anaheim-gazette 1949-07-21

Page 2 Anaheim Gazette, July 21, 1949 ANAHEIM GAZETTE Active Member—National Editorial Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association and Weekly Newspaper Ass'n of Orange County NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Published every Thursday at 259 E. Center Street, Anaheim, California. Phone 2206-2207 Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Anaheim, California, under the Act of March 8, 1897 Subscription per Year, $2.00; 2 Years, $3.50; 6 Months, $1.25 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher 1887-1935 Mrs. Henry Kuchel — Theodore B. Kuchel Editors and Publishers The Anaheim Gazette has been owned and edited by the same family since 1875. Money! Money! The poor working man and the lone widow are short of money. The chart for the financial world shows the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be as poor as church mice. That's good! Most of Africa seems to be bumping the bumps and the Scandinavian countries are using 25 cent pieces when dollars are needed. Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, are rolling along in good shape. The only thing the matter with our own country is that we are not only trying to save a good part of the world from suffering, and starvation but—we are trying to make the whole world comfortable, and to keep our wheels of industry earning food, comfort and clothing for all. The United States has held up well despite the failure in behalf of permanent world peace. How present monthly pension payments, but restore sound pension administration. It appears obvious that any political party that hitched its wagon to McLain's falling star would be signing its own death warrant. The last thing Democrats would want, for example, would be to be placed in the position of obstructing California's desperately needed school building program. That's the position that McLain forces have placed themselves in, by their unbelievably selfish tactics in opposing a special election for school bonds—simply because Proposition 4's real automatically would be included on the same ballot. The McLain group even threatened to hold up the school election measure by referendum. If the referendum were legally possible, and sufficient signatures were obtained, the result would be that California could not vote for needed schools for two years—until 1951! The crackpot fringe might want a young boy named Chloe Ross was stolen several weeks by kidnappers and a ransom $20,000 demanded for his parents, who are not so far been unable to this sum. 50 Years Aged August 3, 1899 Joseph Helmsen has risen from the board of his uncleers of the Pacific a new rafter for the insurance upon the power house, acceding to a quest for a reduction in the rate on the power he reduced from $2.75 to $2.10; $100 and the electric light from $4.10 to $3. The recourse are very substantial ones as Helmsen will have the thief the citizens for his disinterested efforts to procure a lower interest for public property. The Farmers club met residence of W. W. Scott on day afternoon. A great many interesting horticultural topics discussed. Among them being nut and tomato diseases and scale and their remedies. The Hunter was appointed chairman. Misses May and Irene and Margaret and Grace entertained their friends at the den party at the home of the mer at Brookshurst last evening. Among the guests were the following: Melanie Cahen, Adele Stroudie Heiman, Theresa Fay Nemetz, Mabel Middleham Roberts, Belle Negors and Ella Smythe, Anaheim; Misses Spencer, Virginia Nicolas, and Stella Hovering; Othorpe; Messrs. Archie Faytavus Heimann, Waldo Fred Lewis, Clarence Keert Elliott, Wallace Scott and Stephen Birmau. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago August 1, 1874 On Monday afternoon Constable Davis on being informed that among a party of Mexicans conversing on Center street was one Jose Moreno, a half-breed Indian, who was recognized as the principal in the robbery and assault of which she was the victim two 1874, by two gun shot wounds, fired by Constable David Davis while in the act of resisting and threatening said officer while discharging his official duty. Owing to the great increase in travel the stage company has been compelled to put on six horses on By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago August 1, 1874 On Monday afternoon Constable Dayis on being informed that among a party of Mexicans conversing on Center street was one Jose Moreno, a half-breed Indian, who was recognized as the principal in the robbery and assault of which she was the victim two or three months ago. The constable accosted the man and told him to come with him to the