anaheim-gazette 1947-07-31

COLONY QUIPS The Santa Ana Sunday Globe recently started a campaign to rid the highways of defective headlights and the idea has caught on in many southern California communities. Quite a few newspapers have taken up the idea and are promoting it with the result that many motorists have been receiving arrest tickets. In a survey conducted by the Globe it was found that Santa Ana authorities had not checked on headlights for six years and that most garages have allowed their checking equipment to grow out of date. Police cooperated by scheduling surprise night road tests every two weeks and garages ordered new equipment and had outdated licenses renewed. A survey of these surprise tests showed an average of every other car with defective lights or other violations. Anyone driving on the highway at night can attest to the deplorable condition of the other fellow's lights. He luckily does not have to look into his own headlights. This would be a fine thing for Anaheim to do if our force is not too busy with the parking meters. There are several school budgets appearing elsewhere in the Gazette and if you wish to know where your dollars are needed in their operation all you have to do is read them over. If any item should not suit you a date of a public hearing is announced at which time you can appear before the governing board, state your case and ask for an increase or aged $4.34 compared to $4.01 preceding week and 344s averaged $4.25 delivered, compared to a week earlier. Choice fruit ed from $3.30 to $5.62 early week compared to a range $2.78 to $5.22 delivered, a earlier. Orange shippers had decided last week's average of $3.17 a box f.o.b. was about as good as they could hope for this season and that their job for the rest of the season would be to increase volume of sales by 30 per cent or more at about that price. But sales the first of this week proved they might be wrong as regards the smallest sizes; there was a market gain the first two days of the week for 252s and smaller. Total interstate sales of oranges last week was about the same as the week before but the price advanced 78 cents a box for all sizes and grades. It was still considerably below the average for the corresponding week a year ago when valencias averaged $5.58 a box f.o.b. The 1945 average in the corresponding week was $3.77 and for 1944, $4.40, on considerably heavier volume. Price averages for 220s and larger the first of this week were slightly below averages a week ago. But for fancy 252s the aver- There are several school budgets appearing elsewhere in the Gazette and if you wish to know where your dollars are needed in their operation all you have to do is read them over. If any item should not suit you a date of a public hearing is announced at which time you can appear before the governing board, state your case and ask for an increase or decrease as your taste might be. One more thing along this line: these school board members give a lot of their time and energy to handle the business of running the public schools and they serve without pay. The next time someone pops off about the way our schools are run just ask them if they have ever attended a meeting of their school board or have ever offered themselves as a candidate for the office. If they have not the ground they are talking on is extremely thin. Parents and taxpayers are all vitally interested in the operation of these factories of learning that are forgiving (we almost said beating and that is not allowed) out of the raw material, the children entrusted to their care, the men and women in whose hands the future of this country will rest. That will be no small problem what with the debts, hatreds and worse the present generation will soon make them heir to. That sort of vista makes the theory of reincarnation seem a lot less interesting. To get back to the budgets, however, one has but to read them through to see the immense amount of work these unpaid school boards have been subjected to in making out that string of figures. They are then presented, torn to pieces, put together again, published and finally a public hearing is held. The entire board gives up an evening of bridge, an evening with the family or something they would really like to do and goes to the school house to hear what their neighbors think about the fiscal plans they have developed for the coming school year and nobody shows up. Yes, that has happened many times. Or, what is worse, a group of do-gooders, who have no children in the schools, come in and start a fight because they think Mary Jones, one of the teachers, should work for 60 cents an hour instead of the seventy the board has induced Gala Opening For Laguna Art Festival Applauded by a capacity crowd from southern California, the