anaheim-gazette 1948-01-15

COLONY QUIPS Having just passed through one of the driest years on record, the thing we do the least about seems to be making up its mind to set a new all-time high or we should say low on precipitation. Over in Nevada they tried to get some passing clouds to drop their moisture while passing over that state on route to Utah. The divorce state boys dropped CO2 on these clouds trying to persuade a little moisture to fall. The Utah people seek now to enjoin this practice. Now then, why can't we here seek in the same way to eatice some rain out of all this fog (not high) that we are having? Perhaps we had better let well enough alone or we will turn the fog into a Santa Ana wind. The Truman administration has unlimbered its heavy political guns in Washington and it is hard to tell yet if there have been any direct hits on the Wallace position. The president, of course, wants us to think that he is aiming at the Republicans but don't forget that Henry has them a bit worried. Watching those political wheels go round and round may be very interesting to the casual observer and strike him as a lot of fun. But it is very hard on our country which needs real government so much more than it does a continuation of the cynical, cold-blooded political principle of "spend and spend elect and elect." VOLUME LXXVII Records Show This is Far From Driving Rain Season — To Date, That is Orange county water companies were working this week almost at their midsummer clip, supplying ranchers with irrigating water. But a growing impression that the present winter has, so far, established any kind of a record for little rainfall is badly mistaken. Since 1891 there have been six seasons in which the rainfall total between July 1 and January 1 was less than this year's total of 1.46 inch. In the six-months period in 1898 there was .30 of an inch: in 1903, .43 of an inch; in 1910, 1.09 inches; in 1912, .94 of an inch; in 1917, .43 of an inch, and in 1929, .32 of an inch. In four of the six years the dry first six months of the rain season was followed by fairly satisfactory to heavy rainfall in January. In 1903-04 season, however, the dry fall was followed by only .14 of an inch of rain in January. In the 1917-18 season the total from July 1 to February 1 was only .93 of an inch. 'Skeets' Gregg Traded by Dodg To Pittsburgh Hal "Skeets" Gregg oheim has been traded by year's National League pwinning Brooklyn Dodgthe Pittsburgh Pirates, ing to word which reaches this week. According friends, the local man pleased with the trade. With Gregg the management traded south Pitcher Vic Lombardi and Walker, center fielder Shortstop Ralph Cox, Baseman Gener Mauch Pitcher "Preacher" Ro information added that subsequently traded back Dodgers. Farmer Finan The president, of course, wants us to think that he is aiming at the Republicans but don’t forget that Henry has them a bit worried. Watching those political wheels go round and round may be very interesting to the casual observer and strike him as a lot of fun. But it is very hard on our country which needs real government so much more than it does a continuation of the cynical, cold-blooded political principle of “spend and spend, elect and elect,” “placate and proceed,” “appease and rule” which have worked so well in the past. Perhaps the people are beginning to read between the lines. Perhaps they now understand that grain speculation by insiders was not dictated by anything except a knowledge of what the administration was going to do with our dollars. Vote Republican in ’48, don’t give up this greatest state. —O— The law business is not very pretty. Otto Jacobs, counsel for the defense in the sensational trial of Louise Overell, charged with murder or her parents, seeks to collect in addition to previous fees $126,641 in added fees and expenses. The point is made by counsel, in behalf of his claim, that the uncle of his heiress client, suggested during the trial, that the plea be changed from “not guilty” to “guilty.” The inference is obvious. Legal skill saved her neck. And that laughable thing we call justice, does not even pretend to offer any solution of the death of the girl’s parents other than the one from which a fat pocket book bought brains to save the defendant. Faith in the decency of human nature was further jolted by the old crones and young bobby soxers, who swarmed about the court house, while a verdict was awaited, after the manner of the Paris mob around the guillotine in the French Revolution. And inside the Court of Justice (?) flash light bulbs lit up the scene of a walkie talkie radic broadcast performance, comparable only to the disorder attendant upon an orgy lifted from ‘he depths of Dantes’ “Inferno.” —O— Washington politicians say candidate Henry Wallace will draw most of his support from the Democrats and cut in on Dewey as a Republican candidate. Top politicians in the National Capital region have been enjoying by more than 10,000,000 persons, including 2,500,000 at the New York World's Fair alone, and more than 1,200,000 service men and women during the war years. It has been a feature of every inches; in 1912, .94 of an inch; in 1917, .43 of an