anaheim-gazette 1950-06-08

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2206. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1879, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved Subscriptions: $5c per month by carrier or $5 per year by carrier or mail. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A.P. news dispatches. THEODORE B. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BEESER Assistant Publisher ROBERT FUNSETH Managing Editor WILLARD GREGORY City Editor NEIL STANLEY Display Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager Is beak-busting in for more hard times? "Savold Whips Woodcock; Wins Crown" was the headline in Tuesday's Anaheim Gazette. The two men referred to are heavyweight boxers; the "crown" is the British and European version of the world heavyweight boxing title. The important thing about the whole affair is that it again points up the sad fight picture. Since Joe Louis apparently bowed out of the heavyweight championship, national and world interest in boxing's greatest crown hasn't had much in the way of stimulation. And, it appears the heavy-weight division is in for more sorry times. Ezzard Charles—who is merely a light-heavy with delusions of grandeur—got a leg on the cham- Bruce Woodcock encounter. Well, Savold whipped Woodcock. "So what," you say; and you have a point. Either Savold or Woodcock would be almost more unthinkable as champions than would Charles or Walcott. Maybe there have been worse champions—Primo Carnera and Jim Braddock to name a couple. But, the fact such names have to be drawn for comparison clearly demonstrates the low estate of the current heavyweight division. The only hope is that the retirement of Joe Louis will someday stimulate the chin-socking business. Joe was so good that he discouraged promising young heavies before they could get started. Maybe with the way things Since Joe Louis apparently bowed out of the heavyweight championship, national and world interest in boxing's greatest crown hasn't had much in the way of stimulation. And, it appears the heavy-weight division is in for more sorry times. Ezzard Charles—who is merely a light-heavy with delusions of grandeur—got a leg on the championship by virtue of a clear but extremely cautious win over a slow and aged Joe Walcott. But the New York Boxing commission said it wouldn't recognize him as champion until he whipped the winner of the Lee Savold- This will snap your vacation dreams... Speaking of athletics—as we almost were in the editorial above—here are some pointers for you Anaheim vacationers who will soon be regaling your muscles in the great out-of-doors and tempting all the hazards of nature-in-the-row. The California department of public health has issued its annual warning concerning vacation precautions; and, here are some highlights: The department doesn't recommend a familiar snake-bite remedy which can be purchased at almost any corner liquor store. Some may be disappointed in that. But, here is what is recommended: vacationers should check with local settlers to determine if poisonous snakes are around, and to carry an anti-venom kit if walks are taken in snake country. One of the great hazards is sunburn. The department recommends not more than 15 minutes exposure per day for a starter if the vacationer would avoid a non-slip skin. Another hazard is poison oak. Contact with the plant means misery for a good many people. If a vacationer has been near the shrub, a thorough washing and scrubbing with plenty of soap will help. Wet baking soda is an emergency treatment. Summer is noisy season. The department simply recommends no swimming at all in water that might be polluted. Food and water should be checked thoroughly, food touched by flies should be avoided, mussels (not muscles) are poison in summer, and mushrooms of the wrong kind may contain poison. Well, those are all good points. If you have all that taken care of, we hope you'll still have some time and energy left for vacationing. Have fun! IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Messrs Hopkins and Sorenson have commenced building a house for Gustav Heimann. The contractors have acquired a high reputation for skill and taste in the construction of buildings. 25 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Yungbluth entertained the members of the Placentia and oil well territory. It will be known as Placentia precinct. LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Messrs Hopkins and Sorenson have commenced building a house for Gustav Heimann. The contractors have acquired a high reputation for skill and taste in the construction of buildings. It is rumored that Messrs. Hammel & Denker, proprietors of the United States Hotel in Los Angeles, have decided to take several thousand dollars worth of stock in the new hotel enterprise. The Messrs. Hammel & Denker are successful men of business and can see through a millstone about as far as their neighbors. We tip our beaver to them. 50 Years Ago Mrs. E. B. Merritt and daughter, Eva, leave tomorrow for Dixon, Ill., to visit relatives. She will be absent some two months. The supervisors on Monday formed a new precinct, embracing the Placentia and oil well territory. It will be known as Placentia precinct. 