anaheim-gazette 1949-01-06
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Our new supervisor, Ralph McFadden, took his seat officially on Tuesday and reported that everything went smoothly. He nominated Willis Warner for chairman of the board and that was the way it came out. None of the committee appointment's will be made before the next two weeks. The things the new supervisor has been asked for most are more water and less taxes. This is just like asking for a few more dogs and a lot less fleas. We wish Ralph a lot of luck in his new job.
The low temperatures of the last few nights have really been down far enough to get everyone jittery and there is no question but some damage was done. However, the extremely slow raise of the thermometer in the morning left much of our fruit in good shape with very little, if any, cell breakdown. The cold was very spotty and Tuesday night in several places around here the glass stood at 36 degrees. Sure it got colder than that by a whole lot but we think that the fruit will surprise a lot of people by now good it is come spring.
The 'Battle of the Bulge' is going on in full force up there in Sacramento. This time the bulge represents the cash that old man California has in his hip pocket. This 'dough' was carefully laid away during good times to take care of increasing needs of many state institutions who feel the need of expansion due to our 40
VOLUME LXXVIII ANAHEIM.
Sanitation Directors Meet in Anaheim to Study Engineer's Report On Proposed County-Wide Program
Board members of Sanitation districts 2 and 3 met Monday evening in the Anaheim city hall to study the engineering report of the Orange county sewerage survey which outlines the costs of the proposed $8,308,000 county-wide sewerage program.
This was the last of the district meetings to be held for the purpose of study of the report by board members and is to be followed by a meeting of all of the directors on Wednesday, January 12, when dates for public hearings on the proposed bond issues will be set. The bond issue, raising the necessary 8 million dollars needed for the construction of the sewerage program is expected to be put to a vote on February 28.
Districts 2 and 3 along with district 7 are entering the new county sewerage program under a limited participation plan which proposes that these districts contribute, according to estimated volume, to the cost of the treatment plant, ocean outfall and large trunk sewers. They would continue to use existing Joint Outfall Sewer lines until such time as their ceiling tax rates would permit them to construct or purchase additional trunk sewer.
Walton's to Install Officers At Fullerton
Officers and directors of the California division of the Izaak Walton league elected at the recent November meeting in Bakersfield will be installed Saturday, January 8 at a dinner meeting at the Fullerton chapter clubhouse at Hillcrest park, Fullerton.
Several Orange county men are included in the new slate. They
The 'Battle of the Bulge' is going on in full force up there in Sacramento. This time the bulge represents the cash that old man California has in his hip pocket. This 'dough' was carefully laid away during good times to take care of increasing needs of many state institutions who feel the need of expansion due to our 40 per cent increase in population. No one likes to admit that our criminal population has increased in direct proportion to the general increase but the fact remains that our penal and mental institutions are so badly overcrowded as to be a scandal. Whether we use this money where it was intended to be used or the lawmakers change the rules and it to finance other things, such as the increase in cost due to things like proposition No. 4, the hard fact remains that more money will be needed. The only answer to that one is more taxes. The only place to get more taxes is from the people. That old saw about the big corporations paying the bill is just a lot of bunk, because under such a scheme the tax increase is only passed on to the people under a different name. The average man still has to make an ante. That's flat. It's true, too, darn it.
Bill Wallop and his horse comprised this city's entry in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Several people even saw and recognized them on television in the parade. Bill says that his horse is used to this sort of thing that she now keeps step with the band music and he is the only one to get the jitters. The horse got a ribbon and Bill got a ticket to the football game. Bill had to come clear back to Anaheim before he got a 'ribbin.'
No one will argue with the statement that water is southern California's most precious commodity. We here in Orange county are fully alerted to the fact that our underground basin must be replenished. We in Anaheim have a heritage of almost a hundred years battle to preserve our rights in the Santa Ana river. This battle has never ceased—it is going on right now. We were prime movers in the start of the Metropolitan Water District. We all believe that our cities should use Colorado water instead of pumping out the underground districts 2 and 3 along with district 7 are entering the new county sewerage program under a limited participation plan which proposes that these districts contribute, according to estimated volume, to the cost of the treatment plant, ocean outfall and large trunk sewers. They would continue to use existing Joint Outfall Sewer lines until such time as their ceiling tax rates would permit them to construct or purchase additional trunk sewers where needed, thus ultimately providing trunk sewers to serve all portions of the sanitation districts.
