anaheim-gazette 1944-11-23

Anaheim — "The City of Beautiful Parks" VOLUME LXXV A Legal Newspaper ANAHEIM We Rise to Remark by JAKE PROCTOR In and About "The Orange Capitol of the World" Look out men! Here's what it says in the classified column of a big city paper: "Is there really a husband shortage? Not for my students in the course of hypnotic suggestion." Be careful about letting yourself go into a swoon, men, you may wake up and find out that you've married the gal to get a measly 1-percent of the tax money for education and science. By comparison, the little country of Switzerland has no illiteracy, and no paupers. True, it has no billionaire class, as we have here, however their per capita wealth is greater than ours. All the people are educated, they are all assured of a comfortable living, because they all work, and every man is the social equal of his neighbor. And that happy situation is the result of education. First Frost Monday; Mercury Hits 32, Report No Damage Anaheimers who were up ahead of the sun Monday morning saw the first frost of the season, at least in certain parts of the city, although it was too light to cause any damage to growing vegetation. The mercury registered 38 at 6:00 a.m. Monday, six degrees above freezing, the cold coming down from the mountains to the north and east where heavy snows have occured during the past week. Unusually heavy early rains throughout southern California, augmented by the deep snows will replenish the underground water supply in all foot- Look out men! Here’s what it says in the classified column of a big city paper: “Is there really a husband shortage? Not for my students in the course of hypnotic suggestion.” Be careful about letting yourself go into a swoon, men, you may wake up and find out that you’ve married the gal and didn’t even know it. Remember, this is 1944! I guess my cigarette strike will turn out to be a flop. So far I haven’t heard from any of the smokers who want to join the strike so I’ll have to call it off. Maybe everybody is getting enough ready-made smokes to keep them going, even if they do have to waste a lot of time looking all over town for the “last package in the house.” OPA now says the shortage is due to shipping large quantities overseas, to more people smoking more than usual, and to hoarding, none of which sounds right to me. As soon as a price raise goes through there will be plenty of cigarettes on the market again. Maybe the manufacturers should have a raise in price, but if that’s what they’re after, why don’t they say so? Nobody would kick on a reasonable raise in the price of cigarettes, but millions of man-hours and woman-hours are being wasted by having to shop the whole town over to get a package or two of off-brand smokes. People are not hard to please when they’re told the truth about things, but they do hate to be made the goat when they think they know they’re being framed. During the heat of the election campaign my observation and opinion was that among all the newspaper men, Charles Vernon, publisher of the Yorba Linda Star, handled the situation in the most intelligent and sensible manner. He owns his own paper and can say what he pleases, but he refused to allow himself to be stamped into saying too much too soon. His editorial comment, “probably prejudiced,” as he says, was the best piece of journalism I had occasion to observe during those days of tension when too many people were figuratively tearing their shirts for no reason at all. We have made a lot of progress in this country since the last war, in spite of the fact that our ill- to get a measly 1-percent of the tax money for education and science. By comparison, the little country of Switzerland has no illiteracy, and no paupers. True, it has no billionaire class, as we have here, however their per capita wealth is greater than ours. All the people are educated, they are all assured of a comfortable living, because they all work, and every man is the social equal of his neighbor. And that happy situation is the result of education among the masses, and the further fact that every able-bodied man belongs to the standing army, which is one reason Switzerland keeps out of wars. Personally I don’t think we’re so danged smart after all. Will Rogers always said that all he knew was what he read in the papers. It so happens that all newspaper men know it what they learn from other people. That’s why I get around quite a bit and talk with Tom, Dick and Harry, especially if they are strangers. I talk with lots of service men from all branches of the service and if you want to know something, you can learn plenty from those boys. While we’re yipping about seeing to it that the service men all get their old joos back, which is a lot of loose talk in the first place, if you remember the last war, you can’t find one service man in a hundred who even wants his old job back. What those men want, and what they deserve, is a better job than they had before, and what’s more they mean to have it. This army doesn’t plan to make any tramp marches into Washington to demand a square deal, only to be herded around at the point of a bayonet, or maybe shot down as some of the World War No. 1 veterans were. They don’t plan to be pushed around by a lot of slickers who stayed at home and got rich while they were facing hot lead on the battle fields. You can look forward to a real New Deal when this army gets back home and starts taking charge of things. The word “can't” will have no meaning to the veterans of World War II, because they already know It Can Be Done. Two famous slogans of the William McKinley era, if you are old enough to remember that far back: “Another day, another dollar,” which was big money talk in those days, and, “Four