anaheim-gazette 1944-11-23

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! (Continued From Page 1) sure as the world! Personally I'd like to see some bright lights at night instead of coming down town at 9:00 o'clock to find all the doors locked and the sidewalks deserted. If anybody thinks Anaheim is fast they just ought to spend an evening in San Juan Capistrano! You may have been led to believe, through publicity propaganda, that the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), and the government at a profit-making price. On top of doing all its own printing the government prints and sells envelopes in competition with privately owned printing plants. Their biggest customers are the private enterprise advocates who do not want the government to get into their own particular line of business. So it all depends on whose ox is being gored. After all these years the printers have about decided that it is all right for the government to own its own printing plant, which incidently, is the largest printing establishment in the world. We no longer fuss because the government sells envelopes, including the printing, to our customers at prices we cannot meet. If there ever was anything wrong about it the printers have become reconciled. I don't know just how our industry rates now but a few years ago it was the sixth largest industry in the United States, and this without doing any of the government's work and with the government as IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Extracts from files of The Quarter Century ago. The History in Print of the I and Orange County in th 25 Years Ago November 27—1919 If the members of the American Legion throughout the States believe as member Anaheim Post do, that body is going to be a force for law and order, for good citizenship, and Americanism. The boys are compromisingly opposed to archism. I.W.W.ism and agnostics are strongly in favor of a halt on Japanese immigration. They endorse heartilyator Hiram Johnson's attitude toward the Japanese question and favor of an Asiatic Exclusion. At the last meeting of the resolutions committee proposed of F. C. Van Pathe La Habra, Arthur Shipke or field, Earl Crist of Arnge George Oertley of Garden and Walter F. Brashear of Linda introduced a set ofitions embodying the four policies. Turkeys were selling in heim yesterday at sixty o'pound. At that price a full bronze gobbler would bring what's the use of figurine demned total. We are eating ter today. Golden dollars will have You may have been led to believe, through publicity propaganda, that the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), and the A. F. of L. (American Federation of Labor), are made up of bomb throwers who are out to wreck business and industry. Many people seem to jump at that conclusion without stopping to think that the membership of those organizations includes practically all of their own neighbors, men and women who work for a living. The leaders of those organizations are, to say the least, able men who have proved themselves to be smart enough to cope with any other group or situation that may arise affecting labor. That they are responsible and representative citizens is indicated by the fact that the churches have virtually joined hands with the labor movement in an effort to lend influence in the post-war plans to assure jobs and maintain living wages. Fortunately this alliance was not injected into the recent political campaign, but in the first part of October, under the auspices of the National Religion and Labor Foundation, a meeting was held in Pittsburgh to deal with post-war labor problems. Two hundred and twenty-five delegates, representing the CIO, the A. F. of L., important staff members from the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths, the YMCA, the Cooperative movement, the National Council for a Permanent FEPC; and two industrial representatives attended the sessions. It was a meeting without precedent in American life and indicates that both the church and labor must meet on a common ground if either is to be permanently successful. Most working people have some church connection and the hope in their religious belief is that it may be of some comfort to them while they still inhabit the earth; and the church must know that it cannot expect much religious fervor from the masses if their only hope in this land of plenty is recurring depressions, unemployment and breadlines. It may be that civilization has at last set in, and if so, it may even be possible to end wars—after we finish the present one. Printing plant, which incidently, is the largest printing establishment in the world. We no longer fuss because the government sells envelopes, including the printing, to our customers at prices we cannot meet. If there ever was anything wrong about it the