Cost to Anaheim Reduced
Although not included in the report, Engineer Vinson Bacon explained how the actual cost to the city of Anaheim will be substantially reduced by the fact that her share in the existing facilities of the Joint Outfall Sewer System is to be purchased by the other districts. Thus, he pointed out, the actual cost to the Anaheim taxpayer although he will be paying 10 cents per $100 of assessment will be something like 2 or 3 cents because of a reimbursement of $190,250 which the city will receive to her general fund. This sum is to be paid in yearly installments and is scheduled for complete repayment in 1953, he said.
Mr. Bacon explained that the estimates included in the report were "liberal" and that it is extremely possible that the final cost will be considerably less than what is presented. However he explained, "it is necessary to over-estimate, in order to assure adequate funds for the complete construction."
$1,644,000 for District 2
The $1,644,000 cost to district 2 and the amount to be raised by the proposed bond issues was arrived at by first computing the total cost to all districts, then determining the percentage of capacity to be used by the district and then finally arriving at the cost to the district, according to Engineer Bacon.
He pointed out that under the limited participation plan district 2 is contributing only to the $4,006,200 estimated cost of the ocean outfall, trunk sewers and disposal plan.
Directors of Sanitation district 2 include: Ralph McFadden, supervisor; Charles Pearson, mayor of Anaheim; George N. Weimer,
Instant Officers At Fullerton
Officers and directors of the California division of the Izaak Walton league elected at the recent November meeting in Bakerfield will be installed Saturday, January 8 at a dinner meeting at the Fullerton chapter clubhouse at Hillcrest park, Fullerton.
Several Orange county men are included in the new slate. They are: James Rymer of Anaheim, director; John C. Gregory of Fullerton, vice-president and Thermon Means of Santa Ana, treasurer.
The dinner session will be preceded by an executive board meeting at 2 p.m. according to Adron Edmiston, president of the Fullerton chapter. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock followed by the installation of officers and directors and a business meeting.
Other officers to be installed include: I. H. Cory of San Francisco, president; J. Robert Woltz of Kern chapter, vice-president and Dolbert Stephenson of Riverside, director.
Officers appointed by the president and approved by the board of directors are: Mrs. Minnie Cory, secretary; Harrey Miller of Kern chapter, conservation director; and directors at large, Claude Rowe of San Joaquin Valley chapter and Thomas L. Groom of San Pedro.
Orange county with its four chapters located at Santo Ana, Orange, Anaheim and Fullerton and the Ann Newman women's chapter of Fullerton, the only all-women chapter in the state, is the most active county in the conservation organization.
NO NEW YEAR'S BABY BORN HERE
No New Year's day baby arrived in Anaheim to keep company with another arrival, Little 1949, according to attendants of the Anaheim Community hospital. Mr., and Mrs. Erich Kuhn welcomed a baby daughter on Friday morning shortly after 9:30 o'clock, December 31, 1948.
MARY MILLERICK ASSOCIATE INJURED
Mrs. Rosebrook of the Mary Millerick Style Shop, East Center street, is confined to her home on North Resh street due to injuries suffered when she fell down some steps on Sunday. She sustained a broken leg and a sprained ankle.*
State Controller Kuchel Reports
General Fund Excess of $119,139,945
California's general fund cash excess over current obligations on November 30 amounted to $119,-139,945, according to a statement released by State Controller Thomas H. Kuchel.
This was compared with an excess of $83,158,644 at the end of October and $153,172,704 on November 30, 1947.
Kuchel reported general fund revenues for the first five months of the current fiscal year totalling $210,591,988, an increase of 22 per cent over the same period one year ago. Expenditures for the five months showed an increase of 72 per cent and reached a total of $248,340,425.
Retail sales and use taxes produced $141,076,894 of the revenue, an increase of $27,745,338 over the same period in 1947. Other major revenue increases were as follows: Insurance companies tax, $10,040,570; interest on investments and treasury deposits, $3,-207,540; bank and corporation franchise and income taxes, $2,-081,129; and liquor licenses and taxes, $1,168,003.
Statutory changes providing for the revenues to be deposited in other funds accounted for the following general fund decreases:
Motor vehicle fees (in lieu" tax), $2,551,368; motor vehicle transportation tax, $1,537,559; and pari mutuel fees, $1,397,651.
