anaheim-gazette 1949-05-05

Colony Quips It will not be long until we find out just how much 'juice' there is in the old animal. We are talking about the coming Valencia season, of course. The dire predictions of the big city boys that Orange county's major industry has only a few more years to go until it is engulfed by the rising tide of subdivisions is still farther in the future than they know. That kind of thinking and expounding makes for audience attention but it does not prove a thing. Everyone knows, if they will stop to think, and has known for a long time, that there are many marginal pieces of citrus land that never will pay the operator a profit at the present price of the land. These will be the first to go on the real estate market for subdivision. Of course our expanding cities will probably take a few good ones in the bargain. There will, however, still be a lot of wobbles to sell to eastern tenderfeet. There also will be a lot of fruit to sell for a good many years. The good groves will still bring in a mighty fine percentage profit to their owners and the marginals will holler—perhaps it is nearer the truth to say that they will all holler. You know what we mean. The problem is still sales and returns to the grower. We are coming around to the belief that the main problem is such that it cannot be licked except by the whole industry. Every segment of the industry has its own particular problem. ANAHEIM VOLUME LXXVIII FIVE CENTS ANAHEIM, John Raitt, Wife and Protege JOHN RAITT, popular Broadway musical star, poses with his wife, Marjorie, and son, Stephen, on the campus of the Anaheim High School. Raitt will present a YMCA Benefit concert tomorrow evening, Friday, May 6, at 8:15 p.m. John Raitt Thrills High School In Preview of Friday’s YMCA Concert John Raitt Thrills High School In Preview of Friday’s YMCA Concert Indication that a rare treat is in store for those attending Friday evening’s YMCA concert was given when John Raitt presented a sneak preview at a high school assembly program Tuesday. It was originally planned as a one or two number performance but the singing and personality of Raitt so entrusted the audience that he was brought back again and again by the tremendous ovation. Such a reception is a matter of course. Raitt is acclaimed by critics and music-lovers from coast to coast as one of our great acting singers. For his outstanding performances in “Oklahoma” and “Carousel” in 1945-46, he received the Academy Award and the Donaldson Drama Critics Award. He is a native of Orange county and attended Fullerton high school His father, the well-known Arch Raitt, was secretary of the Fullerton Y for 23 years and has been secretary of the Santa Ana Y for the past five. Raitt is accompanied by his wife, Marjorie. But as he so aptly put it following Tuesday's performance, "She doesn't play the Accompaniment, she accompanies me." Friday's concert will be an all-English program and will be a concert of American ballads—the one's America loves best. Advance ticket sale has been reported as "brisk." Cops Plan Gun Demonstration And Barbecue Orange county's police officers haven't had so many tickets to pass out since the Policemen's Ball! The occasion is a special shooting demonstration and barbecue to be held this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., marking the conclusion of a nine-weeks marksmen school. Judge L. P. Bonnat is an expert in handing out fines and now claims to culture fine roses. When he passes out a fine it is fine for him but when he passed you a fine rose it is fine for you and you are not fined but you find something fine which you don't find when he fines you, for when he fines you you had better find something in your pocket or you will find yourself making fine ones out of large ones to the full extent of your fine. A fine by any other name would smell sweeter if accompanied by a rose. Anyway the Judge sure knows how to handle his fi... we mean roses. But he has a lot of good help at home. (We are us tired of fines as anyone we know of—broke too.) Mexico is fast becoming a mecca for many of our more prominent citizens. The latest group left the end of last week for La Paz to go after pescados with a sword. They flew down and will fly back with their buscas and with Roy Mabee to direct them should do fine. Hope they do not pick up any stingrays or anything else. MRS. WELTON WINS EHLER BICYCLE Mrs. Belle Welton, 907 North Pine street, won this month's free balloon-tired Schwinn bicycle, awarded Saturday night by Ehler's Bicycle, Key and Lawnmower shop, 419 West Center street. Her husband, George, shoe