printers have become reconciled. I don't know just how our industry rates now but a few years ago it was the sixth largest industry in the United States, and this without doing any of the government's work and with the government as a competitor. With that record, dating back 83 years when the government installed its own printing plant, it doesn't look as though other lines of private enterprise had much to fear from federal competition in business. They say that women in business become more greedy than men, which seems to be borne out in a statement from OPA that a brassiere factory operated by a Los Angeles woman has been closed because she made exorbitant charges for "special fittings." No man would be greedy enough to overcharge for that kind of service. Dynamic little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who handles the big job of acting as mayor of New York City with dispatch and efficiency, may get a bigger job with the federal government, according to rumors. He may have something to do with rehabilitating the country of his forebears, which might be a good spot for him. I remember once when he and his party had an adjoining table in the senate dining room in the capitol building at Washington, LaGuardia was so interrupted by visitors that he was unable to finish his lunch. Men and women, apparently from everywhere, kept him on his feet continually. He was easily the most popular figure in the place, maybe to the chagrin of some of the illustrious senators. Two women picked up the same strange man one day last week in Los Angeles and went to hotel rooms with him and in each case they were murdered and butchered. The fact that the man was undoubtedly a maniac is more or less beside the point. The women were out to pick up a man, any man, and go to a room with him. Both were married women on the loose, picking up strange men in barrooms for afternoon "dates." Some such occurance as that hap- and Walter F. Brashear of Linda introduced a set of relations embodying the four policies. Turkeys were selling in heim yesterday at sixty o'clock. At that price a full bronze gobbler would bring what's the use of figurine demned total. We are eating ter today. Golden dollars will have into Orange county at the of $1,250,000 per month from citrus industry alone where last shipments for the year completed and financial are received. The grand tour be close to $15,000,000. Theern Orange county Fruit change will handle about 2000 of that amount and Orange County Fruit embracing that portion of county lying south and east Santa Ana river, and in the Garden Grove district have returns of about $5. It is estimated that independent shippers will handle about per cent of the yield, or $3,900 enough to call it an even 000,000. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. gave a dinner Sunday in of the 85th birthday of P. T. Adams of Tustin, of Mr. Adams. Captain Adam one of the early settlers of county, and is hale and notwithstanding his advance. Plans are being considerthe owners of the Mitchell ing, corner of Los Angle Center streets, for the erea third story to the build add 30 more rooms and mentions to the Antlers hotel. Arthur McAuley has decided quit the merchantile busi-try ranching. For the past years he has been employed the S.Q.R. store where he is head of the shoe department But he has recently purchased ten-acre ranch at Brookhill will devote his attention to ing oranges hereafter. The grammar school have taken out permits two new buildings now construction. Central school cost $76,000 and the W building $27,000. Chispa chapter O.E.S., in new officers: Monday even follows: Worthy Matron El-surun; Worthy Patron, E.M. Water seeks its level, or birds of a feather flock together, or something, according to a report that "pests" broke into the Orange Pest Control association office the other night. They must have come under control as nothing was taken after they had cut the screen and broken a window to gain admittance. We hear a lot of talk about the government being in business, which is called "socialized" industry. Private enterprise fears any encroachment by the government into the field of business. There are several instances of socialized service, operated by the government, that are apparently satisfactory with everybody, the United States mail service, for instance. I remember when parcel post was added to the service of the postal department there was a lot of objection, but now it is taken for granted. As long as I can remember we printers have been kicking about the government being in the printing business on the theory that as private enterprise we should do that work for the government. Two women picked up the same strange man one day last week in Los Angeles and went to hotel rooms with him and in each case they were murdered and