Kuchel said that in addition to the above decreases, personal income tax had dropped $1,220,436 under the total for the comparable period in 1947, and that royalties and other income from state lands had decreased $420,949. The only other revenue source showing a drop was inheritance tax, which was $185,388 below the same period one year ago.
Transfers to other funds totaling $70,826,536 and expenditures for STATE CONTROLLER (24-24) building aid amounting to $10,-265,565 accounted for the major portion of the increased costs chargeable to the general fund, according to the Controller's report.
Other major items of expenditure for the five-month period were: Apportionments for elementary schools, high schools and junior colleges, $55,257,495; University of California, $11,600,197; aid to needy aged, $27,276,662; aid to needy children $5,298,479; aid to needy blind, $1,484,711; and miscellaneous fixed charges and appropriations, $66,280,781.
ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949
Meet in Pioneer's Report Wide Program
Districts 2 and 3 met all to study the engineering survey which 8,308,000 county-wide meetings to be held at by board members of the directors on or public hearings on The bond issue; raise ton's to Hall Officers Fullerton and directors of the division of the Izaak league elected at the November meeting in Bakwill be installed Saturday 8 at a dinner meet-Fullerton chapter club-Hillcrest park, Fullerton. Orange county men are in the new slate. They Unemployed Ranks Hit 250,000
California employment, none too bright at the present time despite an increase over 1947, is losing ground and there are approximately 250,000 unemployed workers as compared to 235,000 a year ago, the State Department of Employment announced this week.
However, claims for unemployment insurance do not provide the true picture of unemployment in California today, the department says, for there are many workers entering the state who are not entitled to draw compensation, while agricultural and domestic workers do not come under provisions of the law.
The state's population at the present time has been estimated by the department a 10,100,000 but other sources place the California total at 10,200,000. The increase since the war years has been between 300,000 and 400,000 annually.
This, according to officials, accounts partially for the increase in unemployment for industry, while expanding, is in the process of postwar adjustment and opportunities for jobs are fewer.
The decrease in farm labor is seasonal and workers will return
400 Lobbyists In Sacramento For New Session
By EARL G. WATERS
Even before the gavel sounded the opening of the 1949 California Legislature you could tell this session will be a real rip-snorter.
Seated in the lobby of one of the capital's leading hotels 21 hours before the session convened it was obvious to one and all that the lines are being formed for some major battles.
The proof of all this is the number of lobbyists who have already descended (or ascended if you prefer) to the California capitol.
A lobbyist is one who appears before the legislature to advocate or oppose legislative measures in the interests of some particular business or industry. When something comes up affecting his employers he is Johnny-on-the-spot buttonholing senators and assemblymen to whom he gratuitously gives advice. There are rumors that some of the more successful lobbyists give more than advice on occasion. However, this latter has never been substantiated in a Appoint Aide For Chamber
With a wide knowledge of local values and real estate property in Anaheim, Frank M. Mill former insurance and real estate broker, has been appointed assistant to E. W. Moeller, secretary manager of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, it was disclosed this week.
The appointment was made Kenneth F. Hellyer, chancellor. Miller will be in charge of the retail division and industrial development. Last year negotiated the sale of 10 acres Gate-Way, Inc.
A native of Cleveland, Oh Miller has been in insurance and real estate business in Santa Ana and Anaheim, seeing 12 years an insurance man and more than three years as a real estate broker in addition.
Orange County Has Windfall Of $179,297
and directors of the division of the Izaak league elected at the November meeting in Bakwill be installed Saturday at a dinner meet-Fullerton chapter club-Hillcrest park. Fullerton. Orange county men are in the new slate. They des Rymer of Anaheim, John C. Gregory of Fulce-president and Therms of Santa Ana, treasurer session will be prey an executive board at 2 p.m. according to miston, president of the chapter. Dinner will be at 7 o'clock followed by lation of officers and a business meeting. Officers to be installed at H. Cory of San Fransident; J. Robert Woltz chapter, vice-president Hart Stephenson of Riverdorot. appointed by the presi-approved by the boards are: Mrs. Minnie Cory, Harrey Miller of Kern conservation director,ors at large, Claude San Joaquin Valley and Thomas L. Groom of county with its four located at Santo Ana, Anaheim and Fullerton Ann Newman woman of Fullerton, the onen chapter in the state, is active county in the on organization.
