anaheim-gazette 1946-01-24

COLONY QUIPS Here we are well past the middle of the first month of 1948, a year that looked full of hope, full of the better things of life for the average American (including the GI). People having some money in their pockets to spend which is equivalent to saying that the long term economic outlook is good. The picture looked rosy indeed with the sun of prosperity looming over the horizon. It still looks good but a long period of slack production when there is no take-home pay coming in can soon use up much of the savings and throw "old man prosperity" into an eclipse. We hope not, believe not, but it could be. This year will be what we, the people, make it. Anaheim's building bottleneck got quite a "sock" the first part of the month the total permits light was very "warming" to those who have been caught in housing shortage. To the middle of the month they total permits amounted to $185,500.00. Of this amount new residences totaled $100,600.00; packing house enlargements went $40,000.00 and new store buildings stood at $16,-000.00. This is a good start and we hope nothing happens to slow things up. Keep your fingers crossed. Way back there in the '60s a couple of uncles rode down here on horseback from San Francisco in ten days and the trip was considered as something of an achievement—it was. El Camino FIRST AMONG "MAYOR" ANAH VOLUME LXXV ANAH Driver Held In Death of Auto Victim Following arraignment before Judge Frank Tausch in city court here Monday morning, Walter William Alden, Jr., 534 Monte Vista avenue, Azusa, was released on $5000 bond, to appear at 9:30 a.m., tomorrow for preliminary hearing on a charge of driving a car while intoxicated and becoming involved in an accident. Alden is alleged to have been the driver of an automobile which struck and fatally injured John J. Sulivan, 71 years old, near his home, 896 South Los Angeles street, Sunday night. An open verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest Monday afternoon at the Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary here. DED IN AMBULANCE Reports indicate that the aged man was crossing Los Angeles street at Vermont avenue when Officer Goes for A Ride; Has to Push Auto Back Police Officer Rude not had to walk back from an automobile ride Sunday night had to push his automobile well. Responding to a complaint that a former husband had peared at his ex-wife's hand and had displayed a .45 caliber pistol to her and a man car with the threat, "Be careful could get tough," Rude talking with the woman, waving the former husband ran the back door. Hurrying to police car he had left park in the rear of the dwelling Rude found parts had been moved, and the engine would start. He had to push the automobile several blocks to the lice station. A man, said to have been woman's former husband, arrested at his home in San Francisco Monday morning. Police reports show that, after he closed where the missing parts had been found. Way back there in the '60s a couple of uncles rode down here on horseback from San Francisco in ten days and the trip was considered as something of an achievement—it was. El Camino Real in those days was little better than a pack trail with very few landmarks. The other day we read about a jet plane that flew down in 42 minutes, 33 seconds. Of course the air route is only 361 miles to Los Angeles (our uncles traveled much farther). That's traveling at the rate of 8 miles a minute, 480 miles an hour and 11,520 miles in a twenty-four hour day—if our arithmetic is correct. At that rate you could fly around the earth at the equator (24,920 miles) in a little over two days. From Los Angeles to St. Louis (1585 miles) in little more than 3 hours and 15 minutes; Chicago (1741 miles) in 3 hours and 45 minutes, and New York (2446 miles) in about 5 hours. From New York to Buenos Aires (5295 miles) or Cairo, Egypt (5701 miles) in less than a half day; to Bagdad (6066 miles) and be only a half-hour late to lunch; to Cape Town, South Africa (7845 miles) in little more than 16 hours, and about the same time to Bombay, India (7875 miles) and to Guam (8115 miles) in less than 17 hours. That horse back ride down here from "Frisco" wasn't so good after all. We sure are going to have to speed up a bit. Newport Beach clamped a quarantine on dogs in a section of the city last Thursday, after County Inspector E. E. Frisby found that a dog owned by a resident of that sector of the city had died of rabies. Far be it from us to criticize the authorities—but unless dogs have changed their habits a lot since we were young, isn't it just possible that the ailing pup ranged farther afield than the confines of its own neighborhood? Also, isn't there danger it may have infected dogs from other neighborhoods? Too much precaution in a matter as serious as this is not possible. Anaheim and all other communities of the district should take heed—and action—before a regrettable tragedy occurs. Rabies is a dread disease, as dangerous $100,600.00; packing house enlargements went $40,000.00 and new store buildings stood at $16,000.00. This is a good start and we hope nothing happens to slow things up. Keep your fingers crossed. DED IN AMBULANCE Reports indicate that the aged man was crossing Los Angeles street at Vermont avenue when the tragedy occurred. He died in an ambulance en route to a hospital. Sullivan was born in Massachusetts, and had resided in Anaheim 25 years. He was employed as a salesman, and in recent years had conducted his own business. His wife, Mrs. Josephine M. Sullivan, with whom he resided at the home address here; two brothers, Michael of Holyoke, Mass., and Frank, Flushing, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Savoy of Springfield, Mass. survive. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars chapel here. Details of the services are pending. Ladder Breaks; Soldier-Painter Injured in Fall A commendable attempt to earn a little extra money while on furlough ended tragically Monday morning for Cpl. Ernest Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Richards, 311 East Ellsworth avenue. Young Richards suffered a compound fracture of the left arm and a badly sprained ankle in an 18-foot fall when a ladder broke while he was standing on it, painting a store front at 132 East Center street. The accident occurred about 11:10 a.m. less than 30 minutes after Corporal Richards had begun work. He was taken to the hospital at Santa Ana Army Air Base, where his injuries were treated. In falling, Richards struck a car parked at the curb, and narrowly missed falling on Mrs. Pruella Abbott, route 4, box 94-H, Anaheim, who was passing along the sidewalk. Richards has been in service with the Army Air force about three years, all of which was spent on the East coast. He is here on 90-day furlough and is due to report at Kearn, Utah, Feb. 21. Recent heavy winds damage approximately 10 per cent of southern California navel orange crop, Paul S. Armstrong, general manager of the California Flower Growers exchange, believes. Surveys show that an estimated 5 per cent was blown to ground, and that probably no equal amount will be unmerchanted as fresh fruit because of dry age to fruit remaining on trees, Armstrong said. Armstrong emphasized that there will still be a plentiful supply of nautaranges for consuming markets. There are 12½ million boxes oranges still to be harvested, STATEWIDE CROPP CUT 2 PER CENT Loss to the California navel orange crop from the recent windstorms amounted to but per cent of the total, according to estimates of the U.S. department of agriculture. An additional 5 to 6 per cent of the fruit is believed to have been injured by bruising and punctures. Reduced to boxes, the figure indicates the total estimated crop of 18,900,000 has been cut 380,000 boxes by destroyed fruit with an additional 1,100,000 boxes damaged. Heaviest damage was listed for Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Mention was made that no extensive damage to valencias had resulted, and that none had been caused by lemons and grapefruit. er deducting the estimated 1,400,000 damaged by winds, he sai A man arrested in Oakland on a charge of burglary is quoted as bragging that he's the guy who broke into Sheriff Jesse Elliott's home at Santa Ana just before Christmas and stole a number of scarce articles—alarm clocks, pillow slips, etc.—as well as nabbing the gaily-bedecked packages from beneath the boughs of the Elliots' tinselled tree. Bet that's one boarder "Ol' Jesse" would like to "entertain" at the county hotel? Another weekly newspaper will enter the field in Orange county—the Westminister Herald, Lynn C. Thomas, editor and publisher—with its first issue scheduled for February 1. It will be printed in the plant of the Tustin News. We've just found a plutocrat. No, he doesn't have a lot of money, so far as we know; and he works for his living, like most of us. But he has some country relatives back in one of the Dakotas, and they recently sent him five or six pounds of real, honest-to-goodness country butter. If that doesn't put him on the exclusive list of plutocrats, in these butterless — even margarine-less days—what would? And don't come asking his name—we intend to try to talk him out of a little of it, ourselves. In falling, Richards struck a car parked at the curb, and narrowly missed falling on Mrs. Pruella Abbott, route 4, box 94-H, Anaheim, who was passing along the sidewalk. Richards has been in service with the Army Air force about three years, all of which was spent on the East coast. He is here on 90-day furlough and is due to report at Kearn, Utah, Feb. 21. Masonic Bodies in Joint Installation Ralph Seward of Anaheim and Edward Double of Fullerton will be installed as high priests of their respective chapters at public joint installation of officers by the Anaheim and Fullerton chapters of Royal Arch Masons at the Masonic lodge hall here next Wednesday night, Jan. 31. For many years, the two chapters have joined in ceremonies of installing their officers, alternating between the two cities for the event. Clifford Peale of Santa Ana, deputy grand lecturer, will serve as installing officer. Musical entertainment and refreshments will follow the installation ceremonies. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers was organized in 1884 to advance the theory and practice of electrical engineering and of the arts and sciences and to maintain a high professional standard among members. HE DID; THEY DID; THE OFFICER DID!" Humor has a habit of creeping into police reports here. Witness the following: "Mr. Burke called in; reported barking dogs in the neighborhood. Officer Cutlas bedded them all down." NG "MAYOR" JACK BENNY'S THREE CITIES—SPRING TRAINING H ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD ANAHEIM GAZET EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1946 Officer Goes for Ride; Has to Push Auto Back Police Officer Rude not only led to walk back from an automobile ride Sunday night—he had to push his automobile, as well. Responding to a complaint at a former husband had appeared at his ex-wife's home he had displayed a .45 caliber rifle to her and a man caller, with the threat, "Be careful; I would get tough." Rude was asking with the woman, when the former husband ran out back door. Hurrying to the police car he had left parked the rear of the dwelling, he found parts had been rewired, and the engine wouldn't work. He had to push the automobiles several blocks to the post station. A man, said to have been the man's former husband, was rested at his home in Santa Monica Monday morning. Police resumes show that, after he discharged where the missing auto driver "MAYOR" JACK BENNY'S THREE CITIES—SPRING TRAINING H Conductor in Hospital, Symphony Postpones Concerto Jack Benny 'Fiddle' Solo Idea Greeted With Acclaim 100-PIECE Orange County Youth Symphony orchestra, which will appear in a public concert some time next month, and which may have the honor of entertaining as a guest artist, the inimitable Jack Benny, largely as a result of a suggestion made, at least in part, jokingly, in last week's issue of this newspaper. The junior musical organization, sponsored by the Anaheim Kiwanis club organized and is directed by Miss Norma Perkins of Orange, assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic orchestra, in which she also plays a French horn. Southland’s Navel Crop Hurt by Wind cent heavy winds damaged approximately 10 per cent of the Perm California navel orange Paul S. Armstrong, general manager of the California Fruiters exchange, believes. veys show that an estimate-per cent was blown to the aid, and that probably an amount will be unmerchant-fresh fruit because of damage fruit remaining on the Armstrong said. Armstrong sized that there will still be plentiful supply of navels for consuming markets. There are 12½ million boxes of fruit still to be harvested, aftEWIDE CROPP PER CENT to the California navel crop from the recent storms amounted to but 2 percent of the total, according estimates of the U.S. department of agriculture. additional 5 to 6 per cent fruit is believed to have injured by bruising and fractures. produced to boxes, the figures rate the total estimated crop 900,000 has been cut 380,000 boxes by destroyed fruit, an additional 1,100,000 damaged. viest damage was listed riverside and San Bernarro counties. Mention was that no extensive damage will elicits had resulted, and none had been caused to trees and grapefruit. Council Is Told Of Plans for 23 New Homes Here Another indication that the housing shortage in Anareim is due for rapid improvement, provided sufficient men and materials are made available, was presented at the Tuesday night meeting of the city council. Ralph Maas, Anaheim real estate dealer, presented plans for a new subdivision which he will open immediately on a five-acre tract at the southwest corner of North and Citron streets. The property, a portion of another of the old Anaheim vineyard lots, is now in escrow, and the deal for its purchase from the Dumke estate is expected to be completed this week or next. WILL BUILD ON ALL It will be divided into 23 lots, each 70 by 114 feet. Maas plans to build a home, ranging in cost from $7000 to $10,000, on each lot, and all will be offered for sale. Construction work is planned to begin shortly after March. Broadcast by Benny Here Seems Sure A coast-to-coast broadcast of a Jack Benny radio show from Anaheim seems assured, following a visit here Tuesday by Robert W. Ballin, NBC production manager in charge of the Benny program. Date of the production here has not been definitely decided, but probably will be late in February or early in March. February 24 has been suggested, with the following Sunday, March 3, declared less suitable because the St. Louis American League baseball team, which will hold spring training here, will face the Pittsburgh Pirates at La Palma park on that date. It is the first meeting of two big league teams on a local diamond. Ballin expressed himself as highly pleased with the facilities at the Anaheim Union high school, "OH, KID! REE-EE-LY, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID!!" Ten of the most envied girls in Anaheim, no doubt, are members of one of Miss Ruth Phelps’ drama classes at Anaheim