anaheim-gazette 1948-02-12

COLONY QUIPS There is a lot of hush hush going around which has to do with our school system. Petitions and meetings are being promulgated and, from what we hear, some steam is being generated. Now it may be that our system is not the finest in the land, we do not know nor do we think anyone has even so much as a yard stick that will serve, but we do feel that it is far from the worst. But be that as it may there is a school board, elected by the people and serving without pay, to whom any complaint would be a welcome matter to look into and act upon. It would also be a welcome change from the regular apathy of most citizens, very few of whom even take the trouble to vote in a school election and vastly fewer still ever attend their meetings. The usual procedure is for one or two, usually without children of school age, to hold a 'meeting' and take the system apart. The story grows in the telling until a person hearing it for the first time may get a wholly different picture than the original 'gripe' intended. Stories grow apace and meanings vary, thus leading to actions that many may be sorry for later. The real and constructive way to straighten a matter of this kind out is to meet with the board, state your case, talk it out and you will find, we believe, better and quicker action will be attained than having a lot of indignation sessions. Now if some other motive than improvement of our public schools is involved then the thing to do is to elect a new board with the same thing in mind and it is done. thus leading to actions that many may be sorry for later. The real and constructive way to straighten a matter of this kind out is to meet with the board, state your case, talk it out and you will find, we believe, better and quicker action will be attained than having a lot of indignation sessions. Now if some other motive than improvement of our public schools is involved then the thing to do is to elect a new board with the same thing in mind and it is done. That sort of approach means putting on a political campaign and fully acquainting the people with the issues involved. There have been many such campaigns in the past and many more to come in the future. Usually there is some one at the bottom with an axe to grind. In the grinding let all be sure that the schools do not lose their edge. If you want to investigate the school system better look into some of the REQUIRED curricula with a definite Communistic flavor. There are books with this definite taint put before the eyes and minds of the children in our public schools. You must go higher than the local board or management to get this sort of thing corrected. Perhaps that would be a good subject for some of these essays? After all we must pay taxes for public schools whether or not we have children using them. Last year, so they say, there was an overproduction of oranges and many growers did not get enough return to make it profitable to grow them. So far there have just been mumblings and grumblings. To take care of this situation and get the large marketing organizations on their toes we offer a slogan: "Raise less oranges and more hell." Have you noticed Old Saddleback lately? A gander up there will show you a fine layer of snow that, come the spring thaw, will turn into that greatly needed commodity—water. A glance at the higher mountains, where the Santa Ana river has its source, will show you a lot of potential H2O there, too. Anglers Cast At La Palma Sunday La Palma park's popular casting pool again was the scene of skilled exhibitions with rod and reel, as Anaheim Joakim Walters Navel oranges of all sizes and grades averaged $2.85 a box last week, 14 cents above the average for the preceding week. In the corresponding week last year the average was $2.75 a box, in 1946 3.81 a box and in 1945, $3.87 a box. On auctions Tuesday fancy brand navels averaged $5.43 a box delivered for 126s; a week earlier the average was $5.23 a box. 150s averaged $5.75, ten cents higher than on the preceding Tuesday; 176s averaged $5.85, up 29 cents from the preceding Tuesday; 200s averaged $5.51, 51 cents up from the preceding Tuesday; 220s averaged $4.65, 37 cents a box higher, and 252s averaged $3.90, up 47 cents (but 50 cents a box under what it costs to pack, ship and sell the fruit to the jobber); 288s averaged $3.40 and 344s, $2.76. Market reports showed a sharp decline for Florida oranges auctions. It totaled $1.12 in two weeks. The Florida fruit was reported as giving good customer satisfaction. The harvest of Florida valencias was but a few days away and indications were they would run 180 to the box. The lemon market rose a bare two cents a box last week on the lightest volume in four years. This week the average for the larger sizes ranged from 30 to 40 cents a box while the average fell on 360s and smaller. However the average on Tuesday for all sizes was up 4 cents from the preceding Tuesday. The average for all sizes and grades last week was $4.70 a box compared to $3.91 for the corresponding week in 1947, $4.22 