anaheim-gazette 1934-04-26

THE GAZETTE Is Now In Its 64th Year OLDEST PAPER IN THE COUNTY 108 NORTH EMILY STREET VOL. LXIV CITY'S TAX RATE SLASHED MORE THAN FOUR CENTS AS TRUSTEES TUESDAY APPROVE '34-35 BUDGET Anaheim's Total Income Estimated at $278,850 for Next Year, Allowing Tax Rate of 85.9 Cents; General Tax Reduced to 16 Cents to Set One of Lowest Rates in California Confidence Anaheimers expressed in the business acumen of incumbent councilmen at the municipal election April 9 was rewarded Tuesday evening when the city trustees adopted Chairman Leo J. Sheridan's finance committee report recommending a budget for the fiscal year 1934-35 of $278,850.24, and setting the tax rate for the next year at $0.8594. The budget becomes effective May 1. St. Agnes Guild’s Spring Benefit To Be Held Saturday K. P. Hall Decorated for Big Event; Dorothy Bishop to Play Piano Numbers The spring benefit planned by St. Agnes guild should be one of the most colorful events of the season, with elaborate preparations being made to transform the K. P. hall into a bower of flowers. The total is $23,496.08 less than the past year, when the budget was $302,-346.32, and the tax rate 90 cents. When three of the five councilmen now in office were elected four years ago, the assessment rolls were approximately 15 per cent higher, and the tax rate was $1.25. Break-down of the tax structure shows the general fund getting $0.1644 as compared with $0.1840 for this year; $0.1350 tax rate for the public library to raise $14,058.54 the same as last year; and $0.56 to raise $54,388.98 for bond interest and redemption, a figure lower by two cents than last year because of decreased principle and interest. Estimated revenue for the coming year is $261,785, which provides for an K. P. Hall Decorated for Big Event; Dorothy Bishop to Play Piano Numbers The spring benefit planned by St. Agnes guild should be one of the most colorful events of the season, with elaborate preparations being made to transform the K. P. hall into a bower of flowers. The three niches in the hall are being paneled with silver and against each will be a large modernistic basket constructed by the committee under Miss Honor Easton, and filled with tail flowers. The stage will contain a trellis of ivy as well as smaller baskets of real flowers. Tallies and nut cups will also be in the form of baskets. Miss Mary Easton is general chairman of the event and will head the committee of hostesses to usher guests to their tables. Both auction and contract will be in play during the afternoon and attractive prizes, obtained by Mrs. Victor Loly, will be offered in both games and will be drawn as door prizes. In charge of the menu is Miss Janie Vander Veer, while Miss Stella Jackson is heading the serving committee for tea to follow the bridge hour. The feature of the day will be a musical program to be presented after tea is served and arranged by Mrs. Dana Newkirk. Announcement has been made that those who wish may come just for tea and the musicale. Mrs. Newkirk has obtained a former Anaheim artist, Miss Dorothy Bishop, to play two groups of piano numbers, the first group to consist entirely of Chopin. Following these, Mrs. Rachel Merril, a pupil of the famous Leopold Auer, will entertain with a violin group. Tickets may be obtained by calling Mrs. Clyde Cromer at 2076 or may be purchased at the door. The affair begins at 2. Cypress Station Adds “Radiomail” Globe Wireless, Ltd., which operates a radio station at Cypress, Saturday began receiving and transmitting commercial messages destined for Southern California and points east. Previously, the station had confined its communications to the Dollar Steamship company. It now receives Break-down of the tax structure shows the general fund getting $0.1644 as compared with $0.1840 for this year; $0.1350 tax rate for the public library to raise $14,058.54 the same as last year; and $0.56 to raise $54,388.98 for bond interest and redemption, a figure lower by two cents than last year because of decreased principle and interest. Estimated revenue for the coming year is $261,785, which provides for an estimated payment of $3,000 delinquent taxes. Last year the finance committee believed $10,000 in delinquent taxes would be made up, but found that this estimate was far above actual payments. As usual, the largest income for the city is from the public service department, from which the committee estimates $227,500 for 1934-35. In 1933-34 the department cost $98,275. Because of state requirements in bookkeeping systems, the city must levy a tax to pay off the bonded indebtedness for this department. However, the income from the department is more than sufficient to meet all bonds and