anaheim-gazette 1949-12-29

Employers Face Higher 1950 Unemployment Contributions By HENRY C. MACARTHUR Western News Service Sacramento (WNS)—California employers who enjoy preferred merit rating for unemployment insurance contributions may expect notices of an increase in rates shortly after January 1. This was admitted today by officials of the State Department of Employment, headed by James G. Bryant, who said "it is virtually a certainty that the old merit rates will go into effect next year." At the present time, the rates in effect range from no contribution at all to 7.7 percent of the employers payroll. Next year, the consensus is that the rates will range from one per cent to 2.7 percent of the payroll, thus requiring those employers who have earned a merit rating through good employment practices, to again start contributions. According to the law, the rates on unemployment insurance are raised when the balance in the unemployment fund is less than 7½ percent of the total payrolls of the state during the previous calendar year. Officials of the department are not yet certain as to how much the fund will be short of the 7½ percent, but they conceded the shortage will exist, thus forcing the raise. "We called attention to this situation more than a year ago," Kraft declared, "yet neither the administration nor the legislature took corrective action. We have hundreds of cases on file showing money paid to claimants who were not entitled to insurance." "In fact, in the committee's report to the legislature last spring, we called attention to the fact that we believed more than $30,000,000 annually had been paid out in 1947 and 1948 which should have remained in the unemployment insurance fund. If this money were in the fund, and had not been paid out without due consideration of an individual's right to the insurance, there would be no need today of an increase in rates. "Likewise, the employee who is justly entitled to insurance will suffer eventually, because when the department of employment finally reaches the bottom of the barrel, there will be no more Pyramid Clubs Gold Rush Of 1949 Residents of this city along with thousands of other people in southern California started off this year by getting really chummy and founding what was commonly known as the Pyramid Friendship Clubs. Not since Orson Welles aired his "Invasion from Mars" had police, district attorney and newspaper switchboards been so swamped with inquiries regarding the latest get-rich scheme. Rumors had it that several thousand Anaheimers joined up at membership fees ranging from a dollar to five or ten. For attraction and supposedly fast wealth it rivalled California's famed gold rush of a 100 years earlier. Its life was shortlived however when city attorneys and the district attorney concurred that they were definitely in violation of the state penal code. The pay-offs which were distinguished by their absence were supposed to net $2,048 to the dollar members as soon as they reached the top. Drivers License Examinations in Temporary Move Drivers license examinations will be temporarily moved to the Barney Koster Studebaker agency at 524 E. First St., Santa Ana, according to Jack Campbell, manager of the Orange county office of the Dent of Motor Vehicles at According to the law, the rates on unemployment insurance are raised when the balance in the unemployment fund is less than 7½ percent of the total payrolls of the state during the previous calendar year. Officials of the department are not yet certain as to how much the fund will be short of the 7½ percent, but they conceded the shortage will exist, thus forcing the raise. The situation requiring a return to the old rates, according to state senator Fred Kraft, of San Diego, who headed an interim committee after the 1947 session of the legislature on insurance, is due largely to the lavish hand with which the department of employment has paid insurance to persons not legally eligible. Had the department stayed within the precepts of the law, Kraft declared today, there would be sufficient money in the fund to carry on with the zero to 2.7 percent rate. And in addition, Kraft said, all employees in the state face the prospect of returning to a full 2.7 percent rate in a year or so, because of the department's free and easy methods of dispensing income annually had been paid out in 1947 and 1948 which should have remained in the unemployment insurance fund. If this money were in the fund, and had not been paid out without due consideration of an individual's right to the insurance, there would be no need today of an increase in rates. "Likewise, the employee who is justly entitled to insurance will suffer eventually, because when the department of employment finally reaches the bottom of the barrel, there will be no more money to pay insurance at all, and eventually, the state must balance payments with income, which is about half the total being paid at the present time." St. Michael's Observes 76th Birthday in May St. Michael's Episcopal Church of Anaheim observed its 76th birthday with a congregational party and special service in May. At the party, Dr. C. O. Patterson of this city showed colored slides and the Rev. Ray O. Miller, retired Los Angeles clergyman was guest speaker. Since the war, Pacific Telephone gained as many telephones in the West as in the previous 19 years. Drivers License Examinations in Temporary Move Drivers license examinations will be temporarily moved to the Barney Koster Studebaker agency at 524 E. First St., Santa