25 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Yungbluth entertained the members of the "Four-Fours" club at their home on West Broadway on Tuesday evening last. After a delicious dinner the party was entertained at cards until a late hour. Dewey Starkey was made the proud father of a very fine baby girl born to his wife at a Santa Ana hospital on Monday. Mrs. Starkey was formerly Miss Alice Ingram of this city. Mother and child are doing well and Dewey is passing around the cigars. Contract for the Magnolia Grammar school to be built on Magnolia avenue, three miles west of Anaheim, was awarded Wednesday to William Rohrbacker, Santa Ana. His bid was $41,465. WASHINGTON — Grim-faced leaders of small business, labor and farm co-operatives made a special plea against the Basing Point bill at a recent closed-door meeting with Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. The session was opened with the blunt question: "Do you want a Republican Congress next year? One sure way is to let the president sign the Basing Point bill." "If Mr. Truman's messages on small business mean anything," continued gravel - voiced George Burger of the National Federation of Independent Business, "He'll veto this bill. His program is absolutely worthless if this bill becomes law, and small business knows it." "Farmers, consumers and small business will pay higher freight costs, if this bill is signed," threw in Wallace Campbell of the Co-operative league. Others in the delegation agreed vigorously: They were: Don Montgomery of the United Auto Workers, George Fretas of the Retail Druggists, Ed Rowe of the United Trygve Lie and Truman Here is the inside story of happened when U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie met withident Truman and Secretary Washington; then asked the dent to consider sending Accto to a special meeting of the U.N Nations Security council in Gri this summer a meeting which said was imperative to keep United Nations from collapsing. Mr. Truman's reaction was mediate. He promptly said could do no such thing; that would be a cruel hoax to play the American people when they absolutely no chance of agreeing with Russia. The only thing sia understands, the president gued, is force, and the We going to build up its own until Russia realizes the Derracies mean business. After perhaps a meeting with Mr might produce some good. As it is now, Truman told U. N. Secretary General, H is boycotting the United N because it won't seat common China—just like a little boy says he won' play in the game less he can be captain of the In contrast, Truman said United States has attended meeting, never used its vets is working night and day peace. Trygve Lie left the meeting vinced there is absolutely chance for an East-West mer in the near future. Capital News Capsules Too friendly to USA—Amador Kirk has cabled the Department that the R general who was suddenly refrom Japan with his entire 5 The World Would Feel Safer By THOMAS ANCIENT FRANCO-GERMAN FEUD ISN'T IT TIME TO FORGET ALL THAT? wholesale Grocers and William staff has suffered the same fate as Marshall Zhukov. He's being demoted and disgraced because, at least, by the new product's bid for fruit supplies. of a large packing and capacity the government likely went out of the market had been a rush for fresh fruit packers andners bidding it up. Grow the money, but shuddered might come, hoping it will But the collapse was in Huge Carryover. "Markets found themselves a huge carry-over of cannery which had to be sold at production costs to move brought down the entire structure just as a season before it had helped to prices. "Some canners and grow see the same thing happen gain. On the other hand, number contradict the view that concentrate will amount of fruit Floridaduce. This latter theory is the boom in grove sales and sales in concentrate co." "Meantime, most cannot hedging as cautiously as packing only what they are at an acceptable price and ping. They like a high mark to a point, but beyond the decline. Canners operate percentage basis, and the price, the higher the centage. But when juice bove a certain retail price wives turn to other for juices. It is that way to the canners remain una concentrated competition, its storm will blow over allly. They may be right on Not Too Concerned. "Our industry is not cerned over concentrate, Adams Bruce, Tampa can a good product wjth wideance, but canned juice is cheaper. It's not tied to erator." Wholesale Grocers and William Marsh of the National Association Retail Tire Dealers. Boyle appeared to be impressed that these coups, usually following separate bills, were lined up together. "How does it happen Democrat-Senators are doing all the hard work for this Republican bill?" asked Montgomery of the Auto Workers. He referred to Joe O'Maney of Wyoming, Democratic zip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania and Herbert O'Conor of Maryland. Boyle's Reaction "I just don't know," replied Boyle sadly. "The action of administration Senators for the Basing Point bill surprises me." "The Democrats are the best carriers the Republicans could do for on this deal" observed larger caustically. The small business representative also reminded Boyle that South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, sirman of the "so-called small business committee," voted for raising Point side by side with P chiefs Robert Taft and Ken Henry. The delegation pointed out that the Basing Point bill would raise the cost of living, that big steel cement interests would profit from the formula at the expense other economic