inch, and in 1929, .32 of an inch. In four of the six years the dry first six months of the rain season was followed by fairly satisfactory to heavy rainfall in January. In 1903-04 season, however, the dry fall was followed by only .14 of an inch of rain in January. In the 1917-18 season the total from July 1 to February 1 was only .93 of an inch. If the present rain season follows the pattern set by its predecessors, the year’s total rainfall will fall short of the 70 year average of 15.43 inches. In all six years when rainfall from July 1 to January 1 was less than the 1947 total the total was below the average, but in some cases not far below. And in the six, it will be noted was the season of 1898-99 which was the driest since records for southern California have been kept. That year total rainfall was 5.59 inches, of which 2.64 fell in January. 'House of Magic' To Be Presented Here This Month Paper will be exploded at Anaheim Union high school auditorium on January 26 and 27 at 7:30 P.M., when General Electric's "House of Magic" will be presented. A paper disc is attached to the shaft of a motor and turned faster and faster until, with a startling report, it "explodes" or flies apart. At the instant of the explosion a light flashes, leaving the shadow of the breaking disc on a fluorescent screen. This demonstration, which illustrates the manner in which scientists study such objects as whirling turbine wheels moving at high speeds, is one of many to be presented at the hour-long "House of Magic" show. Rather than a magic show, as its name would indicate, the show resorts to no tricks, presenting merely striking scientific phenomena discovered in General Electric's Research Laboratory at Schenectady, N.Y. Now in its fourteenth season, the "House of Magic" has been enjoyed by more than 10,000,000 persons, including 2,500,000 at the New York World's Fair alone, and more than 1,200,000 service men and women during the war years. Farmer Finance Groups To Pay First Dividends Both the Orange County production Credit Association and Orange County National Loan Association declare dents this week, the first their organization in this in 1933. The Production Credit institution which has outstanding in capital stock in the hh about 250 Orange county has declared a dividend on cent and in addition will about $2600 of interest borrowers during 1947. The National Land Bank association will pay a dividend per cent on $60,000 of operating capital stock after $8286 to its reserves. Production Credit has over $1,000,000 to Orange city orchardists, bean and growers, livestock and producers and dairymen built up a reserve of $72,000 its directors believe is sure to protect members' capitals from now on according to tary Leland Finley, it plan fund all of its profits to its holders. The last of the move vanced by the government association was paid off. Officers of Orange County production Credit Association Vernon C. Heil, Smeltzer; Griset, Santa Ana, vice pr Frank Borchard, Santa A F. Schroeder, Garden Gro Selmer M. Rosedale, Yorba Since its organization ago the Orange County Loan Association has lent of $12,000,000 on Orange farms without a cent of loss on loans, according to who is also secretary of society. Officers and directors Farm Loan association are L. Budlong, Santa Ana, p Harold Girton Garden Gro And inside the Court of Justice (?) flash light bulbs lit up the scene of a walkie talkie radio broadcast performance, comparable only to the disorder attendant upon an orgy lifted from 'the depths of Dantes' "Inferno." Washington politicians say candidate Henry Wallace will draw most of his support from the Democrats and cut in on Dewey as a Republican candidate. Top politicians in the National Capital picture Wallace as endangering Mr. Truman. Don't forget that they are both children of the New Deal. Labor leaders have lost most of their power in Congress. Make up your mind that strikes are already being controlled by law. That law is the Taft-Hartley Act. It has force because it is fair and square to employers and employees and it will render justice to wage earners and their employers. That statement has already been proven—and the probabilities are that riotous and unnecessary strikes have had their day. Higher wages, higher prices and higher costs of living are "sisters under the skin." EXTRA! Florida Got Cold Wednesday night the temperatures recorded in Florida citrus groves created a lot of ice in their crop. The weather in the next 48 to 60 hours will determine final result of the damage. If the weather is unfavorable there will probably be an embargo put on fruit. Temperatures were recorded as follows: Tampa 28; Orlando 25; Dr. Phillips, Lakeland, Barstow, Winterhaven all 26; Lake Alfred 27. The 175 members of the Valencia Orange association who attended the annual dinner meeting which was held last week end at the White Temple Methodist church, heard about as satisfying a report on the past year's activities as the members of any Orange county citrus packing and shipping association is likely to hear this year, and named G. W. Sandilands manager for his 39th successive year. The manager's report showed the association had handled 