more years full dinner pail,” used the day after a “favorable” election, because all industries had been closed down for two weeks before election date. The mercury registered 38 at 6:00 a.m. m Monday, six degrees above freezing, the cold coming down from the mountains to the north and east where heavy snows have occured during the past week. Unusually heavy early rains throughout southern California, augmented by the deep snows will replenish the underground water supply in all foothill and valley areas. Those who wish to spend the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays in the snow may do so at any of the mountain resorts above the 3,500-foot level, unless unseasonable warm weather should develop, which is not in prospect at this time. Anaheim Leads County In War Chest Fund Drive California War Chest, Inc., announced from Santa Ana headquarters that as of November 16, Orange county was over the top in the War Chest Fund drive with a total of $256,562, over-subscribing the goal of $235,615. Eight towns had failed to make their quotas at that time, however nine other towns over-subscribed enough to put the county well in the lead. Anaheim was one of the first cities in the county to reach its quota and led the entire county by over-subscribing its quota by 50 percent. The goal of $13,317 was passed early in the drive and the total subscribed to November 16 was $20,315. Advise Growers To Combat Brown Rot In Oranges, Lemons REDLANDS, CALIF. — Citrus growers should undertake measures immediately to prevent brown rot, particularly in navel orange and lemon groves, says Al Call, of the growers service department of Mutual Orange Distributors. These early rains presage a wet winter which will be favorable to the activities of the brown rot fungi. Just as soon as growers can get into We have made a lot of progress in this country since the last war, in spite of the fact that our illiteracy ratio is much too high. We sometimes get the idea that we are the smartest people in the world, but statistics do not prove this to be true. The fact is that we fight education harder than any nation on earth and any attempt to raise the educational standard is attacked from every angle by all taxpayers' groups, as well as individual taxpayers. We preach education for other countries but we fight it here at home. That may not sound right when you see so many fine school buildings in Southern California, but after all, this is a small area and educational standards have to be viewed from a nation-wide perspective. California has been spending $60 per year per pupil for education, which is $10 more than the average. A bill voted by the people in the recent election which will raise this annual expenditure to $80, was bitterly fought by all big business and taxpayers' associations, even though it is generally admitted that the hope for the future of the nation is more and better education among the masses. While we spend approximately 93 percent of all taxes for wars, past, present and future, it takes a continual fight Two famous slogans of the William McKinley era, if you are old enough to remember that far back: "Another day, another dollar," which was big money talk in those days, and, "Four more years full dinner pail," used the day after a "favorable" election, because all industries had been closed down for two weeks before election date, and everybody paid off and their jobs cancelled, subject to possible re-instatement "if the election goes right." That was before labor had any control over its own daily bread. Would you really want to "go back" to that sort of thing?—which is what a fair sized group has been maneuvering for. Somebody appears to be trying to make everybody else believe that Anaheim is a tough, rollicking town where sin is running rampant. They paint a picture of night life in Anaheim that would rival the balmy days of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco and "Hell's Half Acre," in Fort Worth. All of which is a lot of hooey, concocted by somebody who probably hasn't been down town later than 8:30 at night in the last 30 years and is drawing on his memory of the things he used to do when he was in the wild oat-sowing business. As a matter of fact Anaheim is the slowest-going, quietest, most demure town I have ever lived in, and that means either day or night. If the movie people ever find out about Anaheim they'll have us in a class with Pomona, (Continued on page 2) "In The Heart of the Valencia Orange District" ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1940 BUSINESS BUILDING SHORT Thirty-Five Vacant Buildings Occupied In Past Year; Inquiries Still Coming In Daily Since one year ago when Anaheim had an extra surplus of vacant business buildings, at least thirty-five of these vacancies on the two principal downtown streets alone have been occupied and inquiries for business locations are coming in almost daily, according to Ross Lee Laird, secretary-manager of the Chamber of Commerce. "Every new business that comes into Anaheim, although some are competitive, adds to the attractive as a home for the workers and plant owners. Our beautiful parks, excellent schools and fine churches, to say nothing of the unexcelled climate, appeal equally to the business man looking for a location for a store or East Center now houses the Anaheim Cabinet and Fixture company, and the vacant garage building at Center and Olive is occupied by Tex Middleton's auto agency, moved from another location. West from Los Angeles street, the room at 103 West Center is now occupied by a dress shop; the large vacant building at-123 to 131 West Center now houses the Mahaffey-Fitts Furniture company, moved here from a smaller loca- Since one year ago when Anaheim