butchered. The fact that the man was undoubtedly a maniac is more or less beside the point. The women were out to pick up a man, any man, and go to a room with him. Both were married women on the loose, picking up strange men in barrooms for afternoon "dates." Some such occurance as that happens almost every day in the Los Angeles area but nothing stops the women from plying the oldest trade in the world. License and segregation probably had its sorridness but a much worse condition is now condoned by those who drove that business out onto the street, into all public places and even into the homes. Instead of being confined to an area it is now everywhere and there are no social outcasts any more. There isn't anything much to do about a situation that has existed since the creation, according to Biblical history. But it does look like the girls would learn to keep themselves out of the kind of a jam the two Los Angeles women got into last week—however I am not trying to solve a problem that a lot of people seem to think has already been solved. Every Thursday Night NATIONAL EDITORIAL HOUR and JACK REGAN KVOE (1490) 8:00 P.M. 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 November 27—1919 If the members of the American Legion throughout the United States believe as members of Anaheim Post do, that body is going to be a force for law and order, for good citizenship, and for americanism. The boys are unpromisingly opposed to anarchism. I.W.W.ism and agitators are strongly in favor of calling a halt on Japanese immigration. They endorse heartily Senior Hiram Johnson's attitude in the Japanese question and are in favor of an Asiatic Exclusion law. At the last meeting of the post resolutions committee composed of F. C. Van Patten of Anaheim yesterday at sixty cents a pound. At that price a full grown bronze gobbler would bring—oh, that's the use of figuring the emned total. We are eating rooster today. Turkeys were selling in Anaheim yesterday at sixty cents a pound. At that price a full grown bronze gobbler would bring—oh, that's the use of figuring the emned total. We are eating rooster today. Golden dollars will have rolled into Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 50 Years Ago November 29—1894 At the meeting of the City Trustees on Thursday evening the opening of the bids for the construction of an electric light plant was the principal business before the board. A number of citizens were present at the meeting besides a number of representatives of companies who had handed in bids for the work. Bids were received from a number of companies, the three lowest were those of the General Electric company represented by Griffes and Summer, $6,635; the Baker Iron Works, including an Ideal engine, $6,712; the Machinery Supply company, $6,875. The Board met last evening to go through the formality of awarding the contract, and the bid of the General Electric company by Griffes and Summer, being the lowest as well as their machinery being fully the equal of the other companies bidding the contract was awarded them. The work of putting in the lights will be actively begun and probably during the month of January we shall have the gratification of seeing the city bathed in electric illumination. The committee on Public Improvement reported the laying of the culvert on Lemon street, at participating. Four young ladies acted as pallbearers and the junior class of the high school, of which she was a member, attended in a body. Miss Esther was sixteen years of age and was greatly beloved in her wide circle of friends. Her untimely death is sincerely mourned. She was buried in Anaheim cemetery. Mrs. M. C. G. Goff and children are spending Thanksgiving with friends in Santa Barbara. Fellings orchestra is to give a dance at Olinda tonight. Today men are observing the 130th Thanksgiving Day established by an act of Congress. The first presidential proclamation fixing the date was issued by George Washington in 1789. (More 25 Years Ago) Don David and Prudencio Yorba, and was connected by family and marriage ties with some of the oldest and best families of southern California. Deceased was the relict of Don Prudencio Yorba who died ten years ago in San Francisco. His body was brought to Anaheim and taken to Yorba for burial, arriving here the Fourth of July when the street had been arched for the day's celebration. A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Ralph Hunter of this city and Miss Meta Polhemus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Polhemus of Miraflores. Mrs. Peter Herring dropped dead at her home on Los Angeles street while preparing the table for lunch at 1 o'clock on Tuesday. Mrs. Herring was aged 67 years. Remains will be interred this morning. The tramp crop is plentiful, and they are coming to town mostly in rags, sans velvet