961 standard cars of fruit during the year for which it received $1,018,-397.59. The per acre production was reported the heaviest ever experienced by the association. As for sizes, they were reported "much better than the year before." Don L. Thompson gave a talk on methods of processing those parts of the crop which it is undesirable to send to market as fresh fruit. F. Schroeder, Garden Grass Selmer M. Rosedale, Yorba Since its organization ago the Orange County Loan Association has lent of $12,000,000 on Orange farms without a cent of loss on loans, according to who is also secretary of society. Officers and directors Farm Loan association are L. Budlong, Santa Ana, p Harold Girton, Garden Grove president; and B. F. Foss Linda; Charles D. Van Wyta Ana, and Raymond L. Tustin. Modoc county with an production of more than 000 board feet ranks among the lumber countie state. Anaheim Valencia Orange Assn. M. Name Sandiland Manager 39th Year and showed a film illustrating juices and cones and methods employed in manufacture of other products. George Graham of Citrusers, Inc., in discussing citrus and packing labor said the industry would be able to accomplish the local help, but that in prospect it should be import help and that rather have Mexican natives. A. H. Kirchman, man the Northern Orange Citrus Exchange, told problems met in market last year and the prosperity coming season. The 1947 officers and directors consisting of Erichert, president; Herman service president; Henry M. J. J. Omelia, L. P. Nicole Fred Weisel were reeled Ben A. G. Stroup was ad new member of the boa ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948 Is Far From Driest State, That is ‘Skeets’ Gregg Traded by Dodgers To Pittsburgh Hal “Skeets” Gregg of Anaheim has been traded by last year's National League pennant winning Brooklyn Dodgers to the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to word which reached him this week. According to his friends, the local man is well pleased with the trade. With Gregg the Dodgers management traded southpaw Pitcher Vic Lombardi and Dixie Walker, center fielder, for Shortstop Ralph Cox, Second Baseman Gener Mauch and Pitcher “Preacher” Roe. The information added that Mauch subsequently traded back to the Dodgers. County Navels Grow Slowly In December Orange county navels grew only .018 of an inch in December, according to Orange Administrative Committee figures, but still had the third largest average size of any of the eight districts in southern California. Average growth for all southern California during December was .025 of an inch. The ten-year average is .085 of an inch. In the Whittier-Orange county district the fruit measured 2.590 inches in diameter on December 1 and 2.698 on January 1. It requires 224 oranges of that size to fill a packed box. The largest navels were found in Ventura county where the fruit measured 2.755 inches in diameter, 193 of which will pack a box. Next largest average was found in San Diego county where the measurement on January 1 was 2.637 Council Asked To Call Hearing On Annexation Opposition to annexation of a small territory north of Lincoln avenue and west of the present west city limit, to the city of Anaheim, apparently has disappeared and the proposal which has been hanging fire since last May will be revived again. This was indicated by a delegation which appeared before the city council at its meeting Tuesday night and asked for a hearing on a petition to include even more property than was covered in the original petition. The hearing will be held January 27. Most of the rest of the council meeting Tuesday night was devoted to hearing monthly and annual reports of various city department heads. It heard from City Clerk Charles Griffith that total expenditures of the city between December 15 and 31 were $45,492.95, which left a general fund balance of $89,687.78. Total all city funds were $208,676.07. Soil Savers Favor Permits Works in 1948 The Orange county vation committee w 1948, emphasize con- works of a rather per- ture and abandon, for least, most of the so- tural practices. This is revealed in handbook and progr- tices for the county wh- ing to Chairman Roy been approved by the and by Washington. Outlining the handb- Eastman, county sec- the broad purpose of it is: the same as before farmers to maintain a nation's soil and sources. But the pr- work differently from previous years. Any producer is eligible to in the 1948 program. I anticipate by requesting Farmer Finance Groups To Pay First Dividends Both the Orange County Production Credit Association and the Orange County National Farm Loan Association declared dividends this week, the first since their organization in this county 1933. The Production Credit association which has outstanding $56,235 capital stock in the hands of about 250 Orange county farmers was declared a dividend of 3 per cent and in addition will refund about $2600 of interest paid by borrowers during 1947. The National Land Bank Association will pay a dividend of 6 per cent on $60,000 of outstanding capital stock after adding $286 to its reserves. Production Credit has loaned over $1,000,000 to Orange county orchardists, bean