interest, paying in addition a substantial net income to the city's general fund. This income permits the reduction of the general tax rate to $0.1644, one of the lowest in the entire state of California. In fact, the total tax rate for the city is the lowest in Southern California, and one of the outstanding achievements in the Golden State. The state law permits up to $1.00 taxes for general rates alone, with the average community approaching the limit. Anaheim's 16-cent levy, therefore, is looked upon as extremely low. The council this year is providing $20,000 for relief and unforeseen expenses. This is $5,000 more than last year, when the $15,000 proved an unsafe margin to make up for emergency expenditures. In addition to approving the budget for the coming year, the council heard the first reading of ordinance No. 583, which sets up a slightly different arrangement for handling of the city's affairs, to accommodate changes made necessary by the defeat of City Clerk John W. Price at the municipal election early this month. Price had combined several duties with the city clerk's work. The new ordinance divides the work of the municipal government into seven departments, in addition to the police and fire departments. This ordinance also supplants the ordinance which superseded the city manager ordinance, clearing the dockets of the previous two ordinances. An analysis of costs ducing walnuts in Orchard just been completed by visor's office. The period of five years a cost records of 21 types in the county, being used by the water tariff hearings before mission at Washington to Farm Advisor Harper was originally designed individual grower appraisal of his orchard as a bus and provide him with for comparing his expences with average and The bulletin just cert that for the five years the average production 1588 pounds per acre price to the grower in was 10.87 cents per production costs, include labor for the actual in the orchard, were acre; materials $22.63 other cash costs $31.05. The 1933 costs for were $35.67 for labor materials; and $19.50 for Globe Wireless, Ltd., which operates a radio station at Cypress, Saturday began receiving and transmitting commercial messages destined for Southern California and points east. Previously, the station had confined its communications to the Dollar Steamship company. It now receives messages by wireless and immediately places them in the mail at Anaheim, under the name of "radiomail" service. It is designed, according to Station Manager R. W. Bunce, to accommodate those persons not desiring the quick service of present radio wireless, yet not wishing to wait for the long shipment of mail over the ocean. The station picks up messages from other stations in the system at Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and New York. Joe Gish Zeke Brussings has proposed 1034 license plates on all chickens that run-at-large this summer. Hear City-County Government Plan Fullerton's Albert Launer was scheduled to return from Sacramento in time to give a full report upon the new SERA setup at the meeting of the Orange County League of Municipalities at the Orange Woman's clubhouse Thursday night. Anaheim's city councilmen and City Clerk Charles E. Griffith attended the meeting, hearing Stanford University's Edward Cattrell outline advantages and disadvantages of the city-county plan of government. AHEIM GAZETE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934 No More Hand-Outs By Albert T. Reid HERE'S THE SAW—JUST CUT UP SOME OF THAT AND I'LL GET YOU A NICE BITE RECOGNITION AND PAYMENTS ONE OF THE REHISS SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF OLD LOANS Walnut Production Costs Being Used In Tariff Hearing Farm Advisor's Summary Was Started to Aid Farmer Learn Average Expense An analysis of costs involved in producing walnuts in Orange county has just been completed by the farm advisor's office. The study covers a period of five years and embraces the cost records of 21 typical walnut orchards in the county. The summary is being used by the walnut industry in tariff hearings before the tariff commission at Washington, but according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg, was originally designed to help the individual grower appraise the efficiency of his orchard as a business enterprise and provide him with a standard basis for comparing his expenditures and returns with average and better orchards. The bulletin just completed reveals that for the five year period 1929-33, the average production of walnuts was 1588 pounds per acre. The average net price to the grower in the same period was 10.87 cents per pound. Average production costs, including the owner's labor for the actual time he worked in the orchard, were labor $52.77 per acre; materials $22.63 per acre; and other cash costs $31.05 per acre. The 1933 costs for the same items were $35.67 for labor; $16.20 for materials; and $19.50 for other cash costs. JOHN W. PRICE IS OUTSIDE MANAGER OF SAVINGS, LOAN John W. Price, who was defeated for city clerk at the municipal election April 9, after serving two years by appointment in that position and 10 years as city manager, Tuesday became outside manager for The Savings, Building and Loan association of Anaheim. He was appointed to the position by the board of directors at a meeting Monday evening at association headquarters. He will have charge of real estate sales, rentals, improvements and inspections, taking over much of the outside work formerly handled by President William T. Wallop. Fred A Backs is secretary. The association, capitalized at $100,-000, has assets of $2,000,000, and is one of the few financial institutions of the state now lending money. High School Bond Issue Wins Suport Two more endorsements of the proposed $275,000 bond issue for erecting a one-unit structure at the Anaheim union high school to replace buildings condemned by the state following the March 10, 1933, earthquake, were received during the past week. The Anaheim chamber of commerce endorsed the bond issue and the elementary school board revealed that it is wholesheartedly back of the proposition. Name J. J. Dwyer On Committee to Conciliate Debts Work Voluntary in Character, Available to Both Debtors and Creditors A committee consisting of O. T. Stephens, La Habra; J. J. Dwyer, Anaheim; M. B. Allen, Garden Grove; H. L. Wakeham, Santa Ana; and Ben Osterman, El Toro, have been named by Governor Rolph to act as a debt conciliation board. "The work of this committee is purely voluntary in character and its facilities are available to both creditors and debtors. Its work is planned as a arrangement to help debtors and creditors work out plans for adjusting debt problems without unnecessary expense," says Secretary R. D. Flaherty of the Orange County Farm Bureau. The reputation and character of these men in their respective communities is of the highest. Creditors or debtors, alike, then may feel free to take their problems to this committee, knowing that confidences will be regarded as such and the services of these men obtained to assist in untangling financial knots. "Oftentimes an individual on the outside is able to look at the whole problem in a broad, unbiased manner and bring about a satisfactory adjustment that the principals never could do. It is to meet such emergencies as this where the creditor or debtor can appeal." The bulletin just completed reveals that for the five year period 1929-33, the average production of walnuts was 1588 pounds per acre. The average net price to the grower in the same period was 10.87 cents per pound. Average production costs, including the owner's labor for the actual time he worked in the orchard, were labor $52.77 per acre; materials $22.63 per acre; and other cash costs $31.05 per acre. The 1933 costs for the same items were $35.67 for labor; $16.20 for materials; and $19.50 for other cash costs, mainly taxes. In the five year period quality grades averaged as follows: Diamonds 37.6 percent; Emeralds 32.8 percent; California 8.3 percent; culls 17.8 percent; and blows 3.5 percent. The study concludes that walnut growers using more than 25 acres inches of water are accruing no benefits to the trees or returns. Usually winter irrigation is essential for best results. Thorough pest control measures are necessary in most orchards to insure production of satisfactory quality nuts. Third Auto Added To Fruit Patrol Upon petition of Sheriff Logan Jackson, the board of supervisors Tuesday authorized addition of a third automobile to the fruit patrol force. Chairman Willard Smith recommended appointment of Orange's Claude Potter and the board acted favorably. Supervisor George Jefferay of Irvine will recommend Potter's companion. Garden Grove Woman Named P.-T. A. Head Mrs. W. T. Kirven, prominent Parent-Teacher association worker of Garden Grove, last week was elected president of the fourth district, P.