anaheim-gazette 1944-07-13

Member Weekly Newspaper Ass'n of Orange Co. — S.C.N.P.A. HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher 1887-1935 Mrs. Henry Kuchel — Theodore B. Kuchel Editors and Publishers Jake Proctor, City Editor The Anaheim Gazette has been owned and edited by the same family since 1875. Published every Thursday at 259 East Center Street, Anaheim, California. Phone 2206-2207 Subscription Per Year, $2.00; 2 Years $3.50; 6 Months $1.25 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Anaheim, California, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Anaheim, located in the richest spot on earth, "In the Heart of the Valencia Orange District," is widely known for its beautiful parks, fine schools and churches, and for its other civic improvements and the stability of its citizenship and its business institutions. When you plan your future home of contentment, the one-stop answer is Anaheim! WASHINGTON As Seen By CONGRESSMAN JOHN PHILLIPS Congressman Norris Poulson of Los Angeles represents the 13th California District in the Congress. He has been doing a splendid job, as you would expect after his record in the State Assembly. He is an accountant, which explains his interest in tax matters and also the following little analysis he sent to the papers of his district some time ago: "435 members make up the House of Representatives; 234 are lawyers, 30 farmers, 27 teachers, 60 businessmen, 23 writers and columnists, 9 government workers age of the South. The western states have not yet grasped this idea, and so change their representatives more frequently, in the competition between parties, or in competitions between individuals. The new man starts again at the bottom, to begin the patient climb to influence. Then the West complains that it is not recognized and says that it is not understood. The South says nothing; just climbs. Poulson's analysis reminds me of the amusing little speech Congressman Victor Wickersham of Oklahoma made when called on He has been doing a splendid job, as you would expect after his record in the State Assembly. He is an accountant, which explains his interest in tax matters and also the following little analysis he sent to the papers of his district some time ago: "435 members make up the House of Representatives; 234 are lawyers, 30 farmers, 27 teachers, 60 businessmen, 23 writers and columnists, 9 government workers, 26 show no classification, 4 are medical doctors, one of them a medical missionary, 1 veterinarian, 2 dentists, 1 druggist, 1 professional football player, 9 insurance agents, 2 engineers, 1 minister, 2 certified public accountants, 1 in the military service. 1 in the naval service." The House is constantly changing, more so than one might think, until you consider the size, the ages, the strain of the job. Deaths average more than one a month. The figures mean in many cases the occupations when elected, as they show in the Congressional Directory. Congressman Poulson points out that the Southern States, the "Old South" as we say in the Congress, are represented principally by attorneys. The most "farmers" are from Illinois, 3 of them; the most "businessmen" are from New York, 13. The western and middle states have the greatest diversity in classifications in their delegations. Poulson's comment on the Southern States is interesting. One of the things a new man in the present Congress notices immediately is that so many of the committee chairmanships are held by members from the South. That is because the South elects a man to Congress and keeps him there indefinitely. He acquires experience and he advances step by step in influence on his committee and in many instances to the chairmanship, under the seniority rule. This is to the great advantage. Competition of strawberries with the winter orange crop is showing a tremendous wartime decrease. The California Fruit Growers Exchange reports that strawberry shipments throughout the nation in the seven months starting with last November were only 1,600 carloads compared to 2,800 a year ago and 7,300 to June in the 1942 season. Union Pacific Railroad's Streamliner locomotives of today are nearly a foot longer than the entire first Streamliner of three cars put into service in 1934. The world's largest library is located in the Transportation Building, Washington, D.C., maintained by the Bureau of Railway Economics, Association of American Railroads. Phone your news items to The Gazette. Call 2206. Voodoo Statistics By GEORGE S. BENSON President of Harding College Searcy, Arkansas DURING my boyhood I knew one slave-time Negro, a picturesque character born 50 years, you might say, after his time. It was said of him that, with solemn ritual, he named one of his seldom-used pockets The World. above $4 for several years, including the months that OPA has since designated as a "base period." By doing this she fixed her own ceiling price. Rule No. 330 caught her. Business NOBODY is fooled DURING my boyhood I knew one slave-time Negro, a picturesque character born 50 years, you might say, after his time. It was said of him that, with solemn ritual, he named one of his seldom-used pockets The World. Promptly then he had his wife sew up the empty pocket. After that, when a fellow worker asked him for a chew of tobacco he could say truthfully, "I ain't got a bit'a chewin' in The World." This is not a pointless story. It describes an interesting philosophy, now in use, notably by the Office of Price Administration. When the powers of this bureau find it impossible to stabilize a price (as they sometimes do) they promptly sew up the outlet with a so-called "line limitation," shift the trade to another store with fancier prices and call it a deterioration of quality; not a price boost—never! The Price IT'S UNCANNY. of Nothing People pay more for what they get although prices stay the same at all points of sale. Just consider the case of Mrs. Effie Stone, proprietress of Effie's Store Inc. Nobody has ever called Effie a modiste. She runs a sort of general store at the edge of a farming town and stocks some apparel, everyday wear for farm women. Woolen skirts at $4 and ladies' suits at $20 are for Effie's quality trade. But now the store is out of woolen skirts entirely. Effie can buy them at about $4.50 wholesale, and could sell them for $6 and show a profit but it's not legal if OPA rules are law. The trouble is that Effie sold no skirts above $4 for several years, including the months that OPA has since designated as a "base period." By doing this she fixed her own ceiling price. Rule No. 330 caught her. Business NOBODY is fooled. Migrates Effie's highest allowable price for skirts is $4 and she can't get any more $4 skirts to sell. Her customers would pay more, in fact they are paying more. They still like the kind of clothes they wore during the famous "base period." But they are buying elsewhere, paying $8.50 for skirts in shops just opening; that have no "base period," or in big stores with higher "ceilings" upheld by more costly lines. The sport skirts Effie used to sell at $4, the very same brand, can be sold legally by Ye Smart Shoppe at higher prices than they'd dare name if Effie was still a competitor. But Effie is out. She has lost her skirt business and her suit line is just ready to die the same death. She is not alone either. She has shopped around a bit and found dealers in other lines tangled up in the same red tape. Choking competition does not help Mr. and Mrs. Consumer. Effie's prices have not advanced, neither are her competitors' prices higher, but the cost of living climbs just the same. Price Administrator Bowles has called quality deterioration a national scandal, and I believe he has something there — but there are indications that the fault may be with regulations which we are glad to believe OPA is taking steps to correct. Pioneer Of Orange Passes Miss Lena A. Crote died Saturday, July 9, at her home on North Harvard Street in Orange. She was 65 years old at her death and was a member of a pioneer family, born in that city and spent her life there. She was a lifelong member of the St. John's Lutheran Church and was active in the church work. Surviving her are three sisters; Miss Minnie Grote and Mrs. Alfred Huhn of Orange, and Mrs. C. O. Heim of Olive; one brother, F. A. Grote of San Francisco, four nephews and four nieces. Funeral service were held Wednesday afternoon and interment was in St. John’s cemetery. In the season starting last November, Florida canners had, by the first of June, used over 20 million boxes of grapefruit compared to a little over 17 million by this date last year. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Extracts from files of The Gazette Issued a Half Century and a Quarter Century ago. These files contain the only Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 Years Ago July 17, 1919 Walnut growers are looking forward this season to one of the largest crops ever harvested, here. Trees are loaded and the nuts have now reached such size that no fear of dropping is had because of climatic conditions. Old weather prophets are inclined to believe the peak has been reached in the hot weather line. The recent warm temperature no doubt has been felt more keenly on account of scant rainfall this season, but there has been no damage—in fact the warmth has been of benefit to growing crops, where there is irrigation. Growers look for good prices and altogether the walnut men are feeling fine. According to reports from the large fruit centers all canneries are working full blast and sending out a general call for more help. Hundreds of women and girls are making good money during the summer vacation period. The standard of wages is higher this year than formerly which is also attractive. 50 Years Ago July 9, 1894 Only a few orange growers attended the meeting of county growers held at the oper-house on Tuesday, yet a volume of very interesting business was transacted. Mr. Rogers called the meeting to order and said that it was desired to get an expression of their views as to the success of the method of handling the crop the past season, and the necessity for further conserted action in the future. Mr. Cargill was elected chairman and Mr. McKinley secretary. The Placentia association was represented by Messrs. McFadden, Ross Crowther, Pendelton and Staley; Brookshurst, Mr. Cargill; Santiago, Messrs. Hamilton, Paramore and Koerting; Anaheim, Messrs. Rimpau, Rodgers, Rust, Meredith and McKinley. All were heartily in favor of organization of the growers and agreed that there would be no success without it. Messrs. Rust, Cargill and Ross of Fullerton, were appointed a committee to investigate the question of the disposition of culls, with a view to making wine of them to report. A WAR THAT NEVER ENDS With more than 500 people in California working for federal, state, and county, university and other individual agencies on citrus insect pests and their control—why does the Exchange need a Pest Control Bureau? That seemed like a good question to your reporter, and the best man to answer it, R. S. Woglum, entomologist, and head of the Bureau since it was started 24 years ago. "Best way to understand why we're here is to know what we do," said Mr. Woglum. The Bureau was established by the Exchange in 1920, when a sooty blanket from extreme black scale covered the fruit and foliage of orchards from Alhambra into San Bernardino County. In licking that problem—a several years' fight—came experience which laid the foundation for most of the control methods now used. The value of the Bureau, in collaborating with the other Pest Control agencies in the field, particularly in applying their discoveries to the day-by-day work in the groves, was so apparent that it has been maintained by the Exchange continuously since that time. This work contributes to higher production and better quality fruit, which means better returns to growers. But the Bureau helps solve problems even more directly related to sales. One day, a few years back, when the Pacific Ocean was still pacific, a cable came into the Exchange from Honolulu. 1500 boxes of Exchange fruit were held on the docks and refused entrance because of bean thrip infestation. This was serious. Hawaii was a good market and every day's delay costly. Woglum and his men pushed several methods of eradication simultaneously. In less than two weeks' time they had perfected a technique of fumigating the fruit right in the refrigerator cars. Business with Hawaii was resumed with hardly a sailing missed. An important market was saved! Right now, labor shortage is a real problem in Pest Control work. So the Exchange Bureau, whose principle is always "first things first," is working on that. They've been testing mechanical "pull-overs" for fumigation tents. Also an automatic spraying device to speed up spraying with fewer men. According to reports from the large fruit centers all canneries are working full blast and sending out a general call for more help. Hundreds of women and girls are making good money during the summer vacation period. The standard of wages is higher this year than formerly which is also attractive. New officers were installed by Anaheim Encampment No. 105, I.O.O.F., Friday evening. J. S. Howard, D.D.G. Patriarch being the installing officer. The officers installed are: U. S. Lemon, Chief Patriarch; A. Reubens, High Priest; Chas. Fay, S. W.; Henry Mang, J. W.; F. S. Gates, Scribe; Oliver Hill, Treasurer; Irving Gates, Guide; C. C. Sheeby, First Watch; George Schanck, Second Watch; Dan Naugh, Third Watch; George Richardson, Fourth Watch; B. V. Beebe and H. Meiser, guards of the tent. L. W. Bushard is quite seriously ill at the sanitarium, having undergone a surgical operation for one of the kidneys on Thursday last. Mr. Bushard is resting easy and his many friends indulge the hope that he will soon be on the road to recovery. A number of friends went down to Laguna Sunday to visit John Cook and family who are spending some weeks at their cottage. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Houts, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Martenet, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Staples and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Irvine. Falkenstein's big semi-annual sale is on this week, and the ladies are offered some rare bargains. In these days of high prices genuine bargains in first-class, up-to-date goods are a godsend to the ladies and mighty popular among them. Garvy Cravath, one of Orange county's famous ball players, has been appointed manager of the Philadelphia Nationals. Home Run Cravath is getting old but is still batting around 350. The big guns at Fort McArthur were plainly heard in Anaheim Tuesday. Twelve shots were fired at an advancing fleet of derelicts at a distance of 5½ miles, nine of them being hits. Some shooting. L. E. Miller and son, Edwin, went down to San Diego last where there is irrigation. Growers look for good prices and altogether the walnut men are feeling fine. According to reports from the large fruit centers all canneries are working full blast and sending out a general call for more help. Hundreds of women and girls are making good money during the summer vacation period. The standard of wages is higher this year than formerly which is also attractive. New officers were installed by Anaheim Encampment No. 105, I.O.O.F., Friday evening. J. S. Howard, D.D.G. Patriarch being the installing officer. The officers installed are: U. S. Lemon, Chief Patriarch; A. Reubens, High Priest; Chas. Fay, S.W.; Henry Mang, J.W.; F.S.Gates, Scribe; Oliver Hill, Treasurer; Irving Gates, Guide; C.C.Sheeby, First Watch; George Schanck, Second Watch; Dan Naugh, Third Watch; George Richardson, Fourth Watch; B.V.Beebe and H.Meiser, guards of the tent. L.W.Bushard is quite seriously ill at the sanitarium, having undergone a surgical operation for one of the kidneys on Thursday last. Mr.Bushard is resting easy and his many friends indulge the hope that he will soon be on the road to recovery. A number of friends went down to Laguna Sunday to visit John Cook and family who are spending some weeks at their cottage. In the party were Mr. and Mrs.W.H.Houts,Mr.Mandres,Mrs.OscarStaplesandMr.MandresBenIrvine. Falkenstein's big semi-annual sale is on this week, and the ladies are offered some rare bargains.In these days of high prices genuine bargains in first-class.up-to-date goods are a godsend to the ladies and mighty popular among them. Garvy Cravath, one of Orange county's famous ball players, has been appointed manager of the Philadelphia Nationals.Home Run Cravath is getting old but is still batting around 350. The big guns at Fort McArthur were plainly heard in Anaheim Tuesday.Twelve shots were fired at an advancing fleet of derelicts at a distance of 5½ miles,nine of them being hits.Some shooting. L.E.MillerandsonEdwinwentdownSanDiegolastwherethereisirrigation.Growerslookforgoodpricesandaltogetherthewalnutmenarefeelingfine. Accordingtoreportsfromthelargefruitcentersallcanneriesareworkingfullblastandsend ingoutageneralcallformorehelp.Hundredsofwomenandgirlsaremakinggoodmoneyduringthesummer Vacationperiod.Thestandardofwagesishigherthisyearthanformerlywhichisalsoattractive. NewofficerswereinstalledbyAnaheimEncampmentNo.105.I.O.O.F.,Fridayevening.J.S.Howard,D.D.G.Patriarchbeingtheinstallingofficer.Theofficersinstalledare:U.S.Lemon,CheibersHighPriest;Chas.Fay,S.W.;HenryMangJ.W.;F.S.Gates,ScribeOliverHill,Treasurer;IrvingGates,GuideC.C.SheebyFirstWatch;GeorgeSchanckSecondWatch;DanNaughThirdWatch;GeorgeRichardsonFourthWatch;B.V.BeebeandH.Meiserguardsofthetent. L.W.Bushardisquiteseriouslyillatthesitarium,havingundergonea SurgicaloperationforoneofthedidneysonthedaybydayworkinthergroveswassoapparentthatithasbeenmaintainedbytheExchangecontinuouslysincethattimeThisworkcontributestohigherproductionandbetterqualityfruitwhichmeansbetterreturnstogrowersButtheBureauhelpssolveproblemsevenmoredirectlyrelatedtosales. Oneday,a few yearsbackwhenthePacificOceanwasstillpacific,a cablecameintotheExchangefromHonolulu1500boxesofExchangefruitwereheldonthedocksandrefusedentrancebecauseofbeanthripinfestation. Thiswasserious.Hawaiiwasagoodmarketandeveryday'sdelaycostly.WoglumandhismenpushsedeverthelessInlessthantwoweks'timetheyhadperfectedatechniqueoffumigatingthefruitrightintherefrigeratorcars.BusinesswithHawaiiwasresumedwithhardlyasailingmissed.Animportantmarketwassaved! Rightnow.laborshortageisarealprobleminPestControlwork.SotheExchangeBureauwhoseprincipleisalways“firstthingsfirst,”isworkingonthatThey'vebeentestingmechanical“pull-overs”forfumigationtents.Alsoanautomaticsprayingdevicet Speedupsprayingwithfewermen。 