and grain growers, livestock and poultry producers and dairymen. It has built up a reserve of $72,000 which its directors believe is sufficient to protect members' capital and from now on, according to Secretary Leland Finley, it plans to reound all of its profits to its stockholders. The last of the money advanced by the government to the association was paid off in 1946. Officers of Orange County Production Credit Association are Bernon C. Heil, Smeltzer; Stephen Riset, Santa Ana; vice president; Frank Borchard, Santa Ana; A. Schroeder, Garden Grove and Selmer M. Rosedale, Yorba Linda. Since its organization 15 years ago the Orange County Farm Loan Association has lent a total of $12,000,000 on Orange county farms without a cent of capital loss on loans, according to Finley who is also secretary of that association. Officers and directors of the Farm Loan association are Howard Budlong, Santa Ana, president; Garold Girton Garden Grove vice manager. In the Whittier-Orange county district the fruit measured 2.590 inches in diameter on December 1 and 2.698 on January 1. It requires 224 oranges of that size to fill a packed box. The largest navels were found in Ventura county where the fruit measured 2.755 inches in diameter, 193 of which will pack a box. Next largest average was found in San Diego county where the measurement on January 1 was 2.637 inches, with 218 fruits packing a box. Until December the Whittier-Orange county district stood second only to Ventura county in average size but a growth rate of .131 of an inch in San Diego county in December placed it second at the end of the month. Cucamonga-San Dimas-Uplands-Pomona district had the smallest navels in southern California on January 1 with an average of 269 oranges to the box. Neighboring Azusa-Covina-Glendora district was a close second with an average of 267 and the Redlands-Highlands district was third from the bottom with an average of 257. The lowest December growth rate was recorded in the Corona-Riverside district. It was .016 of an inch. The Whittier-Orange county district grew only .002 of an inch more. Sewer Plans Discussed At Buena Park Two alternative plans for meeting sewerage problems in proposed Sanitary District 3 were discussed at a meeting of property owners from all parts of the proposed district held Monday night at Buena Park. One was termed a delayed construction program under which certain features of the plan drawn up by the county's advisory board of sanitary engineers would remain to be constructed only when population growth called for them. The other was termed the skeleton district plan under which only built up territory would be included and agricultural lands largely excluded. Ewald Lemke, engineer for the joint outfall sewer, told the gathering that under the delayed construction program the cost of the sewer in District 3 need not exceed 23 cents per $100 of assessed value per year and that if available state funds were collected than was covered in the original petition. The hearing will be held January 27. Most of the rest of the council meeting Tuesday night was devoted to hearing monthly and annual reports of various city department heads. It heard from City Clerk Charles Griffith that total expenditures of the city between December 15 and 31 were $45,492.95, which left a general fund balance of $89,687.78. Total in all city funds was $308,676.97. Public service department collections for December totaled $47,908.68. Sanitation collections for the month were $5,283 and parking meters took in $2,674 of which about half still goes to the company which installed the meters. They will be paid for some time this year. Property tax collections so far this year total $89,818.52 and the balance to be collected is $28,-158.83, including second installment payments which become delinquent April 20. The fire department reported there were 12 fire alarms during December and the only loss reported was $300 in a garage fire. Fire losses in the city during all of 1947 totaled only $2,050. The police department reported 41 arrests during December and the issuance of 166 traffic citations and 361 parking meter citations. During the year just ended the police reported a total of 704 arrests, of which 388 were for drunkenness. It received reports of 43 stolen cars and recovered 42. The report of City Judge John Shea for December indicated Anaheimers were on their best behavior last month. He heard 422 cases and collected $2,715.50, about half the normal monthly total. During December the city pumped 2,131,200 gallons of water and bought 49,534,000 from the Metropolitan Water District. Optomists Club To Get Charter, Seat Officers Presentation of the club charter and induction of local officers will head the newly-formed Optomists club charter night dinner meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Elks club. Al Magill, president of the sponsoring Whittier club, will preside over the installation ceremony and seat Orange Assn. Men Manager 39th Year And showed a film illustrating the planning of juices and concentrates and methods employed in the manufacture of other by-products. George Graham of Citrus Growers, Inc., in discussing