YEAR'S BABY
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Year's day baby arriv-heim to keep company her arrival, Little 1949,to attendants of the Community hospital. Mr. Erich Kuhn welcomed daughter on Friday shortly after 9:30 o'clock,31,1948.
WILLERICK
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Sebrook of the Mary Style Shop, East Censis confined to her home Resh street due to injured when she fell down on Sunday. She sus-oken leg and a sprain-by the department a 10,100,000 but other sources place the California total at 10,200,000. The increase since the war years has been between 300,000 and 400,000 annually.
This, according to officials, accounts partially for the increase in unemployment for industry, while expanding, is in the process of postwar adjustment and opportunities for jobs are fewer.
The decrease in farm labor is seasonal and workers will return to farms starting in March. However, the department expects the unemployment peak to be reached in March and April, with conditions improving after that time.
State employment offices report a lack of jobs for white collar workers, railroad labor, and industrial plant workers. There are still openings for some skilled workers.
The lumber industry has slowed with many small mills shut down. Larger mills have curtailed production.
However, California has more workers employed than during any previous year in history, states the department. There are from four to four and one-half million persons employed in the state today. This figure was determined from unemployment figures and claims for insurance, compared with records of the State Department of Industrial Relations.
California unemployment conditions are following the same trend reported from practically all states in the union. Some states, where workers depend upon a single industry for employment, have been harder hit. In others postwar readjustment is held responsible for the decrease in jobs.
An accurate picture of conditions in this state is expected when unemployment, employment and population reports are compiled for the year. Both the Departments of Employment and Industrial Relations, and the Bureau of Plant Quarantine of the State Department of Agriculture, are now preparing these reports.
When they are complete, state officials say, it will be possible to determine the population increase, the number of employed and unemployed, and the business trend for the year,
Willis Warner
New Chairman
A lobbyist is one who appears before the legislature to advocate or oppose legislative measures in the interests of some particular business or industry. When something comes up affecting his employers he is Johnny-on-the-spot buttonholing senators and assemblymen to whom he gratuitously gives advice. There are rumors that some of the more successful lobbyists give more than advice on occasion. However, this latter has never been substantiated in a California court of law.
The last district attorney who started a case against the lobbyists is now reputedly a millionaire.
Of course, the lobbyists, or legislative representatives as they prefer to be called, are nice fellows. They wine and dine the legislators and try to make their stay away from home as pleasant as possible.
Sometimes, when things get real dull, like just before an important issue is to be voted on, a little card game is arranged for some of the members of the legislature. And for all the experience these lobbyist fellows have had at entertaining people, it sometimes surprises you what bad poker players they are. They say some of them lose as much as $500 or more in one little friendly game.
Anyway, the lobbyists or rather the legislative representatives are here in force and the session is properly underway.
And for the information of the public at large who will get the benefit of this friendly advice given by the legislative representative to the members of the legislature elected by the people to represent them, here are some of the big lobbyists.
Arthur Samish, who represents the beverage industries of California, meaning principally the breweries and distilleries. Samish (Continued from Page 5)
Postpone Aerial Survey of Burnt County Areas
"Operations Conservation" aerial tour scheduled for Orange county teachers, administrators and students to view areas of the county burned during the recent brush fire, originally slated for Tuesday afternoon, was grounded due to the "Arizona" windstorm
Orange county will have a winfall of $179,279 as a result of the state taking over administration aid to the needy aged and blind on January 1 under the terms Proposition No. 4, (Article XXII California Constitution), the California Taxpayers' association has estimated.
The estimated surplus includes $130,189 budgeted for the county share of aid to the needy aged for the January to June, 1949, period, and $11,305 budgeted for aid to the blind, together with $57,785 budgeted for administrative costs for aged and blind aid for December, 1948, through June, 1949.
Taxes have already been levied to raise this $179,279 and are included in the $4,122,632 property tax levy for general county purposes for 1949-49, the Taxpayers' association pointed out.
Over the state as a whole, the counties will have a surplus estimated at $9,066,136 resulting from state administration of aged and blind aid. Of this, $6,331,955 will be in funds raised for aid to the needy aged,$566,295 for the needy blind,and $2,167,886 for administrative costs for these two kinds of relief to the needy.The $9,066136 is included in the $254,634,099 property tax levy for general county purposes for 1948-49.