-T. A., to succeed Mrs. R. W. Marvin of Anaheim. The victor defeated Mrs. Oliver Wickersheim of Orange. Two more endorsements of the proposed $275,000 bond issue for erecting a one-unit structure at the Anaheim union high school to replace buildings condemned by the state following the March 10, 1933, earthquake, were received during the past week. The Anaheim chamber of commerce endorsed the bond issue and the elementary school board revealed that it is wholesheartedly back of the proposition. Local Residents Get Glimpse of Dirigible The U.S. airgible Macon, world's largest airship, Friday afternoon cruised over Fullerton, entering the Santa Ana canyon, as it set its course for the East, where it will maneuver with the United States armada of 101 ships, which this week passed through the Panama canal. County Allowed 13 Basic CMTC Trainees At Monterey; No Limit at Ft. MacArthur Orange county's quota of basic trainees at the Presidio of Monterey, California, has been set at 13, while no limit has been placed on the number of boys between the ages of 17 and 24, to be trained at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, in the basic course, Citizens Military Training Corps, to be conducted from July 5 to August 3 this year, according to announcements this week by Captain Raymond E. Smith, 364th infantry reserve, of 518 South Dickel street, Anaheim, CMTC representative for Orange county. Capt. Smith will receive applications, as will Dr. E. H. Kersten, Lt. M. W. Martenet Jr., Lt. H. C. Wilhelm, and Commander Ray Van Wagoner of American Legion post No. 72, Anaheim. Others in the county authorized to receive applications include: Lt. Herman J. Zabel of the bureau of identification, sheriff's office, Santa Ana; Jack B. Phillips, editor of Brea Progress; Capt. Gordon X. Richmond, Ehlen and Grote bldg., Orange; Capt. Leon Gillilan, Placentia; and Fred Hezmaalhach, city clerk, Fullerton. The war department has instructed CMTC officials to reserve 30 per cent of the enrollment for basic training. Capt. Smith states extreme care will be thus in choosing these basic students, with the idea of giving them fundamental training that eventually might lead to qualification as reserve officers. Due to many applications being received at the Presidio of Monterey, only the most promising candidates will be selected to fill the limited quota. Capt. Smith says. Each county has been assigned a quota based on population, and in the case of applications of equal qualifications, the first to apply will be selected. ELEANOR PARKER GIVEN $2,000 FOR INJURIES IN FALL Miss Eleanor Parker, retired Anaheim school teacher, Wednesday was awarded $2,000 damages by a jury in Superior Judge H. G. Ames' court at Santa Ana Wednesday for injuries she received when she slipped and fell because of refuge in the vegetable department of the local Pay'n Takit chain store in June. Miss Parker testified that she dislocated her ankle and received other injuries. She asked $10,658 damages. Coroner’s Jury Holds Shooting Was Justifiable Attorney Freed of Blame by Findings of Jury at Inquest Over Body of Millard Lipe After deliberating but 15 minutes, the coroner's Jury foremanned by Paul Muench Wednesday at Orange returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the killing of Millard Lipe, 27, Sunday morning by Attorney N. D. Meyer, 44, of Santa Ana. District Attorney Sam B. Kaufman previously stated that unless new evidence is presented his office would not accept any charges. Attorney Freed of Blame by Findings of Jury at Inquest Over Body of Millard Lipe After deliberating but 15 minutes, the coroner's jury foremanned by Paul Muench Wednesday at Orange returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the killing of Millard Lipe, 27, Sunday morning by Attorney N. D. Meyer, 44, of Santa Ana. District Attorney Sam B. Kaufman previously stated that unless new evidence was presented, his office would not prosecute the Santa Ana man for the shooting. The jury's verdict was that Lipe, a former Orange cafe owner, died from heart wounds received when struck by bullets from the revolver fired by Meyer while the dead man was attempting to break into the attorney's home in Santa Ana canyon, for the purpose of doing bodily harm. The jury held the shooting justifiable homicide. Motive for the threat on Meyer's life, according to information brought out in the investigation of the shooting, was jealousy over the friendship of Mrs. Flora Shoemaker of Orange. She attended a dance and later a cafe party with Meyer. At the dance Lipe threatened Meyer. At the cafe, he again accosted the attorney, inviting him outside to fight. Mrs. Shoemaker, whom Lipe told he would "get" Meyer, accompanied the attorney to his ranch home. Lipe appeared at the ranch at 3:45 a.m., knocking at the door. Meyer informed him the place he was looking for was another. Later Lipe returned. Meyer told his son, Marvin, 22, to get his gun, and the two went to the home of a neighbor, S. A. Koepple, obtaining his assistance. Returning from the neighbor's ranch, Lipe was seen ripping the screen door from its latch and entering the house. Evidently learning that Meyer was outside, Lipe came toward him. Meyer shot twice. Marvin