anaheim-gazette 1950-05-10

Dick Glover Resigns Drew Pearson, A new Gazette columnist. See editorial page. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAH TASTE TESTERS—Checking on the orange juice to be served on downtown streets this afternoon by the Retail Merchants are Oscar Solter (left), chairman of the retail division and E. W. Moeller (left), manager of the Chamber. Community Planning Day Features Evening Banquet; Panel Groups Honor Mothers In Downtown Stores Today Retail merchants celebrated their day today with special sales, free orange juice and a mothers contest in the third phase of Anaheim's Civic Progress week. Actually, Retail Merchants day got a head start last night at the Fremont School when John Stranahan, personnel consultant, spoke to a group of employers and their employees on the subject, "The Future Belongs to Us." Four orange juice stands on downtown street corners distributed California's finest to thirsty shoppers. Hostesses were eight charmers from the Anaheim high school. Mothers intent on entering the contest registered in various Anaheim stores. Prizes will be awarded to the youngest mother, the oldest mother and the mother of the largest family at a Friday noon meeting at the Elks club. House Faces Test in Move To Trim Budget WASHINGTON, May 10 (AP)—The House today voted to cut about $600,000,000 from the $29,-496,883,504 general appropriations bill. The vote was a tentative one subject to later roll call. Rep. Taber (R-N.Y.) sponsored the amendment cutting the $600,-000,000 and directing reductions—mainly in personnel, transportation, supplies and other operating expenses of federal agencies financed by the bill. The House accepted the Taber proposal by a teller vote of 183 to 147 on which the members were not recorded by name. It received almost solid southern Democratic support. The Taber amendment was only the first of several economy proposals on a measure already cut below what President Trump said. Featured speaker of the event will be Dr. A. M. Zarem, director of the Los Angeles Division State Ford Research Institute and chairman of the Applied Physics Department, Stanford Research Institute. His subject will be, "How Clean Was My Valley." The day-long event will include four discussion panels which will deal with various phases of planning as opposed to non-planning. The day-long event will include four discussion panels—two in morning and two in the afternoon. Host for the day is the Anaheim Planning Commission. Co-sponsors is the Planning Congress of Southern California. Speakers on four panels include: Linton Simmons, supt. of schools, Oran county; Earl Ingrim, engine county of Tulare; Harry S. Anderson, general manager, Broadwr Crenshaw store; Charles D. Claus planning consultant; R. W. Corden, secretary-manager, San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce; Gordon Whitnall, planning consultant; William Allen architect. Four orange juice stands on downtown street corners distributed California's finest to thirsty shoppers. Hostesses were eight charmers from the Anaheim high school. Mothers intent on entering the contest registered in various Anaheim stores. Prizes will be awarded to the youngest mother, the oldest mother and the mother of the largest family at a Friday noon meeting at the Elks club. IT'S HOT FOR L. A. Los Angeles, May 10, (AP)—Los Angeles had its warmest May 10 in 16 years when the mercury shot up to an official 88 degrees today. The temperature tied the year's previous high on April 17. The local record for May 10 is 95, set in 1934. IT'S HOT FOR L. A. Los Angeles, May 10, (AP)—Los Angeles had its warmest May 10 in 16 years when the mercury shot up to an official 88 degrees today. The temperature tied the year's previous high on April 17. The local record for May 10 is 95, set in 1934. SCHOOL BOARDS MEET High School Board Grants Pay Hikes A flat $100 increase to the salary base of all Anaheim high school teachers was made by the board of trustees at a prolonged six-hour session last night. This puts the minimum wage for teachers at the high school at $3100 and a high at $4,600. In addition teachers are reimbursed for all extra-curricular activity. Money dominated the meeting as increases right down the line were granted. Superintendent Demaree received a $500 raise, bringing his salary to $8,500. Assistant superintendent Clyde Nickle's wage was increased from $5200 to $5700. Other increases for personnel not coming under the salary schedule were: Ralph Focht, Elementary Teachers Get $150 Raise Elementary teachers in the Anaheim district will be getting a $150 cost-of-living bonus in their pay envelopes next year as a result of action taken by the board of trustees last night. This sets the minimum at $2,650 and the high at $4,600 for the grammar school teachers in the city. Resignations of E. M. Barge, Mrs. Leone Garner and Miss Irene Holland were accepted. Mrs. Fannie Pritchett and Miss Bonnie Fields ended long years of service in the school district last evening as they presented their bids for retirement. Mrs. Pritchett was formerly (Continued on Page 2) BASEBALL FLASHES CHICAGO, May 10 (AP)—The Chicago Cubs profited by four errors to defeat the Boston Braves and Warrein Spahn, 6 to 3, before 8202 here today. Doyle Lade and Paul Minner collaborated in a six-hit job for the Cubs; Sid Gordon hit his sixth homer with one aboard for the Braves. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh postponed, rain. Detroit at Boston, postponed, rain (doubleheader tomorrow). St. Louis Browns at N.Y.Yanks, postponed, rain (doubleheader tomorrow). WANTED: YOUNG MEN OVER 60 SEAHAM, England — (AP)—druggist here became tired of hating girl clerks who quit to take other jobs as soon as they learn the work. He decided, as he told reporters later, to "get more dependable assistants." So he advised for "two young men over 60." Now he has 32 applicants choose from—all received with the first day and a half. Designs as Head Football Co. ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD NAHEIM GAZETE EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950 Mediators Abandon Hope of Rail Strike Settlement Nation's Rail Network Crippled By Strike of Railroad Firemen CHICAGO, May 10 (AP) — A strike of railroad firemen crippled the nation's rail network today and within a few hours mediators abandoned hope of quick settlement. Francis A. O'Neill, chairman of the National (Railway) Mediation board said "we've given up." He added that a report on the deadlock will be submitted to Washington. The board had tried in continuous sessions since 9 p.m., CDT last night to reach some agreement. Haskell Kelley Council On Sm Truman Se Atomic Hel On the Farm POCATELLO, Idaho, May 1 —President Truman said that atomic research may lead much better grains and lives on our farms. Haskell Kelley New Constable Haskell A. Kelley of Cypress was sworn in as constable for Anaheim township this morning at 10 a.m. He takes over the post vacated by the death of Constable Marion who died last Thursday. The new constable's appointment was presented by Supervisor McFadden and opposed by Supervisors Smith and Featherly. Willard Smith and Irwin Gordon backed McFadden in his support for Kelley. Kelley opposed McFadden in the June 1948 primary but supported him in the November election. He will fill out Marion's unexpired term which terminates January 1, 1951. As a result of Marion's death there will be no candidate for constable listed on the ballot. All men running for the post will be of the "write-in" variety. Kelley has announced that he is definitely a candidate for election at the primary. He served as a deputy sheriff for 14 months. 24-Hour Battle For Life Lost By Five Minutes NEW YORK, May 10 (AF)—The body of Dominick Atteo was raised from the bottom of a 20-foot well shaft at 2:40 p.m. (EST) today, about 26 hours after he was Atomic Helium On the Farm POCATELLO, Idaho, May 17—President Truman said that atomic research may lead much better grains and lives on our farms." He disclosed the signing of National Science Foundation and said it would help the U.S. States "exert a more vital role for peace." Earlier he held out the prospect that the cold war Russia will continue "for a long time." In his speech to a train crowd here, the president said: "We have been making real progress in putting atomic energy work. Already, atomic research led to important discoveries medicine, and there is real promise that it will lead to much baggage and livestock on our farm." Scientific Leaders The Science Foundation acted, will make possible the development of "the best science brains in the nation," and keep the United States ahead scientific developments. The critical international situation and the determination work for peace shared in the student's expressed thoughts as began the first of 14 talks swing through Idaho and Oregon. As he has repeatedly, Truman told the crowd he would "do it again" if he faced the situation he did when he ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb. In the future, he said, "we going to use the energy for development of mankind, not destruction." He said if we lack the ingenuity to do that we "probably ought to destroy." In a separate statement, Truman said the act, creating independent agency to promote scientific research, will add to supply of knowledge which is dispensable to our continued growth, prosperity, and security. Science Essential "The fact that the world not found post-war security in way lessens the need for national science foundation, emphasized. "On the contrary underscores this need." The Pocatello speech follows solemn foreign policy address. BASEBALL FLASHES CHICAGO, May 10 (AP)—Chicago Cubs profited by errors to defeat the Boston Braves and Warren Hankan, 6 to 3, before 8203 today. Doyle Lade and El Minner collaborated in ex-hit job for the Cubs. Gordon hit his sixth ever with one aboard for Braves. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, poned, rain. Detroit at Boston, postponed (doubleheader tomorrow). Louis Browns at N.Y. kks, postponed, rain (tableheader tomorrow). ED: YOUNG MEN 60 CHAM, England — (AP)—A last here became tired of hirer clerks who quit to take jobs as soon as they learned work. He decided, as he told later, to "get more de-ble assistants." So he adver-fer "two young men over" he has 32 applicants to join from—all received within just day and a half. O'Neill said no further sessions were scheduled and added: "If either side wants to resume talks they can notify me." The New York Central, one of the struck lines, uses a fireman on such engines now. The Pennsylvania does not. Other lines (Continued on Page 2) Arraign Odle At Time of Wife's Burial At the hour of Mrs. Arville Odle's funeral this morning, in the Winbigler Chapel at Santa Ana, her ex-husband, John Calvin Odle, 58, was being arraigned in Justice Court two blocks away charged with her murder. Both events took place at 10 a.m. In a switch of defense counsel, Odle was represented by Attorney Z. B. West of Santa Ana who replaced attorney O. A. Jacobs originally retained. West, the former D. A. of Orange county, was associated with Jacobs in the successful defense of Beulah Louise Overell, 18 year old Los Angeles heiress who was charged with the murder of her parents at Newport Beach in 1947. Preliminary hearing of Odle was set for May 24 in Santa Ana Justice Court. Shot Saturday Mrs. Odle was shot to death last Saturday afternoon in the Davis Stationery Store, 104 East 4th street, Santa Ana, where she was employed. The shooting followed her asserted rejection of Odle's pleas for a reconciliation. She had obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce, two weeks earlier. Following Mrs. Odle's funeral service this morning private cremation was conducted in Fairhaven cemetery. 24-Hour Battle For Life Lost By Five Minutes NEW YORK, May 10 (AP)—The body of Dominick Atteo was raised from the bottom of a 20-foot well shaft at 2:40 p.m. (EST) today, about 26 hours after he was trapped there. A hospital physician, Dr. Harold Berson, pronounced the 49-year-old well-digger dead. "He died just five minutes before I got to him," the physician said. In the final stages of the rescue the son, John, cried out, "they're pushing him to tight. They're crushing him." Atteo's body was slid out into the rescue trench where the doctor was waiting. A hush fell over the watching crowd as the doctor walked slowly back along the rescue trench wiping sweat from his face and shaking his head. Atteo was trapped in the darkness of a 20-foot pit under a Brooklyn garage yesterday noon when a falling boulder pinned him in a natural vise. More than 50 rescue workers, mostly police and firemen, half-wrecked the barnlike garage in their haste to cut a trench to his side before they lost the race to gangrene, shock, and the burns from a freak flash fire in the shaft. The trapped man received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church at 1 a.m. (EST) from a priest lowered into the hole by block and tackle. CHICAGO (TP)—This city now has an "auto dump." To it will be towed all cars that have been abandoned on the streets. The automobiles will be sold unless they are claimed by owners. RECREATION FOR $18,20 A recreation budget calling $18,266.20 was submitted to City Council and each of the school boards last night. There is an increase of about $8,000 to the $10,000 allotted the recreation department last year. None of the groups gave approval. However this was not to other business on the age rather than any opposition. It expected that the budget will approved as submitted by Recreation Director Don Derrr. Under the agreement made the city and each of the school board and said if they per cent of the money and schools 20 per cent each. With the proposed budget, means the city will kick in $959.72 and each of the school tricts $3,653.24. Derrr appeared before the school board and said if the creation program was to pro- ball Coach at AUHS (STORY ON PAGE 5) Weather Sunny today and Thursday with increasing fog along Coast late this afternoon and tonight. Warmer interior sections today and cooler near Coast Thursday. Council Nixes