twelfth annual Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters got off to a flying start in Irvine Bowl, Laguna Beach, last Saturday night. The 15-day event will conclude August 10. The pageant is staged each evening beginning at 8:15 o'clock. The grounds, which open at 1 o'clock each afternoon, feature displays by 170 Laguna artists, ceramists, photographers and craftsmans. This year the approximately 60 living picture studies have been divided into three groups to be presented alternately. The pageant theme, "Art Through the Ages" is being presented at the opening of each performance with a prologue "Three Races of Man." Intermission through each performance is highlighted by a live ballet sequence directed by Theodore Bekefi. Wess Densmore, press director, is in charge of the program schedule. Don and Ivy Wilson's famed Laguna Beach puppets, as a special attraction, may be viewed in afternoon and evening performances. The benefit performance August 10, sponsored by the Festival Association and the Orange County Assistance League for the cancer fund drive, will include selected pictures from each program. Tickets for the benefit program August 10, may be secured in Anaheim from Mrs. H. D. Newkirk, 1018 West Center street, general Assistance league committee member, or from Mrs. Edward Bimat, 309 West Center street. Reservations for the pageant are available also at Mary Millerick shop, 220 East Center street. State Chamber Names E. J. Power To Ag. Committee Edward J. Power whose biography ranch is at the corner of Angeles street and Ball road been appointed a member of southern California agriculture committee of the State Charity of Commerce, according to an announcement by Edward R. Vittone, regional vice-president. Power's work will include organizing farmers obtain adequate land and housing supplies and making recommendations on legislation affecting agriculture. Traffic Officers Organize County For Hiway Safety An Anaheim traffic safety committee and a considerable degree of citizens is expected to similar groups from all over county at an organizational meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. morrow, Friday, at Willard Juvenile High School, Santa Ana. The Orange county squad of California Highway Patrol completed the naming of three safety committees in every municipality in the county. Speaker of the evening at Santa Ana meeting tomorrow night will be Bill Goodwin screen and radio fame. The face of four children, Goodwin taken an active interest in traffic safety through the National Safety Council. He is chairman of Screen Actors Guild traffic division. His talk tomorrow will be in a serious vein. Famed Scholarly County Shows in would really like to do and goes to the school house to hear what their neighbors think about the fiscal plans they have developed for the coming school year and nobody shows up. Yes, that has happened many times. Or, what is worse, a group of do-gooders, who have no children in the schools, come in and start a fight because they think Mary Jones, one of the teachers, should work for 60 cents an hour instead of the seventy the board has induced her to work for and that the tennis courts should not have a new net. Very seldom, we are told, does some interested person come in to ask an intelligent question and to offer some constructive criticism which would make the boards job a bit easier. Perhaps many people are afraid to come to one of these hearings and talk in an intelligent manner for fear one of the board members would die of heart failure and he would be made to run for the job. Anyone thinking of taking a trip to our good neighbor on the south, Mexico, should meditate on the hoof and mouth disease epidemic currently ravaging that country. The campaign to eliminate this scourge is being taken very seriously by Mexican officials and when you cross state lines down there you have to be disinfected. The disease is, we are told, getting so bad that it was about to curtail the bull supply for some of the grande bull fights. Of the many ranches raising fighting bulls only twelve are untouched by the malady and some of these produce the most famous breeds whose name alone is the guarantee of a good fight—at least by Mexican standards. A good fighting bull is worth $5000 (one thousand dollars U.S.). Years ago the natives in Mexico would not go near a butcher shop for a few days following a big bull fight. Tickets for the benefit program August 10, may be secured in Anaheim from Mrs. H. D. Newkirk, 1018 West Center street, general Assistance league committee member, or from Mrs. Edward Bimat, 309 West Center street. Reservations for the pageant are available also at Mary Millerick shop, 220 East Center street, phone 3612 or may be obtained from the festival ticket