anaheim-gazette 1941-12-04

THERE ARE ONLY 17. MORE SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS! VOLUME LXXII ANAHEIM, ORANGE CITY League Denounces Labor Racketeers; Plans Militant, Aggressive Campaign Denouncing use of the secondary boycott and "hot cargo" as "the most vicious and un-American weapons used by labor racketeers," W. H. Spurgeon, Jr., president of the Citizens Association of Orange county, announced today that passage of county and municipal ordinances outlawing the practices is the first objective in a program for his organization. "We do not believe," Spurgeon said, "the people of Orange county will surrender control of their jobs and businesses to dictatorial union bosses if they fully understand the dangers of these vicious clubs of the secondary boycotts and "hot cargo" bans they use." NEW WAR DECLARED "Orange county citizens are the victims of a new war declared by the Teamsters' union with the openly avowed purpose of county-wide closed shop domination," he said. Officers of the citizen's association said they have retained the firm of Robert Franklin and associates for an intensive public education campaign on the subject: Irwin Interment At Walla Walla Resting in state here today is Hattie J. Irwin, who passed away yesterday morning at 112 N. Philadelphia at the age of 65. The body will be sent to Walla Walla, Wash., for interment tonight by Backs, Campbell, and Kaulbars mortuary. She had lived in Anaheim for three years. Her birthplace was Plasanton, Kansas. She is survived by two sons, Leo V. Irwin, Anaheim, and Elvan L. Irwin, Olympia, Washington; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Bellows. Elizabeth Lawton Buried Monday Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Lawton, 81, died Thursday at her residence in Pasadena with funeral services being held in Pasadena on Monday afternoon. Interment was made on Tuesday morning in the family plot in Fairhaven cemetery. Rev. Robert Burns McAulay of Orange conducted services at the grave. LIVED HERE Mrs. Lawton was born in Hope, Ark., and came with her family to California as a child. She lived in Anaheim a number of years and was married fifty years ago in this city to Allan J. Lawton who passed away 28 years ago in Santa Ana where they had moved shortly after their marriage. NEW WAR DECLARED "Orange county citizens are the victims of a new war declared by the Teamsters' union with the openly avowed purpose of county-wide closed shop domination," he said. Officers of the citizen's association said they have retained the firm of Robert Franklin and associates for an intensive public education campaign on the subject. The firm is nationally known as public relations counsellors in non-metropolitan areas. MILITANT AND AGGRESSIVE "This will be the beginning of a militant and aggressive program by the Citizens Association of Orange County," Spurgeon stated. Enclosed Find Statement Current Property Tax Levies Lower By $54,329 Than Last Year’s Total Property taxes amounting to $5,-312,574, the first half of which local property owners are besieging the Orange county court house at Santa Ana to pay before tomorrow's deadline, are $54,329 lower than levies last year according to the results of a county tax survey released today. Levies by the county, school, and district governments in the county totalled $5,812,574 for the present year, compared with $5,366,903 for 1940-41, it was found. COUNTY LEVY Of the $5,312,574 levy in the county this year, $1,650,444 is for county current purposes, $71,396 for county bonds, $2,472,562 for school current purposes throughout the county, $448,635 for school bonds, and $669,537 for special district taxes. Over the state as a whole, county, school, and district tax levies jumped $11,314,960, going from $235,315,235 for 1940-41 to $246,-630,203 for 1941-42. Total tax levies for these purposes went up in forty-seven counties and down in eleven. Most of the increases were in levies for current purposes, levies for county current purposes going up in forty-three counties and down in fifteen, while levies for school current purposes went up in forty-five counties and down in only thirteen. Levies for county bonds went down in thirty-one counties, for school bonds down in thirty-three counties, and for special district purposes down in twenty-five counties. "We Want A Lift!" Motor Club Invents Pick-up Service For California Men In US Uniform "Give Them A Lift" is the slogan adopted by patriotic motorists of Anaheim today who have enrolled in the newly-formed Service Motor Corps, sponsored by the Auto Club of Southern California to show appreciation to men in uniform. Upon enrollment each member of the Service Motor Corps receives a certificate of identification and a distinctive windshield insignia. Once in operation, the windshield sticker serves as a mark of distinction for soldiers, sailors, and marines. It signifies to boys in uniform that "There is a motorist who Hattie J. Irwin, who passed away yesterday morning at 112 N. Philadelphia at the age of 65. The body will be sent to Walla Walla, Wash., for interment tonight by Backs, Campbell, and Kaulbars mortuary. She had lived in Anaheim for three years. Her birthplace was Plasanton, Kansas. She is survived by two sons, Leo V. Irwin, Anaheim, and Elvan