"The state director of finance has estimated that state costs for the first six months alone will be increased by $27,994,000 with further impact a year or so away,"the Taxpayers' association said.
"Taxpayers in California will have an estimated $9,000,000 less in their county taxes pocket,buy they will have to dig up $28,000,,000 out of their state taxes pocket to pay for aged and blind aid during the first six months of 1949."
"They should see to it that tha$9,000,000 in county taxes is no frittered away during these six months,但 is held for county tax reduction in 1949-50,"the Taxpayers' organization declared.
Willis Warner New Chairman Of Supervisors
Willis Warner of Huntington Beach was unanimously elected as chairman of the Orange county board of supervisors Tuesday, January 4, as the board reorganized with two new members. He replaces Willard Smith of Orange who has served as chairman of the board for the past two years.
Taking office for the first time were Ralph McFadden who replaces James Baker of Anaheim as supervisor from the Third District and C. M. Featherly of Santa Ana who takes over Fred Rowlands position as supervisor of the First District.
In addition to Warner and Smith the other holdover on the board is Irvin Gordon of Newport Beach.
Mr. Warner was nominated by Ralph McFadden and was uncontested in the election for the chair.
First official action under the new chair was a motion by Supervisor Smith authorizing Chairman Warner to make committee appointments for the coming two year term. The motion was carried and Warner announced that he would release committee appointments next week after first conferring with the supervisors as to their preference.
Survey of Burnt County Areas
"Operations Conservation" aerial tour scheduled for Orange county teachers, administrators and students to view areas of the county burned during the recent brush fire, originally slated for Tuesday afternoon, was grounded due to the "Arizona" windstorm in this state. The five-plane survey, baring additional wind and smudge, is set for next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Orange County airport, chairman Bill Cunliffe, co-ordinator of secondary schools in the superintendent's office, stated.
From 30 to 35 persons are expected to make the flight next week. Newsreel cameramen from Pathe and Fox Movietone had accepted invitations extended to shoot razed county areas on the canceled date this week but county school officials hope to have their services Monday.
Representing Anaheim high school will be superintendent Paul H. Demarce; Marlo Anderson, life science instructor, and Donna Thomas, student body president. To date no elementary school delegates are registered according to M. A. Gauer, Anaheim elementary district superintendent.
According to current plan, movie shots of burned grass lands and de-wooded areas will be shown in both elementary and high schools of the county.
Following the preliminary meeting of interested personnel, another planning meeting is expected to be called with the purpose of coordinating a county-wide Arbor Day tree planting program, March 7, in Irvine, Orange county, or McNeil park, Cunliffe said.
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State Government Costs in '48 Set
California's state government cost the taxpayers approximately $663,163,385 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948, according to a report made by State Controller Thomas H. Kuchel.
This amount, which includes expenditures from the general fund and all other funds pertaining to self-supporting functions or agencies, represents an increase of $205,106,112 over the preceding year and compares with a total cost of state government of $60,521,383 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923.
Kuchel said that $386,411,353 of the total cost represented payments to local agencies during the year, an increase of 63 per cent over comparable payments during 1946-47. These subventions included $172,640,165 in public school apportionments and $73,873,685 for aid to the needy aged, blind and children. In addition, $84,-152,950 of shared revenues was disbursed to cities and counties and $55,744,553 in other subventions was paid to or for various agencies of local government.
Expenditures for the operation of state government alone totaled $273,098,995, an increase of $59,-619,297, or 23 per cent over operating costs of the previous fiscal year.
County Citrus 'Fares Well' in Record Breaking Cold Wave; Expect State-Wide Picking Embargo Soon
Although damage to Orange county's citrus crop will not be known for a week or 10 days or until internal crystallization begins to appear, local growers considering the losses in nearby Riverside and San Bernardino groves were of the opinion, "there but for the grace of God go I."
Damage was high, possibly a third of the crop was lost but it could have been worse and it now appears that of the citrus growing area, Orange county "fared the best."
If there was doubt as to the extent of the damage to the crop, there was little doubt as to the damage done potential profits what with the cost of smudging running better than $100 per hour for every 10 acres of citrus being smudged.