salesman at the S.Q.R. store, rode the new steed home. Jury Finds Vejar Guilty of Drunk Driving At 8:15 o'clock last evening, Wednesday, May 4, a jury headed by Foreman Carl Lemcke found Lawrence M. Vejar, 24 years, 148 Melrose street, Placentia, guilty of driving while intoxicated. Judge L. P. Bonnat will deliver sentence Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Defense attorney Lloyd S. Verry and City attorney Preston Turner completed their arguments at 4:30, at which time the jury went out. Vejar was arrested shortly after midnight on March 6 by Officers Hoxie and Wilson of the Anaheim police department. They noticed the defendant driving without any lights. He was taken to the station where Dr. Paige pronounced him intoxicated. The total distance of the Great Lakes waterways system, from Duluth to the outlet of Lake Ontario is 1,160 miles, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Orange county's police officers haven't had so many tickets to pass out since the Policemen's Ball! The occasion is a special shooting demonstration and barbecue to be held this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., marking the conclusion of a nine-weeks marksmen school conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of Special Agent Charles B Flack of the San Diego office. Admission to the shoot at the San Joaquin Gun club is free while the buck and a half tickets are for the barbecue to be held at Santiago Park immediately following the demonstration. The school started March 2nd and ended Wednesday. It was an eight-day course with classes staggered so that all police officers would have an opportunity to attend. Anaheim's policemen, led by Police Chief Mark Stephenson, all took and completed the course. Don Dunbar, Tustin, president of the Orange County Peace Officers' association and Charles Flack are in charge of the demonstration at the gun club Saturday. In addition to the exhibitions of fancy and trick shooting by the county's policemen, an abbreviated version of the course are presented here will also be presented. Chef-in-charge of the barbecue is Dan Adams, retired California Highway patrolman. Entertainment has been planned. The state of New Jersey has extensive water navigation facilities; it rates high in industrial strength, its railway facilities are highly developed, market gardening is of high importance, its sea coast resorts attract hundreds of thousands of people each year. ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD AHEIM GAZETTE EST. 1870 TS ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949 Mother You are like a mighty ship at sea, The waves around you roam, You ride the storm to bring Good and dear thoughts home. You are like a sweet spring flower; Petals are your hands To open with each day, Give loving thoughts along the way. My Mom, you're like a tree; Two branches are your shoulders; Cares and woe have made them bent As you are growing older. You are like a long, sweet prayer To know, to give, and always share. These, with many, many more My own dear Mom are what you are. Will Lose 120 Parking Spaces On Center Street Transformation of Center street from a two-lane to a four lane highway got started this week with the spotting of new location for parking meters to permit parallel parking. This is in compliance with repeated order of the state to eliminate angle parking on Anaheim main thoroughfare and replace with parallel parking. The "new look" on Center will result in a loss of 120 meter parking spaces. This figure will be reduced by extending the present zone from Helena to Palm. However, the extension is subject to council approval. It would result in 19 metered zones, reducing the net loss of spaces for the peninsula and nickel vendors to 101. Practically every meter on Center will have to be re-located as a result of the order. State regulations call for 24-foot stalls with end stalls to be 18-22 feet. City Appears Victorious in Battle of Shoestrings as Council Adopts Ordinances Annexing Properties The Battle of the Shoestrings appeared to be turning into a Battle of the Percentages. Annexation proceedings of the city of Anaheim of narrow strips of land along Orangethorpe and South Spadra road were tabbed the Battle of the Shoestrings when contested by certain Fullerton residents during the recent lengthy litigation in superior court. At Tuesday evening's public hearing and at last Friday's it began to look as though the annexation attempts of Anaheim would become a percentage conflict. Successful Counter-Attack But the city council aided by City Attorney Preston Turner and armed with