L. Irwin, Olympia, Washington; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Bellows, Grants Pass, Oregon; three broth-benge, Washington, and Charles Egs, Will and George Honn of Honn, Wyona, Washington; and two sisters, Mrs. Cora Bruchl, Benge, Washington; and Mrs. Will Long, Walla Walla. Rev. Robert Burns McAulay of Orange conducted services at the grave. LIVED HERE Mrs. Lawton was born in Hope, Ark., and came with her family to California as a child. She lived in Anaheim a number of years and was married fifty years ago in this city to Allan J. Lawton who passed away 28 years ago in Santa Ana where they had moved shortly after their marriage. Mrs. Lawton was prominent in club affairs in the southern counties. She was graduated from the University of Southern California law school, served with the 1914-18 Herbert Hoover Food Conservation Commission. CIVIL SERVICE She was four years a member of the Los Angeles Civil Service commission, president of the Santa Ana Ebell Club, the Southern District Federation of Women's Clubs and the Women's Legislative Council of California. Local Groceryman Wins With Display Alexander D. Zinda, owner of the Stop n' Shop market at 344 W. Center st., it was learned today was the second place winner in the eleventh Western Family Display contest, sponsored by the Western Family Preview magazine, for his display entry of Leslie Salt during the month of November. Mr. Zinda's display contained ten cases of salt. He stated that he usually sells two cases of salt a week but when he put up his display entry, he sold 20 cases in twelve days. The prize was a sum of $25. When asked what he intended to do with his prize money, Mr. Zinda laughed. "That $25 will really come in handy. We are going to have a wedding in the family during December. So you can see where the prize money will go." Baptist Convention Starts Monday Representatives from 12 Baptist churches in the Santa Ana Valley association numbering 150 meet Motor Club Invents Pick-up Service For California Men In US Uniform "Give Them A Lift" is the slogan adopted by patriotic motorists of Anaheim today who have enrolled in the newly-formed Service Motor Corps, sponsored by the Auto Club of Southern California to show appreciation to men in uniform. The volunteer army went into operation Dec. 1 in an effort to solve a problem which has long perplexed Army and Navy officers—how to provide transportation for boys on leave and at the same time respect the order not to "thumb" along the highways. STILL ENROLL Local motorists may still enroll in the corps at the auto club's local office at 501 N. Los Angeles st., or at any of the club's 50 district offices in Southern California. Upon enrollment each member of the Service Mtor Corps receives a certificate of identification and a distinctive windshield insignia. Once in operation, the windshield sticker serves as a mark of distinction for soldiers, sailors, and marines. It signifies to boys in uniform that "There is a motorist who appreciates the part we are playing in the national defense program, and is inviting us to ride," according to the auto club. NO HITCH-HIKING To eliminate the stigma of hitch-hiking and to avoid picking up a man who might be AWOL, a member, when stopping for a man in uniform asks for his official pass authorizing leave from camp. The guest then signs in a space provided on the corps member's certificate. By Four To Two Vote Eastern Conference Officials Refuse Fullerton’s Petition For Withdrawal Eastern division officials of the Southern California Junior College Athletic conference this week refused by a four to two vote to accept the resignation of Fullerton Junior college or to approve that college’s application to join the Western division of the league. The administrators met in Fullerton Monday afternoon. Action followed a Monday noon meeting of the Fullerton Junior college board of trustees at which Supt. Frederick T. Chamberlen had been authorized to submit the following letter at the conference meeting. SUBMIT RESIGNATION "The Board of Trustees of Fullerton Junior college has authorized me to submit the resignation of Fullerton Junior college from membership in the Eastern conference. Southern California Junior College association, effective at the close of the school year 1941-42, and respectively requests your approval of its application for membership in the Metropolitan conference, Southern California Junior College association." "We recall with deep satisfaction the numerous pleasant and contacts enjoyed with schools of the Eastern conference." AHEIM GAZETE THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ORANGE COUNTY — NOW IN ITS 72nd YEAR AHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941 Scout Hall To Be Constructed Here; Organization’s Activity Increases Construction of a Boy Scout meeting hall, long deemed urgent here, was a reality today, following a meeting Tuesday noon of a council of local civic leaders aiding the organization. The building program, in charge of L. E. Middleton, committee chairman, it to proceed immediately on the present Boy Scout property on the north side of Charlest st. between Los Angeles and Lemon, at a cost not to exceed $3,-000. OTHER BUSINESS Other business of the meeting Tuesday, included the election of new officers