Meyer aided Kenneth Harris, 26, of Garden Grove, a friend who had accompanied Lipe to the ranch, into an automobile and rushed him to the county hospital, with Meyer following in another automobile. The wounded man died before he reached the hospital. The attorney accompanied Deputy Sheriffs McKelvey and Dean to the sheriff's office, making a complete statement to Deputy District Attorneys W. F. Menton and Preston Turner. Myer was then freed pending inquest. B. Cross of the Athaheim Masonic lodge was chairman, and introduced Thomas Kuchel as speaker of the evening. The Mozart orchestra gave a group of numbers under the direction of Instructor J. Williams of the Anaheim union high school, while a one-act play was presented under the direction of Mrs. Faye Kern Schulz of the high school drama staff. Parents and friends were welcomed all week at public schools of this city, all of which held open house for the purpose of acquainting adults with the program of education. This is a feature of public schools week each year. All the characters in "Fairyland of Scotland," with the exception of Doris Gamble of the Horace Mann school, are from Fremont and include Martha Grace Powell, Zephirine Queyrel, Vernon McCracken, Bernelce Hargrove, Mary Show, Lilymaye Beat, Betty Spaenhauer and Ida Lea Beat. Doris Gamble is Belra, queen of winter. The Fremont orchestra will be the Highland Laddies. Horace Mann's glee club, with Queen Doris Gamble, enter in Episode one as the chorus of winter folk. George Washington school children present the spring and summer episodes, with Marylin Hargrove, Corrine Rommell, Junior Perkins, Mary Ann Purdy and members of the glee club taking parts. Lincoln school children offer the theme of rain, fire and storm, with Lillian Beckler as thunger hag, and Richard Morley as king, and Art Shipkey and Clarence Harris as swordsmen. The school's glee club will be dressed in peasant costum for the chorus. La Palma school children give "Blue Men of Munich," with Cruz Sandoval, Ralph Prado, Rosalie Pedroza and David Valdez taking the part of sailors. The glee club will present the "Chorus of Blue Men and Women." Citron school children offer the next part. (Continued on page 6) Tax Collections Up Five Per Cent Collections for taxes during the past year were exactly 4.53 per cent better than for the year previously. Collector J. C. Lamb announced when his office closed Friday evening, April 20, when emergency tax relief legislation automatically became out-dated. Total collections till that time amounted to $3.175,182.96, or 73.77 per cent of the total tax bill. This figure represents only partial collections. Lamb stated, because many collections White Men Incite Indians to Rebel White men have incited Southern California Indians to state of rebellion against the federal government. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier reported April 17 to the department of interior. In his charges of inciting rebellion, Collier names Deputy County Treasurer Purl Willis of San Diego and Hosiery Salesman R. H. Prather of the same locality. Collier terms the activities of these two men as an "organized racket." Both are prominent in affairs of the Mission Indian Federation of Southern California. Collier charges that the federation for years has endeavored to rule the Southern California reservations through their own armed policemen, captains and judges, resisting the authority of the United States in the spirit of "beating off an invasion by a foreign power." The Indian commissioner says that Willis recently allied himself with Frederick C. Collett, the white executive of "Indians of California, Inc." which collected approximately $150,000 from poverty-stricken Indians in the last decade. Collett now is backing a bill to pay attorneys associated with him $180,000 out of a judgment against the United States arising out of a suit by the Indians now being prosecuted for them by the attorney general of California, according to Collier. Collections for taxes during the past year were exactly 4.53 per cent better than for the year previously. Collector J. C. Lamb announced when his office closed Friday evening, April 20, when emergency tax relief legislation automatically became out-dated. Total collections till that time amounted to $3,175,182.96, or 73.77 per cent of the total tax bill. This figure represents only partial collections. Lamb stated, because many collections came by mail and had yet to be gone over. Total tax charges were $4,303,-699.94 this year as compared with $5,-871,429.71 last. Barring mail payments for the same period last year, collections amounted to $4,303,699.94. DO YOU KNOW? 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