anaheim-gazette 1947-07-31

State’s Income and Outlays at High Level in Past Year Kuchel Reports California began the new fiscal year with a General Fund cash excess over current obligations, on June 30, 1947, of $125,742,746, according to figures released by Thomas H. Kuchel, state controller. This compared to an excess of $366,065,505 at the end of the preceding month, and $181,876,555 on June 30, 1946. Kuchel pointed out that the decrease of $240,322,759 under the excess reported for May 31, was due largely to transfers made to other funds and reserves. These transfers, authorized by the Budget Act of 1947, totaled $237,446,-250, with $75,000,000 going to the Revenue Deficiency Reserve Fund and $162,446,250 to the Postwar Employment Reserve. General Fund revenues deposited in the state treasury during the 98th fiscal year ended June 30, 1947, totaled $447,719,755, up 24 percent, or $86,742,232, over the previous year. Retail sales and use taxes showed the greatest increase with a gain of $62,827,168 over the 97th fiscal year. Other revenue increases were noted in: Personal income tax, $6,276,474; bank and corporation franchise and corporation income tax, $6,-057,334; inheritance tax, $4,933,-969; motor vehicle license fees (“in lieu” tax) $1,991,753. Also on the “plus” side were motor vehicle transportation tax, insurance company’s tax, gift tax, interest on investments and treasury deposits, oil and mineral royalties from state lands, and private car taxes. Two sources of revenue showed decreases. Liquor taxes and licenses were off $1,528,194, and pari-mutuel fees were $1,097,565 Again Tangles With Traffic Law After 40 Years When Lew Wallace recently entered a plea in Newport Beach city court to a charge of failing to observe a boulevard stop sign, City Judge Robert Gardner who is cooperating with the current campaign against “repeaters” made a routine check of the defendant’s past before pronouncing sentence. The check disclosed that Wallace last was cited into court in 1907 when he was charged with tethering a horse on a sidewalk. He was placed on probation. Shortly thereafter Wallace himself became city judge and throughout his term kept himself on probation. Result of the disclosure: Lew Wallace again is on probation. Hottest Day, Hottest Week Recorded Here The hottest day and the hottest week of the summer to date has been recorded in Anaheim during the past seven days. At no time in the seven days beginning last Thursday has the temperature dropped below 52 degrees and Sunday it touched the century mark for the first time this summer, according to records kept at the Association Laboratory on Lincoln boulevard near Manchester. On no day during the week did the temperature fall to 92 degrees or higher. The second annual Tri-State American Legion Junior Baseball Tournament, attracting 46 teams from Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, will open in Anaheim, California, August 4. Audrey Long (above), starred in Allied Artists’ “Song of My Heart,” will participate at the opening game by standing at the plate when Mayor Charles A. Pearson of Anaheim pitches to Mayor Virgil W. Wilkinson of Fullerton. Grade Crossing Crashes Up 24% In California The number of grade crossing Two sources of revenue showed decreases. Liquor taxes and licenses were off $1,528,194, and pari-mutuel fees were $1,097,565 under the preceding year. Kuchel's report listed General Fund expenditures for the year ended June 30 at $511,913,392. County relief loan repayments reduced actual expenditures to a net of $509,997,355, an increase of 57 percent over expenditures of the previous year. Statutory transfers from the General Fund to other funds and reserves exceeded comparable transfers for the 97th fiscal year by $148,294,760, which accounts for the large percentage of increase, Kuchel said. Increases in expenditures occurred in the following functions: Apportionments to counties for elementary schools, $2,953,616; aid to needy aged, $2,542,545; and apportionments to counties for junior colleges, $1,684,497. Other increases in expenditures were noted in aid to needy children, aid to needy blind, University of California, and miscellaneous fixed charges and appropriations. Bond interest and redemptions showed a decrease of $335,818. NAKED PROWLER Anaheim police frequently receive reports of night prowlers in various parts of the city. But a note of novelty was introduced in a report from the home of George Dodge, 414 South Vine street last weekend. The prowler had fled by the time officers arrived but he left behind him prints of bare feet to support the report made to the police. At no time in the seven days beginning last Thursday has the temperature dropped below 52 degrees and Sunday it touched the century mark for the first time this summer, according to records kept at the Association Laboratory on Lincoln boulevard near Manchester. On no day during the week did the temperature fail to reach 92 degrees or higher at some time during the day. Sunday, the hottest day when a temperature of 100 was recorded, was followed by the hottest night when the minimum temperature was 67 degrees. The daily record: Min. Max. Thursday, July 24... 56 92 Friday, July 25... 55 95 Saturday, July 26... 55 99 Sunday, July 27... 