office of Judge Clark. The man at first assented, but suddenly drew a revolver and attempted to seize Davis, the constable drew his repeater and both men fired seemingly together. As the smoke of the shots cleared away the two figures could be seen swaying to and fro in a deadly struggle. Then Moreno turned and ran, when Constable Davis second shot brought him down. He was carried to a room in Mrs. Metz' building on Los Angeles street where he was attended by Drs. Hardin and Taylor who pronounced his wounds mortal. He was later taken to Fontana's boarding house where he died on Wednesday. Jose Moreno, whose life of crime was thus ended was the illegitimate son of Don J. Moreno, a prominent official of the provincial government of Upper California and now living in Mexico. His mother was a squaw of the San Luis Rey tribe of Indians. He was lately released from San Quentin and returned to this section to resume his life of crime. On Wednesday a coroner's jury composed of Theo-ore Rimpau, Phillip Davis, M. Calisher, R. U. White, Oscar George, M. R. Gaddy, John C. Hill, and C. Mosseman found that he came to his death on Center Street, Anaheim, Los Angeles county on the 27th day of July, 1874, by two gun shot wounds, fired by Constable David Davis while in the act of resisting and threatening said officer while discharging his official duty. Owing to the great increase in travel the stage company has been compelled to put on six horses on the coach between Anaheim and the railroad depot at Downey City. The stage arrives at Anaheim every night crowded almost uncomfortably. The Board of Equalization which adjourned on Monday reduced the assessment on graded sheep from $2.50 to $2.25 and on common sheep from $2.00 to $1.75. No other business of importance was transacted. S. Mund of San Luis Rey, is making arrangements to ship grain and wool directly from San Juan Capistrano to San Francisco. He will also open a general store at the first mentioned place. The San Joaquin artesian well is down over two thousand feet. This will be only one of quite a number which the owners of the ranch contemplate sinking at different localities on their property. The exodus to the San Juan Hot springs still continues. Among the visitors to that place we learn of a large party from Los Angeles among whom are Mr. J. L. Stanley and family. Thus far this summer the mercury has reached 90 degrees and not above it, but four times on the 11th and 20th of June and 11th and 29th of July. A great deal of excitement has been caused in Philadelphia where 50 Years Ago August 3, 1899 Joseph Helmsen has received from the board of his underwriters of the Pacific a new rate card for the insurance upon the city power house, acceding to his request for a reduction in the rates. The rate on the power house is reduced from $2.75 to $2 on the $100 and the electric light plant from $4.10 to $3. The reductions are very substantial ones and Mr. Helmsen will have the thanks of the citizens for his disinterested efforts to procure a lower rate of interest for public property. The Farmers club met at the residence of W. W. Scott on Monday afternoon. A great many interesting horticultural topics were discussed. Among them being walnut and tomato diseases and black scale and their remedies. Geo. A. Hunter was appointed chairman. Misses May and Irene Cargill and Margaret and Grace Wilson entertained their friends at a garden party at the home of the former at Brookshurst last Friday evening. Among the guests present were the following: Misses Melanie Cahen, Adele Strodthoff, Holdie Heiman, Theresa Fay, Julia Nemetz, Mabel Middleham, Lena Roberts, Belle Negors and Beatrice Mythe, Anaheim; Misses Ethel Spencer, Virginia Nicolas, Myrtle and Stella Hovering, Orangeorpe; Messrs. Archie Fay, Gusvus Heimann, Waldo Brown, Fred Lewis, Clarence Kennedy,ert Elliott, Wallace Scott, Fred and Stephen Rimmau Ed Zeus. 25 Years Ago July 31, 1924 According to figures made public by county assessor Sleeper, the oil industry pays one-third of the taxes of Orange county. The assessment of oil properties this year was $39,140,000. Personal property held by companies was 10 million, making the assessment of the industry practically 50 million dollars. The total assessment of the county is $144,-290,000. The lowly California prune has at last come into its own. The state board of health at Sacramento is calling upon every native son and daughter to eat prunes in abundance because of the "nutritional value and because they produce muscular energy." The humble subject of boarding house jests and army ridicule, is one of the most valuable of our dried fruits, and if properly cooked, has a most delicious flavor, quite unlike that of any other fruit, contends the board. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hiltocher, who left on a honeymoon trip after their marriage on July 15, have returned from Big Bear and will take up their residence on Romneya Drive, where a dwelling has been prepared. Rev. Robert McAulay of Sacramento, occupied the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Rev. Walker being absent attending the synod at Pasadena. Robert was also attending the synod, but came down to visit his mother, Mrs. Angus McAulay. The Anaheim Insurance Exchange was organized at a meeting of the insurance men of the city Monday night. Frank Tausch was elected president, Charles Rise and Fall of Communism The United States has furnished relief for England. That country now boasts that everybody has jobs. Britain will adjust itself to a world of competition and that people of our country. And said in the beginning the States government will enough different kinds or for almost all of our A people. That will chlorofluoromethane in the United Sta Rev. Robert McAulay of Sacramento, occupied the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Rev. Walker being absent attending the synod at Pasadena. Robert was also attending the synod, but came down to visit his mother, Mrs. Angus McAulay. The Anaheim Insurance Exchange was organized at a meeting of the insurance men of the city Monday night. Frank Tausch was elected president, Charles Harbeson, vice-president and Forrest Fowler, secretary-treasurer. It is declared that the public will benefit by the closer relationship of insurance men, and the standard of ethics of the profession will be raised. Mrs. G. H. Bailey is here from Phoenix, Arizona, visiting with relatives and friends. Her daughter, Mrs. W. K. Humbert, is in Los Angeles with relatives convalescing from an operation for appendicitis. Friends of Mrs. Anna Siegel gave her a surprise party at the Conservatory of Music Sunday afternoon. A delightful afternoon was spent with music and readings. The Lions held their regular luncheon Friday at the Elks club house. Bob White was the principal talker, making a report on his recent trip to Omaha, where he attended the International convention of Lions clubs. Al Erickson, of the Grim-Ganahl Lumber company, is now enjoying his annual summer vacation. For the past week he has been at the beach, reducing the population of the ocean and for the next week will pit his skill with the speckled trout in the mountain streams. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. W. Barnes and family accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Abbey of Santa Ana, spent Sunday at Balboa. Jimmy Whitaker, who was so seriously injured in an automobile accident last week, is rapidly recovering and expects soon to be on the job again shortly. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Golle and son, James, of San Bernardino visited in Anaheim Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Danz and Miss Mable Barnes are spending a vacation at Hollywood. According to figures given out by W. C. Jerome, Anaheim's assessment this year jumped from nearly two millions, Huntington Beach almost three and a half million, and Fullerton lost $618,-060 and Brea lost $15,000. W. J. Wallop and Leo Sheridan visited the Boy Scout camp at Barton Flats, near Big Bear, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krebs of Azusa, their sons, Albert and William, accompanied by their wives and Miss Lillian Krebs spent Sunday with relatives in Anaheim. Mr. Krebs is one of Anaheim's pioneer residents, having come here in 1877. He was for many years superintendent of the Dreyfus winery. Some years ago he removed to Azusa where he continued in the wine making business. He is one of the most efficient manufacturers of wines... Louis Kroeger and Oscar Inam left yesterday afternoon for three day outing at Long Beach. George Hagar was in town from irafores yesterday. His family summering at Newport Beach. Olaf Warling and Ed Zeigler de to Los Angeles on their bicycles Saturday returning the next day. Mrs. Crist and her son, Earl, have tomorrow for a visit with r. and Mrs. Carroll in San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Golle and son, James, of San Bernardino visited in Anaheim Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Danz and Miss Mable Barnes are spending a vacation at Hollywood. According to figures given out by W. C. Jerome, Anaheim's assessment this year jumped from $6,153,215 to $7,825,085, a gain of $1,671,720. Santa Ana gained LOTS OF FUN AWAITS YOU AT THE BEACH MOUNTAINS Take Pacific Electric to Your Favorite Playplace! 