segments, and that Mr. Truman's action on the bill was as much a test as the Kerr bill. At the end of the session Chairin Boyle said: "This has been an education for me, and I'm convincing you're right. I'll do my best to suseade the president to veto the bill." Trygve Lie and Truman Here is the inside story of what opened when U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie met with President Truman and Secretary Achebe following Lie's return from Moscow. Boyle first reported on the strong fire for peace which he found everywhere from Moscow to Washington; then asked the president to consider sending Acheson a special meeting of the United States. Colony Quips staff has suffered the same fate as Marshall Zhukov. He's being demoted and disgraced—because he was too chummy with American and British personnel in Tokyo. Kirk says General Kuzma Derevyanko committed what is the supreme heresy—he actually believed the East and West could get along in peace. No Moscow links—Last week one of the big news picture services got a wire from a California politician asking if it had any picture linking Congressman Helen Gahagan Douglas with Paul Roberson, Henry Wallace, Claude Peper or Moscow. The news service wired back immediately that it had a picture linking Mrs. Douglas with Moscow. California immediately ordered the print. But all it showed was Helen Douglas giving an award to Warren Moscow, crack reporter of the New York Times... actually Mrs. Douglas refused the endorsement of the Henry Wallace third party in 1948, even though to accept it meant a susbstantial number of votes. Merry-Go-Round The president would like to appoint ex-Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to the World Power conference in London if he would go. ... Reports from Argentina are that Ambassador Stanton Griffis is doing a good job. However, he is pulling wires for the top diplomatic post —London— which he will not get. ... The lobbying of Samuel P. Haines to abolish the excise tax on night clubs has backfired. After the Ways and Means committee learned that Haines was to get a $100,000 fee if the tax was abolished, they decided to reconsider. Real Object Lesson “This is a real object lesson in American free enterprise under which the ultimate consumer gets the ultimate advantages. "It is also a reason why many are warning against a top-heavy boom in citrus, sparking an out-of-state rush of grove buyers and venture capital seeking to get into the citrus deal and out of high tax brackets. "Some predict the recent peak of fruit and grove prices will lead only to equally extreme valleys once a short season is past and concentrate finds its long range level. "Actually, the trend has reached such a fantastic, paradoxical stage that the board of directors of a large citrus cooperative were moved a few days ago to adopt a resolution declaring that fruit prices were too high. Few Are Happy "Of course, everybody who owns fruit is pocketing all it will bring. Who would do otherwise? But few are happy about it. They explain what they were getting on an inflationary market would go to the government, anyway, and maybe at a time of lower prices after they have spent the big money. "These same observers point to the shrug-of-the-shoulders of the canners to prove their point. They explain the canners ought to know. They came through the wringer themselves just a couple of years ago, pulling a whole season's marketing down with them. "The situation this season is much the same as that of the early postwar period when after war juices. It is that way to the canners remain unaffected by concentrate competition, so its storm will blow over easily. They may be right on Not Too Concerned “Our industry is not concerned over concentrate,” Adams Bruce, Tampa cannage a good product with wide variance, but canned juice is cheaper. It's not tied to cerator. "We would be much more concerned over a sudden big increase in the tomato acreage than juice volume." Bruce explained that we were not competing paints against other forms of citrus but for the housewife's enjoyment. "And don't forget that trade is doing the same thing added. "The average woman in a grocery has just a money to spend, and the other things besides citrus for her attention. The store is the greatest buyer today, and the best price for the lowest price will win long run." Still Major Factor Thirty-seven single canning concerns and assures have operated this season they will roughly divide a pack with fresh fruit and trate producers. They are major factor in the industry intend to remain so. Their researchers are continually on new productions of which they hope will be their competitive position concentrate. These are better secret at the moment, but kets may expect new fruit citrus juice from single plants probably as early as next season. In addition to the cannature there are other industries developments that tend to the enthusiasm for too rainy pansion of the Florida inc. Already, market research are beginning to figure thaof a bigger Texas grapefruit next season. Prelliminary evidence that it will rise from 17 million boxes. A large fornia crop also is in the area. Latin American Expansion The big development moved about, however, mostly hush tones, is a prospective sion of citrus in Latin America. The early success of connec Colony Quips Here is No. 6 of the articles by Florida's Bill Abbott. This one tells about the