office in the art colony, phone Laguna 1299, daily between 10 and 5 o'clock. GOP Women Elect New Officers At Convention Here Mrs. Bonnie J. Thomas is the new president of the Orange county council of Republican Women. She was elected at the organization's annual convention which was held last weekend at the Anaheim Elks club. Other officers chosen are: first vice-president, Mrs. J. A. Henley of Laguna Beach; second vice-president, Mrs. George Fentress of Yorba Linda; recording secretary, Mrs. Genevieve Fording of Garden Grove; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Bert Shaw of Yorba Linda; treasurer, Mrs. Eva Boyd of Anaheim, publicity chairman, Mrs. John J. Dwyer of Anaheim. All three members of the Orange county delegation to the state Legislature addressed the gathering during the luncheon hour. They said bull meat was too tough. At the price we don't blame them. Springfield, Illinois, was settled in 1818 and became capital of the state in 1837. Famed Scholarly County Shows in Anaheim Boy Scout troop No. 917 and Fullerton troop No. 918 be the beneficiaries of a performance to be given Saturday at Del Rio's Amerige park by Serrano whose owners have conferred him the title of "the world's educated horse." In spite of the fact he shown in an obscure corner out advance publicity, 35,000 sons saw him at the recent Diego county fair at Del Rio Many times that number are expected to see him perform in principal horse show ring at State Fair at Sacramento where he will give two performances daily for ten days. Many Orange county residents have seen Serrano perform on awareness that he adds, subtract multiplies and divides with sting rapidity, that he can long and difficult names "in language" and that he can aptly read minds. Not so much know that he was foaled in ange county and that both trainer Clint Brush and his manger Jack C. Dutton are nuns of the county. Serrano was foaled on a ranch on the banks of the Santa Ana river south of Santa Ana 13 years ago. Clint Brush, a Hunting Beach bean rancher bought for $50 when he was a month old and has been working at his location ever since. Jack Dutton born and educated in Anaheim. 'ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD' ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY; JULY 31, 1947 Size Oranges Early This Week $4.34 compared to $4.05 the preceding week and 344s averaged 3.77 delivered, compared to $3.77 week earlier. Choice fruit rang from $3.30 to $5.62 early this week compared to a range of 8 to $5.22 delivered, a week later. Emons last week were down 35 cents a box from the preceding week, due, it was believed by papers, to a cold spell of weather in the middle west, but the average still was well above average in the corresponding week in the past two years. Lemon moments last week totaled 600 cents and the average price was $6 a box, f.o.b. packing house, prepared to $3.57 a box a year and $3.54 a box two years ago. Sept for the smallest sizes, sales by this week were at slightly lower prices than they were early this week. Canada was expected to be back the orange market next week the prorate has been stepped up to 1900 cars. This week it was Refurbished Merry-Go-Round Ready To Delight More Generations of Kids Entertaining a fourth generation of enthusiastic local youngsters is a venerable merry-go-round in the children's playground in the center of Anaheim city park. Although purchased second-hand by the city 23 years ago, it revolves with the smooth-running perfection of its more modern successors. During this time, the merry-go-round has undergone several overhaulings, but nothing to equal a re-building by Travis Cushman and Walter Amstutz, completed last week. The merry-go-round has been converted into an ultra-modern mechanism, according to park officials who exclaim "It's a lulu!" They reveal also that it took approximately five men to "keep the kids off" while the duo worked. The piece of equipment was first installed in the southern picnic area of the park, then the camp ground. Eighteen years ago it was moved to its present location. Despite frequent weldings and overhaulings, the pleasure machine "still had the habit of falling apart, but not now." Seven Anaheim Girls to Enter Beauty Parade The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce plans to enter seven Anaheim girls in the beauty parade to be held August 3 in the Balboa Young Driver Of Death Car Held for Trial Charged with manslaughter for the death of Eugene M. Gilfry, 19, of Buena Park, Ralph Erle King, they asked that their wounds be raised to the average for workers on the Pacific would amount they said. Seven Anaheim Girls to Enter Beauty Parade The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce plans to enter seven Anaheim girls in the beauty parade to