in 1946 and $3.80 in 1945. Reports indicated there were not enough colds and flu in the east and middlewest to influence the lemon market. How Education Helps Business Told By Speaker While money alone won't produce good schools, there is a close relationship between the educational level of a community and its economic well being, Paul E. Good, secretary of the committee on education of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told an audience at the Little Theatre, Anaheim Union high school, Tuesday night. Committee Asks School Trustees For Conference A group calling itself Committee this week a board of trustees of the elementary schools for ence. Members of the boa to meet the group tomorrow night) night at the board Citron street. Board members profe to know what matter thad to present. They could make a guess but to discuss what their gue OVERELL ATTORNEY FEE CLAIM SETTLED Otto Jacobs and Z. scaled their request for defending Beulah Loerell against a charge o George Gollum murder ents aboard a yacht in Bay last year down to They said their claim fo expenses also had been Anglers Cast At La Palma Sunday La Palma park's popular casting pool again was the scene of skilled exhibitions with rod and reel, as Anaheim Izaak Waltons and other enthusiastic anglers gathered for skish and five-eighths ounce accuracy contests. Sunday morning beginning at 9:30 o'clock. Prizes for the event were given by the Anaheim league chapter. Skish winners included Morrie Shirk, first; Jim Rymer, second; Bob Williams, third, and Octave Roquet; fourth. In the five-eighths ounce tourney, Sam Whippo took highest honors with a score of 87. Others placing as the top 10 scorers included Ed Daniels, 80; Bob Williams, 79; Roy Mabee, 79; Clint Flynn, 79; Octave Roquet, 77; Spence Alcock, 74; Bill Ferriss, 69; Pinky Wisser, 67; Dobbin Daniels, 66. Others casting were Morrie Shirk, 65; Jim Rymer, 62; Chet Barnes, 60; Arch Henry, 57; Dap Pannier, 55, and Monte Webb, 44. In a second five-eighths ounce accuracy contest prizes went to Clint Flynn, first; Bob Williams, second, and Sam Whippo, third. The next regular casting session will be Sunday morning, February 22. Only a few of the many mineral substances found in Mono county have been developed and include silver and gold. Everybody reads the Gazette. How Education Helps Business Told By Speaker While money alone won't produce good schools, there is a close relationship between the educational level of a community and its economic well being, Paul E. Good, secretary of the committee on education of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, told an audience at the Little Theatre, Anaheim Union high school, Tuesday night. Good visited Anaheim in furtherance of the effort of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to show business men the economic value of education. His talk was illustrated by film and charts. Annual Citrus Institute to Be Held High School Auditorium Here Man Friday, March 5, has been chosen as the date for the Annual Orange County Citrus Institute, according to Dean Millen, chairman of the citrus department of the Orange County Farm Bureau. It will be held at the Anaheim high school auditorium this year, said Millen, in order to accommodate the overflow crowd that had standing room only last year. The morning session will be devoted to discussions of orchard culture problems and the afternoon session will feature a panel discussion on the citrus marketing situation. Participants on the panel will include F. R. Wilcox, assistant general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange; Romer Johnson, sales manager of the American Fruit Growers, and Robbin Russell, sales manager of the Mutual Orange Distributors. The panel will discuss trends in new developments in citrus marketing answer questions from A. G. Salter, Agricultural Service, will give an ed talk on the citrus outlays and speakers morning program include Acidity Studies" by D. G. Citrus Experiment Station Setting Sprays" illustrated by S. Stewart, Citrus Expansion Station; "Can Citrus Costs be Reduced?" R. E. Agricultural Extension "Control of Citrus Red Spit Mites," L. R. Jeppson, Citrus Experiment Station; and "I Fruit Protection Methods Johnston, citrus specialis cultural Extension Service. This is the twentieth Citrus Institute conducted Extension Service and Faieau of Orange county. All and the public are invited tend. ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948 Growers Tell Extension Men What They Want A citrus school, held possibly in Anaheim, on the pattern of the recent highly successful school for avocado growers held by the Agricultural Extension Service at La Habra will be one of the results of the program planning conference held last week at the office of the Extension Service in Santa Ana and attended by 61 farm representatives. As the result of the conference Agricultural Extension workers will this year emphasize also Valencia and lemon production cost studies, pruning demonstrations, orange worm control, rootstod studies, conservative irrigation and non-tillage methods. The University of California was asked to investigate citrus handling costs through the packing house, the auction and the wholesale and retail outlets. The avocado growers asked for continued studies in orchard temperatures, tree spacing, orchard thinning, tree decline and continuing avocado school and institute. The rural home committee requested more demonstrations on Growth Rate Of Valencias Slow During January For the past 19 years Valencia oranges in southern California have grown an average of .068 of an inch in January. During last January the rate of growth in just one district equalled that average. The district was Ventura county. The next best showing in January was made in San Fernando Valley and northern Orange county. In each district Valencias grew .06 of an inch. After them came the Whittier district with .059 of an inch and southern Orange county with .053. San Diego county which last year produced the biggest Valencias in the state was at the bottom of the list with a rate of .048. The average for the whole of southern California was .056 compared with a rate of .050 in January, 1947. Largest Valencias in southern California still were found by the Orange Administrative committee in San Fernando where the fruit on February 1 averaged 2.341 inches in diameter. It would require 303 fruits of that size to fill Council Submits Retirement Plan To City Workers Under a resolution of intention, the city council at its meeting Tuesday night offered city employees an opportunity to express their opinion on the retirement plan for city employees presented by the State of California. While ready to hear what the city employees think of the plan, the council itself is not yet committed to its adoption, even if the employees express their approval. Under the plan both the city and the employees would contribute to the retirement fund. The city's share would be approximately $54,000 a year. With a "city council" of Boy Scouts looking on, the sure-enough council finally adopted Ordinance 723 annexing a plot of land extending westward from the west city limit to Loara street and northward from Lincoln avenue to a point just north of the right way of the proposed new Santa Ana-Los Angeles freeway. It will be a part of the City of Anaheim at the expiration of 30 days. The council also voted to buy a studies, conservative irrigation and non-tillage methods. The University of California was asked to investigate citrus handling costs through the packing house, the auction and the wholesale and retail outlets. The avocado growers asked for continued studies in orchard temperatures, tree spacing, orchard thinning, tree decline and continuing avocado school and institute. The rural home committee requested more demonstrations on home furnishing, food selection, clothing construction, meal planning and reducing fire hazards. The livestock committee requested continued work be done in disease control demonstrations, range grass plots, fly control on the farm, and management of pastures. Fire prevention is to be emphasized. Poultrymen urged educational tours and demonstrations on poultry housing and management and poultry yard sanitation. The 4-H group will ask the board of supervisors to develop the Trabuca Canyon camp site for youth of Orange county. Demonstration tours will be planned for 4-H groups through the year. The Field Crops committee asked the Extension Service to establish variety and disease control plots for demonstration purposes and also to make a study of irrigation methods—the efficiency of furrow irrigation as compared to sprinkler irrigation. Committee Asks School Trustees For Conference A group calling itself a Citizens Committee this week asked the board of trustees of the Anaheim elementary schools for a conference. Members of the board agreed to meet the group tomorrow (Friday) night at the board office on Citron street. Board members professed not to know what matter the group had to present. They said they could make a guess but declined to discuss what their guess was. OVEREELL ATTORNEY FEE CLAIM SETTLED Otto Jacobs and Z. B. West scaled their request for $100,000 for defending Beulah Louise Overell against a charge of helping George Gollum murder her parents aboard a yacht in Newport Bay last year down to $37,500. They said their claim for $27,641 expenses also had been agreed Korn Is New Member of Co-op Orange Board For the first time in many years the Anaheim Cooperative Orange association has a new member on its board of directors. At the annual meeting of the association held last Thursday at Knott's Berry Place A. C. Korn of Anaheim was elected to succeed B. B. Winters who resigned a month ago after serving as a board member for over twenty years. T. E. Woodward, secretary manager, reported the association handled 946 cars of fruit during 1947 for its members. This was an increase of 90 per cent over the number of cars the association handled in 1946. Sixty per cent of the association's valencias went to market as fresh fruit and