anaheim-gazette 1948-12-16

Colony Quips This is just a few words to pay tribute to some of the members of the Anaheim Kiwanis club who, by their loyalty to the principles of this great service organization, have been honored by International Kiwanis. The order was founded thirty-three years ago in 1915 and the Anaheim club got its charter April 6, 1921. At the present time there are over 200,000 active members in the club. Due to the large turnover in membership there have easily been over one million men who have been Kiwanians. Now in all this great mass of men who have been service minded enough to affiliate with Kiwanis there have been 5900 who have been singled out to be given a Legion of Honor award by the International organization. Of these 5900 out of at least a million the Anaheim club has seven. This to our mind is quite a record. The last one to be so honored was Bob Fowler who received his award last Tuesday night at the annual Christmas party. The others are: Frank Gibbs, Fritz Yungbluth, Charlie Mann, Roscoe Young, Joe Collings and Harry Horn. Bob Fowler took his place with this select group on Tuesday and makes it a lucky seven. Our congratulations to all these men and to the club for making this recognition possible. The roots go mighty deep in this town of Anaheim. Senate Committee Recommends Overhauling Administration of Unemployment Insurance Laws Sweeping changes in administration of the unemployment insurance laws in California will be recommended by the Senate Committee investigating the subject. This was announced today by Fred H. Kraft, senator from San Diego, who heads the committee. Kraft said he estimates the State Department of Employment headed by James B. Bryant, "illegally paid" $320,000,000 to chiseling workers during 1947, and that he believes the sum will be larger this year. In addition, he said, the state is dipping into the unemployment reserves held in trust in Washington, D.C., at the rate of approximately $10,000,000 annually—that is, it is paying out that much more than the annual contributions to the fund, which total about $120,000,000. The committee questioned Bryant and T. H. Mugford, commission member in charge of revenues. Kraft said that the department itself admits, after making a spot check, that 13 percent of all claims paid are paid illegally. The Local-County PMA Committeemen Elected Last Week Local and county committees who will administer the Production and Marketing Administration program for the coming yeare announced this week by En E. Eastman of Santa Ana, secr last Tuesday night at the annual Christmas party. The others are: Frank Gibbs, Fritz Yungbluth, Charlie Mann, Roscoe Young, Joe Collings and Harry Horn. Bob Fowler took his place with this select group on Tuesday and makes it a lucky seven. Our congratulations to all these men and to the club for making this recognition possible. The roots go mighty deep in this town of Anaheim. About fifty per cent of Anaheim spent their Sunday watching the efforts of a large crew try to unscramble some twenty freight cars which piled up Saturday evening between Atwood and where the Santa Fe tracks cross Orange-thorpe to the west of that station. The wreck drew the attention of most of the county's newspapermen because many of the cars involved were loaded to the gunnels with big juicy rolls of newsprint. Reports had it that there was also a full car of bonded whiskey and a car of eggs. This may have been only a report for no odor of Tom 'n Jerry was in the wind. The crews were eating big red apples from one of the cars but we saw no evidence of the bonded stuff. The loss will approach a million dollars. The only people to make any money out of the thing were the people who make and sell camera film. About another million dollars of camera equipment were in action. The 'Little Rose Bowl' game last Saturday was the biggest 'dud' we have seen for a long time. Sixty thousand people were sold a bill of goods and it will be a long time before many of the same customers will be back for more. The only thing worth watching were the bands that performed at half time. The old Christmas rush appeared to be starting as last week sales by Anaheim merchants went joyfully up to a new record after some weeks of anxiety. Anaheim is in reality a big department store and when you look at the volume of money invested in any one of a dozen lines of merchandise, in various stores, you find a larger range than in many large metropolitan shops. A shopper can really find a tremendous volume of clothing, furniture and other lines represented here as you could find in other large cities. And we also have a total of five free off-street parking lots for the shopper. Quite a package. Save Local-County PMA Committeemen Elected Last Week Local and county committees who will administer the Production and Marketing Administration program for the coming year were announced this week by Erie E. Eastman of Santa Ana, secretary. His announcement said that members of the committee were elected "by the farmers of the county in the usual manner." There are 12 conservation districts, or local communities, in Orange county. Eastman stated, each of which has a committee of farmers who approve of all conservation and allied PMA activities in their individual communities. Production, production control, price supports, subsidies certain phases of market controls and orders, as well as permanent agricultural factors—such erosion control and the implementation of improved farming methods and practices—are among the functions that the