be held August 3 in the Balboa Fun Zone, according to President Richard Adams. The seven are expected to contest against 40 other non-professional beauties. The winner will be named Queen of the Tournament of Lights which will be held this year on August 16, and she will ride on the float of the Newport Harbor Junior Chamber which is sponsoring the beauty parade. Six cups will be awarded in Sunday's event. There will be a cup for poise, another for personality and a third for suntan. Al Anderson of the Fun Zone will present a cup each for form and figure, for best suntan and for grace, poise and personality. The theme for the float to be entered by Anaheim in the Tournament of Lights, will be "A Bird in a Gilded Cage." Jeweler Speaks To Lions Club The making and repairing of watches was discussed by Victor Huber, Anaheim Jewelry store owner, before approximately 70 members of the local Lions club last Friday noon at the Elks club. President Warren Ashleigh presided during the business session and program chairman William Thornecroft introduced Huber. Each watch created contains from 140 to 160 parts, the jeweler disclosed. He added that from five to 10 years of experience is required before a repair man becomes an expert. He demonstrated a precision timing machine that enables jewelers to adjust watches to split second accuracy within three minutes rather than the usually required two weeks. Gazette want ads bring results. Young Driver Of Death Car Held for Trial Charged with manslaughter for the death of Eugene M. Gilfry, 19, of Buena Park, Ralph Erle King, 22, of Fullerton, driver of the stripped-down car which failed to round the turn at Los Angeles street and La Palma avenue last week and crashed into the Red Rock Cola building on the north side of Los Angeles street, early on July 23, was at liberty this week on $2000 bail awaiting preliminary hearing in the court of City Judge John Shea on August 7. Young Gilfry was a passenger in the car which, police say, King told them was going at the rate of 60 miles an hour when it came to the turn. He was dead when officers arrived. Traffic officers say 30 miles an hour is the speed limit at which a car can safely round that corner. Standard Oil To Prospect for New Field Near Olive Drilling in a prospective new oil field south of Olive is expected to start in the near future, following leasing of 1,550 acres of citrus land by the Standard Oil Company. The leased block is located south of the Southern Pacific railroad, west of Villa Park and east of Orange-Olive boulevard. Although the test well drilling site was not revealed by company officials, it is reported to be the ranch of Mrs. C. F. Talmage on East Collins avenue, approximately three-quarters of a mile east of Tustin avenue. Initial rental has been paid for the first six months but drilling operations will be started earlier. Payment to ranch owners of $5 per acre per month rental plus one-sixth royalty for all oil produced is provided in the community leases. Leasing operations were started by Standard Oil more than a month ago. Among landowners in the lease block are Delos G. Patterson, Daniel W. Gruwell, Homer E. Baker, Harvey D. Nichols Attending Lions Convention In San Francisco Delegates to the inter-Lions convention which day (Thursday) in Sir Drake hotel, San Francisco Anaheim include Mr. A. Tevis Westgate, Mr. and M. Glen Hipes, Mr. and M. Boege, O. E. Hutson, Mrs. Cliff Lamb, Victor Sr., and Warren Ashleigh club president. More than 20,000 relatives from 18 countries are for the opening sessions famed Golden Gate city day. Highlight of the conference the election of Fred Smith tura, southern California dent of the international organization. He is the president. Members of the Anahegation are traveling via airliner. No people on earth have cause to be thankful than Theodore Roosevelt. New Bulletin In California, Florida Named Scholarly Horse Foaled In County Shows in Fullerton Saturday Anaheim Boy Scout troop No. 91 will be beneficiaries of a performance to be given Saturday at Fullerton's Amerige park by Serrano, the owners have conferred on the title of "the world's best trained horse." The spite of the fact he was seen in an obscure corner with advance publicity, 35,000 persons saw him at the recent San Diego county fair at Del Mar. Every time that number are exited to see him perform in the principal horse show ring at the Fair at Sacramento where will give two performances for ten days. Many Orange county residents seen Serrano perform or are sure that he adds, subtracts, applies and divides with startlift rapidity, that he can spell and difficult names "in any usage" and that he can apparently read minds. Not so many say that he was foaled in Orlando county and that both his older Clint Brush and his man Jack