anaheim-gazette 1950-05-09

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2206. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim Postoffice. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved Subscriptions: 50c per month by carrier or $5 per year by carrier or mail. Officers: Mrs. Henry Kuchel, Theodore B Kuchel, Max Besler, Thomas Kuchel THEODORE B. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher ROBERT FUNSETH Managing Editor WILLARD GREGORY City Editor NEIL STANLEY Display Advertising Manager RALFH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager We are Proud... Modestly We are modestly proud of the very first issue of our daily Gazette yesterday. The ingredients of a good newspaper were there: home news, general news, and merchandising messages. We say we were only "modestly proud," because we will be bigger and better as our planned program of operations unfolds. This is only a start, we hope to grow stronger, with a better-looking paper, better headline arrangements and styles, and better pictures. But, above all, we hope to deserve the confidence which our new subscribers and our advertisers have given us. Yes, we had advertisements—the backbone of a newspaper. We hope you looked them over carefully, and that you will continue to look them over carefully. We know you'll find Anaheim merchants now have a wider, better, and lower priced variety of all manner of goods and services—more so than at any other war. All of which means buyers are getting the benefit of good quality with less traffic on the pocketbook. Believe it or not, but your dollar buys more these days (just take a look at our subscription rates for proof positive) due to sharp competition among dealers and a generally downwaard trend in retail prices. Don't overlook the fact that shoppers follow the parking lots. And, don't overlook the fact that Anaheim's business district is well fixed in this respect. So, watch for those valuable shopping messages in this paper; and... We continue to invite your close inspection of our news and advertising efforts. Civic Progress Week... And, that leads right into Civic Progress Week, which Anaheim is now observing. the hard feelings which surrounded the school house-light industry in southeast Anaheim. Repitition Civic Progress Week... And, that leads right into Civic Progress Week, which Anaheim is now observing. Civic Progress Week should present the citizenry an opportunity to think a little about what goes with Anaheim: what the city as a unit is doing for the economic (and cultural and spiritual) betterment of the people? What lies ahead? How can we improve on the past? What course is Anaheim definitely following in this tremendously important migration to California? What about a clear cut program of civic progress? Well, is Civic Progress Week answering that for you? We are confident the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce know there are important civic programs which must be outlined, accepted, AND EXPLAINED TO THE PEOPLE, so that everybody will find his spot to push for Anaheim. And, we feel the City Council and Chamber of Commerce are capable of presenting good plans and carrying them to completion—with necessary alterations as progress dictates. So, why is there the apparent confusion, and in some quarters, almost complete ignorance of what lies ahead for Anaheim? Well, let's face it. A good, steady, easily understood information program is needed. The people must be informed about Anaheim's civic progress. They must have the facts of a brief, clear cut program in their hands so they can arrive at informed conclusions as to where the city is headed. If that had been done, we feel there would not have been the flare of tempers, the confusion, IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 25 Years Ago Construction work on a new central county office building for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, to be erected on the west side of Lemon street between Cypress and Chartres streets, at a cost of $270,000, will be started during the summer months and is scheduled for completion late this fall, according to announcement by E. A. Beard. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin, William A. Dolan, of Anaheim, F. C. Krause of Fullerton and A. S. Bradford of Placentia are among prominent bankers attending the state bankers' convention being held in Santa Barbara this week. 50 Years Ago Miss Zelma Bailey entertained the Young Folks Social Club at progressive euchre at her home on Friday evening. The first prizes were won by Mrs. H. Cahen and Hugo Strodhoft, the second by Mrs. Lewis and Ed Zeus and the boobies by Miss Edith Fay and Fred Lewis. Miss Edith Fay favored those present by singing several songs in her usual good voice. During the evening refreshments were served. One of the prettiest sights to be seen in Orange county is Tim Boege's vineyard in the west end. The vines are luxuriant and the tract is now at its best, so far as appearances go, and gets much favorable comment from passersby. John Eyemann's vineyard on Sycamore is also one of the picturesque bits of landscape hereabouts. His vines are very handsome specimens of verdure and give promise of an abundant crop. 75 Years Ago Rev. Bland performed the marriage ceremony between Mr. Mallet and Mrs. Parks at the picnic grounds at Santiago Canyon on Saturday last. The mounted police of Los Angeles who were discharged some time ago, have been reinstated by the City Fathers. A. L. Smith, a photographic artist of Sacramento, will be in Anaheim soon and will establish himself in Kroeger's hall, where he will be prepared to take photographs in a style never before attempted in Anaheim. The time from one new moon to another is about 29 days, 12 hours and 44.05 minutes. From 1838 until 1861 there was a United States mint at Dahlonega, Georgia. Atmosphere of this wide-open is friendly—they like you you start trouble. But