anaheim-gazette 1948-12-30

Public Affairs In '48 Reviewed (Continued from Page 1) from the basin down to spreading grounds below the dam. PLANS FOR HARBOR Preparations for improving upper Newport bay which were announced a year ago are still in the planning state, but the program probably will be disclosed early in the new year. The harbor commission's engineer, R. L. Patterson, has his survey report ready, but it is awaiting the county planning commission's report on plans for the landward side of the program, including highway development. How important the upper bay development can be for the county's interests is shown by some of the data included in Patterson's pending report, covering harbor growth. The items of boats is a sample. In 1933, when harbor development started, there were 700 boats there, valued at $223,245 for tax purposes. Now there are $1700 to $2700 per acre in Santa Ana during that period. Gross business in harbor traffic, including yachts, navigation and both commercial and sports fishing, was in excess of $8,000,000 last year, the Patterson report will show. That much of this income is drawn from outside the county is established by the fact that 52 per cent of boats at the harbor are owned by Los Angeles county residents. The upper bay development also will provide needed expansion, as the harbor now is virtually at peak capacity of accommodations for 3850 boats. HIGHWAY BUILDING State and county highways in Orange county received considerable attention in 1948 and will get more in 1949. The county expended $1,200,000 on improvements. County road department projects were: Completed Adams street project, from Harbor boulevard to the east limit of Huntington Costa Mesa lying west of Boulevard; paved numerous subdivisions in the county. Constructed concrete over Santiago creek at Camel street, Orange, and Santia enue, Santa Ana; replaced teen timber bridges at points in the county. The road department all up three new county trash this year, making a total with an eleventh to be opened La Habra, about January 1. In 1949, the county high program includes such projects: a new bridge over Coyote on Orangethorpe avenue; wing of Orangethorpe avenue Manchester boulevard to the county line; widening and opening of Central avenue from to the west county line; bridge on Los Alisos avenue of El Toro. Principal state highway for Orange county in 1949 is the 5.4 mile project of rebuilding Santa Ana canyon highway between Olive and Peralta. ning commission's report on plans for the landward side of the program, including highway development. How important the upper bay development can be for the county's interests is shown by some of the data included in Patterson's pending report, covering harbor growth. The items of boats is a sample. In 1933, when harbor development started, there were 700 boats there, valued at $223,245 for tax purposes. Now there are 3,722 boats valued at $5,366,930 which pay about $60,000 a year in taxes, Patterson's report will disclose. The harbor's growth as a tax source is indicated by Patterson's data, revealing that assessed values at the harbor have increased from $3,000 per acre of property to $8,000 since 1932, as compared to an increase from peak capacity of accommodations for 3,850 boats. HIGHWAY BUILDING State and county highways in Orange county received considerable attention in 1948 and will get more in 1949. The county expended $1,200,000 on improvements. County road department projects were: Completed Adams street project, from Harbor boulevard to the east limit of Huntington Beach; Harbor boulevard from Wilson to Nineteenth street, Costa Mesa; Wintersburg and Los Patos avenues from Huntington Beach boulevard to Sunset Beach; resurfaced several miles of Santiago canyon boulevard past Irvine lake; widened and paved Commonwealth avenue from the west limit of Fullerton to Buena Park; widened and paved five streets in GOVERNMENT BUILDING Faced by pressing need housing expansion, county government offices got some relief a $100,000 remodeling project the hall of records in Santa Ana canyon highway between Olive and Peralta at a cost of $1,600,000. This is already under way. Construction of a new bridge the Santa Ana river on Anahi Olive road has been let and will start soon. This is a $4 contract. The state also may begin work on the Santa freeway in 1949 at the Santa end. GOVERNMENT BUILDING Our Wish for the New Year ... To serve you and your pet better ... Insure your pet better health and bring more happiness to you. MR. and MRS. E. E. McHENRY ANAHEIM PET SHOP 261 E. Center St. Phone 4650 Happy New Year ...to our many friends and customers ... Our hope that we have served you courteously and well during the past year ... Our wish ... that we may have the pleasure and privilege of your continued patronage during the coming year. COUNTY PARKS Recreational facilities o county took forward striding the year and a survey closes that the county no Happy New Year ... to our many friends and customers ... Our hope that we have served you courteously and well during the past year ... Our wish ... that we may have the pleasure and privilege of your continued patronage during the coming year. Masterson's 180 W. CENTER Phone 3288 May the coming year bring you all the luck, happiness and health you have ever wished for. SEASON'S WISHES HILGENFELD MORTUARY Beginning at 10 o'clock, by invitation of the local Chamber of Commerce. The line of march will begin at Helena street, then proceed to 300 West Center street, then to Los Angeles street, then north to the city park where the band members will board buses for Knott's Berry Farm. 39,115 Enrolled In Orange County Schools School enrollment in Orange county as of October 31 totaled 39,115 students, the state department of education announced in its annual report. Of these students, 35,421 were in the kindergarten to grade 14, and 3,694 in special classes, the department said. Enrollment of pupils throughout the state increased by 119,114 from October, 1947, to a total of 1,748,198, which amounts to 6.3 per cent. Larger increases, however, running over 10 per cent were reported in kindergartens and first grades. The department said another large increase was reported in the classes for adults in high schools and junior colleges. The total number of students enrolled in Orange County is 5.4 mile project of rebuilding Santa Ana canyon highway between Olive and Peralta school. State Denies City Request (Continued from Page 1) OFF-STREET PARKING INCREASED The council increased the off-street parking space in the city with approval of purchase by the city of property between Oak and Chestnut streets, west of the Safeway store from Helen Miller and Grace Blackman for $10,000. First reading of an ordinance providing for the creation within the city of six zones, consisting of various districts and prescribing for the different zones, the classes of buildings, structures and improvements was made and approved by the councilmen. The zoning ordinance also provides for regulation of the use of buildings, heights and location and area covered by the building, within the different zones. GLENN FRY APPOINTED TO LIBRARY BOARD Glenn Fry was appointed by the council to the library board. NEW bridge over Coyote creek Orangethorpe avenue; widening of Manchester boulevard to the west county line; widening and repaving of Central avenue from Brea to the west county line; a new bridge on Los Alisos avenue north El Toro. Principal state highway plans in Orange county in 1949 include a 5.4 mile project of rebuilding Santa Ana canyon highway between Olive and Peralta school at a cost of $1,600,000. This work already under way. Contract for construction of a new bridge over Santa Ana river on Anaheim Ave road has been let and work start soon. This is a $494,000 contract. The state also may possibly begin work on the Santa Ana highway in 1949 at the Santa Ana. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS Faced by pressing need for housing expansion, county government offices got some relief when $100,000 remodeling project at the hall of records in Santa Ana was completed, providing space for the new superior court department 4, and rearranging office states on the top floor, including case of county counsel and district attorney, as well as superior court department 3. Now the ward of supervisors is preparing to remodel the top floor of the courthouse, where superior court departments 1 and 2 are situated, with the law library. Quarries for the court reporters probably will be added there. County government will have no new supervisors at the helm when terms of office start January 3. In the first district, Santa Ana, C. M. "Cye" Featherly, prominent business man, civic leader and Legionnaire, succeeds C. Rowland, orange grower who did not seek re-election. In the third district, Ralph McFadden, Placentia, veteran rancher, succeeds Incumbent James A. Baker, Anaheim, orange grower and vice-president of the Mutual Orange Distributors, whom he detested in the recent election. Bakeland Rowland both have served eight years. Holdover supervisors in Chairman Willard Smith, Orange, fourth district, Willis H. Turner, Huntington Beach, second district, and Irvin George Gordon, Newport Beach, fifth district. COUNTY PARKS Recreational facilities of the county took forward strides during the year and a survey discloses that the county now has Enrollment of pupils throughout the state increased by 119,114 from October, 1947, to a total of 1,748,198, which amounts to 6.3 per cent. Larger increases, however, running over 10 per cent were reported in kindergartens and first grades. The department said another large increase was reported in the classes for adults in high schools and junior colleges. The total 1948 enrollment for these classes was 264,464, compared to 226,280 in 1947. Hunting Ends New Year's Eve On Much Game The California Fish and Game commission warns sportmen this week that hunting seasons on many types of California fish and game will end on New Year's Eve. The end of the calendar year stops seasons for bear, quail, tree squirrels, brush and cotton tail rabbits. Jackrabbit hunting in southern California ends one-half hour after sunset December 31 but is legal during the rest of the year in other parts of the state. Ocean fishing for steelhead trout and salmon will end the last day of the year and is prohibited in all bays except those east of the Carquinez bridge in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. All waters in Merced county, except certain portions of the Merced river have been ruled out to trout and salmon angling as of the first of the year as are portions of the Klamath, Moke-lumne, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Sacramento, Consumes, and Smith rivers. California Farm Receipts Exceed Last Year's California farmers have received $1,775,660,000 in cash receipts from farm marketings through October 31, according to a recent announcement by the state department of agriculture. Cash receipts for the period exceeded those of a similar period in 1947 by $34,935,000, the department revealed. Livestock and poultry combined with their products accounted for $624,720,000 and receipts from various districts and prescribing for the different zones, the classes of buildings, structures and improvements was made and approved by the councilmen. The zoning ordinance also provides for regulation of the use of buildings, heights and location and area covered by the building, within the different zones. GLENN FRY APPOINTED TO LIBRARY BOARD Glenn Fry was appointed by the council to the library board to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Earl A. Smith. Mr. Fry, a building contractor who lives at 1008 West Sycamore will serve until April 30, 1951. PINK RIBBONS A baby daughter arrived for Mr. and Mrs. Lester Burke, 11052 Lampson avenue, Garden Grove, Tuesday at Santa Ana Community hospital. The tiny miss tipped the scales at seven pounds and eight ounces. Funeral services were for Charles L. Turner