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Marler, Passenger Traffic Manager, 208 East 6th Street, Los Angeles 14, Calif. GO PACIFIC ELECTRIC For Comfort, Convenience and Economy They Don't Answer In Soviet Russia, a diplomat's life is not a happy one. According to the United Nations World, the Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky had a little trouble with the telephone during the recent Big Four conference in Paris. Vishinsky, so the story goes, had orders from the Kremlin to bring home two things from the conference: French agreement to a new pact with Russia, and concessions from the Western Powers to match Soviet concessions on Austria. Failing in both missions, he tried to call Stalin to explain. But Unele Joe wouldn't answer the phone, even though the badly worried Vishinsky kept the call going day and night. On the eve of his departure for home, the foreign minister was quoted as "dissatisfied with a diplomatic career and anxious to go back to his old vocation of jurisprudence." Small wonder. He'll be lucky if he doesn't go back to a career in the salt mines. Rose of Tokyo Transplanting Tokyo Rose to United States soil is proving to be rather expensive horticulture. The California trial of radio Tokyo's famous flower is regarded with mixed feelings by many taxpayers who could think of better ways to spend nearly half a million dollars of government funds. Probably the trial would have been more enthusiastically received by Americans had it been held within a year or two after VJ Day and in Japan. During the course of the trial it may be brought out that perhaps Iva Toguri D'Aquino was not the sinister siren she is popularly believed to be. The velvet-voiced charmer of radio Tokyo's wartime propaganda broadcasts people of our country. And, as we said in the beginning the United States government will furnish enough different kinds of houses for almost all of our American people. That will chloroform communism in the United States. PLAN TO MARRY A marriage license was obtained by Leonard Wheeler Minks, 101 South Pomona avenue, Brea, and Mable Helen Schmidt, 804 East Central avenue, La Habra, early this week at the county court house in Santa Ana. LICENSE TO WED Ray C. Roberts, 101 South Main Street, Orange, and Phyllis Ann Conner, 535 South Hiatt street, La Habra, obtained a marriage license at the county court house in Santa Ana early this week. BABY GIRL ARRIVES Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Fischle, 4411 East Orangethorpe avenue, Anaheim, became the proud parents of a baby daughter who arrived Tuesday in St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Fischle is the former Jean Macres. The fusible plug is a safety plug placed in the metal plate of a steam boiler. Probably the trial would have been more enthusiastically received by Americans had it been held within a year or two after VJ Day and in Japan. During the course of the trial it may be brought out that perhaps Iva Toguri D'Aquino was not the sinister siren she is popularly believed to be. The velvet-voiced charmer of radio Tokyo's wartime propaganda broadcasts may have been as over-rated as the myth that grew around her name. If her primary objective was undermining the morale of American troops in the Pacific—she missed the boat. Island-hopping Marines recall that her scripts were mainly for laughs as she predicted their defeat in each successive invasion and told them to go home. They hailed her program as a "best bet" for pure fantasy, and enjoyed her collection of stateside popular records. Treason is a deadly serious offense and must, of course, be punished. But the trial of the subdued Japanese-American girl seems like a minor league melodrama compared to the stories of such infamous traitors as Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Painting should never be done on any type of surface which is not completely free from dirt, grease, rust and loose particles of old paint. 'Old-timer' has a special meaning at Standard They say you're not really an "old-timer" at Standard until you've been on the job at least 20 years...and at 30 years, there's a special company award: a gold watch and six weeks' vacation with pay. That's appreciation of a man's service to his company, of course, but it also illustrates a principle we believe in for all employees—good people in good jobs serve you best, and we do everything we can to make jobs at Standard good. Security, good pay and working conditions, advancement from within, free insurance, annuities at retirement are all part of making that principle a reality. The average length of service of all our 17,890 parent company employees is slightly more than 11 years. And the 20-year "old-timers"? Fully 4,856 are working with us today.