anaheim-gazette 1949-11-17

Colony Quips Every farmer, we are told, looks fondly at what he will realize from his crop next year. This applies to the citrus grower just as much as to any other person taking their living from the soil. The Valencia grower is not going to be too happy with the money his fruit brings to him this year. But last winter's freeze, he knows, will be largely to blame. There is nothing that will make frozen, dried out oranges worth any money. The only thing that makes Valencias return money to the grower is their soluble solids and juice content. So the grower, realizing this, is trying to get along and waiting for a good crop next year. But has the average grower stopped to realize the added competition his fresh Valencias will run into next summer? Has he stopped to think that after paying the freight, packing, and all the other costs that come to over $3.00 a packed box to lay them down in the east, that on top of the soft fruit and melon competition, he will also run smack dab into more than 200 million cans of high quality frozen concentrate from Florida? The freight on this product is a mere fraction of the cost of the fresh fruit. There is no packing house charges, the fruit is pulled from the trees, put directly into trucks and dumped into the processing plant. Before we go any farther just remember that before frozen concentrate (BFC) the Florida grower was receiving $10 to $17.50 a ton for this fruit Mann School Addition Bids Received Low bids of $108,000 and $126,-500 on two proposed additions to the Horace Mann school, 931 North Palm street, were received Tuesday evening by the trustees of Anaheim - Elementary school district. Nylin D. Hurd of Santa Ana submitted the lowest bid on a projected construction of a kindergarten and six classrooms while E. J. Kastorff of San Juan Capistrano had low bid on the alternate plan of a kindergarten and eight classrooms. A total of 16 bids were received with trustees planning to meet Monday noon for awarding of contract. High bid was $142,488, submitted by John Blystone of Santa Ana. Anaheim contractors figuring on the construction were: Young and Sons, $137,583 and $123,583; Mills Brothers, $134,-725 and $120,650; William J. Gleason, $130,476 and $113,924 and five months of organization activity was climaxed last week (Wednesday) by the Akettes as they received charter from State Director Rymer of Anaheim. In presenting the charter woman's conservation group Rymer said, "Unless we give consideration to conservatism natural resources, America soon cease to be the world it now is." Other speaker at the meeting was John C. Gregory, director of the Izaak League who said, "Americans will see that their country will not suffer starvation lack of natural resources." Charter membership of Akettes totals forty-five head Mrs. Vivian Henry, pro-Other officers of the chapter include: Mrs. Harriet Helden vice-president; Mrs. D.Hunt, second vice-president Hedwig Loard, secretary; will also run smack dab into more than 200 million cans of high quality frozen concentrate from Florida? The freight on this product is a mere fraction of the cost of the fresh fruit. There is no packing house charges, the fruit is pulled from the trees, put directly into trucks and dumped in to the processing plant. Before we go any farther just remember that before frozen concentrate (BFC) the Florida grower was receiving $10 to $17.50 a ton for this fruit but this year he received $65 to $70 a ton, on the tree, for fruit that went into this new scientifically controlled product. That ought to make it a bit interesting to the Valencia grower. It also might mean that the California Valencia grower will take a beating in fresh fruit sales next summer which will be more marked on the smaller sizes. For five straight years California has been raising too many small sizes which will not stand the high costs involved in getting them to market—at least from the growers standpoint. But made into the new frozen concentrate they offer both the grower and the consumer a good deal. We will see the time, not too far off, when most of our Valencias will be handled this way. When you see that one car of fresh fruit containing 462 packed boxes must bring $2263 in eastern markets without profit to the producer the problem of keeping the grower in business looks tough. Of this amount $718 is needed to grow the fruit, $762 to pick, pack and sell it and $785 for freight to market. If the grower is to be a solvent members of our society then new ways must be found to put citrus in the hands of the consumer that will return him a profit. For the Valencia man we believe this frozen concentrate is the answer. We ran into some real sports reporting last evening. Just happened to tune in Sid Ziff, who comes on KFWB every evening at 7:30, and his guest of the evening, Mark Kelly. Well, it certainly was refreshing to hear some straight talk anent general sports picture in southern California. Sid and Mark spoke right out on collegiate football, pro football and major league baseball for Los Angeles. There were no canned 'news releases' read out to the 'suckers' in the interest of getting more dough out at the gate. The juvenile Los Angeles 'experts' who never make mention of their mistakes and then come out with articles headed 'don't fire the coach' just to make pronaganda to hide A total of 16 bids were received with trustees planning to meet Monday noon for awarding of contract. High bid was $142,488, submitted by John