for the local District No. 4 Boy Scout council, as follows: Middleton, chairman; Wayne Griggs, vice-chairman; O. E. Hansen, treasurer, and Ronald Brandon, secretary. Attendance Tuesday in addition to the foregoing, included: Dr. Lee C. Demming of the Izaak Walton league; Wm. P. Webb, Kiwanis club; C. A. Starr, American Legion; A. P. Brown, Masonic lodge; Lloyd A. Burrows, Rotary club; Louis Hoskins, Lions club; Mayor Charles A. Pearson, City of Anaheim, Supt. M. A. Gauer, and Sam Hilgenfeld. PROPERTY DEEDED Property on which the building is to be constructed, was deeded by its owner, Dr. Demming, to the Boy Scout council to be used solely for Scout purposes. Meanwhile this week, plans for a Boy Scout camporal in the spring were under way following announcement Monday by Scout Master Clinton Flinn, speaking before the local Rotary club. Combat Tuberculosis Using Christmas Seals As Important As Buying. Reports Local Sales Head Combat Tuberculosis Using Christmas Seals As Important As Buying, Reports Local Sales Head “Are you using the Christmas Seals which you received in the mail on Nov. 24?” is the question which members of the local Seal Sale committee are asking everyone they come across. Mrs. Harriet Amees, chairman of the local sale, explained this week that buying the seals is only a part of the duty of the citizens. SPREADING WORD She continued, “Every time you put one of the seals on a letter or package you are spreading the word that tuberculosis can be cured.” Louis Hoskins, Anaheim postmaster, remarked today that an even bigger Christmas mail than last year’s are indicated by present letters and packages.” IT'S GRATIFYING “It is gratifying, too, to note that most of the letters and packages sent by the people who are observing the ‘mail early’ request bear some of the Christmas Seals,” Postmaster Hoskins continued. Hoskins went on to say that the presence of Christmas Seals on all the mail indicates that this community is aware of its responsibility in the matter of helping rid the country of tuberculosis. Local Elks Attend Barbeque Friday Twenty Past Exalted Rulers, officers and members of the Anbeim Elks club will attend the dedication honoring Grand Exalted Ruler of all BP E, Judge John McClelland, at barbecue and horse show at Jona tomorrow. Judge McC and will make three visits including the one on Jona. He will present at the regular meeting of the Glendale lodge Friday night and at Long Beach lodge Saturday. Where La Vida’s “White Gold” Is Prepared And Bottled North Orange County Mineral Spring Bids For World Fame Following Commercial Development By Former Local Man (This is one in a series of articles on industry affecting Anaheim and its vicinity.) Men go fishing and find gold. And men search for gold and catch fish, but when they drill for oil and strike a fortune in soda pop, it's another one for the books. That's the case today out in Carbon canyon in North Orange county at the plant of the La Vida Bottling company, where they have a pure, sparkling mineral spring, the only one of its type in the United States, and Orange county's bid for world-wide mineral water fame. YEARS AGO Several years ago it was that W. N. Miller, president of the La Vida company, and an Anaheim property holder, and his associates sought oil near the rich Brea and Placentia fields in Carbon canyon. For years a rich mineral spring had trickled down the canyon sides. As far back as the days of the Spanish shepherds, it had gained fame as "La Vida," "the life," because of the healing powers of its waters. 10,000 FEET DOWN The formation from which it flowed looked promising for oil, and Miller and his associates put down a casing. But, lo, instead of black gold, pure sparkling mineral water gushed forth, 60,000 gallons per day it came. From 10,000 feet down in the earth it flowed at a natural temperature of 116° F. It was the purest of its tyep in the United States and has come to be recognized all over the world. Today, La Vida, as the spring was commercially titled, produces healthful mineral water for bottling, for the manufacture of distinctive beverages, and for the aputic medical treatment, all which gross over $100,000 in six annually. They drilled for oil struck a fortune in soda pop, the La Vida property is today used at half a million dollars. LA VIDA PAYROLLS Today, too, La Vida beverage La Vida mineral water is sold Anaheim, throughout the State California, and in the East. Vida payrolls for nearly a score men, circulate in North Orange county. More important, because of present world crisis, is the that Nazi occupation of Europe closed down exports from the mous Celestine - Vichy min springs in France. This leaves Vida springs, an Orange co enterprise, as the only mine. (Please turn to Page 2) ZETTE d YEAR JAP-US Hostilities Considered Likely Speaking before the local 20-30 club this week, Superintendent Paul H. Demaree of the Anaheim high school, expressed a grim warning of imminent war with Japan. The superintendent, who was born in Nippon, whose father until recently has been a missionary in Korea, said that because of the characteristic steadfastness of the Japanese, and the equal determination to end aggression of our government, that it is quite probable that hostilities will result from the current deadlock. Members