committees are called upon to administer. The elective community committees for the county—the first named being the chairman—are as follows: The La Habra area: Claus Ridgeway, Ray Frantz, Glenn Harris, W. Guy Steele, Kenneth Kessler. The West Fullerton area: Lawrence A. Muckenthaler, Lilburn Gardiner, Herman Allgeyer, Lloyd P. Nichols, Norman Lombard. The East Fullerton-Placentia Yorba Linda area: Paul R. Granges, Norman Reeves, Helen Corbit, Gailerd C. Page, Herm O. Kraemer. The Buena Park-Garden Grove area: George E. Cole, Heather Ramm, Donald Pannier, Art Lindley, James Bacon. The Anaheim area: Milton Prier, Herb Salveson, Albert Tou sau, Henry Klausing, Walter O. The Orange area: Kenny (Continued from Page 5) MOD Plans to Adopt Pliofilm Bag for Oranges A new bag in which to ship rus has been developed by mutual Orange Distributors and Dead Cats - Dog Mar City's Good Behavior Record Anaheim was on its pre-holiday best behavior this week when police headquarters went for 16 hours and 26 minutes without a call to report a disturbance or an event of any kind requiring police attention. The period of Anaheim's best behavior in many a moon began at 3:42 p.m., December 14 and ended at 8:08 a.m. December 15. The last call preceding Anaheim's remarkably good behavior concerned the disposal of two dead cats and it was broken the next day with a call to report the carcass of a dead dog. If the city's animal population had refrained from leaving their earthly domain, the best-behavior period would have been much longer. AUHS CADET BURGESS GETS PROMOTION Promotion of Cadet Second Lieutenant Charles R. Burgess of Anaheim Union high school's unit of the California Cadet Corps, this city, to rank of cadet first lieutenant, was announced this week by Cadet Corps headquarters in Sacramento. Why Not Make Anaheim Your Legislature Faces Farm Labor Camp Disposal Problem With the problem of rural housing and farm labor camps an issue when the 1949 legislature meets, Senator Harry E. Drobish, Bangor, believes the camps should be retained by the Federal government. The senator plans to introduce legislation which may affect 21 camps located in various sections of California, now used to house farm labor. He said today he intends to ask a resolution memorializing Congress to retain the camps as a part of the administration's rural housing program. At the last session of the legislature, the state was offered the camps by the Federal government for 10 per cent of their appraised value. When the state turned down the offer, the Federal government offered to sell the camps to farmer corporations which now are operating them, for 15 per cent of the appraised value. After much discussion, the Fed-Continued from Page 5 ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948 Recommends ation of the unemployance Laws Action of the unemployship will be recommended by the subject. Fred H. Kraft, senator committee. State Department of Emt., "illegally paid" $32,-, 1947, and that he bedipping into the unemployment. Real-County PMA Committeemen Acted Last Week and county committeemen will administer the Production Marketing Administragram for the coming year announced this week by Eric man of Santa Ana, secre- New Year's Eve Merrymakers May Get Extra Hour An extra hour for merry-making New Year's Eve will be one of the effects of Governor Warren's decision to abolish daylight savings time at 2 a.m., January 1. Unless the state Board of Equalization takes action to the contrary, bars throughout the state will have an extra hour to serve liquor. Attorneys for the board said they believe that if liquor establisments are open from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. standard time, it will be legal, although the closing hour will have been reached at 2 a.m. daylight saving time, when the clock swings back to one a.m. standard. The board meets next week, and could order closing at 2 a.m. day-a.m. daylight time, the attorneys said. But with New Year's Eve in progress, there seemed little likelihood such action would be given light time, the attorneys said. But with New Year's Eve in progress, there seemed little likelihood such action would be given considera-tion. Orange Growth Good But Size Still Small Southern California Valencia oranges made a somewhat better growth in November than they made a year ago in November, better than the four average and even better than the 21-year average. But this good growth rate still left the fruit smaller than it was on December 1 a year ago, smaller than the four-year average at the first of December and much smaller than the 21-year average. Average size, according to Orange Administrative Committee measurements of tagged fruit, on December 1, was 508 fruits to the packed box. The average at the same date in 1947 was 408 fruits. The four-year average was 441 fruits and the 21-year average was 359 fruits. The average rate of growth for all districts during November was .158 of an inch in diameter. The rate a year ago in November was 143 of an inch; the four-year av- State, County Officials Discuss Old Age Program Cost of the new liberalized assistance to the aged and blind persons in Orange county as authorized by Proposition 4 has not been determined but according to County Welfare Director Thomas P. Douglas it will result in an approximate monthly increase of $10 per person. Based on latest available figures which show 4,052 persons receiving aged and blind assistance this will mean an increase of about $40,000 on January 1 when the new increase goes into effect. This will