Blystone of Santa Ana. Anaheim contractors figuring on the construction were: Young and Sons, $137,583 and $123,583; Mills Brothers, $134,-725 and $120,650; William J. Gleaton, $130,476 and $113,924 and Clifford Kent, $131,500 and $120,-300. Specifications call for completion in about six months after awarding of contract assuring the new facilities for the school year beginning September, 1950. The six-room addition with kindergarten would provide desk space for 245 pupils, relieving existing congestion which has resulted in classes being held in the auditorium and bungalows at the Mann school. The proposed eight rooms would probably take care of the anticipated increased enrollment. The relighting of six classrooms in the Mann school, recently completed by Ed Bonnat at a cost of $1,383 was accepted by the trustees. X. W. Hollar of the Hollar Chemical company was authorized to submit figures on costs of dust control on the various playgrounds. He explained the chemical processes used in dust abatement. A delegation from the Broadway school area appeared and gave notice of intent to appear before the city planning commission Monday when it meets to consider rezoning of a southeastern portion of the city for industrial purposes. This property is located near the site of the proposed new elementary school. Citrus Growers Will Produce Fruit Crop in Years Says Exchange Me California-Arizona citrus growers will produce othe finest quality crops in years during the coming s Paul S. Armstrong, general manager of the California Growers Exchange, reported to the board of directors annual meeting of the marketing cooperative Wednes "All estimates point to excellent fruit quality and orange sizes, particularly ol es. It is too early to estimate lencias," Armstrong stated is very encouraging after t mendous loss in volume ad duced quality as a result Report October Valencia Growth October growth of 1949-50 Valencias in southern Orange county was .256 according to figures released today by the Orange Administrative committee. This was the highest growth reported in southern California with oranges in northern Orange county being next in line with a .238 growth. The weighted average of all measurements reported was .219 which compares favorably with the 21-year average of .205 and the 1948-49 figure of .196. Estimated oranges per box as of November 1 were 565 in northern and 544 in the southern half of the county. San Diego leads with 507's reported while the Cucamonga area reports 722's. Weighted average per box for the southland is 583 as compared to 626's of the past season and the 21-year average of 416. Navels in the Orange county-Whittier district had an October growth of .259 with oranges per box reported at 249. Largest sizes were reported in Ventura county with 244's reported. AUHS Band Wins Sweepstakes Top honors went to the Anaheim Union high school band for its performance in the Armistice Day Parade at Newport Beach. In competition with 12 bands, the local musicians, and seven majorettes under the baton of William Cook, director, copped the three-foot high sweepstakes for having the best uniformed band marching unit. Drum majorette was blond Joan Burdick who was accompanied by six majorettes, La Vonne Hart, Mary Lou Gastellum, Joan Faust, Darlene Morris, Barbara Mary and Helen Weir. Band captain is Bert Bonner. The crack local school organization is scheduled to appear next in the huge band review at Long Beach, November 26, which will herald the Christmas season observance in the queen city. LOIS REBEKAHS TO MEET FRIDAY The Lois Rebekah Lodge headed by Elsie M. Spaulding, noble grand, will hold its regular meeting tomorrow (Friday) night, November 18, at 8 o'clock in the IOOF hall. Officers of the group were installed on the first of this month. The city of Elgin, Illinois, is noted for its manufacture of watches, clocks, speedometers, hardware and shoes. IKETTES RECEIVE CHARTER Five months of organizational activity was climaxed last evening Wednesday) by the Anaheim kettes as they received their charter from State Director Jim ymer of Anaheim. In presenting the charter to the woman's conservation group Mr. ymer said, "Unless we give more consideration to conservation of natural resources, America will soon cease to be the world power now is." Other speaker at the meeting was John C. Gregory, national director of the Izaak Walton League who said, "American women will see that their children will not suffer starvation from lack of natural resources." Charter membership of the kettes totals forty-five headed by Mrs. Vivian Henry, president; her officers of the chapter include: Mrs. Harriet Held, first vice-president; Mrs. Dorothy unt, second vice-president; Mrs. edwig Loard, secretary; Mrs. Rev. Butterworth to be Thanksgiving Day Speaker The first annual city-wide Thanksgiving service to be held at the Anaheim Union high school auditorium 9 a.m. Thanksgiving morning will have the Rev. Frank E. Butterworth, new pastor of the White Temple Methodist church, delivering the principal address. Rev. Butterworth who came to Anaheim from Redlands September 1st, will speak on "Thanks For The Wilderness." Planned as a family-service, the Thanksgiving Day religious observance is being sponsored by practically every church in Anaheim. A nursery will be conducted at the high school where parents may leave small children while attending the service. Mayor Pearson Mayor Charles Pearson will read the Thanksgiving Proclamation and Warren