had an extra surplus of vacant business buildings, at least thirty-five of these vacancies on the two principal downtown streets alone have been occupied and inquiries for business locations are coming in almost daily, according to Ross Lee Laird, secretary-manager of the Chamber of Commerce. "Every new business that comes into Anaheim, although some are competitive, adds to the attractiveness of this city as a shopping center and every new business that comes will help those already located here," Secretary Laird said. "We have set out on a program of expansion and one of our first jobs is to fill up the vacant buildings that only a year ago were a 'wet blanket' on the business district," he said. "The Chamber of Commerce, however, is working on an overall program, and while the vacant business houses are being filled up we are striving to bring new industries with more and larger payrolls, so that we can feel sure that any new business locating here will be a successful business. If we can make every business in Anaheim a successful business, then we have really accomplished something" Laird said. Along this line he pointed out that during the past year several industrial plants already here have been enlarged and several new ones have been established. For instance, the Consolidated Vulture Aircraft company has installed its second large assembly plant here. The Caltone company is erecting a huge new citrus by-products plant in the northside industrial district, where the Essex Wire company, located a year and a half ago, are now employing 127 people. The Plastic Manufacturing and Supply Co., 232 S. Lemon street, with 18 employees, and a new citrus packing house by Scott & Greenwold, are some of the others. The most notable among the new industries that can be credited to the Chamber of Commerce this year is the General Electric company's huge plastics plant that will be built on a 12-acre site in the north side industrial district as soon as war conditions will permit. This plant alone will employ 250 to 300 men and women when the first unit is opened, and that number will probably be increased when later additions are made to plant. "It is expected that this first major industrial plant will be the nucleus around which a great tractive as a home for the workers and plant owners. Our beautiful parks, excellent schools and fine churches, to say nothing of the unexcelled climate, appeal equally to the business man looking for a location for a store or factory, and to those who will be employed in these new enterprises," Laird commented. After a casual survey Secretary Laird stated today that in his opinion every vacant building in Anaheim may be occupied by the end of the year, or by early spring at the latest. At this time it is impossible to construct additional buildings and if the present influx continues it will only be a matter of weeks or months until there will be an acute shortage of business rooms in the downtown district, as there has been for some time in the residential sections, he pointed out. On Center and Los Angeles streets alone, approximately 35 buildings that were vacant a year ago are now occupied with a wide variety of merchandise or service stores, and this business growth is in all directions. From Los Angeles street east on Center street, the two opposite corner rooms, 101 and 102 East Center, are now occupied by restaurants. The room at 113 East Center is now occupied by a Bible and church supply store; 115 East Center, a shoe repair shop; the two spaces at 117 East Center houses a do-nut shop and a clock shop; the vacant room at 131 East Center is now a refrigerator store and repair shop; the double store room at 142 East Center was remodeled for the Red Cross headquarters. East Center now houses the Anaheim Cabinet and Fixture company, and the vacant garage building at Center and Olive is occupied by Tex Middleton's auto agency, moved from another location. West from Los Angeles street, the room at 103 West Center is now occupied by a dress shop; the large vacant building at-123 to 131 West Center now houses the Mahaffey-Fitts Furniture company, moved here from a smaller location; at 129 West Center a new restaurant is being installed; the vacant room at 141 West Center now houses the USO headquarters; a new music store occupies the former vacant room at 157 West Center; Dr. C. O. Patterson moved his optical business to the vacant room at 163 West Center; 166 West Center has been occupied by Paula's Flower Shop; a new electrical shop is located at 338 West Center, and a new upholstering and furniture factory has occupied the large building at 504 West Center. On North Los Angeles street a new watch shop occupied the room at No. 129; 142 North Los Angeles is a new barber shop; 145 North Los Angeles now houses an upholstering shop; 212 North Los Angeles is now occupied by a new ambulance service, and the large corner building at Los Angeles and Cypress streets houses the Consolidated Vultee airplane assembly plant. South of Center street on Los Angeles, to Broadway, a vitamin store occupies the room at 106, moved from another location, which incidently is not for rent due to contemplated remodeling; a new shoe repair shop has occupied the room at 109 S. Los Angeles, and a photo shop has moved into the room at 117; The Pickwick Hotel grill has been reopened at 227 S. Los Angeles and a new garage now occupies the former vacant building at 224 South Los Angeles. This list does not account for possible new businesses that have been opened on various side streets or in outlying areas, of which there are several, but merely covers the close-in district on the two principal business streets. While there are still a few good business locations available, it can readily be seen by this trend within the past year, that business buildings may be at a premium here by early spring," Secretary Laird said as he opened another letter from an out-of-town party inquiring about locations for a new business in Anaheim. With plans already made for CITRUS should undertake measures particularly in naval lemon groves, says Al the growers service dept of Mutual Orange Disc These early rains pre- winter which will be to the activities of the fungi. soon as growers can the groves, they should copper Bordeaux, Call by are planning to fumish should use zinc Bordead of copper. The is not expensive, but sure growers against fruit. BABY BOY WILKERSONS Mrs. D. 