from Orange County Associated Chambers of Commerce, Orange County Coast association, and the Orange County Safety council will hear the subject of highway safety discussed, and recommendations for the current campaign by James M. Carter, director of state motor vehicles, W. A. Huggins, state traffic coordinator; Robert Kay, director of the Los Angeles safety school. ADDITIONAL SPEECHES In addition there will be speeches by L. H. Loudog, president of the county council, and Mayor M. M. McCallen of Huntington Beach. The seating capacity of the local Elks' banquet room, which can accommodate 300 dinner guests, is expected to be taxed to the limit. PRESIDENT BONEY President Robert H. Boney, of Paul H. Demaree of the Anaheim high school, expressed a grim warning of imminent war with Japan. The superintendent, who was born in Nippon, whose father until recently has been a missionary in Korea, said that because of the characteristic steadfastness of the Japanese, and the equal determination to end aggression of our government, that it is quite probable that hostilities will result from the current deadlock. JAPS DETERMINED Demaree spoke to the Anaheim 20-30 club Monday evening, recounting some of his experiences with the Japanese, their characteristics, and habits. Physical Exam Reports Rejected Registrants To Be Given Rehabilitation In Near Future That rehabilitation of rejected selective service registrants will be projected within the near future is indicated by requests reaching Robert E. Winchell of the Anaheim draft board this week for immediate transmission of physical examination reports on all rejected registrants for consideration at National Headquarters of the service system. Draft headquarters here announced that rejection data will be immediately prepared for transmission to Washington, together with reports of physical examinations as compiled by Army examining physicians stationed in induction centers. These reports will date back to the inception of selective service. REASONS GIVEN Included in the requested reports will be reasons given for registrants being rejected and determination of Army examiners on qualifications of the registrant for limited military service, remediability of defects, and whether the registrant would have been accepted had remediable physical defects been corrected. 10,000 Square Feet Three Day Celebration Marks Opening Of Anaheim’s New Alpha Beta Market A three-day celebration, today, tomorrow, and Saturday, marks the opening here of Alpha Beta's new and spacious super food market. According to Carl Houser, local manager, the market is the latest and most modern of a new pattern of food markets adopted by the Alpha Beta concern. Covering nearly 10,000 square feet at Center and Olive sts. the market is lighted with the latest flourescent lamps. In addition to a complete line of groceries, sales departments include a meat counter under the management of Vernon Rold, and a vegetable market under the direction of Dick Malmstrom at the front of the store. Included in the meat department is complete and modern delicatessen. News In Brief News In Brief Last Minute Summary Of Events IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE Board members of the local Izaak Walton league meet tonight at Harmony hall at 7:30 p.m. to formulate plans for the state-wide convention of the organization which will be held in Anaheim the latter part of next April. According to President Joe Van Waggoner, election of officers for the club will be held a week from tonight. ELKS' CHARITY BALL Plans were announced today for the Elks' Charity Ball to be held here Tuesday, Dec. 16. Program will include dinner at 8 p.m., dancing from 8 until 1. Patrons were requested to bring a can of fruit, vegetables, or some similar item suitable for the organization's Christmas baskets for the needy. FUNERAL TOMORROW William H. Prewitt, 57, a resident of Northern Orange county for 23 years, died early last evening at the family home, 1442 N. Bradford ave., Placentia, after a brief illness. Funeral services will be conducted from the Hilgenfeld mortuary, tomorrow at 2 o'clock. MASONIC HOMECOMING Masons of Anaheim lodge, No. 207, F&AM gather tomorrow night at the local temple for their annual homecoming night and election of officers for the coming year. The event, according to Roy Fields, master of the lodge, will include a turkey dinner. FUSILEERS MEET The Anaheim chapter of the Fusileer's club met today noon at the new Alpha Beta Food Market. Lunch was served by Carl Houser, store manager. ELKS MEMORIAL PROGRAM Rev. Ray Ragsdale, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Fullerton, will give the memorial address at the annual Elks Memorial program this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the lodge rooms of the Elks club. PLANNING COMMISSION Members of the City Planning commission hold the first hearing Monday evening at 7:30 to consider recommendations for a proposed city ordinance to establish a uniform building front on future construction on Anaheim acres, particularly at the outer edges of the residential section. CHRISTMAS PRIZES Wilson Holman, 12, St. Catherine's Military school, and Alma Whitely, 9, of Yorba Linda, were possessors today of brand new bicycles won at the Anaheim Christmas drawing Friday.