Ashleigh, president of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce will direct the congregational singing. A union choir composed of members of the various church choirs in the city under the direction of Mrs. Donald Rees of the Evangelical Brethren Church will sing, "Come Ye Faithful People." Final Week for Chest Campaign With more than 80 per cent of the 1949 Community Chest goal of $17,078 reached but only a portion of solicitors reports returned, the local drive went into its final week Monday. "Unless all workers will clean up their assignments immediately, the drive will remain approximately 20 per cent short of the quota," stated Chairman John Shea in an appeal for prompt action on the part of all personnel concerned. Civic minded citizens, living in Anaheim's city and rural district, who have not been contacted. Colonists Gun For Win Over Fullerton Anaheim Colonists wind-up their 1949 Sunset League football season with the Fullerton Indians—undefeated in five games. An upset win for the Glover men could result in a first place tie between the Newport Harbor Sailors and Fullerton. Although the locals will go into the game definite underdogs—their spectacular victory over Orange Monday night puts them in the role as possible "spoiler." It will be the last game for a host of Anaheim players including the league's leading scorer, Larry Weaver who has galloped into the end zone ten times this year for a 61-point total. Certain to garner all-league honors, the local backfield ace is also a strong contender for CIF awards. Will Produce Finest Exchange Mgr. Flowers will produce one of its during the coming season, eager of the California Fruit board of directors at the big cooperative Wednesday. Silent fruit quality and larger range sizes, particularly on navies. It is too early to estimate Vancias," Armstrong stated. "This very encouraging after the tremendous loss in volume and reduced quality as a result of the Mayor Pearson Mayor Charles Pearson will read the Thanksgiving Proclamation and Warren Ashleigh, president of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce will direct the congregational singing. A union choir composed of members of the various church choirs in the city under the direction of Mrs. Donald Rees of the Evangelical Brethren Church will sing, "Come Ye Faithful People." The high school orchestra under the direction of Mr. William Cook will present Luther's "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" and will accompany the congregational singing. The color guard of the California Cadet Corps of the high school will present the American and Christian flags at the opening of the service. Rev. John Moll, pastor of Bethany Full Gospel Church will lead the Invocation and Lord's Prayer. Dr. D. Shelby Corlette of the Nazarene Church will lead in the Unison Reading. Presiding at the service and receiving the offering will be the Rev. John K. Saville, rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church. The Benediction will be delivered by the Rev. Raynard P. Wilson, assistant pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church. Mrs. Joe Burk will be organist and Mrs. Raymond Ringwald the pianist. Church Founder Rev. Butterworth who will deliver the principal address was founder of the University Methodist Church, adjacent the campus of the University of Redlands. While serving in Redlands he directed the Wesleyan Club on the campus. Observation of the effect of Christian missionary work in China caused him to give up a business career and enter the ministry. He graduated from UCLA with both a major and master's in Economics. His travels have led him four times across the Pacific into the Orient, the South Seas, Australia and Alaska. He is a contributor to numerous religious periodicals and has done radio and platform lecturing in the field of world affairs and religion. Rev. Butterworth is chairman of the Youth Division of the board of education of the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church. He completed his seminary work at Garrett Biblical Institute on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, graduating in $17,078 reached but only a portion of solicitors reports returned, the local drive went into its final week Monday. "Unless all workers will clean up their assignments immediately, the drive will remain approximately 20 percent short of the quota," stated Chairman John Shea in an appeal for prompt action on the part of all personnel concerned. Civic minded citizens, living in Anaheim's city and rural districts who have not been contacted by the Chest, are being urged to mail their contributions to the Community Chest headquarters, 117 North Los Angeles street. This week is the final one for the local headquarters to remain open, Shea reminded. Mrs. C. H. Lawrence, Chest secretary, will be on hand to accept donations and workers reports for the remainder of the week. 500 Visit Real Gold Plant Here Over 500 Orange County citrus growers, their families and friends last week were guests of Real Gold Citrus Products at an open house at the processing plant in Anaheim. R.G.C.P. is the by-products division of Mutual Orange Distributors. For many of the growers it was the first chance to inspect the modern high vacuum, low temperature frozen juice concentrators installed at the Anaheim plant last July at a cost of a quarter-million dollars. The installation was designed and constructed by C. E. Howard Corp., of South Gate. Of particular interest