maps, tabulations, sworn statements and percentages made a successful counter-attack and emerged victorious with the first reading of city ordinance 743, annexing South Spadra annexation two in the bag. First reading to the ordinance annexing the Orangethorpe strip was made last Friday. Second and final reading of both ordinances will be made at next Tuesday's regular city council meeting. Stymied Friday On Friday the city council was stymied in proceeding with the annexation of the South Spadra road strips when protests were received by property owners, Charles C. Jones and Thomas F. Larson, who claimed that their property holdings extended to the center of Highway 101. At this point the proceedings on Friday broke up but on Tuesday the city councilmen heard from Good & Good, tax consultants that, "No part of Sapdra road is assess- City Engineer Hapgood said that although the spotting would be completed this week, he could not hazard a guess as to when actual re-location would be started or completed. C. of C. Highly Elated with Progress Week Chamber of Commerce officers, highly elated over the results achieved in the several programs of their third annual Civic Progress Week, were confident that this major chamber activity is destined to become one of the big planning events of southern California. This was attributed to wide acceptance and response to the Week, by the people in the planning fraternity and the appearance of high caller men speaking at committee meetings and in various panels. Not to be underestimated was the great enthusiasm shown by the members of Anaheim chamber. Warren Ashleigh, general chairman of the event declared that he could not be too generous in expressing thanks and apreciation to all of the speakers various organizations and committeemen for their contributions in making Anaheim's third annual Civic Progress Week the great success that it was. Report $71 Million In County During The gross value of agriculture during 1948 was $71 cent from the 1947 return. This was revealed in the county agricultural commission forwarded to the state department. A. J. Schutte Appointed to Co. Fair Board Sacramento (WNS) — Governor Warren has appointed A. J. Schutte, Anaheim, to the board of directors of the 32nd District Agricultural Association in Orange county. Schutte is a past president of the Orange County Farm Bureau and is president of the Olive Heights Citrus Association. He succeeds H. T. Dunning, whose term had expired, and will hold office until January 15, 1953. The governor also appointed George H. Tobias, Santa Ana attorney, to the board. Tobias succeeds B. Z. McKinney, whose term had expired, and he will also serve until January 15, 1953. PINK RIBBONS A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Scharnweber, 13212 East Orangewood avenue, Anaheim, last week at St. Joseph hospital. The little miss tipped the scales at six pounds and eleven ounces. On Friday the city council was stymied in proceeding with the annexation of the South Spadra road strips when protests were received by property owners, Charles C. Jones and Thomas F. Larson, who claimed that their property holdings extended to the center of Highway 101. At this point the proceedings on Friday broke up but on Tuesday the city councilmen heard from Good & Good, tax consultants that; "No part of Sapdra road is assessed to any of the objecting property owners." Sworn Statements Stanley Good, Jr., of the firm, in a sworn statement reported to the council that in the proposed strip of land to be annexed, only 10 per cent was owned by the objection owners. He stated further that even if the entire holdings of property of all owners affected were taken into consideration, the objectors still held considerably less than 50 per cent. Without further adieu the council adopted unanimously Ordinance 743. Allocate $1,797.50 Of Liquor License Fees to Anaheim Sacramento, May 5 (WNS)—Liquor license fees totaling $2,353,-170 will soon be distributed to cities and counties of the state and the city of Anaheim will receive $1,797.50, while Orange county has been apportioned $5,876.57, the State Board of Equalization said today. The fees are those collected between July 1, 1948, and December 31, 1948, according to James H. Quinn, member of the board, and is the 26th such allocation. The allocations represent 100 per cent of the fees collected and are turned over to cities and counties to aid in the enforcement of liquor control laws. Report $71 Million In County During 1948 The gross value of agriculture during 1948 was $71 million from the 1947 return. This was revealed in the county agricultural