of this total, 30 per cent was shipped in seven pound, consumer type bags, packed ten bags to the mast- With a "city council" of Boy Scouts looking on, the sure-enough council finally adopted Ordinance 723 annexing a plot of land extending westward from the west city limit to Loara street and northward from Lincoln avenue to a point just north of the right way of the proposed new Santa Ana-Los Angeles freeway. It will be a part of the City of Anaheim at the expiration of 30 days. The council also voted to buy a $558 power sprayer for pest control in parks and along parkings, named Joe E. Walters and Alston Koehler of the street department deputy patrolmen and heard these reports: From City Clerk Charles Griffith that city expenditures from January 15 to January 31 totaled $33,522.61, leaving $76,545.89 in the general fund and a total of $291,469.89 in the city treasury. From Building Inspector R. Nyboe that a total of 46 building permits had been issued for buildings with a total value of $185,820. That public service collections in January totaled $54,887.84; business license collections amounted to $235, bicycle licenses amounted to $413.50, that tax collections amounted to $1558 and that the second installment of city taxes now due and payable amounts to $26,639. From the city court, that it had handled during January 497 cases and collected $3001 in fines. From Chief of Police Mark Stephenson that the police arrested 44 persons in January, 25 on charges of drunkenness or drunk driving and that the department issued 172 traffic citations and 343 parking meter citations while parking meter collections amounted to $1880, least figure since the meters were installed. From Chief Nyboe of the fire department that it answered during the month nine silent alarms and two calls from which no damage was reported. From V. W. Hannum of the department of water, power and light that it had bought 58,404,800 gallons of water during the month from the Metropolitan Water District and had pumped 4,204,800 gallons—just about enough to keep the city's wells from sanding up—and that the water level in city wells was down to 132 feet, four inches, a new low record. Water Flows In Santa Ana To Squeezing rain for possible at certain under certain conditions can't cause immediate relief of any effect is what Oresidents were told by P. Krick, a widelyologist who is connected California Institute at a meeting called County Water District Ana last Friday night. He said the rain have clouds at least thick on which to wipe cloud formations off frequently found over they were seldom sizable land where needed. That sowing clouds will produce rain when are right seemed to an experiment he did was made last year. Cloud conditions seem right but they were raining. Aviators seeded dry ice into the heavy rain fell over square miles. There within 100 miles, sapped except in two areas the clouds were seen. Dr. Krick is not coaxed a study of weather there are cycles of a rain followed by a few introduced in its concept of similarity patterns. The pattern in the season 1911-12 caused weather forced pact a dry January tipped by comparative ditions through March April. He said it still for southern California. OVEREELL ATTORNEY FEE CLAIM SETTLED Otto Jacobs and Z. B. West scaled their request for $100,000 for defending Beulah Louise Overell against a charge of helping George Gollum murder her parents aboard a yacht in Newport Bay last year down to $37,500. They said their claim for $27,641 expenses also had been agreed upon. Tulare county has 371 miles of state highways, 3,037 miles of county maintained roads, and 311 miles of roads not maintained by the county. Institute to Be Held Atrium Here March 5 Events in citrus marketing and will answer questions from the floor. A. G. Salter, Agricultural Extension Service, will give an illustrated talk on the citrus outlook. Subjects and speakers on the morning program include "Soil Acidity Studies" by D. G. Aldrich, Citrus Experiment Station; "Fruit Setting Sprays" illustrated by W. S. Stewart, Citrus Experiment Station; "Can Citrus Production Costs be Reduced?" R. E. Puffer, Agricultural Extension Service; Control of Citrus Red Spider and Mites," L. R. Jeppson, Citrus Experiment Station; and "Improved Fruit Protection Methods," J. C. Johnston, citrus specialist, Agricultural Extension Service. This is the twentieth Annual Citrus Institute conducted by the Extension Service and Farm Bureau of Orange county. All growers and the public are invited to attend. T. E. Woodward, secretary manager, reported the association handled 946 cars of fruit during 1947 for its members. This was an increase of 90 per cent over the number of cars the association handled in 1946. Sixty per cent of the association's valencias went to market as fresh fruit and of this total, 30 per cent was shipped in seven pound, consumer type bags, packed ten bags to the mast-er container. Speakers included J. A. Stewart, general manager of the Mutual Orange Distributors with which the Anaheim association is affiliated, Clark