trouble you want, you can here from every direction compass. Copper comes from sweat comes from musk there is a lot of muscle in er. And when a miner tries muscle against flesh inside hard rock he can raise a bruise, and quickly change houette of a man with bush. But there isn't so much chewing and face-stomping abouts as there was in the days. There is a sign outside now that advises tourists: "She was a bold, una rootin', tootin', hell-roaring in days gone by and still her liquor straight." But civilization has come bad, mad, glad copper coalfar century or more ago the miners were single men lived in boarding houses. Are married and have their homes. There used to be 800 prostitutes who paid $5 to rent cribs in the red livery. Today there are less than 50 doing a subdued glamorous business. More miners now would go square dancing or help kids with their homework. Butte is a changing town takes pride in its ribaldness and there's plenty of it left it also is proud of its growing responsibility. You don't need one bragging anymore than more dead men in its ceramic than live men-listed in the directory. It's a great place yet for or a frolic, but Butte is taming down—or growing up know what the folks are怕 about today? "It's our high school baneral told me." "It's the best..." The Smile That Won't Come Off By D. Ryan THE STATE OF THE UNION IS LOVELY! GUESS ILL TAKE ANOTHER VACATION! WHY THE SMILE? JOHN Q. PUBLIC TAXES HAPPY HARRY'S WESTERN TRIP DOUG RYAN Boyle Says Butte band in the country—150 pieces A lot of other cities ask to hear seeking election from the 59th assembly district in Beverly Boyle Says Butte Ain’t the Same, But It’s Better By HAL BOYLE BUTTE, Mont., — (AP)—Once a bartender in this copper mining capital of America got into an argument with an unfriendly customer. Before the bartender could end the discussion he found it necessary to bite off the fellow’s ear. He rose and flipped the ear on the bar and announced: “The next round is on the house. Drink up, everybody.” This tale is typical of the old Butte. But it is also typical, in a way, of the new Butte. For Butte is still one of a half dozen men’s towns left in the United States. It is a free-and-easy town, where they give you change on clinking silver dollars instead of paper bills. It is an man’s town where they take a stranger at his word until his acts prove him a liar. This might be because this is a Far West melting pot of 50 nationalities, and in a town like that the only way you can judge anybody is by the simple standard: is he a good guy?” It might also be because miners, coming up from daylong work under temperatures ranging up to 10 degrees, don’t want to hear any guff as they drink their boilermakers”—a whiskey shot chased by beer. The basic fact remains that the atmosphere of this wide-open town is friendly—they like you until you start trouble. But if it’s trouble you want, you can get it here from every direction of the compass. Copper comes from sweat, and sweat comes from muscle, and there is a lot of muscle in a miner. And when a miner uses his muscle against flesh instead of hard rock he can raise a mighty pruise, and quickly change the silhouette of a man with buck teeth. band in the country—150 pieces. A lot of other cities ask to hear our kids play—Pasadena, Portland, Washington. All we have to do is pass the hat, and in no time at all we can raise $20,000 or more to send them. Everybody chips in.” Grubby men lined up at the bars fork over as quickly as the people at the country club. Butte’s even talking of bringing Toscanini out here—so he can lead some kids who really know music. AFFAIRS OF STATE BY EARL G. WATERS SACRAMENTO, (WNS)—Since legislators voted themselves pensions amounting to as much as three-fourths of their salary, some former members have taken an interest in serving at least one more term. At the June primary elections five ex-legislators will seek to return to office. Only two of these voluntarily retired from the legislature. One who would benefit most by the return from the standpoint of the legislative retirement plan is Charles W. Lyon, seeking election from the 59th assembly district in Beverly Hills. Lon was first elected an Assemblyman from Venice in 1914. Four years later he was elected from Los Angeles and served there for 12 years, returning to the Assembly in 1932. He became Speaker of the Assembly in 1943 and served in the same capacity in 1945. He retired from the legislature in 1946 to seek the office of lieutenant governor. With 32 years service in the legislature Lyon would be eligible to draw the maximum three-fourths retirement pay of a member of the legislature if he can return for one more session. This would amount to $225 per month for life after he reaches the age of 65. Lyon is now 63. A return like that these days is equal to the average return on an investment of at least $50,000. Another legislator who is seeking to return is the colorful former attorney General Robert W. Kenny. In 1938 he gave up his post as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to run for the state senate and served one term there before becoming attorney general. He is now seeking to unseat Los WHAT 3¢ WILL BUY! 