commission forwarded to the state department. Greatest decrease occurred in the production and return from Valencia oranges while the greatest gain was in livestock production which also showed more value per unit. Citrus was the hardest hit. According to Tubbs, there was 2 per cent less production with 3 per cent of the fruit graded out due to freezing injury, granulation or small sizes. Truck crop acreage increased 1 per cent but returns dropped 1 per cent, the report showed. Total f.o.b. income from citrus during the past year was $33,122,105 which compared with the '4 figure of $42 million. Livestock production netted $20,138,945 comparing favorably with a 1947 net of $14,735,300—an increase of almost $6 million. Field crop returns dropped approximately a million with a reported net of $9,972,275 last year while the returns in '47 totalled $11,070,960. Truck crops showed a $200 thousand drop with returns totaling $5,843,925 in '48 and $606,845 in '47. In concluding his report, Tubbs expressed appreciation to the producers, packing organizations and individuals for their assistance in supplying data used in the compilation of his report. It was once believed that living human beings placed in corner stones would ensure the stability of a bulldog, according to the Excyclopaedia Britannica. CALIFORNIA STATE Weekly Temperatures ED. E. BRUNS — Sunkist Min. Max. Thursday 46 77 Friday 50 63 Saturday 43 78 Sunday 44 77 Monday 50 66 Tuesday 56 71 Wednesday 46 75 Twelve Pages No. 28 Off to Sacramento and State Honors! ANAHEIM'S CRACK CADET RIFLE TEAM—Winners of the State Staff Trophy for finishing third in the state championship match last weekend in Sacramento are shown above as they prepared to leave Anaheim for Los Angeles where they boarded the train for the capital city and marksmanship honors. Standing left to right: Major Ralph Comstock, commandant; Cpl. Alfred Lattin, Cpl. Edward Evers, 1st Sgt. Dan Berg, 1st Sgt. Dick Rold, Sgt. Willard Watts, 1st Lt. Dean Risner, ranage officer. Kneeling left to right: S/Sgt. Roderick Wallace, 2nd It. Charles Kipp, T/Sgt. Paul Rumfelt, 2nd Lt. Pedro Verdin, S/Sgt. Enoch Peterson, M/Sgt. Don Barnett, Maj. Edward Liptrapp. Gazette Photo ANAHEIM'S CRACK CADET RIFLE TEAM—Winners of the State Staff Trophy for finishing third in the state championship match last weekend in Sacramento are shown above as they prepared to leave Anaheim for Los Angeles where they boarded the train for the capital city and marksmanship honors. Standing left to right: Major Ralph Comstock, commandant; Cpl. Alfred Lattin, Cpl. Edward Evers, 1st Sgt. Dan Berg, 1st Sgt. Dick Rold, Sgt. Willard Watts, 1st Lt. Dean Risner, ranage officer. Kneeling left to right: S/Sgt. Roderick Wallace, 2nd It. Charles Kipp, T/Sgt. Paul Rumfelt, 2nd Lt. Pedro Verdin, S/Sgt. Enoch Peterson, M/Sgt. Don Barnett, Maj. Edward Liptrapp. Anaheim Cadets Take Third In State Cadet Rifle Championship Matches Anaheim’s Cadet Rifle team journeyed to Sacramento last week-end for the California Cadet rifle championship and returned with the third place team trophy and fourteen individual medals. They were shooting for the Lt. Robert Clausen team trophy and the Governor Earl Warren individual trophy. The team had literally shot their way to the finals by winning their district and area championships in previous elimination matches. Don Barnett of Anaheim, shot the highest score in the match—a 187 in the team shoot-off. However in the match for the Governor’s trophy he dropped to a 181 which was good for fifth. Of the top five marksmen of the state, in competition in which 6000 cadets were entered, Anaheim had two men—Barnett and Rumfelt. Matchstick Sight A “matchstick” sight and a lost bolt figured in the final standings of the Anaheim cadets in both the individual and team matches. As the local team entered the tenth and final round with Paul Rumfelt up and but four points behind a first place Hayward team, Rumfelt discovered the bolt missing from his rifle. At this critical moment he was forced to borrow a rifle and as a result shot a 152 which is considerably below his usual score. On the next day in the Governor’s trophy match he BPO Elks Head Visitor Here George I. Hall, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent Protective Ruler of Elks (national) with his party of officers visited the local BPOE lodge No. 1345 Monday, climaxing a varied series of special events for the Anaheim Elks. A delegation of local officers and members attended Hall's main district speech, annual event for the current grand exalted ruler, held this year at the Redlands lodge on Monday night. In his