Donmyer, sales manager of Southern California Citrus Foods, and George Graham of Citrus Growers, Inc., who talked about the prospects for harvest labor. Appreciation Day Award Goes This Week to Youth James Jeu Devine, a 15 year old boy, won the award at Anaheim's second Appreciation Day at ceremonies held yesterday in front of the Fox West Coast theatre. He held a ticket entitling him to a 5 per cent participation in the total fund which this week amounted to $600. A crowd estimated at 900 to 1000 witnessed the ceremony — about 200 more than attended the first program. A radio donated by Phil Segrais of the Schultz Furniture company as a consolation prize was won by E. E. Winger. Cement became the leading mineral product in Merced county after gold mining operations were suspended by the U.S. in 1942. Water Flows In Santa Ana To Olive Bridge While there was no sign of runoff from the storm of last weekend, it stimulated flow of water in the Santa Ana river. By mid-week there was a stream in the river's sand that reached below the Olive bridge. Part of this was attributed to the fact that the irrigation companies are taking no water out of the river since the rain and the work done at Prado dam and in the floor of the reservoir above the dam has stimulated flow of water in the river below the dam. Whether or not water was reaching the county from the mountains was unknown here this week, but at any rate water storage in the Santa Ana basin this week was being replenished instead of further diminished. IKES SAY ONE BUCK ENOUGH IN SEASON The state division of the Izaak Walton League, meeting here last week, approved a resolution denouncing commercial exploitation of any national park or monument, specifically the opening of the Joshua Tree national forest to mining companies and reaffirmed their stand taken a year ago in favor of a limit of one buck per season per hunter. Dr. Krick is not cona study of weather there are cycles of a fire followed by a few days introduced in its stuconcept of similarity patterns. The pattern in the season 1911-12 caused weather forecpect a dry January to lowed by comparative ditions through March April. He said it still for southern California from nine to 15 inches year, though the low the more likely. Sacramento Interests Go In course of four week was a corporation acquire the Anaheim in the Sunset baseball held by the Sacramento The corporation whose be sold in Anaheim $15,000 for the franc an informal agreement owners of the Sacramento maintain a club here pay players' salaries and operating expenses, take ceips and other forms in compensation. This arrangement is tive to the original Yubi Separovich, busier of the Solons, that terests pay half the $15 Solons had agreed the franchise, and pay expenses in return for ceips, and receipts fissions while the Sacramento would own the player. One provision of this agreement is that the club must give a year the Anaheim franchise After 64 Years Anaheim Union Water Company Is Out of Debt For the first time since the company was organized 64 years ago, directors of the Anaheim Union Water company this year were able to report the company was out of debt and had "a substantial balance in the bank." This was disclosed in the company's 64th annual statement which was mailed this week to the holders of its 8004 shares of stock now outstanding. The company irrigates most of the citrus groves north and west of the Santa Ana river. Notwithstanding the payment of its last dollar of indebtedness and its $16,801.61 in the bank, the company spent during the year $23,633 on new constructions including the new twenty thousand dollar settling basin at Yorba Linda, and $8528 on new equipment. Yet the company was able to furnish water to its stockholders at the rate of 80c per hour per 100 inches. This highly gratifying showing was made possible by the fact that the company has 50 wells producing, not water, but oil on its properties, that they produced more oil last year than they have ever produced before and the oil sold at a higher price during a part of the year. The wells during 1947 produced 77,129 barrels of royalty oil for which the company received $119,787.12. In 1946 the wells on the company property produced 70,195 barrels of royalty oil which was sold for a total of $80,536.29. Thus with 7000 additional barrels of oil the company received $39,250 additional dollars, and since the big bulge in the market for crude oil came late in the year, a considerable increase in receipts for oil is expected this year. However, after taxes, depreciation, depletion of royalties and a payment of $10,601.52 to the Santa Ana River Development company the company showed a bookkeeping loss for the year of $4986.32. Reporting for the board of directors President John C. Tuffree said that excavation by the Santa Ana River Development company of 2000 feet of ditch upstream from Prado dam and of 10,500 feet of smaller ditches to drain the floor of the reservoir bed. Return Visit Of Jack Benny Is Scheduled Jack Benny is scheduled to make a return visit