Waiver On Small Lot Sizes Holds Fast to Stand for Large Lots in NW Section of City Subdividers' request for a compromise which would allow lots of less than the 1100 square feet required by ordinance, was rejected last night by the Anaheim City Council. The request was tendered by William Wallop. The area involved commences at the corner of North and Citron streets. Tentative map for the subdivision which calls for 98 lots was approved by the council at the April 25 meeting. Map proposed 70-foot front lots on Citron, North and West streets which was in keeping with the zoning ordinance. The compromise submitted last night Atomic Help on the Farm OCATELLO, Idaho, May 10 (AP) President Truman said today that atomic research may lead "to rich better grains and livestock farms." He disclosed the signing of the National Science Foundation act, said it would help the United States "exert a more vital force in peace." Earlier he held out the grim prospect that the cold war with Asia will continue "for a long time." In his speech to a trainside crowd here, the president said: "We have been making real progress in putting atomic energy to use. Already, atomic research has led to important discoveries in medicine, and there is real promise that it will lead to much better crops and livestock on our farms." Scientific Leaders The Science Foundation act, he said, will make possible the development of "the best scientific means in the nation," and will be the United States ahead in scientific developments. One critical international situation and the determination to ask for peace shared in the presidency's expressed thoughts as he ran the first of 14 talks on a long through Idaho and Oregon. He has said repeatedly, Mr. Man told the crowd he would sit again" if he faced the same situation he did when he ordered dropping of the atomic bomb. In the future, he said, "we are going to use the energy for the development of mankind, not for destruction." He said if we lack the ingenuity so that we "probably ought to destroyed." A separate statement, Mr. Man said the act, creating an independent agency to promote scientific research, will add to the only of knowledge which is "insensible to our continued worth, prosperity, and security." Science Essential The fact that the world has found post-war security in no lesssens the need for the national science foundation," he hasized. "On the contrary, it servescores this need." The Pocatello speech followed a few foreign policy address last Subdividers' request for a compromise which would allow lots of less than the 1100 square feet required by ordinance, was rejected last night by the Anaheim City Council. The request was tendered by William Wallop. The area involved commences at the corner of North and Citron streets. Tentative map for the subdivision which calls for 98 lots was approved by the council at the April 25 meeting. Map proposed 70 foot front lots on Citron, North and West streets which was in keeping with the zoning ordinance. The compromise submitted last night called for 82½ foot lots on North and Citron and at the same time, permission to waive the restriction on inner lot frontage in order to lay out smaller lots ranging down to 850 square feet. Wallop presented the architect's sketches of the proposed houses for the lots and assured the council that though smaller than some of the adjoining dwellings, they would be "houses people can be proud of." Several of the many citizens attending last night's meeting arose and remarked on the proposal. One speaker saw the section in question as the only "residential" section left in Anaheim. Others objected strongly to the zoning ordinance with the question, "aren't people with small houses good enough to live in the section?" After consideration, the council finally decided to reject Wallop's compromise. Aftermath indication was that the subdividers would abandon the entire project. Shortly after rejecting Wallop's compromise, councilmen accepted a tentative map submitted by LaVerne Roquet for 19 lots located near the corner of North and Citron streets. The action necessitated a waiver of the proposed interim ordinance which would set aside certain areas in the city for larger lots. Roquet's lots will have 55 feet frontage. The interim ordinance, calling for a zone designated R.O. came up for a second reading last night and was shelved for further study. One of two tentative maps accepted together at the April 25 meeting stirred up trouble again last night. The map in question calls for 55 foot lots at Vermont and Los Angeles streets. However zoning ordinance calls for 75 foot fronts. A number of residents from the area voiced disapproval of the proposed map. Councilmen indicated that