52 100 Monday, July 28... 67 94 Tuesday, July 29... 62 93 Wednesday, July 30... 58 97 Three times on Tuesday the temperature rose and fell, touching the 93 mark at 11, 2 and 4 o'clock. TO AWARD $100 BOND AT EAGLE'S DANCE Award of a $100 war bond as door prize will climax an evening of dancing and entertainment at the Eagle's lodge monthly social affair in Eagle's Hall, 135½ West Center street, August 9, at 8:15 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend, Vern Finch, dance director, announced. Couples are admitted for $1.50. President of the organization is Robert H. Murphy of Fullerton. If the nation's 25,000,000 annual bus, trolley and streetcar fares were separate individuals, they would form a column more than a quarter of a mile wide extending from New York to Los Angeles. Grade Crossing Crashes Up 24% In California The number of grade crossing accidents in California in 1946 was the largest in the past ten years and 24.2 per cent above the average for the ten-year period. President Harold P. Huls of the California Public Utilities Commission disclosed in releasing details of the commission's annual report on railroad-highway crossing accidents. The report also revealed, Huls said, that the number of casualties from grade crossing accidents in California in 1946 was the second largest in the 32 years for which record has been collected and maintained. The report disclosed that in 1946 there were 2750 railroad-highway crossing accidents. These involved 200 deaths, 1114 persons injured and property damage estimated at $702,202. Of the 2750 accidents a total of 2496 were what are generally termed grade crossing accidents—collision between a train and a vehicle or pedestrian. In these 2496 accidents, 193 persons were killed and 1004 were injured. Out of the total number of accidents, 350 consist of vehicles running into moving trains; 168 of vehicles striking a crossing gate; 96 of vehicles running into a standing train. White pines, similar to those in this country, have been found growing above 4,300-foot elevations on mountain slopes in Guatemala. LEGEND AUG. 7 – SEPT. 15. SEPT. 16 – OCT. 15. TWO BUCK LIMIT. OPEN PARTS OF REFUGES COMPILED BY CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF FISH AND GAME Help Prevent Forest Fires DEER SEASONS AND FISH AND GAME DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA 1947 ANAHEIM GAZETTE Yacht Club Keeps Down Delinquency The Balboa Island Yacht Club, a youth organization possibly unique and certainly one of the very few of its kind, has made juvenile delinquency almost unknown within the range of its influence. It is 25 years this summer since J. A. Beek, who in his non-waterborne days as Secretary of the Senate of the State of California, began to observe with growing concern the constant throng of boys and girls, vacationers most of them, who clustered about his boats with an interest that was almost poignant in its intensity. From that observation came the program for the Balboa Island Yacht Club. Most established yacht clubs, of course, have associated junior organizations which reach selected boys and girls and do excellent work in necessarily restricted and often expensive fields. The Balboa Island Yacht Club last year had a membership of 236 young people between the ages of four and 16; an equal or larger membership already is assured for this year, and a membership fee of 25 cents covers participation for the season. One of the reasons for this comparatively large membership in a comparatively small community is the constant succession of activities in which the members are involved. Monday mornings are devoted to paddleboard races with, if need be, boards provided by the club. Monday afternoons are set aside for sailing races in the Balboa Dinghy and Snowbird classes. Tuesday mornings are devoted to swimming races and diving contests, and Wednesday mornings to the racing. Bouquet Handed Bank of America On Annual Report Bank of America has been notified that it has been accorded Highest Merit Award for its annual report to stockholders covering the year 1946. The citation states that the report was judged "most modern from the standpoint of content, typography and format of the 1750 annual reports examined during 1947." These awards are issued annually under sponsorship of the Financial World of New York, and this is the fourth year in succession that this honor has come to Bank of America. Grand Opening For Arcade Press On West Center The Arcade Press, 308 West Center street, swung open its doors for business last week. Featuring a complete line of business, office and school supplies and specializing in small printing jobs, personalized stationery and cards, the new enterprise is owned and managed by two native sons and World War II veterans, John Spielman and Victor La Mont, Jr., who is also associated with the Anaheim Gazette. A large line of attractive Christmas cards is on order and a complete line of ledger and loose-leaf accounting forms are now available. Both the co-owners are graduates of Anaheim Union high school. Spielman served as crew chief with night fighters in the United States Army Air Force. La Mont served in the Navy four years as a quartermaster. He saw two and one-half years of action overseas. Snowbirds Will Race