Union high school. Entering the high school auditorium Tuesday, to begin rehearsal for an appearance at a forthcoming assembly, they found themselves face-to-face with a man who has a part-in putting the Jack Benny radio show on the air. They pled questions in rapid fire order, and drank in, with eager ears, every word of the replies. Now they know all the answers for any who are interested—and that's just about every chick, and what buys them sodas, around the campus! Benny? You Have Youth Orchestra Sponsors Excla Date of this year’s concern by the Orange County Symphony orchestra has postponed until sometime in January, E. T. Bradley, chair of the orchestra committee for aggregation’s sponsors, the Anaheim Kiwanis club, announced. Postponement was necessary cause the orchestra’s conductor Miss Norma Perkins, under an operation for appendicitis St. Joseph’s hospital in Oak Jan. 8, and will not be cally able to direct the orchestra for several weeks. Announcement of the concert date istingent on her recovery. Miss Perkins was discharged from the hospital Friday, and assumed direction of the resal here Monday night. ATTRACTS ATTENTION The youthful musical organization, already recipient of coerable acclaim throughout It hardly is possible nowadays to pick up a plant nursery catalog without finding, on one or more of its pages, tempting pictures of a luscious-looking big berry named the Boysenberry. Only slightly less mouth-watering is the text extolling merits of this "wonder of the berry family," or some similar superlative-packed descriptive title. Untold hundreds of thousands of such plants have come from the nurseries of this and other countries and now are producing in probably every state in the Union, as well as in many other lands. HAS WHAT IT TAKES The Boysenberry is a success, make no mistake about that. Its size, alone, guaranteed that from the start. It's crammed full of juice, probably more so than any other variety, sufficient to merit its cultivation for juice purposes. It's a top favorite with pie makers. Plants and fruit both enjoy ready active sale, and a lot of people have made money from it. But numbered among them is not the man who originated it and whose name it bears. He never got "a crying dime" from it. That man is Rudolph Boysen, who serves as superintendent of parks for the city of Anaheim. Although failure to properly protect his discovery doubtless has cost him a fortune in the 24 years since he planted the seed which produced the new berry, there is no bitterness in his heart; as he modestly tells the story. He blames no one; not even himself, THE HAND OF FATE Failure to get rich from initiating the Boysenberry resists from a combination of circumstances beyond human control including physical injury or even death, he believes. So goes about his duties of supervising the crews of men who for the park lawns, flowers, buildings, satisfied with what has seen fit to allot him, thankful that he is not permanently crippled, but is able walk. "Rudy" Boysen, a native of Grand, Merced county, California, has resided in Anaheim years. He has been city park perintendent here 18 years. In ing that time, he has seen city's parks grow to their present enviable position among... TRAINING HOME OF THE ST. LOUIS BROWNS ZETTE Y 24, 1946 EIGHT PAGES NUMBER 13 Pones Concert; With Acclaim Rooms Are Found To Accommodate St. Louis Browns Rooms, sufficient to accommodate all members of the St. Louis Browns, American league baseball party, who will arrive here next month for spring training, have been found by Robert H. Boney, Anaheim automobile dealer and member of the city council, chamber of commerce officials, and others charged with extending Anaheim hospitality to the visitors. Hotels will provide accommodations for more than half the upwards of 80 persons expected to make up the party, the Valencia and the Pickwick each guaranteeing 25 rooms. Others will be given space in private homes. Members of the team, aspiring candidates, officials, trainers, writers and others who make up the group, will begin arriving around Feb. 15, and all are expected to be in Anaheim Feb. 19 for the start of training the following day. CLOTHES FOR WAR VICTIMS SOUGHT HERE Making a belated start in the Victory Clothing Collection for Overseas Relief, a committee named through the chamber of commerce here will make a concerted effort next week to accomplish in one week that which elsewhere has required four. Members of the committee are: Wilson Phelps, representing the Kiwanis club; Aksel Oas, Rotary club; Al otler, Lions club; the Rev. Hayden Sears, Protestant churches; Lee Jablan, retail merchants, and E. W. Moeller, chamber of commerce. Members are expected to be named by the Elks, Ebell and 20-30 clubs and to represent the Catholic church. A chairman will be named at a meeting of the committee, late this week or early next week. Oas served as chairman of the campaign here in April's drive. Post Office Receipts Here Up Last Year Although the final quarter of 1945 showed a $2500 decrease over the corresponding period of the previous year, total