to Anaheim. Last April the world famous radio comedian provided hilarity for the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Elks club and accept the position of honorary mayor of Anaheim. This year he will come to Anaheim to give one of his national broadcasts, chief beneficiary of which will be the American Red Cross. Hillyard Marks who now is Benny's production manager has replied to an invitation from E. W. Moeller, Chamber of Commerce secretary-manager, for a return visit by saying the comedian could visit Anaheim for a cause like the Red Cross some time in March. The date, Marks said, would be either the 7th, the 14th or the 21st. And the place, Moeller said, would be the Anaheim Union high school auditorium if a test proved its acoustics were suitable for a radio broadcast. Admission will be granted. Moel- Krick Holds Out Little Hope For Artificial Rain Squeezing rain from clouds is possible at certain places and under certain conditions, but Orange county can't count on it for immediate relief of a drought. This in effect is what Orange county residents were told by Dr. Irving P. Krick, a widely known meteologist who is connected with The California Institute of Technology, at a meeting called by the Orange County Water District at Santa Ana last Friday night. He said the rain makers should have clouds at least 10,000 feet thick on which to work and while cloud formations of that size are frequently found over mountains they were seldom seen over flat, arable land where rain is usually needed. That sowing clouds with dry, ice will produce rain when conditions are right seemed to be proved by an experiment he described which was made last year in Australia. Cloud conditions seemed to be just right but they were producing no rain. Aviators seeded 125 pounds of dry ice into the clouds and a heavy rain fell over an area of 20 square miles. There was no rain within 100 miles, said Dr. Krick, except in two areas over which the clouds were seeded. Dr. Krick is not convinced from a study of weather records that there are cycles of a few wet years followed by a few dry years. He introduced in its stead the new concept of similarity in weather patterns. The pattern of rainfall in the season 1911-12, for instance caused weather forecasters to expect a dry January this year, followed by comparatively moist conditions through March and even April. He said it still was possible for southern California to have However, after taxes, depreciation, depletion of royalties and a payment of $10,601.52 to the Santa Ana River Development company the company showed a bookkeeping loss for the year of $4986.32. Reporting for the board of directors President John C. Tuffree said that excavation by the Santa Ana River Development company of 2000 feet of ditch upstream from Prado dam and of 10,500 feet of smaller ditches to drain the floor of the reservoir had already added approximately 600 miners inches to the stream flow. The report adds: "The ditches constructed to date have conclusively proven that drainage in the Prado basin is not only feasible but that it is our most economical source. It is a salvage of water that would otherwise be lost by evaporation and transpiration and is a supply that does not deplete, deprive or interfere with any present use of water or water supply in this county or of water users in the territory above our county." The annual meeting of stockholders of the company is called for 10 a.m. Saturday, February 21. So well satisfied have stockholders been with the management in the past that they have seldom turned out in sufficient numbers to make a meeting possible. There was a quorum present for the meeting of 1944. The last meeting prior to that at which a quorum made the transaction of business possible was in 1921. The board is at present composed of J. H. Beatty, Edward P. Backs, Irvin C. Chapman, Robert R. Dowling, Roy L. Hale, Lewis Lemke and John C. Tuffree. Tuffree is president, Backs, vice-president, Leo J. Sheridan, secretary-treasurer, and Madge B. Teeter, assistant secretary. The operating staff consists of Sheridan as manager, George Holditch, superintendent; W. B. Parrett, head zanjero; O. A. Schenck, Fullerton zanjero; Lloyd M. Archer, Placentia zanjero, Ralph Navarro, Yorba Linda zanjero, Ernest Van Oost, head gate zanjero; W. M. Archer, chief mechanic and E. A. Hatfield, yard man. MARYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE A rummage sale, sponsored by the Marywood high school auxiliary, will be staged February 20 and 21, at 102 East Center street. Mrs. L. P. Kraemer, auxiliary chairman, is in charge of arrangements. Anyone having unwanted W. Moeller, Chamber of Commerce secretary-manager, for a return visit by saying the comedian could visit Anaheim for a cause like the Red Cross some time in March. The date, Marks said, would be either the 7th, the 14th or the 21st. And the place, Moeller said, would be the Anaheim Union high school auditorium if a test proved its acoustics were suitable for a radio broadcast. Admission will be granted, Moeller