference cannot long be maintained and the legislature and tax authorities have centered their attention on methods to check outgoing funds and increase the source of state revenues. "In the five-year interim between 1925 and 1930, the state bonded debt increased 22.74 per cent, while in the two years, from 1930 to 1932 the increase is shown as 16.68 per cent. The voting public has checked the speed of increasing local-debt, but still continues to favor state bonds." For the first time in over 40 years, the legislature overrode a governor's veto. Three county government bills he had disapproved were passed despite his disapproval. Fundamental differences between senate and assembly killed much legislation. The upper house was rural, conservative and almost fanatically economical. The lower house was liberal, progressive, urban-controlled and not as "economy minded" as the senate. Reckless Drivers Blamed for 40 Per Cent of Accidents; Auto Death Rate Growing 20,400 Lose Lives In 556,000 Mishaps During 1932; Death Rate Twice As High As Homicides; Three Mechanical Defects of Faulty Brakes, Lack of Chains On Slippery Roads, Lights Twenty thousand, four hundred persons lost their lives in more than 556,000 automobile accidents last year. This is just twice the number of homicides for 1932, estimated by experts at about 10,000. Reckless drivers were blamed for 40 percent of the grand totals; another large percentage was blamed on negligence on the part of the motorist in not checking his safety equipment before leaving the garage. Of the three mechanical defects leading the list of accident causes during 1932, two were largely due to the carelessness of the driver. These were bad brakes, which were responsible for 24 percent of the accidents and 19 percent of the fatalities in this mechanical defect classification and lack of chains on a slippery road. Blamed for 35 percent of the crashes and 11 percent of the fatalities. The other of the "big three," faulty lights, which led the death toll with responsibility for 28 percent of the lives lost, was excused from the charge of driver carelessness on the grounds that uncontrollable glaring headlights caused many of the crashes. Poor lights or no lights at all on the tails of trucks, trailers and passenger cars also accounted for many fatal accidents, including some heavily-laden buses. Statisticians point out also that night driving and its accompanying dangers have increased appreciably. The motor death rate during 1932 was almost 50 percent higher during the hours of darkness than during the hours of light, according to one authority. Another states that headlight glare has made night driving a game of "blind man's buff" that often ends in tragedy. While many of the accidents occurring in darkness could be prevented by careful driving or by better care of equipment by the motorist, glare with present lighting equipment is essentially a problem beyond the pale of carelessness. The need of better and more advanced foolproof lighting equipment is apparent. Property loss from automobile acci- 4-H PIGS WILL BE WEIGHED IN THIS SATURDAY Contest Will Close With Auction Sale of Animals at State Fair On Sept. 16 The 1933 state-wide 4-H pig feeding contest will start next Saturday, May 27, with the judging of contesting animals and their auction sale at the state fair in Sacramento on 4-H day. The farm advisor or his assistant, and leader, must certify to the ownership and weight of the competing pigs. The 4-H members will feed and care for their animals and exhibit them in the 4-H department of the state fair next September together with the certified 4-H record book. The auction of the pigs from the state-wide 4-H pig feeding contest has become a regular institution and is one of the leading attractions at the state fair on "4-H day," which will be Saturday, September 16, this year. The delegates from each club in the state will have the opportunity to see this auction sale in connection with the annual convention at Davis. Noted Shortcake Looms for Tables California apparently will have plenty of strawberries this year. A preliminary report of the federal Ops were taken in coophe Irvine company, to progress in the second program, namely to build pure seed of the recog- varieties. Sufficient hero and Oregon Club was obtained to plant it. The yield from these in a nucleus for future a portion each year on land to maintain its mainder either sold for general field planting. More legitimate theatres can in the 16 next largened. While many of the accidents occurring in darkness could be prevented by careful driving or by better care of equipment by the motorist, glare with present lighting equipment is essentially a problem beyond the pale of carelessness. The need of better and more advanced foolproof lighting equipment is apparent. Property loss from automobile accidents is conservatively estimated at $1,300,000,000 annually, but undoubtedly runs much higher due to loss of time by injured, medical care and other items that cannot be estimated. Thirty-two languages are spoken in New York. Flour CARNATION Hard Wheat Blend 24½ lb. BAG 59c Post Bran Flakes 13 oz. 12½ c pkg... Whole Bran 10 oz. 12 c Swansdown . . . 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