increase the present total monthly assistance of about $248,000 to about $280,000. Discussion of this as well as the workings of the new program took place at a meeting last Friday, December 11, when the board of supervisors met with Floyd Clouse, chief of the accounting division for State Controller Thomas H. Kuchel, Ralph L. Goff, administrative assistant of the state department of social welfare, county welfare director Thomas P. Douglas and county auditor L. H. Eckel. Announcement of the formal appointment of Mr. Douglas as deputy state welfare director was made at the meeting. The state had already signed a contract with the county for the administration of the new program for the state. The contract which is for the calendar year, 1949 will not change the present workings of the plan according to state officials. Monthly advances of funds to cover security payments as well as the expenses of making the payments will be made by the state controller as in the past, they reported. Average size, according to Orange Administrative Committee measurements of tagged fruit, on December 1, was 508 fruits to the packed box. The average at the same date in 1947 was 408 fruits. The four-year average was 441 fruits and the 21-year average was 359 fruits. The average rate of growth for all districts during November was .158 of an inch in diameter. The rate a year ago in November was .143 of an inch; the four-year average for November was .155 of an inch and the 21-year average was .153 of an inch. Surprisingly, the highest growth rate in November .208 of an inch, occurred in the Azusa-Covina-San Dimas district where Valencias have been for the past four years among the smallest produced in the state. Second highest growth rate occurred in the northern Orange county district where the rate was .189 of an inch in diameter. The southern Orange district was in eighth place with a growth rate of .144 of an inch. Some details of the OAC reports were still more surprising. The largest Valencias in southern California were again in San Diego county, in spite of the fact that the district had the lowest growth rate in this end of the state. Next largest Valencias were found in the Redlands-Highland district where it took 422 oranges to fill a box and just behind that district was the Corona-Riverside district where the average size was 423s. The southern Orange county district contained the smallest Valentias in southern California, the average according to OAC measurements, being 534s. The northern Orange county district stood fifth with an average of 496s. $600,000 Bridge Proposed for Yorba Crossing Announcements from Santa Ana and Sacramento made it apparent this week that something more is to be done to the Placentia-Yorba crossing of the Santa Fe east of Atwood. But conflicting reports made it uncertain just what is to be done first. The county traffic safety committee with headquarters in Santa Ana claped at Backs, Campbell Kaulbars mortuary Wednesday noon at 2 o'clock with the LeRoy Howard officiating. The event was in Anaheim cemetery. Board Approved Franklin School Site; Study Plan The green light was given the Anaheim elementary school board on the site study for room addition to Benjamin Lin school on Water and streets at the board meeting day night in the Board of Tennio, 210 South Citron president Harry R. Fox proclaim. Approval for the site study must be given by the Stateion of School House Plan. When the location is approved working drawing must be first by the board then by vision of Architecture. Notions are expected to take place to 18 weeks. The board accepted the order of the Janss street lot which purchased for $1350 from McCoy to form a total of than 2 acres of property on street between Santa Ana and ter streets. The balance acreage was secured months ago from Robert M. A resolution to sell the district's La Palma street plot at a minimum price of $45, passed by the board. Sale made by sealed bids to coJanuary 11, at 7:30 P.M. board room, 210 South street. Board members proFox, M. A. Gauer, superintendent H. H. Stabbert, clerk, and Mary, Jr., trustee, must accept highest sealed bid unless bid is made for five per centhe highest written offer.first verbal bid is five per above above then the meet takethe form of an auctionthe property going to the oral bidder. In the event thest bid is not over five per above the highest sealed o board must sell the site highest sealed bidder. The building, formerly La school, remains on the p while the two bungalows already been moved to Mann school, 931 North street. "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus ..." Famed N. Y. Sun Christmas Editorial Printed Here Back in 1897, little Virginia O'Hanlon wrote the following letter to the editor of the New Sun: "I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If it in The Sun it's so.' Please tell me the truth—is there a Santa Claus?' The editor wrote a new and literary classic in reply to this childish plea. It is reprinted here. "Yes, indeed! Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age—they do not believe except what they see—they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus—the most real things in the world are those neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there—nobody conceive or imagine all the ders that are unseen and seeable in the world. You tear apart the brittle and see what makes noise inside, but there is a covering the unseen which not the strongest man even the united strength the strongest men that lived, could tear apart. Faith, fancy, poetry, love mance, can push aside the tain and view and picture supernal beauty and glorify yond. Is it all real? — ah, Vin in all this world there is ing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank—he lives, and he lives her—a thousand years from Virginia, nay ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the of childhood." Margaret Hoag, A Long-Time Resident, Passes Mrs. Margaret Hoag, a resident of Anaheim for the past 61 years, passed away at St. Joseph hospital on Sunday, December 12, following an illness of short duration. Born in Germany on July 24, 1884, she was 64 years, four months and 18 days of age at the time of passing. She came directly to Anaheim after arriving in the United States. City Council Authorizes Survey Of Anaheim’s Street Lights to Determine Cost of Modernization The first step toward the modernization of Anaheim’s street lighting system was made by the City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday evening in the council chambers. The city’s governing body gave Chamber of Commerce secretary, E. W. Moeller, permission to contact interested electrical companies for the purpose of making a survey of existing conditions, present recommendations and submit estimates of costs for the improvements. No definite area for relighting was made but it was indicated that the "business district" would be the first to be changed. CROP Drive in Orange County On This Week The Christian Rural Overseas program in Orange county began this week with churches and service clubs throughout the country striving to fill at least one box car of bulk food for the California Christian world-relief train which will be dedicated Christmas day as a memorial to the late director of the California Agricultural Extension Service, B. H. Cocheron. The council in its meeting rejected a request by the Board of Supervisors to discontinue use of the dumping grounds on the Santa Ana river, heard that its request for the rerouting of state highway 178 had been referred to G. T. McCoy, state highway engineer at Sacramento, and gave city employees two holidays by authorizing the closing of the city offices on December 24 and 31. New Street Lighting Board Approves Franklin School Site; Study Plan The green light was given by the Anaheim elementary school board on the site study for a five-month addition to Benjamin Franklin School on Water and Janss streets at the board meeting Monday night in the Board of Trustees room, 210 South Citron street, President Harry R. Fox presiding. Approval for the site study next must be given by the State Division of School House Planning. When the location is approved a working drawing must be okahed past by the board then by the Division of Architecture. Negotiations are expected to take from 16 to 18 weeks. The board accepted the deed on the Janss street lot which was purchased for $1350 from Walter McCoy to form a total of more than 2 acres of property on Janss street between Santa Ana and Water streets. The balance of the lease was secured several months ago from Robert Marshall. A resolution to sell the school district's La Palma street property at a minimum price of $45,000 was passed by the board. Sale will be made by sealed bids to come in January 11, at 7:30 P.M. in the board room, 210 South Citron Street. Board members president Box, M. A. Gauer, superintendent; H. H. Stabbert, clerk, and John Bary, Jr., trustee, must accept the highest sealed bid unless an oral bid is made for five per cent over the highest written offer. If the first verbal bid is five per cent above then the meeting will take the form of an auction with the property going to the highest bidder. In the event the highest bid is not over five per cent above the highest sealed offer, the board must sell the site to the highest sealed bidder. The brick building, formerly La Palma school, remains on the property, while the two bungalows have already been moved to Horace Mann school, 931 North Palm street. On This Week The Christian Rural Overseas program in Orange county began this week with churches and service clubs throughout the country striving to fill at least one box car of bulk food for the California Christian world-relief train which will be dedicated Christmas day as a memorial to the late director of the California Agricultural Extension Service, B. H. Cocheron. The program which is identified by the letters CROP is a joint venture of Catholic Rural Life, Church World Service and Lutheran World Relief, representing over 30 different denominational groups. It is seeking donations of farm products—mainly; wheat, citrus concentrate, beans and sugar or cash in lieu of these gifts from individuals and organizations. Cash received is to be used in the purchase of the bulk food or in the defraying of shipping costs. Gifts in Orange county may be made through any minister of any church in the county as well as any member of the Agricultural Extension service or through the presidents of service clubs in the county. Although this is the first such food train from California, there have been many CROP trains other states sent overseas since the first relief train, "The Friendship Train" which was initiated by columnist Drew Pearson and administered by CROP was made up and the food received distributed throughout Europe. Distribution of the farm produce is handled through the foreign service branch of the specific churches through which the local donations are made. Heading Orange county's CROP drive is Lisle J. Sherwin of Santa Ana. William C. Cook is treasurer; A. J. McFadden