Sunday "Snowbirds," daunting craft, will skim over the water of Newport Harbor in the twelfth annual race Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Sarah MacKay, general chairman, stated that for the first time, the award this year will be presented by her mother of last year's winner. M. W. K. Lewis of Riverside will be the honors. Her son, Walter Lewis, Jr., won that event out of 138 starters. Leon Heseman and Stuart Ciff of Riverside, recorders, will keep the official records. Commodore Everett Morris of the Newport Harbor Yacht club will be in charge of the course assisted by Harbor Master Russell Craig as a score of patrol craft manned by yacht club members. Aiding staging the annual small boat classic and having entrants in flight are all five yacht clubs in Newport, the Newport Harbor Balboa, Lido Isle, Voyagers and Balboa Island clubs. Trophies go to the first ten finish with added awards for first girl to finish, youngest girl to finish, youngest skipper to finish, oldest skipper to finish and others. Medals go to the skip of each tenth boat to finish, starting with the eleventh boat to cross the finish line, making an additional race of every ten boats. ORANGE DOG POISONER GETS 13TH VICTIM An Orange pet animal poisoned had scored his thirteenth victory up to early this week. Of the 12 were dogs and one was a dog. The poisoner's method is to soak ter about small balls of meat before pregnant with arsenic. Poison have reported they have soaked Crossing ties Up 24% California Number of grade crossing in California in 1946 was in the past ten years over cent above the averten-year period, President P. Huls of the Calilic Utilities Commission on releasing details of mission's annual report on highway crossing acciport also revealed, Huls the number of casualgrade crossing accidents in 1946 was the greatest in the 32 years for word has been collected tained. Port disclosed that in 1946 2750 railroad-highway accidents. These involved 1,114 persons injured but damage estimated at 750 accidents a total of what are generally grade crossing accidents—between a train and a pedestrian. In these events, 193 persons were 1004 were injured. Out total number of accidents, of vehicles running in trains; 168 of vehicles crossing gate; 96 of vening into a standing ines, similar to those in entry, have been found above 4,300-foot elevamountain slopes in Gua- SEPT. 15. OCT. 15. K LIMIT. TS OF REFUGES paratively large membership in a comparatively small community is the constant succession of activities in which the members are involved. Monday mornings are devoted to paddleboard races with, if need be, boards provided by the club. Monday afternoons are set aside for sailing races in the Balboa Dinghy and Snowbird classes. Tuesday mornings are devoted to swimming races and diving contests, and Wednesday mornings to the rowing races. The weekly meeting of the club and award of prizes is held each Friday evening, and every second Tuesday there is a picnic. Participation is the keynote of the organization. Points are allotted for effort and a boy or girl may become all-around champion for the season without necessarily piling up a high score of wins in the competitive events. Age classifications, too, help to equalize and stimulate competition. There are always more girls than boys in the early-age classes, but the boys inevitably assume the lead in the 11 to 13 and 14 to 16 years classes. Ex-Service Men May Enlist I n Second Division A famed fighting infantry outfit opened its ranks to former servicemen when General Mark Clark's Sixth Army Headquarters at Presidio, San Francisco announced the Second Infantry Division had been authorized to accept direct enlistments. Now stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, the division is rated as one of the oldest and best in the United States Army, Clark's headquarters said. “This is the first time in over a year that we have been able to enlist men for service in the United States,” said 1st Lt. Edward F. Tully, local army recruiter, “and I am pleased to see that the 2nd Infantry, as usual, is leading the way.” Elizabeth M. Watte Funeral Monday Service of High Mass was held last Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Boniface Catholic church for Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watte, beloved wife of Omer H. Watte of 601 South Olive street, this city. She passed away at the home on Thursday of last week. Recitation of the Rosary was held at the chapel of Rocky Campbell and A large line of attractive Christmas cards is on order and a complete line of ledger and loose-leaf accounting forms are now available. Both the co-owners are graduates of Anaheim Union high school. Spielman served as crew chief with night fighters in the United States Army Air Force. La Mont served in the Navy four years as a quartermaster. He saw two and one-half years of action overseas. Spielman, his wife, Betty, and two children, Betsy Anne and John, reside at 1108 West Center street. Mr. and Mrs. La Mont live at 126 West Chartres street. ORANGE DOG POISONER GETS 13TH VICTIM An Orange pet animal poisoned had scored his thirteenth victory up to early this week. Of the 12 were dogs and one was a dog. The poisoner's method is to scatter about small balls of meat before pregnant with arsenic. Poison have reported they have soaked clues as to the identity of the poisoner but will make no arrest until they are more certain that they are at present of being able to obtain a conviction. Elizabeth M. Watte Funeral Monday Service of High Mass was held last Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Boniface Catholic church for Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watte, beloved wife of Omer H. Watte of 601 South Olive street, this city. She passed away at the home on Thursday of last week. Recitation of the Rosary was held at the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary last Sunday evening at 7:30. Interment was in Calvary cemetery in Los Angeles. The deceased was a member of St. Boniface church. Surviving other than the husband are two sons, Oscar P. and George F. Watte, both of Long Beach; two daughters Mrs. Valentine Verhaegen and Mrs. Anna A. Cosyns, both of Westminster; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Valentine Golman of Los Alamitos and one brother, Bill Verstuyft of South Gate. Mary M. Muro Buried Monday Mary M. Muro, 8 month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Muro of LaJolla colony, was buried in Holy Sepulchre cemetery last Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with graveside rites being held. The child was born in Fullerton and was the only child. LONG-MILLER ENGAGEMENT IS REVEALED The engagement of Miss Dawn Long, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Long of 209 Cypress avenue, Santa Ana, and Chester Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Miller of Anaheim, was announced last weekend. No date has been set for the wedding. Snowbirds Will Race Sunday Snowbirds,” dainty sailing will skim over the waters of Newport Harbor in the twelfth race Sunday afternoon begging at 1:30 o’clock. Sandy Day, general chairman, stated for the first time, the awards year will be presented by the owner of last year’s winner. Mrs. Lewis of Riverside will do honors. Her son, Walter K. Jr., won that event out of quarters. On Heseman and Stuart Cud-Man Riverside, recorders, will be the official records. Commo-Everett Morris of the New-Harbor Yacht club will be charge of the course assisted by Mr. Master Russell Craig and one of patrol craft manned by club members. Aiding in the annual small boat race and having entrants in the race all five yacht clubs in Port, the Newport Harbor, Lido Isle, Voyagers and Island clubs. Phobies go to the first ten with added awards for the girl to finish, youngest girl to finish, youngest skipper in the oldest skipper to finish and Medals go to the skipper on tenth boat to finish, start with the eleventh boat to cross finish line, making an added of every ten boats. AGE DOG POISONER 13TH VICTIM Orange pet animal poisoner scored his thirteenth victim nearly this week. Of the 13, five dogs and one was a cat. Poisoner's method is to scat-out small balls of meat imitated with arsenic. Police reported they have some Frederick L. Ward Claimed by Death Frederick Lee Ward, 63 years of age, passed away at 168 West Center street, his place of residence, last Sunday, July 27. Born in Waldren, Arkansas, he had lived in Anaheim for the past five years. The deceased was an employee of Mutual Citrus Products for a number of years. Surviving are one niece, Mrs. Foy Wininger of Crowder, Okla. Funeral services will be conducted Friday morning at 10:30 from the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary with interment in Anaheim cemetery. Rev. A. L. Casebeer, pastor of the Christian Church in this city, will officiate. MONTE WEBB IMPROVES ON ‘SELF WINDER’ Seems Monte Webb, well known Anaheim barber on West Center street and fly-tying expert, has many remarkable angler friends, one of whom made a final unlucky cast, against his wife’s advice, recently in a southern California fishing haven. One of the hooks on the end of his line caught in the chain of his watch and dislodged the loyal time keeper into the middle of the lake. Fortunately his Izaak Walton membership card remained undisturbed in a southern pocket. Six months later, the same piscator, trying his luck again at the scene of the accident, caught a beautiful big bass with a knot on the side of its head. Jammed in the fish’s gill was the watch (a famous anti-brand) still ticking. The expansion and contraction of the bass’ breather kept it wound, he says. C. H. MULLIGAN, JR. ABOARD USS ST. PAUL Charles H. Mulligan, Jr., store-keeper, third class, USN, is serving aboard the heavy cruiser, USS St. Paul, flagship of Cruiser Division 3, in Asiatic waters. Mulligan’s wife, Mrs. Virginia Mulligan, resides at the family home, 1038 North Olive street, this city. The St. Paul, which left the states in February, is operating out of the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China. RENT A SINGER ELECTRIC BY THE MOUR in our Sewing Center. 50¢ an hour. BY THE MONTM in your own home. $5.00 per month SINGER SEWING CENTER Phone 4619 170 West Center St "Caliwool" TEXTURED CARPETING CALIWOOL TEXTURED carpeting is the exciting, new floor covering of exquisite charm that is produced in lusfrous pastel colors which are exotically different. 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