gowns. Turkeys were selling in Anaheim yesterday at sixty cents a pound. At that price a full grown bronze gobbler would bring—oh, that's the use of figuring the combined total. We are eating roosier today. Golden dollars will have rolled into Orange county at the rate of $1,250,000 per month from the citrus industry alone when the last shipments for the year are completed and financial returns are received. The grand total will be close to $15,000,000. The northern Orange county Fruit Exchange will handle about $6,000,-100 of that amount and the orange County Fruit Exchange, embracing that portion of the county lying south and east of the Santa Ana river, and including the Garden Grove district will have returns of about $5,550,000. It is estimated that independent shippers will handle about 30 percent of the yield, or $3,450,000, enough to call it an even $15,-100,000. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Adams have a dinner Sunday in honor of the 85th birthday of Capt. T. Adams of Tustin, father of Mr. Adams. Captain Adams was one of the early settlers of Orange county, and is hale and hearty notwithstanding his advanced age. Plans are being considered by the owners of the Mitchell building, corner of Los Angeles and Center streets, for the erection of a third story to the building to add 30 more rooms and apartments to the Antlers hotel. Arthur McAuley has decided to quit the merchantile business and dry ranching. For the past ten years he has been employed at the S.Q.R. store where he was at the head of the shoe department. But he has recently purchased a ten-acre ranch at Brookhurst and will devote his attention to growing oranges hereafter. The grammar school trustees have taken out permits for two new buildings now under construction. Central school is to cost $76,000 and the Westside building $27,000. Chispa chapter O.E.S., installed new officers Monday evening as follows: Worthy Matron Elise Jesurun; Worthy Patron, E. H. Metcalfe; Secretary of War. eral Electric company by Griffes and Summer, being the lowest as well as their machinery being fully the equal of the other companies bidding the contract was awarded them. The work of putting in the lights will be actively begun and probably during the month of January we shall have the gratification of seeing the city bathed in electric illumination. The committee on Public Improvement reported the laying of the culvert on Lemon street, at the intersection of Center, also the laying of the water main on Hedwig street, and the making of a pipe connection at the residence of Dr. Perdomo. A petition was presented signed by a number of residents in the neighborhood of the place of R. A. Remmick on East Broadway, complaining of a nuisance in the form of a lot of pigs being kept by him, which are said to be a detriment to the health and comfort of the neighborhood. The marshal was instructed to investigate the matter, in conjunction with Trustee Lewis, with power to act. One of the most interesting social events that has taken place in Placentia in a long time was the marriage on the 21st inst. at the residence of the bride's parents, of Miss Josie Wagner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wagner, to Mr. William Berkenstock of El Modena. Miss Wagner was born and raised in Placentia, and Mr. Berkenstock has lived here for several years. Both are general favorites. Rev. Holcomb officiated and after the ceremony the guests were invited to the wedding feast, which included all the delicacies that the epicure could desire. The Rev. Holcomb proved to equally at home with a carving knife slicing the fat turkey as in tying nuptial knots. Mr. and Mrs. Berkenstock took the evening train to San Diego for their honeymoon. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. Wagner of Fullerton, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith of El Modena, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McFadden, Mr. and Mrs. D. Hetebrink, Rev. Holcomb and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stone, Mr. Arthur Staley, Mrs. Theo. Staley, Miss Staley, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Strobel and Mrs. Abbie Kraemer of Los Angeles, Mrs. Tuffree and Misses Tuffree, Miss Jane Strain, Miss Sadie Crowther, Misses Hansen, Miss Carrie Edwardson, Misses Robison and Mrs. Warling of Anaheim, Mrs. Rorden, Mrs. D.Bastenchury of La Habra, Mr. Mrs. Peter Herring dropped dead at her home on Los Angeles street while preparing the table for lunch at 1 o'clock on Tuesday. Mrs. Herring was aged 67 years. Remains will be interred this morning. The tramp crop is plentiful, and they are coming to town mostly in rags, sans velvet gowns. Mr. John Hartung and son, Edgar, are in Los Angeles where they will spend Thanksgiving with Madame Chevalier. Thanksgiving Day! Let us all give thanks