Right now, labor shortage is a real problem in Pest Control work. So the Exchange Bureau, whose principle is always "first things first," is working on that. They've been testing mechanical "pull-overs" for fumigation tents. Also an automatic spraying device to speed up spraying with fewer men. As Mr. Woglum puts it, "Basically our job is to protect the quality and appearance of our fruit, and to encourage those methods which assure the highest production. That's why we're here." Expert Pest Control is another exclusive Exchange service designed to help sell more fruit at better prices—a service which has benefited its members and all citrus growers more than can ever be estimated. Isn't this work, together with the many other sales building activities of the Exchange, worthy of your support? If you believe so—join the Exchange. P.S. The Exchange Pest Control Bureau publishes a monthly bulletin telling what pests are likely to appear and the best method of control, as well as other timely information. Your reporter is authorized to offer it FREE to all citrus growers. If you are not receiving it, write for it care Pest Control Bureau, California Fruit Growers Exchange, Sunkist Building, Los Angeles, 55, Calif. NEXT REPORT—In this paper two weeks from today. The big guns at Fort McArthur were plainly heard in Anaheim Tuesday. Twelve shots were fired at an advancing fleet of derelicts at a distance of 5½ miles, nine of them being hits. Some shooting. L. E. Miller and son, Edwin, went down to San Diego last week. Mr. Miller is taking his summer vacation. George Kemp is taking his place in the Nagel Hardware store. Al V. Smith, a pioneer resident of this section, dropped dead at his home at Fullerton Monday morning. Heart disease was the cause. Mr. Smith was the son of W. J. Smith, the family coming here fifty years ago settling on a ranch off Orangethorpe avenue. He leaves a widow, three sons and a stepson. Mr. and Mrs. E. Zitzmann and daughter, Wilhelmine, and Mr. and Mrs. McCann motored down to San Diego the latter part of the week. A new church has been built by the German Methodists on the corner of Palm and Elm streets, costing $2,500. Frank Dyer is taking his annual vacation at Anaheim Landing. Fred Minyard has returned from a fishing and camping trip to Big Bear. Oliver Hill who fell from a ladder while picking apricots at his home several weeks ago is recovering from a badly sprained back. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crist entertained a select number of their friends at progressive hearts, in their new home on Broadway, the evening being in honor of the fifth anniversary of their marriage, on Monday evening. The time was most enjoyably spent and at a late hour the guests departed, wishing the worthy couple many happy returns of the day. The first prizes were won by Mrs. Merritt and Dr. Perdomo and the booby's by Mrs. Perdomo and Charles Kuchel. Stuart Cargill celebrated his seventeenth birthday by giving a tennis party to his young friends at Brookshurst yesterday. Henry Neill and C. P. Deyoe were over from Santa Ana Tuesday arranging for the coming Democratic primaries. Stern Bros. Shipped 75 tons of corn from Santa Ana during the week, 75 tons from Anaheim and 25 tons from Norwalk. Mons. Mouliot left with his family this week for his old home in France to be gone for a year or more. Mons. Mouliot has recently disposed of his land near Northam station to wealthy easterners. We wish him bon voyage and a safe return. Jacob Walton of Westminster has been elected a director to represent Orange county on the board of Dairyman's association of Southern California. Mr. Darling brought back some beautiful specimens of crystal rock and gold-bearing quartz from his mine in the desert. Victor Montgomery of Santa Ana is prominently mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for Supreme Judge. Miss Maud Durbin, of Madame Modjeska's company of artists, has been the guest during the week of Mrs. Bullard. Col. Tuffree of the Rancho Buena Vista is in San Francisco on a business trip. Mrs. Horr and Miss Foster are at Long Beach attending the chautauqua. Stough and Walker and the City Stables have put up new signs. Total military and lend-lease allocations of food produced in the U.S. in 1944 will still leave 75 percent of the nation's production available for civilian use. National railway shipments of citrus fruits in April, May and June are estimated at 12 percent above those of a year ago and in the Pacific Coast area the estimated increase is over 20 percent. Shipments of California lemons in the seven months ending with May exceeded 12,000 carloads, the greatest volume for this period in the history of the industry according to the California Fruit Growers Exchange which handles more than 85 percent of the crop. June shipments of lemons from California exceeded 1,300,000 boxes and were 18 per cent greater than in June of 1943, according to the California Fruit Growers Exchange. HARD HITTERS ON THE HOME FRONT Union Pacific's hard-hitting maintenance crews are striking blows for victory by keeping the steel highway open. They are buying bonds, growing victory gardens, and in other ways helping to win the war. Union Pacific's hard-hitting maintenance crews are striking blows for victory by keeping the steel highway open. 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