citrus juice canners, who are hit by the concentrate hardest, are ready to slug it out for the housewife's favor. Here is the story from the Florida angle, but we in California can more clearly evaluate our own industry with a knowledge of what is going on there: "Canners of single strength citrus juice who use a third of Florida's orange crop and much of its grapefruit are ready to stand up and slug it out with the industry's new White Hope, frozen concentrate. They are unperturbed by the sensational rise of the new wonder product, which already has made great dents in their sales and in the distribution of fresh fruit, after pushing all oranges up to record highs. Housewives Head for the Freezers One would imagine the canners would be scared to death competitively as housewives all over the country have passed their shelves and headed for the freezers with the sparkling smaller cans of concentrate. Recent market reports show that canned single strength juice sales are suffering from both the competition of concentrate and the high prices being made part- of a large packing and canning capacity the government suddenly went out of the market. There had been a rush for fruit with both fresh fruit packers and canners bidding it up. Growers took the money, but shuddered at what might come, hoping it wouldn't. But the collapse was inevitable. Huge Carryover "Markets found themselves with a huge carry-over of canned juice which had to be sold at less than production costs to move it. That brought down the entire citrus structure just as a season or two before it had helped to inflate prices." "Some canners and growers can see the same thing happening again. On the other hand, an equal number contradict the view, holding that concentrate will take any amount of fruit Florida can produce. This latter theory is pushing the boom in grove sales and stock sales in concentrate companies. "Meantime, most canners are hedging as cautiously as they can, packing only what they can sell at an acceptable price and stopping. They like a high market up to a point, but beyond that sales decline. Canners operate on a percentage basis, and the higher the price, the higher their percentage. But when juice gets above a certain retail price, housewives turn to other foods and juices. It is that way today. But the canners remain unafraid of concentrate competition, confident its storm will blow over eventually. They may be right or wrong. Not Too Concerned "Our industry is not too concerned over concentrate," said J. Adams Bruce, Tampa canner. "It's a good product wjth wide acceptance, but canned juice is good and cheaper. It's not tied to a refrigerator." "We would be much more eager to find just such a compact product for air freight. The matter of tariff on imported concentrate isn't clear at the moment, but those talking of its possibilities say this would be offset by lower production costs, particularly labor, and an absence of weather extremes such as freezes and high winds in most Pan American countries. Cuba, Jamalca, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Brazil are the most frequently mentioned countries for possible foreign competition. Mexican Competition Mexican oranges already give Florida a sharp race for sales in Canada, and the industry is currently upset by the arrival in New York of a ship-load of oranges from Palestine. The single ship-load is not significant, but the fact that the fruit was delivered from a foreign area in marketable condition is important. At present, a concentrate plant is in the final planning stages for construction in the Isle of Pines, presumably to concentrate pineapple juice which in itself would be competitive to the Florida product, but the plant also could be used for West Indian citrus juice. Puerto Rico Another Factor Puerto Rico's new tax free economy and industrial financial aid program is another topic of conversation. Puerto Rico has organized a huge industrial program under which it will build plants for the use of native products—including citrus—and provide operators with large tax exemptions to operate them. This has become an effective means of gradually industrializing the American insular territory for the sake of providing employment for its over-populated millions. Puerto Rico now is reported to be having preliminary talks with at least one Florida concentrate producer. Naturally, these developments, if they materialize, are for the years ahead. They are remote as compared with current day-by-day prices consumers are paying for citrus products. After all, they are the final answer to the well being of the industry. The housewife, in the end, decides what it will be. Father's Day Some people say they do not believe in Father's Day, because every day in the year should be a day for Father. I wonder how many people who believe this, actually give Dad a gift or a special greeting or do him some special service during the year. Married sons and daughters often do not get around to visiting Mom and Pop until Christmas or a wedding anniversary. The kids at home do not cosy up to him unless they need extra pocket money. Recently one father remarked: "Golly, Father's Day is coming. I wonder how much that will cost me?" There you have a situation — Mom charges Dad's present, which Dad pays for eventually, and the kids get a larger allowance that week to pay for his gift. 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