for the bountiful blessings that have been showered upon us during the year! The Gazette hopes that all of its readers may have aplenty of cranberry sauce for their turkey. Sana Fe Official Appointed Head of Employment Dept. CHICAGO—L. D. Comer, who has been connected with the Santa Fe Railway's personnel department for the past twenty years, has been appointed director of employment for the railroad, succeeding A. W. Motley, resigned, according to an announcement by G. H. Minchin, vice-president. His appointment comes at a time when the railroad is experiencing one of the most acute manpower shortages in its history, particularly on the west coast where nearly 2,000 additional workers are needed. He will have charge of recruiting and training new employees for these jobs, and will also develop plans for postwar employment standards and practices. NEW WAR BY-PRODUCT ALUMINUM CLOTHESPINS Clothespins made of surplus aluminum left over from production of war planes soon may adorn local clotheslines as result of "spot authority" granted by the War Production Board to a Los Angeles plant which plans to produce the pins as a sideline to their present military contracts. Shaped like a bobbie pin, the new product will be turned out in a variety of colors applied as a dye by the same "anodic" plating process used to corrosion-proof rivets and other small aircraft parts, according to plant officials. Production is expected to begin shortly as manpower is released by completion of certain war work Chispa chapter O.E.S., installed new officers Monday evening as follows: Worthy Matron Elise Jesurun; Worthy Patron, E. H. Metalf; Secretary Mrs. W. E. McCann; Treasurer Mrs. Margaret Mae; Conductors Mrs. J. P. Brasad; Associate Conductors Mrs. Dean Hasson; Adah, Mrs. S. R. Walter; Ruth, Mrs. E. S. Schuinacher; Esther, Mrs. Guy Daniels; Martha, Mrs. C. Pearson; Electra, Mrs. H. L. Sears; Chapain, Mrs. J. C. Calloway; Warden, Mrs. L. Fergus; Sentinel, Arthur Kemper. Brick work of the Theodore Roberts block is completed, the workmen now being engaged in constructing the cornice. Mr. and Mrs. D. Arnold Singleon who were married last Wednesday have gone to housekeeping on North Lemon street. Mrs. Isabella Hahn of Long Beach was in town last week visiting friends and looking after business interests. After an illness of six months Miss Esther Schmelzer, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Schmelzer died Wednesday. Funeral services were held Saturday, all the Lutheran ministers in the county. Modena, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McFadden, Mr. and Mrs. D. Hetebrink, Rev. Holcomb and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stone, Mr. Arthur Staley, Mrs. Theo. Staley, Miss Staley, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Strobel and Mrs. Abbie Kraemer of Los Angeles, Mrs. Tuffree and Misses Tuffree, Miss Jane Strain, Miss Sadie Crowther, Misses Hansen, Miss Carrie Edwardson, Misses Robison and Mrs. Warling of Anaheim, Mrs. Rorden, Mrs. D. Bastenchury of La Habra, Mr. Otto Anderson of El Modena, Will Chanty, Chas. Myrick, Catain Halpin, A. Wisser, Mrs. Klecker and others. Frank Porter has had a number of men and teams engaged in working on the road between this city and Fullerton and has made that thoroughfare about the best piece of road to be found in the county. Good roads are what we need and Frank is the man to construct them. At Mrs. Wallop's Tuesday evening Adele Mosseman was tendered a farewell party by a number of friends. She went to Los Angeles yesterday on the noon train to enter the Normal School. Oscar Luedke has returned home from a fourteen months' sojourn in Alaska. He returns greatly improved in health, and is glad to be home again. Mrs. Prudencio Yorba died at her home in Yorba on Saturday last, in the sixty-first year of her age. Mrs. Yorba was the mother of a large family, among them K-9 CORPS MEMBER SAVES UNIT A messenger dog, a K-9 Corps member on duty in the Southwest Pacific, recently carried a message more than a mile through enemy territory to warn a reconnaissance unit to withdraw from an area, the Ninth Service Command Quartermaster officer learned today. AT FIRST SIGN OF A COLD USE 666 Cold Preparations as directed Thursday, November 23, 1944 What does this day hold for him? Each day this war goes on, more Americans are killed. Each day this war goes on, the chances increase that one of them may be the man you love most. You can help shorten this war. If we put every ounce of energy and will into our job at home, victory can and will come sooner. No part of our job is more urgent, more vitally important, than buying War Bonds. Buy—buy more than ever before! Buy today and every day till this war is won! EACH DAY this war goes on, more Americans are killed. 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