to the wives and children of the growers were the giant juice extractors and reamers and the opportunity to sample the Real Gold 3-1 frozen concentrate — product of the vast Valencia Groves in Orange county and other sections of southern California. The open house event gave M.O.D. and the Real Gold people an opportunity to demonstrate the new juice process—first of its kind in California—which greatly increases retruns to growers by providing an outlet for unsalable fresh fruit. The affair was arranged by Max Royer, M.O.D. field representative in Orange county, thru cooperation with the following packing house managers: Fowers will produce one of its fruits during the coming season, eager of the California Fruit board of directors at the large cooperative Wednesday. The fruit quality and larger orange sizes, particularly on navies. It is too early to estimate Vancias," Armstrong stated. "This is very encouraging after the tremendous loss in volume and reduced quality as a result of the freezing weather of last winter." The effects of the damaging cold weather were reflected in every phase of citrus industry activity, the Sunkish general manager reported. 46,000 Carloads Lost "It is estimated that 46,000 carloads of fruit in California and Arizona were destroyed by the freeze," Armstrong said. "The volume lost was equivalent to 32 percent of production." Because of the substantially reduced volume of fruit, price levels were higher this year than last, particularly on lemons. In the case of oranges and grapefruit, however, the increased returns per box did not offset the lower volume of shipments and the high cost of refrigeration added to other high cultural and handling costs. "While total f.o.b. returns for the year just closed were only 6 percent less than the previous year, costs were much higher and the grower who lost all or most of his crop was in distress," Armstrong said. Market. Despite monetary restrictions in most countries of the world, the export business of the Exchange totaled one million boxes during the season. The bulk of this volume was in small size oranges, helping to relieve the oversupply of small fruit on the domestic and Alaska. He is a contributor to numerous religious periodicals and has done radio and platform lecturing in the field of world affairs and religion. Rev. Butterworth is chairman of the Youth Division of the board of education of the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church. He completed his seminary work at Garrett Biblical Institute on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, graduating in 1941. The offering of the service will be used to support the Released Time Christian Education Classes which are now in their fifth year in Anaheim. Inspect Cleveland National Forest For Recreation Interested civic, city and county officials will make an all-day trek through the Cleveland National Forest Sunday, November 20 with an eye for future development as a recreational area for Orange and Riverside counties. The auto caravan is being conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange county and is aimed at getting an on-the-spot study as to how trails can be developed to fit an overall-county plan. Among representatives expected to make the trip starting at 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning are Hamilton K. Pyle, Supervisor, U.S. Forestry Service; Tyler Suess, Riverside County Planning Commission; Elmer Howell, Equestrian Trails, Inc.; Cecil S. Fife, Orange County Empire Council, B.S.A.; Izaak Walton representatives; Orange county officials; board of supervisors; planning commissions and director of Orange county. The open house event gave M.O.D. and the Real Gold people an opportunity to demonstrate the new juice process—first of its kind in California—which greatly increases retruns to growers by providing an outlet for unsalable fresh fruit. The affair was arranged by Max Royer, M.O.D. field representative in Orange county, thru cooperation with the following packing house managers: T. E. Woodward, Anaheim Cooperative Orange association; Harry L. Swarts, Whittier Mutual Orange and Lemon association; Ben F. Guard, Olive Hillside Groves; Howard W. Crooke, Garden Grove Cooperative; D. D. Winfrey, Index Mutual association of La Habra; Otto Idso, Fullerton Cooperative Orange association, and Henry Bosch, Orange Cooperative Citrus association. Roy Campbell, manager of the R.G.C.P. plant was host to the visitors. Teague Starts 30th Year as Exchange Prexy Charles Collins Teague started his 30th and last year of service as president of the California Fruit Growers Exchange when he was unanimously re-elected at the annual meeting of the Sunkist marketing cooperative. "This will definitely be my last year as a member of this Board of Directors," Mr. Teague told the group. "One of the greatest satisfactions of my life has been the long-time privilege of working so closely with this cooperative which has meant so much to the economic position of thousands of fine California and Arizona families." Cases Increase An increase of polio in week has been reported Edward Lee Russell, county officer. At the current time are eight other victims county hospital including small brothers and three other children who ported as recent victims involving. Interment was held cemetery. Practically every state Union has laws regulating city of agricultural seeds on the market. CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY ZETTE Weekly Temperatures