C. Dutton are native of the county. Serrano was foaled on a ranch the banks of the Santa Ana in south of Santa Ana 13 years ago. Clint Brush, a Huntington bean rancher bought him 50 when he was a month old has been working at his edu-en ever since. Jack Dutton was born and educated in Anaheim. He demonstrated a precision timing machine that enables jewelers to adjust watches to split second accuracy within three minutes rather than the usually required two weeks. Gazette want ads bring results. Initial rental has been paid for the first six months but drilling operations will be started earlier. Payment to ranch owners of $5 per acre per month rental plus one-sixth royalty for all oil produced is provided in the community leases. Leasing operations were started by Standard Oil more than a month ago. Among landowners in the lease block are Delos G. Patterson, Daniel W. Gruwell, Homer E. Baker, Harvey D. Nichols, William W. Perry, William A. Knuth, George E. Holditch, Frank H. Collins and Merle Talmadge. Health Officers Find Some Typhus In County Rats An Orange county hog farm was directed by county health authorities to clean up the rats about the place and rat-proof its buildings after rats trapped on the premises were found to be infected with typhus. Infected rats are a menace to human health since typhus is one of the diseases that fleas carry from rats to humans. Practically every month rats are trapped in the county whose blood shows a positive reaction to the test for typhus. Four blood samples of 34 submitted to a state laboratory in June showed a positive reaction. Thirty-seven rodents were trapped in March and 23 of the blood samples gave a positive reaction. Occasionally the statement is published that bubonic plague is endemic among rats and ground squirrels in southern California, but county health officials say they have yet to dissect a rat showing symptoms of the terrible plague. Leaders of the Japanese foreign colony in Brazil did not admit Japan’s surrender for more than a year after VJ-Day. Members of the Anahegation are traveling via car and airliner. No people on earth have cause to be thankful than Theodore Roosevelt. New Bulletin In California, Floating If you can recall how natural southern California two decades ago chances would guess there has been some increase in product you have to see the statistic realize the extent of the trend. The statistics have just supplied to the industry California Fruit Grower change, first general districting of citrus statistics since 1924 cording to this bulletin Calvalencia acreage amount 83,000 acres in 1924-25 and year 1946-47 it had risen to acres. But while acreage quite doubled, production creased in the order of cent. Total California-Arizona production in 1924-25 million boxes. Estimated production for the current year is 34.7 million box million boxes below the of 39 million boxes in the 1944-45. In the same period naval age has decreased from acres to 91,000 acres whiduction has increased from boxes in 1924-25 to 20.3 in. While the consumption lencias in fresh form has ed from 11.4 oranges per year in 1924-25 to a per consumption of 50.4 vales the big year of 1944-45, tion has grown considerably. ZETTE 1947 Eight Pages NUMBER 40 'Trade Dispute' Is Settled At Chemical Plant The "trade dispute" between the company and 33 production workers which has idled the Anaheim plant of U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc., since midnight of July 12, has been satisfactorily settled, according to a joint statement issued yesterday by Plant Manager J. J. Burkhard and Dixie Tiller, business agent of the Food, Tobacco, Agriculture and Allied Workers of America, Local 25, CIO. The walkout resulted from the refusal of company representatives to negotiate a new contract which expired July 12. When union and company officials met before expiration of the contract union representatives presented a list of demands including one for increased wages. Employes said they asked that their wages be raised to the average for chemical workers on the Pacific coast. It would amount they said to 11%. Anaheim Gives Joyous Welcome To Elks' New Exalted Ruler Guardsmen See Newest Arms At Ft. Ord School One of the pleasant minor surprises encountered by Anaheim's national guardsmen who are back this week from a week's schooling at Fort Ord, California, was that they would be required to do no KP duty. "Regular Army personnel at the post acted as hosts," said Lt. Martin E. Geissler, commander of the Anaheim unit in the 224th Regiment, "and made every effort to see that our stay was comfortable and enjoyable. The post exchanges, the movies, the swimming pool, the service clubs and the 'sports arena were overflowing with guardsmen during our off-duty hours." The men attending the