discussion Hall stressed that the purpose of the national organization is to further and support a dynamic policy of Americanism and to fight Communism. “In a strong belief in the vital contribution given the United States by its youth, the lodge sponsors the national essay contest, entitled this year ‘How Democracy Works,’” he remarked. At present the contest is entering the state finals, he added. Before attending the district meeting in Redlands, Anaheim Elks and the delegation from national headquarters joined Orange Elks for a luncheon session in Orange. Inaugural Ball Saturday night Anaheim Elks enjoyed an inaugural ball. A delicious steak dinner during which new officers, headed by Exalted Ruler Leavitt Ford, were introduced preceded an evening of dancing. A large crowd of mem- Report $71 Million Return to Farmers County During '48; Drop from '47 The gross value of agricultural production in Orange County during 1948 was $71,779,275; a decrease of 5½ per cent from the 1947 return. This was revealed in the annual report of D. W. Tubbs, the agricultural commissioner, released this week and accorded to the state department of agriculture. A test decrease occurred in production and, return from orange oranges while the greatest was in livestock produce which also showed more valuation. Crop acreage increased 11 percent but returns dropped 30 percent, the report showed. F.o.b. income from citrus in the past year was $33,122, which compared with the '47 of $42 million. Stock production netted $20,- comparing favorably with net of $14,735,300—an indefinite almost $6 million. Crop returns dropped approximately a million with a re-net of $9,972,275 last year the returns in '47 totaled 1,960. Truck crops showed a thousand drop with returns $5,843,925 in '48 and $6,- in '47. Excluding his report, Tubbs used appreciation to the pro- packing organizations and equals for their assistance in using data used in the com- of his report. As once believed that living beings placed in corner would ensure the stability building, according to the Enmedia Britannica. Report Heavy Bloom in State's Citrus Groves Redlands, May 5.—One of the heaviest blooms in recent years is appearing in the citrus groves of California and Arizona, according to A. H. Call, head of the Growers' Service Department of Mutual Orange Distributors. However, the bloom is late, but this presages a tremendous crop for the next season, provided the growers watch the moisture content of the soil. Because of the heavy bloom and replacement of foliage lost in the freeze, the trees are drawing heavily upon soil moisture. It will be necessary to maintain adequate water in the upper 18 inches of the soil until this bloom has had an opportunity to set fruit. This means frequent, but light, irrigations at this season of the year, Call says. The heavy bloom indicates that history is repeating itself and that there is always increased yield of California-Arizona citrus fruit following a major freeze. The U. S. Navy operates 36 ground controlled approach units, nine on fields outside the United States. It present the contest is entering the state finals, he added. Before attending the district meeting in Redlands, Anaheim Elks and the delegation from national headquarters joined Orange Elks for a luncheon session in Orange. Inaugural Ball Saturday night Anaheim Elks enjoyed an inaugural ball. A delicious steak dinner during which new officers, headed by Exalted Ruler Leavitt Ford, were introduced preceded an evening of dancing. A large crowd of members, their wives and guests filled the large ballroom and banquet hall. New Members Night All members who were initiated into the lodge April 1, of last year were honored Wednesday evening of last week as was Del Wilkinson, past exalted ruler. Dave Lashmet of Fullerton presided during a mock initiation ceremony, conducted in a manner described as appropriate in the eyes of the new members. Several members of the group displayed dramatic ability presenting entertaining stunts. Given special recognition was the oldest living past exalted ruled of the lodge, Tom McFadden, brother of Supervisor Ralph McFadden. Ask Settlement Of Local Estate Letters of administration in the estate of Mrs. Ysabel F. Moreno of this city, who died March 30, were sought by a son, Joe G. Moreno of 612 East Cypress street, Anaheim, in superior court, Santa Ana, last Thursday. Mrs. Moreno left approximately $200 in personal property and a lot with four small dwellings, and that the only other heir is another son, Gomecindo Moreno of 618 East Cypress, Santa Ana, he said. Ice hockey is at least 200 years old.