receipts of the Anaheim postoffice enjoyed an increase of more than that amount for the entire year. Postal receipts for last year here were $115,377, the report of Postmaster L. H. Hoskins reveals. This compares with $112,125 for 1944, an increase of $3252. Receipts for the final three months of 1945 were $34,826, or $2502 less than the $37,328 in the final quarter of 1944. December alone, last year showed a drop of $2271 as compared with the final month of the preceding year. December comparisons are: 1945, $15,707; 1944, $17,978. Hoskins attributes to overall increase for last year, in spite of the big shrinkage in Christmas-month mailing, to the 50 per cent increase in local postal rate, from 2 cents to 3 cents per letter. He points out that, while this increase went into effect in July, 1944, but less than five months of that year remained for the effect to become apparent, while it was effective throughout the entire 12 months last year. Discharges of men from the armed services accounted for much of the drop in Christmas mailing, Hoskins believes. "I have noted a distinct change in our air mail postage sales, apparently from the same cause," he Wilson Phelps, representing the Kiwanis club; Aksel Oas, Rotary club; Al otler, Lions club; the Rev. Hayden Sears, Protestant churches; Lee Abian, retail merchants, and E. W. Moeller, chamber of commerce. Members are expected to be named by the Elks, Ebell and 20-30 clubs and to represent the Catholic church. A chairman will be named at a meeting of the committee, late this week or early next week. Oas served as chairman of the campaign here in April's drive. WHERE TO LEAVE 'EM Contributions will be received at all schools and churches throughout the city. The Schultz Furniture company has offered use of its basement at 301 West Center street as a storage warehouse for clothing collected during the drive. While the drive officially runs only between Jan. 7 and Jan. 31, the committee stresses that contributions will be accepted later, up to the time, as yet unspecified, when the local organization is requested to forward its collection to national headquarters in New York, or to other ports for shipment overseas. Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan has authorized and directed all postmasters to permit local committees of the Victory Clothing Collection for Overseas Relief to place boxes in post office lobbies to receive clothing donations. The order directed postmasters and their staffs "to cooperate fully in this most worthy cause." In the United National Clothing Collection of last April, post offices served as collection depots for a large share of the donated clothes which helped clothe 25,000,000 war victims in Europe, China and the Philippines. WILL CONFER Such arrangement probably will result from a conference planned by the committee with Postmaster Hoskins here. The President's War Relief Control board has urged full support of this second nationwide effort to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of the war in Europe, China and the Philippines. The American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Relief also endorses the drive and urged all-out support by its 53 member agencies. Henry Kaiser is national chairman of the Victory Clothing Collection, as he was of the United National Clothing Collection of last April, which helped clothe GAVE IT HIS NAME' AS RESULT ROBBERY SHOCK Fatal to Local Woman's Brother Mrs. F. F. Fowler, 531 South Indiana street, wife of the secretary of the Anaheim Building & Loan association, was saddened Monday by news of death of her brother, Donald Oswald, 44 years old, at his home in Bellflower. The fatal attack was brought on, it is believed, by excitement arising from his discovery that a service station there, where he was temporarily employed, had been robbed during the hours it was closed Sunday night. Prior to taking employment at the service station, he had been in employ of the Douglas Aircraft corporation, and for several years previous to the war was a sound technician with United Artists. Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Fowler, is his widow and a brother, Clarence, who recently returned from service with the army in India, and now is confined to a military hospital at Brigham City, Utah, by illness contracted overseas. Grand Jury Not Backing Seeker Of Hospital Job A resolution adopted last Thursday by the Orange county grand jury and signed by its foreman, Elmer L. Crawford, declares that body does not sponsor a co-ordinator for the Orange county hospital; that it recommends only a business manager and medical director, and that the body is not sponsoring candidates for positions with the hospital. A copy of the resolution follows: "The Orange county grand jury wishes to go on record as not sponsoring a coordinator for the Orange county hospital." "We recommend only a business manager and medical director." "And further the said grand jury wishes definitely to state that it is not sponsoring a specific candidate where a change of management or additional personnel is recommended."