said, only to those able to show a current Red Cross membership card. Meantime Benny can decide what he is going to do about the invitation Robert Boney this week wired him and Yubi Separovich, business manager of the Sacramento Solons, to share the responsibility of managing the 1948 Valencia baseball club. First Spring Forum at AUHS Next Monday Beginning next Monday night, the spring series of the Anaheim Public Forums will open in the high school auditorium at 7:30 o'clock. Russell Wright, ace photographer and commentator on world affairs, will be the first speaker. He has been applauded for this program which combines his all-color documentary motion picture, "Norway Lives Again," with his vivid descriptions and interpretations. The film was produced to tell the complete story of Norway today. It is a picture about that country's people, character types, the scenic beauty, industry and farms, leading personalities and aftermath conditions resulting from war. Wright covered the entire country by airplane, boat, railway, military truck, private car and hiking. Lectures which have been called by well known personalities outstanding in southern California are scheduled for this season here. The dates, subjects and lecturers for the remaining eight programs will be February 23, "The Philippines," Estela R. Sulit; March 1, "Mississippi River," Col. Arnold W. Shutter; March 8, "French Canada," Philip Noble; March 15; "World Espionage," Major Paul Cyr; March 29, "Explorers of the Purple Sage." Aloha Dr. Krick is not convinced from a study of weather records that there are cycles of a few wet years followed by a few dry years. He introduced in its stead the new concept of similarity in weather patterns. The pattern of rainfall in the season 1911-12, for instance caused weather forecasters to expect a dry January this year, followed by comparatively moist conditions through March and even April. He said it still was possible for southern California to have from nine to 15 inches of rain this year, though the lower figure is the more likely. MARYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE A rummage sale, sponsored by the Marywood high school auxiliary, will be staged February 20 and 21, at 102 East Center street. Mrs. L. P. Kraemer, auxiliary chairman, is in charge of arrangements. Anyone having unwanted clothes, furniture or dishes may contact her or the school, she stated. Sacramento to Own Vals, Anaheim Interests Get Franchise in New Deal In course of formation this week was a corporation which will acquire the Anaheim franchise in the Sunset baseball league now held by the Sacramento Solons. The corporation whose stock will be sold in Anaheim will pay $15,000 for the franchise. It has an informal agreement with the owners of the Sacramento club to maintain a club here this year and pay players' salaries and all other operating expenses, taking gate receipts and other forms of income in compensation. This arrangement is an alternative to the original proposal of Yubi Separovich, business manager of the Solons, that Anaheim interests pay half the $15,000 which the Solons had agreed to pay for the franchise, and pay operating expenses in return for gate receipts, and receipts from concessions while the Sacramento club would own the players. One provision of the present agreement is that the Sacramento club must give a year's notice to the Anaheim franchise owners if they wish to discontinue the arrangement. This, said Robert Boney who heads the group of Anaheim business men and baseball fans who have carried on the negotiations with the Sacramento club owners, means that Anaheim is guaranteed at least two years of baseball under the Sacramento club's management. Should the Solons' management decide against continuing the arrangement, the Anaheim owners of the franchise would have a year in which to acquire players of their own or to sell their franchise to another town. Boney said half the money for acquiring the franchise had already been subscribed. He said those who backed the deal with money could expect no immediate return on their investment but that there was a good prospect that the franchise would in time become highly valuable. It was reported here that the Ontario franchise was sold to Calexico recently for $40,000. Weekend Rain Totals Over Inch in County Silverado canyon received the heaviest total precipitation from the "million dollar rain" last weekend and Huntington Beach the lightest. The total in Silverado canyon was 2.78 inches and at Huntington Beach it was .67 of an inch. Anaheim rain guages showed a total of 1.14 inches which boosted the season's total to 2.69 inches, compared with a total of 9.23 inches at the corresponding time last year. The rain was followed by chilly weather which in spots dropped the temperature Sunday and Monday morning to as low as 28 degrees in spots and kept some lemon growers on the anxious seat. About three-fourths of Trinity county is located in Trinity National Forest. Mt. Eddy, highest peak in Trinity county, has an elevation of 9,038 feet.