'O. Wilkerson, Helena street, are reer the arrival of a baby boy, born at Fulmeral hospital Noveme young man tipped the pounds and two ounces al and has been named en. This is the second en to the Wilkersons, hinter, Carol Lee being and a half years of age. son is a popular mem-Anaheim police force. LIBRARY NOTICE of the few books pube to the shortage of delay in shipping, will be added on the month. PUBLIC ASKED TO HELP DOCTORS The necessity of everyone of us to cooperate with the medical profession in order to keep to a minimum the demands on our physicians is urged by Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Pointing out that about 1,500 physicians had died on the home front during the first six months of this year, Mr. McNutt said, "All over the nation our doctors are sacrificing themselves to help us do a magnificent job." He cited the day and night work, the extra travel and physical hardships facing doctors responding to the calls of increased numbers of people. FIGHT THE ENEMY Tuberculosis is the No. 1 disease killer among persons from 15 to 45 years of age. Christmas Seals make possible a year-round fight against this enemy of mankind. Buy and Use Christmas Seals When in need of job printing call the Anaheim Gazette, Phone 2206. "We'll be there in a minute." NEW SON ARRIVES Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dominguez of route 4, Anaheim, are the parents of a son born Saturday, November 18, at St. Joseph's hospital. The father is a Carpenter's Mate Third Class, in the U. S. Navy! RYAN AIR FIELD AT HEMET TO BE CLOSED According to the Hemet News the Ryan School of Aeronautics, an army air forces training field, is to be closed as of December 28, official notice to that effect having been received from Washington last week. Approximately 500 civilian employees will be affected by the closing of the school. SHORTAGE LOOMS C. of C. Banqueteers Hear Two Famous Industrialists at Annual Meeting Gazette Out Early For Thanksgiving The Gazette is being printed Wednesday night this week instead of Thursday, in order that the employees may enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, as others do. News items submitted for this issue will be carried next week. If not entirely out of date, The Gazette takes this occasion to thank its big family of readers, and its advertisers for their cooperation. About 275 members of the chamber of commerce, their wives and other guests, attended the annual meeting and banquet of that civic organization held last Thursday night at the main dining room of the Elks clubhouse. The annual affair, always a highlight of the fall social and club season, was pronounced one of the outstanding meetings of the year from the standpoint of speaking entertainment. Two famous west coast industrial leaders appeared on the program. Secretary-Manager Ross Lee Laird, acting as toastmaster, gave a quick resume of the activities of the chamber during the year and now houses the Anaheim and Fixture committee the vacant garage building center and Olive is occupied by Tex Middleton's auto moved from another location from Los Angeles street at 103 West Center is hired by a dress shop; the tenant building at-123 to 131 owner now houses the Mauls Furniture company, move from a smaller local 29 West Center a new office is being installed; the room at 141 West Center is the USO headquarters; music store occupies the vacant room at 157 West C. O. Patterson moved business to the vacant 183 West Center; 166 West has been occupied by Power Shop; a new elec. is located at 338 West and a new upholstering factory has occupied the building at 504 West North Los Angeles streetatch shop occupied the No. 129; 142 North Los Angeles now houses an ing shop; 212 North Los is now occupied by aillance service, and the owner building at Los An-Cypress streets houses isolated Vultee airplane plant. Center street on Los Broadway, a vitamin dispies the room at 106, room another location, evidently is not for rent contemplated remodeling; the repair shop has occu-room at 109 S. Los An photo shop has moved room at 117; The Pickel grill has been re-227 S. Los Angeles and storage now occupies the vacant building at 224 Angeles. does not account for new businesses that have needed on various side in outlying areas, of these are several, but mere-the close-in district on principal business streets. there are still a few good locations available, it can be seen by this trend in past year, that busi-ings may be at a prem-by early spring," Secrd said as he opened door from an out-of-town bring about locations for business in Anaheim. man already made for For Thanksgiving The Gazette is being printed Wednesday night this week instead of Thursday, in order that the employees may enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, as others do. News items submitted for this issue will be carried next week, if not entirely out of date. The Gazette takes this occasion to thank its big family of readers, and its advertisers for their cooperation during the year, and wishes for each