Narcissus street, Corona who passed away last Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in Mar with the Rev. Schrock, officiating at Campbell and Kaulbarn Anaheim, in charge of memorials. A native of Michigan had lived in California years, 17 of which he spun guna Beach. He had a Corona del Mar for three years. Surviving are his wife M. Turner of the far two brothers; A. J. Turr Francisco and J. T. Turr Bernardino, and two sons L. E. Chandler of Saran and Mrs. Elmer Clarkter, California. Interment was in cemetery. COUNTY PARKS Recreational facilities of the county took forward strides during the year and a survey disses that the county now has five public parks, aggregating 14.71 acres with an appraised market value of $161,480. They cover terrain varying from beach to mountain. The oldest, Irvine Park, still is the most popular, but neither the largest nor the most valuable from an appraisal standpoint. Its area is exceeded by the new mountain park in Trabuco Bayon, O'Neill park, which covers 279.05 acres. One of the small parks, the six-acre tract along the beach at South Laguna, has the highest market value, $75,-, as compared to Irvine park's appraised value of $59,060. There no way, of course, to appraise recreational values of the park properties, but officials estimate the beach park to be worth $100,- for park purposes. The estimate of market value is based on what the owners of bordering private lots would pay to add the beach park to their holdings in private beach. O'Neill park is appraised at only 340, lowest of all at this time, it has not yet been improved. Other county parks are: Sigler Park at Westminster, 4.96 acres, appraised at $10,700; Santiago Parkway, between Orange and Santa Ana, 17.70 acres, appraised at $9380. STINGLESS BEES FROM RHODESIA have been introduced into England. California farmers have received $1,775,660,000 in cash receipts from farm marketings through October 31, according to a recent announcement by the state department of agriculture. Cash receipts for the period exceeded those of a similar period in 1947 by $34,935,000, the department revealed. Livestock and poultry combined with their products accounted for $624,720,000 and receipts from crops totaled $1,114,569,000 of the statewide totals. Only one state exceeded the California total. Iowa reported cash farm income amounting to $1,863,601,000 for the period. 90% of Nation's Wine Produced In California California wine production for 1948 totaled 95,222,000 gallons, or over 90 per cent of all wines produced in the United States. An analysis presented by members of the wine industry indicates that other wine producing states contributed only 8,217,000 gallons to the nationwide total of 103,439,000 gallons. OSCAR SOLTER HOME FROM HOSPITAL Oscar Solter of the Valencia hotel, manager of the local J. C. Penney Company, 124 West Center street, is convalescing at home from pneumonia. He became ill at the store Saturday, December 18, and was taken to the Anaheim Community hospital. He left the hospital last Sunday. Solter, head of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, is reported to be making satisfactory recovery. Half the drownings in this country occur in June, July and August. Resolve That Original Owners Have First Option on War Purpose Land The State Board of Agriculture has resolved that first options to repurchase land turned over to the federal government for war purposes should be given to the original property owners. The resolution, proposed by board member Don Bull of Marysville, called attention to the policy of the federal government in disposing of range-land located at Camp Beale. Bull stated that when the land was purchased by the government, the sellers were under the impression they would have the trust option to buy the land back after the war. As it now stands, the land has been withdrawn from sale due to the furor caused by different partys in their attempts to gain control of the land. Board member A. J. McFadden said the board is interested in seeing the famed Kellogg Arabian horse ranch returned to the University of California. The Kellogg ranch, worth over $3,000,000, was turned over to the army during the war for use as a remount station. This property now has been declared surplus, but has been withdrawn from sale until Congress decides whether to sell or return to it the university. Beach Man Rites Held Tuesday Funeral services were conducted for Charles L. Turner, 66, 609 Narcissus street, Corona del Mar, who passed away last Friday, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baltz mortuary in Corona del Mar with the Rev. Perry F. Schrock, officiating and Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary, Anaheim, in charge of arrangements. A native of Michigan, Turner had lived in California for 61 years, 17 of which he spent in La- Funeral services were conducted for Charles L. Turner, 66, 609 Narcissus street, Corona del Mar, who passed away last Friday, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baltz mortuary in Corona del Mar with the Rev. Perry F. Schrock, officiating and Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary, Anaheim, in charge of arrangements. A native of Michigan, Turner had lived in California for 61 years, 17 of which he spent in Laguna Beach. He had resided in Corona del Mar for the past two years. Surviving are his wife, Virginia M. Turner of the family home; two brothers, A. J. Turner of San Francisco and J. T. Turner of San Bernardino, and two sisters, Mrs. L. E. Chandler of San Francisco and Mrs. Elmer Clark of Hollis-ter, California. Interment was in Fairhaven cemetery. Savings Account with this bank and prepare for the future. You can save if you will. THE SOUTHERN COUNTY BANK A Friendly, Home Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Anaheim, California New Year We're holding the New Year high with hopes for health, happiness and prosperity to each and every one of you from all of us. Canada Packing House FRANK BELMONT, Owner SON STREET ANAHEIM 2226