It is estimated that the heaters burn two to three gallons of oil per hour and in most instances around 45 pots are needed in each acre to keep the temperature above freezing. Oil costs 11 cents per gallon.
Latest word from San Bernardino and Riverside counties was that a picking embargo would go into effect and that it was "probable" that by Friday a state-wide picking embargo would be asked.
Anaheim Day to View Berlin Art Is January 15
Anaheimers may view the 95 paintings owned by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum of Berlin, on January 15, Saturday, which has been set aside for this city, or until the public closing date of January 22 at the Los Angeles
It is estimated that the heaters burn two to three gallons of oil per hour and in most instances around 45 pots are needed in cacn acre to keep the temperature above freezing. Oil costs 11 cents per gallon.
Latest word from San Bernardino and Riverside counties was that a picking embargo would go into effect and that it was "probable" that by Friday a state-wide picking embargo would be asked.
Practically all growers who had pots and the oil to burn were heating both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and late predictions indicate that heat will be necessary in some areas of Orange county tonight and Friday, although it is expected to be 1 or 2 degrees warmer.
Many growers in the county have been irrigating their groves and although no definite report is available on the success or failure of the attempt, indications are that it helped and if these findings prove conclusive, it is felt that more and more growers will resort to running water in their groves when the mercury starts to dip.
It was felt in some circles that because of earlier cold nights the fruit had become "immunized" and thus is not as susceptible to damage as it would otherwise be. It was pointed out that in 1937 the cold wave was not preceded by cold periods such as has occurred this year and therefore the damage was greater.
Another factor presented was that the gradual change in temperature on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings has had a lot to do with keeping the damage down and that the normal lag between the inside and outside temperature was not apparent.
BABY BOY BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gill, 11202 East Stanford street, Garden Grove, became the parents of a baby son who arrived at Santa Ana Community hospital, December 28, tipping the scales at seven pounds and five ounces.
County Water District Will Decide February 1 on River Water Purchase
Property owners served by the Orange County Water District will decide February 1 whether to tax themselves $225,000 for which to buy Colorado River water to relieve the critical overdraw on the county's underground supply.
The date was set by the directors of the Orange County Water District following a meeting with property owners.
County Water District Will Decide February 1 on River Water Purchase
Property owners served by the Orange County Water District will decide February 1 whether to tax themselves $225,000 for which to buy Colorado River water to relieve the critical overdraw on the county's underground supply.
The date was set by the directors of the Orange County Water District following a meeting with property owners last Wednesday. The directors were unanimous in their opinion that sentiments expressed at the meeting indicated approval of the special assessment.
Voting will be on the basis of property holdings—each voter having as many votes as calculated upon the relative size of his holdings. Thus the issue will be decided by the large property owners—the oil companies, the public utilities and the Irvine company.
One vote for each $100 of assessment or fraction thereof will be allowed with the last certified assessment roll being used as a basis for computing the number of votes each owner is entitled to cast.
Need for the special assessment was brought out by Vernon Heil who declared that legislative action authorizing an increase in the present tax limitation would not bring the district any money for purchase of water until 1950. Thus according to Mr. Heil a special assessment was necessary in order to insure an immediate correction to the acute water shortage that exists.
He explained that the 12 cent assessment would provide funds for the purchase of 20,000 acre feet of Colorado water from the Metropolitan Water District.
The board of directors have indicated that they would be willing to pay $12 per acre and hope that the MWD will accept such a price. The MWD original offer was $20 per acre foot and they have since agreed to sell for $15.
LARGE OWNERS
Oil companies represented at the meeting were the General Petroleum Company, The Texas Company, Standard Oil Company of California, Union Oil Company and the Signal Oil and Gas Company.
Paul Ottoson, representing the Signal Oil company remarked that under the voting plan his company would be entitled to cast 10 per cent of the total vote.
Utilities present included the Southern California Edison Company, and the Santa Fe Railroad. Also present were representatives of county water districts and many local and county officials.
Polls will be open in the seven districts that make up the Orange County Water District from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 1, the date of balloting.
Polling places are as follows: District 1—Garden Grove, Chamber of Commerce building; District 2—Intermediate school, Orange; District 3—City Hall in Placentia; District 4 — Magnolia school; District 5—City Hall, Tustin; District 6—Ocean View school in Huntington Beach and District 7—Union High school in Newport Beach.