ED. E. BRUNS — Sunkist Avenue Min. Max. Thursday 55 81 Friday 44 68 Saturday 41 81 Sunday 51 86 Monday 46 90 Tuesday 43 86 Wednesday 42 84 Rain: Total rain for season 1.12 R 17, 1949 Twelve Pages No. 3 LOOK, NO HANDS—That’s Fire Chief Slim Nyboe perched on top of the 65-foot aerial ladder of Anaheim’s new $29,000 Seagrave fire truck, recently delivered to the city. Other city firemen from top to bottom are Jimmy Wilson, Rex Bruhns and Dick Bruce. Standing on the truck are volunteers Wright and Russel. NEW $29,000 FIRE TRUCK MARKS FIRST ADDITION TO DEPARTMENT IN 24 YEARS Larry Starmer, 6, Dies of Polio Larry C. Starmer, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval N. Starmer, 1109 East North street, died of poliomyelitis Saturday at the Orange County hospital after a brief three-day illness, it was disclosed by the county health office. The youngster became ill last Thursday noon and his case was Anaheim firemen were given an opportunity to operate their new $29,000 Seagrave aerial-pumper last week as a factory representative demonstrated the hydraulic 65-foot ladder and pumping capacity of the recently delivered piece of equipment. Its delivery marked the first addition to the city fire department in 24 years when Engine No. 2 was purchased. The new truck is still without a home of its own pending completion of the new fire station on East Broadway sometime in January. It is being stored in the city. One of the most modern fire trucks now available, the Sea-Expect Navel Crop to Increase 4 Million Boxes Sacramento, (WNS)—The Call- Larry C. Starmer, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval N. Starmer, 1109 East North street, died of poliomyelitis Saturday at the Orange County hospital after a brief three-day illness, it was disclosed by the county health office. The youngster became ill last Thursday noon and his case was diagnosed slightly later as the more serious bulbar type of polio. At the county hospital he was placed in a respirator. At the time of his death, Larry was a first grade pupil in Abraham Lincoln school. Although a native of Downey, he had lived in Anaheim for the past six years. In addition to his parents, he is survived by one sister, Donna, at the family home, and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Morton Burke of Long Beach; and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Hayman of Downey. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars chapel in Anaheim, with the Rev. Howard S. Congdon of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Interment was in Fairhaven cemetery. Cases Increase An increase of polio in the last week has been reported by Dr. Edward Lee Russell, county health officer. At the current time there are eight other victims in the county hospital including two small brothers and three cousins. Three other children were reported as recent victims with mild involvements. Practically every state in the Union has laws regulating the quality of agricultural seeds offered on the market. The new truck is still without a home of its own pending completion of the new fire station on East Broadway sometime in January. It is being stored in the city. One of the most modern fire trucks now available, the Seagrave "Quad" had a total of 240 feet of ladder and a pumping capacity of 750 gallons per minute. It was ordered in November 1947. It recently fulfilled the requirements of the underwriters in Los Angeles. With the new piece of equipment, the city of Anaheim now has three pieces of fire apparatus. Grand-daddy of them all is "old reliable," Engine No. 1—the city's first fire truck. It was purchased in 1915 and replaced a hose cart that had to be pulled to fires. Engine No. 2 was purchased in 1925. The fire department is headed by Chief "Slim" Nyboe and has nine paid firemen on duty who are assisted by 16 part-time firemen classified as volunteers. Governor Meets With Mayor Pearson In Sacramento Sacramento, (WNS)—A meeting with the advisory committee on rent control, of which Charles A. Pearson, mayor of Anaheim, is chairman, was announced for Monday by Governor Earl Warren. The governor will discuss with the committee the problem of decontrolling rents in cities in metropolis areas in cases where some cities have adopted rent decontrol resolutions and others have not. Expect Navel Crop to Increase 4 Million Boxes Sacramento, (WNS)—The California crop and livestock reporting service today announced the 1949-50 crop of navel oranges in California would approximate 15,700,000 boxes, little over a three million box drop from 1947-48, but an increase of about four million boxes over last year. In its report on fruit and nut conditions throughout the state, the service indicated a satisfactory season has been experienced in most cases. Picking of apples was almost completed November 1, and harvest was above preliminary expectations of 9,520,000 bushels, the service said. The fig crop was somewhat smaller than last year, but of good average quality. Harvest of grapes is nearing completion and growers report a lower tonnage than expected earlier. Olive growers report that the crop this year is about 43 percent of a full crop, and that harvesting of olives for all types of processing except oil has advanced rapidly. Almond harvest and deliveries have moved rapidly, and the harvest of walnuts is well along, with some 73,000 tons produced, a record crop. Newton D. Baker, American Secretary of War during World War I, was born at Martinsburg, West Virginia.