final tract map would have to conform with zoning ordinance. At that point, a speaker for the subdividers stated that final maps Santa Ana Loses PE Rail Service LOS ANGELES, May 10 (AP)—The Pacific Electric Railway won its extended fight for rail abandonment today as the public utilities commission granted it permission to abandon rail service altogether on seven lines and reduce service on two others. Although the order is effective May 30, it may take the P.E. six months to carry out its abandonment program. Buses are to be substituted for the big red cars on the Pasadena Oak Knoll Line. The Monrovia-Glendora passenger rail line will be retained temporarily, pending construction of a freight spur line from Glendora to Baldwin Park. Cut Santa Ana Rail lines to be abandoned are: Sierra Madre, Baldwin Park, Santa Ana Line between Bellflower and Santa Ana; Newport Beach, Venice Shore Line, Hollywood Boulevard San Vincente Line from Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard to Genesee Street, and the Echo Park Line. The PUC ordered the P.E. to continue its Van Nuys to North Hollywood Line, but the Woodland Mills-Northridge bus line is to be abandoned. The Sierra Vista-Watts Line will be split into two separate lines. One-man operation was granted for the Pasadena Short Line, the Sierra Vista Local, the Hollywood Boulevard Line and the Santa Monica Boulevard-West Hollywood-North Hollywood-Van Nuys Line. The only rail lines which the P.E. wanted to abandon but were ordered to maintain are the Pasadena Short Line, Van Nuys-North Hollywood and the Santa Ana Line from Los Angeles to Bellflower. Spirited protests were made against the abandonment by various community groups but the P.E maintained it was economical. Science Essential The fact that the world has found post-war security in no lessens the need for the national science foundation," he emphasized. "On the contrary, it perscores this need." The Pocatello speech followed a common foreign policy address last at Laramie, Wyo., in which promised ultimate victory for free nations in their struggle against the "new and terrible enemy" of Russia. This is a long-time project," the Council held the map over for study. At that point, a speaker for the subdividers stated that final maps for a proposed subdivision must conform reasonably with tentative maps. He asked that whatever the outcome on the map in question, the Council decide on a ruling and stick to it. The council held the map over for study. RECREATION DEPARTMENT ASKS FOR $18,266 IN 1950-51 A recreation budget calling for $266.20 was submitted to the City Council and each of the two school boards last night. This is an increase of about $8,000 over $10,000 allotted the recreation department last year. One of the groups gave their approval. However this was due either business on the agenda or less than any opposition. It is expected that the budget will be approved as submitted by Recreation Director Don Derr. Under the agreement made by city and each of the school boards said if the recent of the money and the tools 20 per cent each. With the proposed budget, this was the city will kick in $10,-$2 and each of the school districts $3,653.24. Derr appeared before the high school board and said if the recreation program was to proceed as it was originally intended it would be necessary for the increase in budget as asked. According to recreation department figures, 55,152 persons took part in activity as spectators and participants. It is anticipated that by July 1, 65,000 persons will have engaged in recreation department activity. Derr proposes to have all school playgrounds open after school and on Saturdays and holidays, with recreation department supervision. Other main point in his plan for expansion of services in the coming fiscal year is a more comprehensive recreation program for girls of our community. He also would like to increase the social program including square-dancing, music, craft, and folk games. Makes your shopping pleasant when you trade in Anaheim. BUDDHISTS DECLINE UNDER REDS HONG KONG — (AP) — At least 400,000 Buddhist monks in Communist China have shed their religious garments to become laymen again, according to a Buddhist priest interviewed by the "Hongkong Standard." He said that of the 400,000, more than 200,000 young monks have been drafted into the Communist armed forces. The remaining 200,000, the monk said, all "resigned" due to economic reasons. Since the "liberation" of the Chinese mainland, Communist authorities have pulled down most of the Buddhist monasteries and temples and confiscated their land, thus depriving them of means of making a living. There were about 6,800 ice plants in the U.S. in 1949, only four in 1869.