one a happy Thanksgiving Day. Twenty-Two New Homes Occupied In NW Section Twenty-two new homes recently completed in the northwest portion of the city by the Economy Housing corporation, are now occupied by their owners and a section that only a few months ago was vacant land has been converted into a handsome residential district. It was on last June 12 that work was started on this group of 22 modern bungalows, so in less than half a year the vacant ground that formerly produced a weed crop each season is now occupied by 22 families and has the appearance of a settled community that adds much to the value of surrounding property. Col. William H. Evans of Yorba Linda heads the Economy Housing corporation of Long Beach, which has built several housing projects in that area. S. J. Wilson was superintendent of construction on the Anaheim project, which was completed in record time considering the difficulty of obtaining materials and priorities. This group of 22 new homes has relieved the housing shortage situation here to some extent, yet two or three hundred additional houses are badly needed at this time. The Chamber of Commerce is making an effort to get another allocation of defense houses for this city, according to Sec'y Ross Lee Laird, and if the request is granted this additional allotment may also be constructed by the Economy Housing corporation. Six Orange County Lawyers Named on Bar Committees The annual affair, always a highlight of the fall social and club season, was pronounced one of the outstanding meetings of the year from the standpoint of speaking entertainment. Two famous west coast industrial leaders appeared on the program. Secretary-Manager Ross Lee Laird, acting as toastmaster, gave a quick resume of the activities of the chamber during the year and in no uncertain terms admonished his hearers not to slacken their interest or support of their chamber of commerce at a time when real results are being obtained by the activities of the board and various committees. In his opening remarks, Secy. Laird paid tribute to H. G. Schmelzer, membership worker for the chamber of commerce, and to Miss Lillian Knutsen, office assistant for their faithful work. The membership is now at an all-time high. Music was furnished during the dinner hour by Bill Cook's orchestra. Of special interest to Anaheimers was the report of Vice President R. M. Alvord of the General Electric company which is soon to build a huge plastics plant on its 12-acre factory site in the northside industrial district. The plant is expected to be built as soon as materials and priorities can be secured, which may not be until after the war. The new General Electric plant, Mr. Alvord said, will employ between 250 and 300 men and women when the first unit is opened for production. Plastic parts for many of the appliances made by the company will be manufactured here, he said. In locating the plant here the company was influenced by the close cooperation given them by the chamber of commerce and city officials, as well as by the splendid home environment for the office and plant personnel, he indicated. The speaker sketched the history of the General Electric company since its organization 1892, and its growth during the years which has resulted in establishing manufacturing plants throughout the country. Equally as interesting was the address by Vice President Verne Orr of the Chrysler Corporation of California, who brought a hopeful message on the post-war outlook for the entire Pacific coast, with special reference to Southern California and Orange county. In his opinion new automobiles may be manufactured for the public Six Orange County Lawyers Named on Bar Committees Additional state-wide committees to carry on work to improve the administration of justice and help in the war work of the State Bar of California were announced today by President M. B. Wellington, on behalf of the Board of Governors. Local administrative committees appointed or reappointed, for Orange county are: Comimtee No. 2: Ira Kroese, chairman and assistant secretary, Gordon X. Richmond, Roland Thompson; Comimtee No. 3: Fred Forgy, chairman, Otto A. Jacobs, James B. Tucker. All are from Santa Ana with the exception of Mr. Richmond who is from Orange. THE QM CORPS HAS A NAME FOR IT! Osnaburg is the name of a course woven cotton material which the Army is utilizing now instead of burlap in packing goods for shipment, the Ninth Service Command Quartermaster explained today at Fort Douglas, Utah, command headquarters. The material is more resistant to wear and tear and is more readily obtainable than burlap, which is on the critical shortage material list. Equally as interesting was the address by Vice President Verne Orr of the Chrysler Corporation of California, who brought a hopeful message on the post-war outlook for the entire Pacific coast, with special reference to Southern California and Orange county. In his opinion new automobiles may be manufactured for the public within a few months after Germany is knocked out of the war, but his statements along this line were indefinite. He called attention to California's leadership in many instances and the progress now being made along industrial lines. California leads all states in the number of motor vehicles with 2,750,000 cars on the road, which is a half-million more than the nearest competitor, the state of New York. He also said that California leads in Diesel trucks, having more of this type of vehicle than all the other 47 states combined. The Los Angeles Chrysler factory is now making Sperry Gyroscopic compasses for the army, as well as turning out 9,000,000 45-calibre bullets per day. Please phone your local, society or personal news items to The Gazette. Call 2206.