Ana, according to Jack Campbell, manager of the Orange county office of the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, at 405 South Main St., Orange. Examinations at the Orange office will be closed at noon on Wednesday, December 28th, and will be resumed at the new temporary location at 9 a.m., Thursday, December 29th, 1949. Regular office hours will be maintained 9 to 5 daily and 9 to 12 noon on Saturdays through February 7th, 1950. “This temporary move has been made necessary due to the tremendous increase in auto registration activities during the annual license plate renewal period,” Mr. Campbell stated. Senior examiner Don Squires, and his staff feel fortunate in having the cooperation of Barney Koster, Studebaker dealer, who Since the war, Pacific Telephone gained as many telephones in the West as in the previous 19 years. West’s four-millionth telephone goes to work 1. Takes a lot of equipment to serve 4,000,000 telephones making 22,000,000 calls a day. And in just the few high-speed years since the war, we've almost doubled our facilities as measured in dollars. And those dollars have produced results. It took 45 years to install our first million telephones, 17 years to install the second million, 6 years for the third...and only 3½ years for the fourth. 2. Service keeps on improving as we add this new equipment. Today you can get the dial tone or the operator quickly in almost every exchange. Long Distance calls, nine out of ten of them, go through while you stay on the line...often in half a minute if you know the number. It's a good record. But we won't be satisfied until everyone who wants service has it...the best service ever. 3. Your own telephone today is more valuable as a result of the many we've added. You can call more of the people you want to call—more can call you. And your telephone does its work, big jobs and small, for only a few pennies a call. It's one of the best buys you can make with your dollars today. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company KWIKSET LOCKS OPEN HOUSE highlighted "Industrial Day" of Anaheim's Civic Progress Week, held April 25-29. Located at 516 East Santa Ana street the main building, pictured above, is two stories high and has an area of 38,000 square feet. The firm moved to this city in October 1948. County Growers Get $1,130,000 From Citrus Plant Orange county citrus growers have received a total of $1,130,000 for Valencia oranges and lemons sent to the Real Gold Citrus Products plant in Anaheim, William E. Shollenberger, controller announced. Real Gold Citrus Products is the processing subsidiary of Mutual Orange Distributors. Payments to Orange county represented 59 per cent of the total of $1,917,000 paid to southern California growers. Additional payments will be made as rapidly as remaining inventories at the plant are sold, Shollenberger said. Principal operations at the R.G. C.P. plant consist of processing quick-frozen concentrates, including the fresh-frozen orange juice that has gained such widespread consumer acceptance during the past three years. Seven states of the United States were never organized as territories. The Gazette is your home paper. New Citrus Juice Plant to Serve Orange EmConstruction to Start Construction to Start on Fullerton Site California's first plant specifically designed, from the foundation up, to concentrate all types of citrus juices is soon to be built in Fullerton. Equipment of the latest design is now being fabricated. Full-scale operations to produce concentrates and all other juice products will be under way by the coming Valencia season. Consumption of frozen concentrated citrus juices is increasing daily. Concentrates now represent a sizable outlet for this area's citrus crops. Golden Citrus Juices Incorporated was jointly formed by the American Fruit Growers, Incorporated and the Eadington Fruit Company. This new juice plant will materially add to the growth of the young, booming concentrate industry. To growers, the operation offers the best possible use for fruit sizes and qualities not in good demand in fresh fruit markets. S/Sgt. Crill Named Gunner on Giant B-36 Airplane Staff Sergeant Kenneth D. Crill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero C. Crill, 11312 Orangewood avenue, Route 5, Anaheim, has been named Aerial Gunner on one of the first giant B-36 bombers to be assigned to the Second Air Force, the global wide reconnaissance Squadron, the oldest tactical unit in the Air Force. He has just completed a twelve-moth tour with the Fifth Air Force on occupational duty in Japan before he returned to the United States to begin his special training. Sanitation Group May Name Head Full meeting of the county sanitation district boards of directors has again been set, this time for December 28 at 8 p.m. in the court house at Santa Ana. Since the meeting was called with the approval of the executive committee, comprised of the eight district chairmen, there appeared reason to believe that the committee is finally ready to report agreement upon an administrative head of the sanitation district organization. The eight districts have been at loggerheads, four against four, over the issue of an administrative plan and head. MIKE—FORD'S LIQUOR STORE WINE - BEER - LIQUOR 315 E. CENTER ST. PHONE 4209 Free Parking at rear of store Entrance through alley from North Philadelphia or North Olive streets juice Plant ge Empire GOLDEN CITRUS JUICES INCORPORATED Handling Fruit For EADINGTON FRUIT COMPANY AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC.