anaheim-gazette 1950-05-22

Colonist Tennis team in CIF semi-finals tomorrow on local courts against Montebello. Story and picture, page 5. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper CONCERT IN THE PARK was presented Sunday afternoon by the Anaheim Elks Concert Band. Mr. William Cook, director, is shown above leading the band through one of the numbers played CONCERT IN THE PARK was presented Sunday afternoon by the Anaheim Elks Concert Band Mr. William Cook, director, is shown above leading the band through one of the numbers played in the concert. The local band, in its first public appearance in this city, demonstrated stature, depth and quality of interpretation. Elks Band Presents “Wake-Up American Concert in Greek Theatre Sunday Before a slim but appreciative audience, the Anaheim Elks concert band under the direction of William Cook made its first public appearance in the Greek Theatre, City Park, Sunday afternoon. The concert was part of the Elks’ national campaign against communism and featured an address by the Rev. Alex Nichols, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana entitled “Wake-Up America.” The concert demonstrated the high caliber of the local musical organization and indicated a popular reception for any “concert in the park” series that might be instituted. Soloists Soloists for the afternoon included Mrs. Dorothy Cook, wife of the director, at the piano playing Bennett’s “Repartee” and Ted Bourne who played “American Caprice” by Goldman on the trumpet. Comic soloist of the afternoon was Ray Hamilton’s original composition entitled, “One-Armed Paper Hanger.” All three artists were accompanied by the concert band under the direction of Cook. Band numbers played included: “Marco Poco March,” Moore; “Pavanne,” Gould; Victor Herbert Selections arranged by Lake; “Washington Grays March,” Sousa; Gershwin Selections, arranged by Bennett; “Amparito Roca,” Texidor; “Waggery for Woodwinds,” Walters; South Pacific Selection; and the concluding selections, “Stars and Stripes Forever March,” Sousa. The invocation was delivered by the Rev. Father Maurice P. Dee, pastor of St. Boniface church and the benediction by Rabbi Maurice T. Galpert, Beth Sholom Temple, Santa Ana. The color guard of the Anaheim American Legion Post No. 72, presented and Brea ‘Bolt’ Under Fire Chairmen of the Orange county Sanitation Districts are meeting in an executive session this afternoon in Santa Ana to consider the purchase and sale agreement to transfer ownership of the Joint Outfall System to the county-wide set-up and also the construction-operation agreement which would allow sale of the $8 million sewer bonds. A cinch to be the main topic of conversation, however, is Brea’s attempt to halt sale of the bonds and cause another stalemate in the much-needed sanitation program. Nelson Launer, administrative officer for the districts indicated this morning that a policy of “watchful waiting” has been adopted. Until Brea files its injunction, the full threat to the program can not be determined, according to attorneys, for the sanitation districts. Howard Dewain Ford, 21, of Brea, received a $50 damage award from a Superior court jury for injuries he received six years ago when his bicycle collided with an automobile. The accident took place June 10, 1944, at Imperial Governor Calls Jim Roosevelt ‘Doom Prophet’ COALING A (F) — Governor Warren today termed California postwar progress the greatest nation as he began a two-campaign tour of the San Joaquin valley. He told a street-corner crowd 500 persons here that Jim Roosevelt, his chief opponent “a prophet of doom who either unfamiliar with the facts or not want to know them.” The governor said Roosevelt touring the state preaching California is on the skids, that employment is high and programs is not being made to keep with the population growth we have been going on during and since the war.” The facts, he said, are these: 1. More California people employed in April than in any previous April in history. 2. The weekly wage in California is $6 above the national average and the hourly wage in cents above the national level. 3. California leads the nation heavy construction and in the construction of homes. The governor added that fewer than 400,000 persons are unemployed in the state and all of them are not in dire straits. Some said, are changing jobs and others are moving from one part of state to another. Warren's Valley tour is so... MOBILE BLOOD BANK IN ANAHEIM FRIDAY Quarterly visit of the Red Cross Mobile Blood Unit to Anaheim will be made this Friday, May 26, according to Joe R. Thompson, recruitment chairman for the local chapter. The mobile unit will be at the Ebell Clubhouse from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. to receive donations. In announcing this quarterly visit, Thompson issued a plea to organizations and individuals to assist in assuring the meeting of Anaheim's quota at this time. Firms who have already pledged their support and will enlist the service of their employees include: Oscar Renner, SQR Store; Harry Horn, Harry Horn Company; Earl Ryan French Laundry; Larry Jones, General Electric, Anaheim Plant; John Lynn and J. J. Burkhard, U. S. Industrial Chemicals and Arval Morris, Electra Motors Corporation. Kwikset Lock Company, who filled this district's quota at the last visit of the blood bank will again have employee's donating blood and add to the credit of their company's blood bank. "Although the support already pledged is encouraging, we shall need even greater participation if we hope to meet our quota," said Thompson. Persons interested in donating blood are requested to call Kathryn Wheeler at Anaheim 2065 for an appointment. PROMPT ASSISTANCE CHECKS SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's 270,000 needy aged, 10,000 needy blind and 108,000 needy children will get their June assistance checks promptly, the governor's office announced today. Governor Warren acted to assure payment on time despite a lag in federal funds. Warren signed a proclamation declaring a "welfare emergency." He then authorized the State Controller and State Treasurer to advance $9,794,267 from the general fund for distribution to the counties. CALIFORNIA STATE ORANGE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD NAHEIM GAZETE EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1950 Uncover 40 Victims of Earthquake CURZO, Peru (AP)—Forty bodies have been dug out of the rubble in this earthquake devastated former capital of the Incas. Police Chief Louis Tapayachi said today the death toll would reach at least 60. That is 10 higher than the previous estimate. The U. S. Embassy at Lima informed the State Department that more than 100 died and 200 were injured in the earthquake. The information was relayed to Lima by the prefect at Cuzco, the embassy said. The first arrivals in Lima from Cuzco said that 90 per cent of the city was destroyed. Mayor Pedro P. Diaz of Arequipa told reporters that convents, churches, schools and old buildings were the hardest hit. Rescue squads poked through ruined buildings where Tapayachi said other bodies were certain to be found. An emergency airlift sped food, doctors and medical supplies from Lima to treat the 178 injured by Sheriff Prais Publishing Sh 'Back-a-Boy' in Soap Box Event "Back-a-Boy" in the Anaheim Gazette-Optimist-Clet sponsored Soap Box Derby, was the slogan put out as youthful entrants swarmed to enter the "World's Gr Amateur Racing Event." Already 10 sponsors have agreed to help deser Anaheim boys build Soap Box derby cars for the Los geles race to be held July 19, 20 and 22. They are: Cla Sportswear, Wisser Sporting Goods, Grant William Walter Jungkeit (two boys), Leavitt Ford, Bro House of Lights, Anaheim Junior Chamber of Commerce, Doctor Patterson and Oscar Leib. Cost of backing-a-boy runs in the neighborhood o It affords interested organizations and individuals a portunity to help the men of tomorrow be better youth So the Anaheim Gazette, the Anaheim Optimis and Cone Chevrolet invite you to help in their "back- The first arrivals in Lima from Cuzco said that 90 per cent of the city was destroyed. Mayor Pedro P. Diaz of Arequipa told reporters that convents, churches, schools and old buildings were the hardest hit. Rescue squads poked through ruined buildings where Tapayachi said other bodies were certain to be found. An emergency airlift sped food, doctors and medical supplies from Lima to treat the 178 injured by the 12-second earthquake. The rescue crews were dispatched on order of President Manuel Odria Amoretti. Tapayachi said most of the victims were crushed by stones from falling church towers. The quake struck at 1:45 p.m. (EST) yesterday. Terrified people ran into the streets. Cuzco is a city of 45,000 inhabitants, 340 miles southeast of Lima. Among the towers which toppled were those on Santo Domingo church, erected on the ruins of the Inca temple of the sun. Terrified citizens knelt in prayer before a statue of Christ on Cuzco's main plaza. Voters Approve Half Million Dollar Tax Raise Voters approved the Anaheim high school expansion program 1074 to 715 last Friday. 1151 of 6633 registered voters in Anaheim cast ballots, according to unofficial returns from the Fremont and George Washington precincts. At the same time, H. H. Stabbert was retained as elementary school board trustee, defeating write-in candidate Harwood Larson. Stabbert polled 881 votes to Larson's 181. James A. Baker, unopposed, was retained as a member of the high school board of trustees. He received a total of 1424 votes. The high school expansion proposal, as approved by the voters, will raise half a million dollars during the next five years by upping the school tax rate 25 cents for each 100 dollars assessed valuation. VA Bows to Pressure; Plans New Hospital New Blasts Rock South Amboy; Conduct Inquiry SOUTH AMBOY, N. J. (AP) — New blasts from Army mine-clearing operations echoed through South Amboy today as Coast Guard officials tried to fix the cause of Friday night's disaster. A board of inquiry heard an expert's opinion that an anti-personnel mine, dropped accidentally, may have set off the shattering explosion of munitions bound for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Thirty-one persons died in the skyrocketing waterfront blast. Property damage was estimated at $7,500,000. Harry A. Campbell, chief inspector of the Bureau of Railroads, told his version of the possible cause of the disaster to a Coast Guard board of inquiry headed by Rear Adm. H. Smith in New York City. He said the explosion occurred in a string of four barges had dropped a box containing anti-personnel mines—“if he dropped it far enough and it had no safety device,” Campbell said. Explosion Spread In such explosion, he explained, could have set off a “sympathetic” explosion, detonating two barges partially loaded with anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines and dynamite. He said he did not know what the actual cause was. The railroad expert said he was called to the scene of the explosion shortly after it occurred. Six-hundred tons of ammunition and explosives were being loaded from 100 yards away. Taxi-Cab Smae Pedestrians Cliff Jennings, Grove Hollow Phillip Martinez, 904 E. Brooke were struck down by a car yesterday at 12:09 a.m. at the section of Center and street streets. Driver of the car Hugh Hunsaker, 122 E. Waimea Both men were taken to Anaheim Community High School is reported, suing from a broken leg. According to Anaheim port, the cab skidded 24 feet when impact and Martinez 21 feet injured men told police that saw the cab approaching thought that it would stop saker, police reported, admits saw the men crossing but did not yield right or Hunsaker was not given a call. Both pedestrians had drinking, police reported. Car Runs Amuck Stops in Grove Waymon M. Keech, 25, 710th st., Buena Park was insured when his car swerved on the road into an orange grove a tree and overturned yes at 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of Sycamore and Placentia. Keech told Anaheim Police he was driving north on Plaza when a car coming the other tion veered toward him, firing him to hit a roadside mark VA Bows to Pressure; Plans New Hospital WASHINGTON (AP)—The Veterans Administration said today it will build a 1000-bed neuropsychiatric hospital at Van Nuys, Calif. Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., said the hospital will be built on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished Birmingham Veterans general hospital. Gray said the new hospital will have facilities for out-patient treatment of paralyzed veterans who are patients of Birmingham general and who have established homes in the sourrounding area of the San Fernando Valley. Gray's announcement said work on clearing the site will be started as soon as Birmingham's patients can be moved to the 1600-bed naval hospital at Long Beach, Calif., which the veterans administration will take over on June 1. FILE ON RENNER ESTATE Estate of the late William E. Renner, prominent Anaheim resident, who died May 4, will go to his widow, Mrs. Ida May Renner, 517 S. Los Angeles st., Anaheim, and his daughter, Mrs. Bessie Frey of the same address, according to a petition for letters of administration just filed in superior court here by Mrs. Frey. The petition set forth that the estate consisted of personal property, and two parcels of improved real estate in Anaheim. Explosion Spread In such explosion, he explained, could have set off a "sympathetic" explosion, detonating two barges partially loaded with anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines and dynamite. He said he did not know what the actual cause was. The railroad expert said he was called to the scene of the explosion shortly after it occurred. Six-hundred tons of ammunition and explosives were being loaded from 12 railroad cars on the pier into four self-propelled barges. Campbell testified Interstate Commerce regulations permit inclusion of approved detonating fuses are packed with other types of ammunition where the Army or Navy so desires and approves the type of detonators shipped. Preliminary investigation showed that seven cars had been unloaded at South Amboy during the day on Friday and five others were being unloaded when the blast let go at 6:25 p.m. (EST). Shells, fuses and mines were scattered over South Amboy in the blast. Demolition squads have been combing the mile-square city ever since for the dangerous munitions. Cop Motorcycle Armed Forces Day Casualty The Armed Forces Day traffic barrier at Center and Los Angeles street cost the city one scraped motorcycle fender. It happened when Officer F. Norbert Decock, astride the three-wheel traffic bike, zoomed a little too close to a parked car owned by Fred Lee Smith of Cucamonga. The rear fender of the motorcycle was slightly scratched. No damage to the car was reported. Waymon M. Keech, 25, 710th st., Buena Park was sited inured when his car swerved onto the road into an orange grove a tree and overturned yes at 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of Sycamore and Placentia. Keech told Anahelm Police he was driving north on Plaza when a car coming the other tion veered toward him, for him to hit a roadside mark the east side of the street. His control of the car which then tinued on across the street into the orange grove. The was torn out when Keech's car it. Twelve persons were repre injured in a series of week traffic accidents in Orange county according to official reports. Cars driven by Lawrence Stanfield, 50, Whittier, and W. Snively, 62, 14334 Madrina Norwalk, collided on 101 High at Hacienda ave., west of heim Saturday with inju Stanfield and Jessie Snivel of Norwalk. Manuel V. Vieyra, 18, Flower st., Stanton, and Santellan, 22, 10942 Berry Anaheim, were treated at county hospital for minor injury after their cars collided Sunday on Katella rd., near st., west of Anaheim. Fedde Prins, 40, 10851 Ave., Midway City, was in this morning when his large children to school skidded on washed paving at Sugar and ZETTE The Weather Southern California—Mostly cloudy west portion and partly cloudy east portion tonight and Tuesday. Local night and morning drizzle coastal areas. Cooler coastal valleys today. Praises Gazette for Using Slot Machine List Soap Box Event Sim Gazette-Optimist-Chevrowas the slogan put out today to enter the "World's Greatest agreed to help deserving derby cars for the Los An0 and 22. They are: Clarice Goods, Grant Williams, Leavitt Ford, Brodies Junior Chamber of ComOscar Leib. in the neighborhood of $15.00s and individuals an oporrow be better youth today. the Anaheim Optimist Club so help in their "back-a-boy" Sheriff James A. Musick Saturday denied he had made a statement Friday questioning the accuracy of the Bureau of Internal Revenue list of places which had paid the $100 Federal government tax for operating "gaming devices." The sheriff who made a special visit to the Anaheim Gazette Saturday morning to discuss the slot machine problem in Orange county with the newspaper's editorial staff, praised the Gazette for its publication of the list. "I am glad the Anaheim Gazette printed this list, as a point of general information," said Musick. "I hope those places listed as having paid the tax will take special note that after July 14, it will be a misdemeanor to have mere possession of these 'so-called amusement devices.'" The Gazette in an exclusive story, last Wednesday, published the complete list of all places, totaling 190, which had paid the $100 tax, an don Thursday in another exclusive story, presented the situation which faces Or- New Concentrate Plant Turns on 'Juice' Sunday By the Gazette Farm Editor Golden Citrus Fruit Juices Inc., of Fullerton, which is jointly owned and operated by Eadington Fruit Co. and American Fruit Growers, made their first test run yesterday. Tom Eadington, president reported the plant manager, a lad from Florida, turned on the Taxi-Cab Smacks Pedestrians Cliff Jennings, Grove Hotel, and Phillip Martinez, 904 E. Broadway, were struck down by a cab yesterday at 12:09 a.m. at the intersection of Center and Emily streets. Driver of the cab wasugh Hunsaker, 122 E. Walnut. Both men were taken to the Anaheim Community Hospital. Jennings is reported suffering from a broken leg. According to Anaheim police report, the cab skidded 24 feet. Jenings was hurled ten feet by the impact and Martinez 21 feet. The injured men told police that they saw the cab approaching but thought that it would stop. Hunker, police reported, admitted he saw the men crossing the street at did not yield right of way. Hunsaker was not given a citation. Both pedestrians had been thinking, police reported. Car Runs Amuck; Stops in Grove Waymon M. Keech, 25, 7511 E. st., Buena Park was slightly tired when his car swerved across the road into an orange grove, hit tree and overturned yesterday at 2:30 a.m. near the intersection Sycamore and Placentia. Keech told Anaheim Police that was driving north on Placentia then a car coming the other direction veered toward him, forcing him to hit a roadside marker on east side of the street Holt. The Gazette in an exclusive story, last Wednesday, published the complete list of all places, totaling 190, which had paid the $100 tax, an don Thursday in another exclusive story, presented the situation which faces Orange county, and the state of California in meeting the slot machine problem. Musick declared in his interview with the Gazette, that he took "exception to reports that he has made no effort to combat the influx of the gaming devices in the unincorporated areas of the county published elsewhere." The sheriff said that a story published Friday (not the Gazette) reporting "a flurry by the sheriff's office against the machines" as being absolutely false and without justification. "My office has picked up and destroyed more machines in the past three years than all the other previous administrations combined since the county was organized," he said. "Despite distorted views published (again not the Gazette), there are no machines in operation, licensed or otherwise, in the unincorporated areas of the county, which my office has jurisdiction over." said Musick. "Your list clearly indicated that by far the greatest number of licenses issued were for places inside the incorporated cities of the county—that is of course, outside my jurisdiction," he declared. "The passing of this new state law making mere possession a misdemeanor is the best thing that ever happened," said the sheriff. "The law now puts teeth into the regulations and eliminates loopholes which so often have obstruced the sheriff's office in prosecuting violators." Sunday Peace Disturbed by Arm Slashing Joe Sabedra Gonzales, 23, 413 S. Claudina, was cut on the left arm by an unidentified assailant yesterday evening at 6:03 p.m., according to a report filed with the Anaheim police. The slashing took place in the rest room of a delicatessen located at 242 E. Center street. Plant Turns on 'Juice' Sunday By the Gazette Farm Editor Golden Citrus Fruit Juices Inc., of Fullerton, which is jointly owned and operated by Eadington Fruit Co. and American Fruit Growers, made their first test run yesterday. Tom Eadington, president reported the plant manager, a lad from Florida, turned on the 'juice' yesterday for a short test run and the machinery started up with such sweet music that about one hundred tons of fruit had been juiced before he could bring himself to shut down. The plant is primarily designed for the production of frozen concentrate which has increased the return to the Florida grower from 30 cents a box to $3.50 in two short years. The California fruit will not have enough sugar for this product until close to July 1, consequently the plant will put out a sweetened orangeade base until that date. Output of the plant will be handled this year by the frozen foods division of American Fruit Growers and by Clinton Industries under the Snow Crop label. Planners O.K. 600,Cow Dairy; Sheet Metal Shop Applications for land use permits for a variety of purposes will come before the County Supervisors for their approval, including one by F. L. Davis, seeking to dump rotary mud in a sand pit south of Buena Park; also application by Jake Westra for permit to establish a 600-cow dairy on 70 acres at Cypress. Approval of the County Planning commission was given both applications and others last Friday, including permit for Sheet Metal Engineering Co. to establish a sheet metal shop and fabricating plant at Highway 101 and Midway dr., south of Anaheim. Site of Westra's proposed dairy is on the north side of La Palma ave., between Miller and Walker streets, near Cypress. The Davis sand pit, where rotary mud has been dumped since May, 1942, is on the east side of Stanton ave., north of Lincoln ave. In approving the application, the Planning Commission attached the condition that operations would not violate laws on air and ground water pollution, present or future. Twelve persons were reported injured in a series of week-end traffic accidents in Orange county, according to official reports today. Cars driven by Lawrence M. Snively, 62, 14334 Madris st., Norwalk collided on 101 Highway Hacienda ave., west of Anaheim Saturday with injury to snfield and Jessie Snively, 58, Norwalk. Manuel V. Vieyra, 18, 10882 Power st., Stanton, and John Antellan, 22, 10942 Berry st., Anaheim, were treated at theenty hospital for minor injuries after their cars collided early today on Katella rd., near Garza west of Anaheim. Wedde Prins, 40, 10851 Sugar st., Midway City, was injured in morning when his large sedan which he was taking his nine children to school skidded on rain paved at Sugar and Van Buren aves., near Huntington Beach, and collided with a pickup truck belonging to C. E. Worthy, 613 Seventh st., Huntington Beach. Prins was taken to Santa Ana Community hospital. The children all escaped injury. Thomas R. Yarborough, 54, of Elsinore, was treated at St. Joseph hospital at Orange, following an accident near Lasky Camp in Santa Ana canyon, where Yarborough's car was forced off the road to avoid hitting a truck and struck on its front end in a creek bed at that point. This accident occured Saturday evening. Albert Samora, 24, of Stanton, was injured in a collision, Sunday, between his car and a parked car on Huntington Beach blvd., near Stanton. M. J. Larsen, 22, of Santa Ana Marine Air station, was injured when he fell asleep at the wheel of his car early Sunday and collided with a tree on Tustin ave., near Tustin. Another Marine, James H. Brown, 21, of the military base, also fell asleep at the wheel of his car on Memory Lane, Santa Ana, at 6:15 a.m., today and wound up in an orange orchard opposite the end of Memory Lane on Flower st., his passenger, Claude J. McCarty, Jr., 21, received a small cut on one arm. Robert Hass, 8, 221 Sparks st., Costa Mesa, was injured in a collision between his bicycle and an automobile driven by Roy F. Mather, 61, Balboa Island, on 17th st., east of Newport blvd., in Costa Mesa, Saturday. Hayden H. Johnson, 21, San Diego Marine is still unconscious in Santa Ana Community hospital as a result of injuries received Saturday afternoon in a collision which resulted fatally to Jack D. (Continued on Page 6).