camp from Anaheim besides Lt. Geissler were Lt. Paul Shepard, T/Sgt Duane Harvey, S/Sgt Nina Purna. A crowd of 2500, including Anaheim and Orange county residents, county and city officials and prominent Elks from many southern California lodges gave a rousing welcome Wednesday night at Anaheim City Park to Lafayette Arthur Lewis, Anaheim native son and newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Using the occasion to make his first public statement since his election at the national convention of the order at Portland, Ore., Lewis said the Elk order must have faith in American ideals and the American form of government. Neither communism, fascism and 'klanism', he said, have any place in the B.P.O.E. or in the United States. "Let us preserve the heritage of a sleeping nation for future generations," he pleaded. The address was broadcast over facilities of station KMPC and rebroadcast at 9:45 o'clock last night from the same station. The walkout resulted from the refusal of company representatives to negotiate a new contract which expired July 12. When union and company officials met before expiration of the contract union representatives presented a list of demands including one for increased wages. Employes said they asked that their wages be raised to the average for chemical workers on the Pacific coast. It would amount they said, to 11½ to 15 cents an hour. Company officials offered a counter proposal that the old contract be extended to August 23 and that when a contract finally was negotiated its terms be made retroactive to July 12. The union representatives would not accept this proposal and walked off the job. The announcement yesterday said the dispute had been satisfactorily settled "by the resumption of work and continuance of negotiations at an early date." Attending Lions Convention In San Francisco Delegates to the international Lions convention which closes today (Thursday) in Sir Francis Drake hotel, San Francisco, from Anaheim include Mr. and Mrs. Tevis Westgate, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hipes, Mr. and Mrs. John Boege, O. E. Hutson, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Lamb, Victor La Mont, Sr., and Warren Ashleigh, local club president. More than 20,000 representatives from 18 countries assembled for the opening sessions in the famed Golden Gate city last Sunday. Highlight of the conference was the election of Fred Smith of Ventura, southern California, president of the international service organization. He is the past vice-president. Members of the Anaheim delegation are traveling via car, train and airliner. No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours—Theodore Roosevelt. The Anaheim unit in the 224th Regiment, "and made every effort to see that our stay was comfortable and enjoyable. The post exchanges, the movies, the swimming pool, the service clubs and the sports arena were overflowing with guardsmen during our off-duty hours." The men attending the camp from Anaheim besides Lt. Geissler were Lt. Paul Shepard, T/Sgt Duane Harvey, S/Sgt. Norman Pape, Cpl. Douglas Martindale, Pvt. Jim Meyers, Pvt. Richard Palm and Pvt. Herbert Perez. Included in the classes of instruction received by the guardsmen was a talk on atomic warfare by Col. Foster, one of the observers of the Atomic Bomb tests at Bakini tests, were also presented. Crossroads" taken during the Rakini tests, were also presented. Many of the latest infantry weapons were demonstrated by men of the 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Washington. Among these were the new 57mm and 75mm recoiler rifles and the new experimental 45 ton General Pershing tank. All three of these weapons will be organic weapons of the new infantry division. In a spectacular demonstration of fire power all the infantry weapons were manned in a single attack. Included was the .45 pistol, the carbine, the M-1 rifle, the submachine gun, the Browning automatic rifle, the bazooka, machine guns both .30 and .50 calibre, mortars, flame throwers, 105mm and 155mm howitzers and the new Pershing tanks. Company K will resume its Monday night drills next Monday. Lt. Geissler reminds all men between the ages of 17 and 34 that there are many good positions still open and that veterans of World War II may still come into the National Guard in the grade which they held at the time of discharge. Pay ranges from $2.50 to $5.50 per drill. Those interested are invited to visit the Armory at the Greek theater in the City Park any Monday night. There is an officer on duty to give all desired information. Lewis said the Elk order must have faith in American ideals and the American form of government. Neither communism, fascism and 'klanism', he said, have any place in the B.P.O.E. or in the United States. "Let