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This is not as ephemeral as it sounds for we are well on our way and growing faster than we ever expected to. Our field is the same as it has always been, that of the small community newspaper which is more concerned with Anaheim than any other spot on earth. But we have said all that over and over and this was supposed to be about the reception of our first issue. Frankly, we did not know the sheet had that many friends. But the calls came in from folks we know and from hundreds we did not know—but now. It was very encouraging and we are very humble. If this source a bit disjointed you are absolutely right—it is and we are too. But the great number of well-wishers has taken our typewriter's breath away, making us feel like a guy who has just stepped out of a jet plane after setting a new record. We don't know whether we landed back in Anaheim or on the moon. We have been dodging drops of print, chunks of glass, gods of plaster, tons of dust and other things too numerous to mention for the past week or so in order to get a face lifting job done here at the Gazette office. We found some things that seemed to date back to 1870. We hasten to add that they were inanimate objects and the conductor of this column was not one of them although he has been called inanimate by some of his enemies. We have a lot of new sound around here that make it very difficult to take much of a nap. Those darn teletypes keep at it with never a let up and although we have their sound conditioned or something the noise is so new to this little country plant that our siesta just dies aborning. We have often had visitors ask how we stood the noise of the line types and presses all going at the same time. That was an easy one: they make music. The kind of music a press makes is the kind that pays the bills and buys the groceries. That kind of music makes it much more concerned with Anaheim than any other spot on earth. The Mailbag TO THE EDITOR: Congratulations to the Anaheim DAILY Gazette. Your brave new venture will bear the watching with pride of all of your fellow publishers of Orange County and Southern California. It is no small undertaking for even an organization with the age of yours. It takes no small amount of courage to step into daily publication from one of the most respected and substantial weekly operations in our state. We all wish you well and look forward to seeing the first edition of your publication on May 8th. May it prosper and grow for even longer than the 80 years tallied on the books to date. Again, best wishes, congratulations, and at the same time condolences for the many fine things you personally will miss in performing your community duty with your Anaheim DAILY Gazette. Ben Reddick Newport Harbor Publishing Co. Salvation Army Sets June 5-10 Salvage Week Target of a week-long campaign sponsored by the Salvation Army social service center in this area will be unwanted furniture, clothing, shoes, appliances, and miscellaneous articles. Salvage Week in Anaheim has ben set for June 5 through 10, according to the drive's general chairman, O. H. Renner. Renner said today that a special fleet of Red Shield trucks will be available to answer calls to pick up donations. Up in Mendocino County former Senator George M. Biggar, defeated in 1946 by Burt W. Busch, will seek to return at Busch's expense. Biggar served in the Assembly from 1930 to 1934 at which time he was elected to the Senate. He also would receive the maximum retirement pay if re-elected. D. Jack Metzger of Red Bluff, a Senator from 1934 to 1942, is seeking re-election in opposition to the incumbent Senator Louis G. Sutton of Maxwell elected at a special election in 1944. Former Assemblyman Walter R. Hinton who served one term, 1940-48 will seek re-election from Burbank. He is running again. Everett G. Burkhalter who defeated him two years ago. Outside of the legislature, an interesting comeback is being attempted by former Santa Clara County Sheriff William Emig. Forced out of office in Santa Clara County as a result of a conviction which landed him in the county jail, Emig is now seeking to return to the office of Sheriff, only this time he is running for election in Santa Cruz County. We have them sound conditioned or something the noise is so new to this little country plant that our siesta just dies aborning. We have often had visitors ask how we stood the noise of the lintypes and presses all going at the same time. That was an easy one: they make music. The kind of music a press makes is the kind that pays the bills and buys the groceries. That kind of music makes it much easier to relax into that siesta. But this new clackety-clack sound is like somebody pounding heels out of a typewriter and keeping at it with never a letdown. That is not the way we use this one. We have to stop to think every once in a while. You don't believe it? We surely do think about how nice it would be to go fishing, away on a trip, or just to have a flight of fancy in the midst of a little siesta. And then some raucous voice says where is that lousy column' and we start up the old typewriter. But those lousy teletypes just keep rolling along so that we just can't sleep. Those things are gadgets 'that we are not used to and after a few weeks we will be so used to them that the old siesta will not be disturbed. Target of a week-long campaign sponsored by the Salvation Army social service center in this area will be unwanted furniture, clothing, shoes, appliances, and miscellaneous articles. Salvage Week in Anaheim has ben set for June 5 through 10, according to the drive's general chairman, O. H. Renner. Renner said today that a special fleet of Red Shield trucks will be available to answer calls to pick up salvage. He relayed a message from Brigadier Fred Ohrn, manager of the Army's center, who told of the continuous need for discards to keep the Salvation Army program of self-help operating. "Needy veterans and non-veterans alike are receiving humanitarian assistance from the Salvation Army social service center," Brig. Ohrn said. "In order to continue, we must have large quantities of castoff materials for collecting and refurbishing. The public can help us give thousands of men a new start in life by telephoning Anaheim 4631 and requesting a Red Shield truck to stop at homes or offices to pick up unwanted articles." American homes use 15,000,000 tons of ice a year. For MOTHER.... Float-in-EZ THE CHAIR OF CHAIRS FLOAT–IN–EZ perfects POS-TURIZED SEATING COMFORT in a high-back platform rocker. FLOAT–IN–EZ perfects POS-TURIZED SEATING COMFORT in a high-back platform rocker. 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