citrus picking and packing labor prospects, said the industry would like to be able to accomplish the job with local help, but that in view of prospects it should be able to import help and that it would rather have Mexican nationals. A. H. Kirchman, manager of the Northern Orange County Citrus Exchange, told of the problems met in marketing fruit last year and the prospects for the coming season. The 1947 officers and board of directors consisting of Ernst Borchert, president; Herman Allgeyer, vice president; Henry Mang, jr., J. J. Omelia, L. P. Nichols and Fred Weisel were reelected and Ben A. G. Stroup was added as a new member of the board. FJC Art Students' Work on Display Aspiring art students from this vicinity are among those at Fullerton Junior college whose water color work is being displayed in the gallery in the home economics building on the campus. The brush wielders are members of Miss Lucile Hinkle's advanced art class. Due to popular demand, the exhibit, which opened last week, is being continued this week. The public is invited to attend any time during the day. Work displayed covers a wide variety of subjects. From this area are student exhibitors Arvin Mahoney of Anaheim; Ralph Farmer, Garden Grove; and Gene Shaffer of Yorba Linda. Optomists Club To Get Charter, Seat Officers Presentation of the club charter and induction of local officers will head the newly-formed Optomists club charter night dinner meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Elks club. Al Magill, president of the sponsoring Whittier club, will preside over the installation ceremony and seat J. W. Stephens as president. A cordial invitation to the affair was extended to wives and guests of members, Mayor Charles Pearson and other city officials, to executives of the chamber of commerce, and to the four local service clubs. Also expected to attend the program are 50 members and their wives of the Fullerton Optomists club, and many of the sponsoring Whittier group and delegates from throughout southern California. Other officers to be installed with Stephens who were elected last Thursday night at 7 o'clock at La Palma Grill, include Walter Gooden, first vice president; Tom Yellis, second vice president; Lee H. Fellows, secretary-treasurer, and Leo Tauer, appointed by Stephens to be sergeant-at-arms. Deborah Cecil of Placentia, 10-year-old protege, will interpret vocal selections during the entertainment program. The talented youngster has been heard over station KDON, Salinas, in the Hollywood-Roosevelt Hotel, by many southern California service clubs, and by patients at the Sawtelle service men's hospital. BABY DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Farren of 141 North Orange street, Brea, became the parents of a six-pound, 14-ounce, baby daughter, Monday at Fullerton Cottage hospital. Anaheim Gazette since 1870. ORANGE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY AZETTE RY 15, 1948 Eight Pages NO. 12 Soil Savers To Favor Permanent Works in 1948 The Orange county soil conservation committee will, during 1948, emphasize construction of works of a rather permanent nature and abandon, for this year at least, most of the so-called cultural practices. This is revealed in the 1948 handbook and program of practices for the county which, according to Chairman Roy L. Hale, has been approved by the state office and by Washington. Outlining the handbook, Eric E. Eastman, county secretary, said the broad purpose of the program is the same as before: to assist farmers to maintain and improve the nation's soil and water resources. But the program will work differently from that of previous years. Any agricultural producer is eligible to participate in the 1948 program. He may participate by requesting and receiving. Citrus Growers To Canvass Navajo Reservations for Citrus Field Help "California has plenty of agricultural labor; with a good surplus existing in the San Joaquin valley from which workers are being recruited for the southern California citrus crop." A Western News Service dispatch from Sacramento thus quoted James G. Bryant, director of the state department of employment. George Graham, secretary-treasurer-manager of Citrus Grower's Inc., whose specific job is to house and feed workers in the citrus industry but who is looked to by Orange county growers also to supply their labor needs, said the statement attributed to Bryant was correct—but not complete. There are plenty of agricultural workers in the San Joaquin valley—about 250,000 of them, in fact, Graham said. But they have shown remarkably little appetite for work in southern California citrus groves. While this reporter was questioning him in his office Oldest, Youngest Judges Claimed By One Family One family has not only the youngest Superior Court judge in California, but the oldest federal circuit jurist in the nation. The youngest is Superior Judge Robert Gardner of Newport Beach, presiding over Orange County's new Dept. No. 4; the oldest is his uncle, Archibald K. Gardner of Huron, S. D., of the 8th federal Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to being the oldest, Justice Gardner was only recently appointed as senior circuit judge of all 12 U.S. circuit courts, and as such is actually the presiding officer of them. He is 80 years of age. He entered the federal court service June 3, 1929, by appointment of President Coolidge when he was 62 years old— been approved by the state office and by Washington. Outlining the handbook, Eric E. Eastman, county secretary, said the broad purpose of the program is the same as before: to assist farmers to maintain and improve the nation's soil and water resources. But the program will work differently from that of previous years. Any agricultural producer is eligible to participate in the 1948 program. He may participate by requesting and receiving approval to perform a practice, or practices, any time during the program year. The county committee will notify the producer in writing of all approvals granted. The approval notice will indicate the conservation practices which may be performed for credit under the program and the amount that may be earned by performing the practices on the producer's farm. The producer must report the performance of the approved practices to the county office on or before the expiration date recorded on the approval notice. The only farm practices made available by the county committee for 1948 are: Broad-base contour terrace construction; contour strip-cropping; contour planting of orchards and vineyards; establishment of permanent sod waterways; diversion terraces and diversion ditches; permanent rip-rap construction; construction of flumes or chutes; mechanical protection of outlet channels; dams for erosion control; rock and brush check-dams. Irrigation and drainage practices are: reorganization of farm irrigation system; dams for irrigation water; construction and enlargement of open farm drainage ditches; and installation of tile, fibre-pipe and lumber box drains. Range and pasture practices are: dams, reservoirs, pits and ponds for livestock water; installation of pipelines for livestock water; lining earthen reservoirs for livestock water; elimination of competitive plants and shrubs on grazing land; and construction of permanent fences on grazing land. Forestry and miscellaneous practices are: planting forest trees, shrubs or windbreaks; eradication and control of noxious weeds; elimination and control of soil pests (nematode control). Hale explained that the committee sees and appreciates the value of cultural practices in conservation programs, but under the citrus industry but who is looked to by Orange county growers also to supply their labor needs, said the statement attributed to Bryant was correct—but not complete. There are plenty of agricultural workers in the San Joaquin valley—about 250,000 of them, in fact, Graham said. But they have shown remarkably little appetite for work in southern California citrus groves. While this reporter was questioning him in his office he received a telephone call from a citrus association member who said the state employment service had referred to him 33 unemployed workers. Of these three showed up at the packing plant and of the three one stayed to work. Another representative of a group of citrus employers felt so sure he could recruit workers among the unemployed in the San Joaquin valley that he took a bus with a capacity for 40 passengers up into the valley to transport workers to their jobs in southern California groves. He finally came home with a total of 12. All told, Graham said, the industry has had 15 labor recruiters in the valley and have had full cooperation from representatives of the state employment service. They have recruited and started southward between 600 and 700 men. Of these about 5 per cent were experienced citrus workers. Of the total recruited and sent south about 60 per cent have left before the first pay day. Why? "Well," said Graham, "that is the $64 question. It definitely is not lack of housing. Most of the demand so far this season has been in Ventura county where there is plenty of excellent housing for families and single men. And it is not a question of pay. The average has been about $40 Pickard Heads Realty Board John Pickard was elected 1948 president of the Anaheim Realty Board succeeding R. L. Rust, during the board's annual meeting at the Parker House Cafe recently. Dr. Paul Dewhirst of Los Angeles was the speaker. Other officers named to serve with Pickard include Delmar Jackson, vice president; La Verne Roquet, chairman of the multiple listing plan, and Frances Backs, secretary-treasurer. James Morris, who gave a report on the multiple listing plan, oldest is his uncle, Archibald K. Gardner of Huron, S. D., of the 8th federal Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to being the oldest, Justice Gardner was only recently appointed as senior circuit judge of all 12 U.S. circuit courts, and as such is actually the presiding officer of them. He is 80 years of age. He entered the federal court service June 3, 1929, by appointment of President Coolidge, when he was 62 years old—after having already served a "lifetime" as an attorney. It was Justice Gardner who still president emeritus of Huron college, helped Judge Gardner through law school, but it was not he who told his