of Santa Ana is special gifts chairman; Reverend Rollo Dunham is secretary and Eric E. Eastman is publicity chair (Continued on Page 2) Santa Fe Wreck Not Cleared Until Tuesday A large crew of railway workers was kept busy until noon Tuesday cleaning up one of the most spectacular railway wrecks in Orange county in recent years. It occurred first to be changed. The council in its meeting rejected a request by the Board of Supervisors to discontinue use of the dumping grounds on the Santa Ana river, heard that its request for the rerouting of state highway 178 had been referred to G. T. McCoy, state highway engineer at Sacramento, and gave city employees two holidays by authorizing the closing of the city offices on December 24 and 31. New Street Lighting The two types of lights available to the city according to Mr. Moeller are the mercury-vapor and the incandescent pendant type of street light. The mercury-vapor casts a bluish-white light, and according to Westinghouse engineers is two and one-half times more efficient than the incandescent, has a lower maintenance cost and requires fewer units per mile, was revealed to the council by the chamber of commerce secretary. Mr. Moeller stated that Huntington Beach has just made its second installation of the incandescent, pendent type of light and that Fullerton also has some of these units. He advised the council that the mercury-vapor street light is in use in the cities of Beverly Hills and Belmont Shores. The council instructed Vard Hannum, superintendent of water, light and power, to work with the Chamber of Commerce's public utilities committee which is headed by Harold Smith in conducting the projected survey. City Rejects County Request It was indicated that Anaheim would continue to use the dump (Continued on Page 2) Navel Supply Rises; Price Still Sinks As the supply of California oranges increased during the past week the price continued to sink gradually but for the week ending December 11 was still "satisfactory." The average for the week was $4.64 a packed box, f.o.b. packing house. The week before the average was $4.99. Practically all the oranges going to market last week were Arizona and central-northern California navels. The regular crop of Valencias is cleaned up but growers who had Valencia off- Santa Fe Wreck Not Cleared Until Tuesday A large crew of railway workers was kept busy until noon Tuesday cleaning up one of the most spectacular railway wrecks in Orange county in recent years. It occurred at a minute after 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon when 17 cars of a 21-car west bound Santa Fe freight train left the rails near the Orangethorpe crossing west of Atwood, tore up between 200 and 300 yards of track and scattered broken freight cars on both sides of the roadbed. The train was made up largely of cars from the Pacific northwest which were loaded largely with scarce newsprint and apples. There was also several cars of general freight, including enough liquor to scent the atmosphere in the vicinity of the wreck. The wreck was believed by railroad men to have been caused by a broken flange on the wheel of a truck well forward in the train. The locomotive and tender were not affected and no member of the train crew was hurt. Section hands and wrecking crews were immediately called in from railway points as distant as Los Angeles and San Bernardino and Santa Fe salvage trucks were still hauling goods away from the scene of the wreck as late as Tuesday morning. The wreck occurred just west of the Atwood yards and it was possible to detour traffic from Atwood to Orange and thence to Los Angeles by way of the San Diego line. The accident occurred only a few yards from Orangethorpe avenue and a large crew of highway patrolmen and railway employees were kept busy guiding traffic through the throng of spectators. Anges increased during the past week the price continued to sink gradually but for the week ending December 11 was still "satisfactory." The average for the week was $4.64 a packed box, f.o.b. packing house. The week before the average was $4.99. Practically all the oranges going to market last week were Arizona and central-northern California navels. The regular crop of Valencias is cleaned up but growers who had Valencia off-blooms were finding a good market for them in Los Angeles. While the quality is below that of the regular drop, prices were said to be on a par with that received during the regular season. California navels were still late in maturing and the northern packing houses have not yet gone into mid-season operations. A feature of last week's citrus market was the wide differential between California and Florida fruit. The delivered price of California and Arizona navels last week averaged about $6.60 while Florida fruit averaged about $3.03 a box delivered. The wide variation in lemon prices which characterized last week's market continued into this week. For 360s there was a demand early this week which brought prices for that size of good quality up to a par with summer prices, but for larger and for smaller fruit the price dropped off sharply. On Monday's market the 360s of fancy quality brought as much as $9.50 a box while 300s brought $8 a box, 434s brought about $6.50 and the next packing size smaller brought about half that figure. The average for all sizes and grades of lemons last week was $4.80 a box, f.o.b. packing house. The average a week earlier was $5.68. The sharp drop in the average was attributed to the sharp discount on small sized and old appearing fruit.