us preserve the heritage of a sleeping nation for future generations," he pleaded. The address was broadcast over facilities of station KMPC and rebroadcast at 9:45 o'clock last night from the same station. The affair began with a concert by the Anaheim Elks band in uniforms of blue with white caps and gold buttons and trim. It was directed by William Cook. Ross Lee Laird, master of ceremonies, announced that the smartly uniformed organization had won second place in its class at the Portland convention. Another prize winning musical organization which participated in the program was the Santa Ana Elks double quartet which won first place at Portland. Their songs included one specially written for the occasion. Its title: "Welcome Fay Lewis." The new Grand Exalted Ruler was met at the Orange county line on 101 Highway by a reception committee and a motorcycle escort, and this committee escorted him from the theatre's east entrance to the handsomely decorated stage where he was awaited by a considerable group of prominent citizens, officials and Elk dignitaries. The first greeting to the guest of honor was extended by Mayor Charles Pearson who recalled Lewis was the grandson of original members of the Mother Colony which established Anaheim and that his father started Anaheim's first electric light and power plant. Among those introduced to the audience after the guest of honor were Mrs. Lewis, representatives of The American Legion, Fullerton city council, Fullerton's Mayor Verne Wilkinson, Anaheim Councilmen Robert Boney and Oscar Heying, a life-long friend, Michael Shannon; Los Angeles attorney (Continued on Page 8) Legion Teams Open 19 Days Of Play Monday New Bulletin Reveals Vast Growth Of California, Florida Orange Industry If you can recall how agricultural southern California looked two decades ago chances are you would guess there has been in that period some increase in orange acreage and, in consequence, some increase in production. But you have to see the statistics to realize the extent of the increase. The statistics have just been supplied to the industry by the California Fruit Growers Exchange, first general distribution of citrus statistics since 1940. According to this bulletin California valencia acreage amounted to 33,000 acres in 1924-25 and by the year 1946-47 it had risen to 149,800 acres. But while acreage has not quite doubled, production has increased in the order of 500 per cent. Total California-Arizona valencia production in 1924-25 was 6.8 million boxes. Estimated total production for the current citrus year is 34.7 million boxes, 4.3 million boxes below the record of 39 million boxes in the year 1944-45. In the same period navel acreage has decreased from 95,000 acres to 91,000 acres while production has increased from 11.8 boxes in 1924-25 to 20.3 in 1946-47. While the consumption of valencias in fresh form has increased from 11.4 oranges per person per year in 1924-25 to a per capita consumption of 50.4 valencias in the big year of 1944-45, production has grown considerably fast- MRS. FRED SAWTELLE VISITS DAUGHTER Mrs. Fred Sawtelle, Route 1, Box 198, returned Saturday from Santa Cruz where she had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. F. Carr and her two sons, Bob, 21 months, and David, six months, of Antioch, Calif. Enjoying the vacation with them in Mrs. Carr's cottage in the Redwoods, was Mrs. Gladys Nordstrom of this city. They traveled via Southern Pacific Railways. Legion Teams Open 19 Days Of Play Monday Five thousand spectators are expected at the opening game of the second annual Tri-State American Legion Junior Baseball Tournament to be played Monday night, August 4, at La Palma Park. Forty-six teams sponsored by American Legion posts in 33 southern California, Arizona and Nevada communities have entered the tournament. The winning team will be given a trip to Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Audrey Long, star of "Song of My Heart," will participate at the tournament opening. She will be asked to stand at bat when Mayor Charles A. Pearson of Anaheim pitches to Mayor Verne Wilkinson of Fullerton. In order to complete the tournament by August 22, day-time games at both Anaheim and Fullerton will be played on Saturday and Sunday in addition to the night games at Anaheim. Communities which will be represented by teams include: Altadena, Anaheim, Arcadia, Bell Gardens, Beverly Hills, Compton, Fullerton, Glendale, Hollywood, Huntington Park, Inglewood, Las Vegas (Nevada), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Montebello, Montrose, Newport Beach, Orange, Oxnard, Pasadena, Placentia, Pomona, Redondo Beach, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Pedro, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Santa Monica, Uplands and Yuma.