nephew of his new honors. It remained for Judge Gardner to see, in the new issue of the American Bar Association Journal, Justice Gardner's portrait on the cover page. The magazine carried a highly commendatory article on the senior jurist's history and accomplishments. He is noted in legal circles for his opinion which served as basis for supporting the convictions of Boss Pendergast and his henchmen in the Missouri election fraud cases. The federal Circuit Court is next ranking tribunal below the U.S. Supreme Court. Williams Heads Junior C. of C. Bob Williams was elected president of the Anaheim Junior Chamber of Commerce succeeding Dick Adams at the election during the regular business meeting held Wednesday night of last week. LaVerne Roquet was named to fill the remainder of Williams term as second vice president. Adams tendered his resignation, requesting release from his unexpired term due to increased business obligations. Following his election, President Williams appointed Dr. Frank Word treasurer for the balance of the term. Loren Wagner was appointed to fill the vacancy on the board of directors caused by Adams resignation. The Junior Chamber will meet at the Chungking cafe on East Center street next Wednesday night, it was announced. Native Sons To Install Officers Officers for 1948 of the Native Grower Says Too Many Packing Plants, Too Many Between Grower, Consumer Too many citrus packing plants in Orange county and too many dealers handling the fruit between the grower and the consumer may account for unsatisfactory returns to producers in the opinion of J. E. Prentice, dirt farmer of Santa Ana. In a communication to the Gazette he suggests that growers establish in every large city their own distributor who would service retailers just as do Standard Oil, Union Oil and Coca Cola and fix the price daily at which their products should retail. Writes Prentice: "Speaking purely as a dirt farmer with a lifetime of raising produce of various kinds for the consumer, I have given a great deal of thought to methods by which our orange growers can enhance their incomes. We have a great co-operative, controlling, according to their statements, in the neighborhood of 70-80% of the oranges of Cali-formia, with highpowered salesmen, and high salaried managers. We have in this vicinity alone a hundred packing houses with their high salaried managers, field men and cold storage plants, when a half dozen well-run packing houses, could easily handle all of the fruit raised in this county. The fruit which we raise, on which we have spent a year cultivating, watering, fertilizing, pruning, spraying, fumigating and yearning, we hand over to the managers of our expensive packing plants to be picked and packed, shipped east, we pay all of the charges therefor, and at destination we see the fruit put on the auction block, there to be slaughtered by the middlemen and sold by them through the retailer to the ultimate consumer at a handsome, yea an exorbitant profit to said middlemen. This year, when the grower realized less than production costs, the president of the Anaheim Realty Board succeeding R. L. Ruist, during the board's annual meeting at the Parker House Cafe recently. Dr. Paul Dewhirst of Los Angeles was the speaker. Other officers named to serve with Pickard include Delmar Jackson, vice president; La Verne Roquet, chairman of the multiple listing plan, and Frances Backs, secretary-treasurer. James Morris, who gave a report on the multiple listing plan, announced that $626,000 worth of property had been sold since last spring, with the high average of 28 per cent. The Anaheim board holds first place in increased membership in the state, having this year a membership enrollment eleven times that of 1943, it was announced. Native Sons To Install Officers Officers for 1948 of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Mother Colony Parlor 218, will be installed next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at K. C. hall, 125 East Center street. Harold Parkhurst, district deputy to this parlor from Riverside, will officiate for the ceremony and seat Charles Smith of Placentia as president succeeding Henry Plou of Anaheim. Other officers to be installed include Frank Salveson of Fullerton, senior past president; Henry Plou of Anaheim, junior past president; Alexis Pelous of Anaheim, first vice president; Harold Reis of Placentia, second vice president; Albert Rotheraermel, Fullerton, third vice president, and S. Charles Tuffree, of Placentia, marshal. Trustees to be seated include Tuffree, Lawrence Lemke, Sr., of Placentia, and Gerard Callens of Anaheim. Ralph Beatty of Placentia will be installed as inside sentinel; Edwin Erickson of Fullerton, outside sentinel; William Stuhaan of Anaheim, financial secretary, and Loren Wagner of Anaheim, recording secretary. Retiring financial secretary is Joe Lieb, Jr., of this city. Leonard Schwacofer also of Anaheim, is the retiring recording secretary. Final plans will be launched for the centennial dance to be sponsored by the Native Sons and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, on Saturday night, January 24, at the Elks club beginning at 9 o'clock.