anaheim-gazette 1950-08-01

Anaheim Gazette by JOHN S. NEUBAUER ROUND TOWN—Tony Padilla is building himself a house in ANAHEIM... Milton Arthur, the theatre man, is head of the Long Beach Recreation board. Harry Arthur, Sr., was always identified with ANAHEIM'S show business... The United States Marines ain't doing badly in ANAHEIM according to Danl Cupid's report at the county seat marriage license bureau. Paul Tighe, a 21-year-old Leatherneck, and Connie Jo Benson will be man-and-wife by the time this rolls off the press... Bill Jones, another gyrene, and Cova Killingsworth also were victims of Cupid's dart... Speaking of the Marines, Alvin Brown of the reserves will go on active duty today... Jim Medders, the Buena Park tonsorial artist, doesn't look like a top sarge. But he is. He went back into active service yesterday with a heavy weapons outfit... Ralph Speneer, the genial sign painter, took his first vacation in 11 years. Like all vacations, it didn't last long enough... From the standpoint of continued service, the Robins sign service is one of the oldest firms in ANAHEIM... C. A. Schmitt has a thankless job serving as secretary to the local draft board. It is a difficult undertaking and any man who is willing to serve in his country's gardenspot of Southern California are entitled to old age security... Subdivisions are really playing havoc with Valencia orange orchards around town... REMEMBER—Live so that you won't be affraid to die. Local Christian Businessmen Will Attend Bowl Rally Nearly every city and hamlet in the Southland will be represented by delegations in the Pasadena Rose Bowl when the Mid-Century Rose Bowl Rally, featuring Dr. Billy Graham and the New England evangelistic team, is held Thursday night, September 14. The sponsoring committee in its plans for filling the Rose Bowl for the largest one-night evangelistic meeting in American history, has fixed a quota of 150 persons from Anaheim. This will include, in addition to the community at large and many church people, special delegations from the Anaheim Christian Business Men's Committee, of which H. D. Hilgenfeld of 120 E. Broadway is chairman. Brookside Park, with accommodations for 6000 picnickers two blocks away from the famed Bowl, has been reserved in its entirety for out-of-town delegations coming from a distance, who will arrive in mid-afternoon and gather with church people from cities and villages up and down the Southland. In some cases, Sunday school buses will bring delegations. Some Christian col- top sarge. But he is. He went back into active service yesterday with a heavy weapons outfit... Ralph Speneer, the genial sign painter, took his first vacation in 11 years. Like all vacations, it didn't last long enough... From the standpoint of continued service, the Robins sign service is one of the oldest firms in ANAHEIM... C. A. Schmitt has a thankless job serving as secretary to the local draft board. It is a difficult undertaking and any man who is willing to serve in his country's hour of need is indeed a servant of humanity... Don O'Hanlon who came off second best in the recent primaries served on the war-time draft board along with Ralph Nicodemus of Brea... They could give out with pointers gained by experience... Herbert M. Warren of Yorba Linda and Ray Overacker of Huntington Beach are on the local board... PROFILES — R. W. Mungall, ANAHEIM planning commissioner, has a difficult task. In his capacity in building toward ANAHEIM's future, he has to take the city's best interest in consideration. Some of the decisions he and his associates must make will not meet with entire approval. That's for sure. But, whatever men like W. R. Mungall do is for the best interest of ANAHEIM, the bright spot of Orange county. MISCELLANY—George Jeffrys, the ANAHEIM telephone man, is about ready to buy himself a place. After 13 years of collecting rent receipts, he discovered they're worthless... Don Dickenson is an avid softballer. Like most niteballers, Don plays in several leagues, but like any ANAHEIMER he likes best playing under ANAHEIM lights... Don Derr, the recreation director, should start building up an ANAHEIM city softball league for ANAHEIM players... Burl Gist, John Vuksanovich, Don Cram, Noel Sweeney, and a host of others have to go to Fullerton, Santa Ana, Orange, Whittier, Long Beach and Bellflower to play the after dark game... Square dancing has made a hit. While the park tennis courts aren't exactly a hay loft, they'll do for the ho-down under the stars... George Holyoke, head of the municipal employees association, has been doing a fine job promoting the city employees retirement fund. ANAHEIM men who work to build and maintain Heads Entertainment—Joe Wallace, veteran of the show business, has been named entertainment supervisor for the Orange County Fair, which opens Aug. 16 and runs through Aug. 20 on the permanent Fairgrounds on the former site of the Santa Ana Army Air Base. Of about 18,000 divorce cases filed in Los Angeles last year, only 70 couples were reconciled, according to records submitted by Superior Judge Thomas Cunningham. Brookside Park, with accommodations for 6000 picnickers two blocks away from the famed Bowl, has been reserved in its entirety for out-of-town delegations coming from a distance, who will arrive in mid-afternoon and gather with church people from cities and villages up and down the Southland. In some cases, Sunday school buses will bring delegations. Some Christian college groups are planning alumni reunions in the park, among them being Wheaton College, of which Dr. Graham is an alumnus. Special traffic police will be on duty early, to insure efficient parking, and shortly when the rally gets underway at 7 p.m., the Brookside Park area will be used for overflow parking. With few exceptions, no reserved seating has been arranged for the rally unless delegations of at least 1000 have been assured. The 2560 clergymen of all denominations, serving churches from San Diego to San Luis Obispo, will be seated together. ANCIENT RELICS—Works crowded with prehistoric relicment that belonged to a stove forehead. 3000 Years of History Found Here is more than 3000 years of history laid out before eyes. Here are the tools, weapons foods, clothing, pottery—and even the bones—of primitive South California Indians who called this site of Orange county their home long before Christ was born. These are among the things be found in the amazing collection of Indian relics and lore located at the H. F. Strandt homestead 1025 S. Broadway in Anaheim. Here, housed in a specially constructed museum at the rear his home, Strandt, a graduate archeologist and anthropologist exhibits one of the largest private collections of American Indian artifacts of its type in existence comparable in size and content only to collections housed in nation's best museums. SPECIALS FOR SPECIALS FOR WEDNESDAY Better Than The Best HALL'S BAKERY 3/6 West Center ~ Anaheim LOOKING FOR NEW IDEAS? Try CHIC-A-DEE Chicken Pies Delicious, Nutritious Made of Chicken and Gravy only. No deposit tins...each 28¢ SPECIAL EVERY WEDNESDAY FRENCH DOUGHNUTS Thrill your guests—Your kiddies or the family with these light, tender fraky treats. Reg. 55c Doz. SPECIAL.....45¢ doz. AT OUR FOUNTAIN ... FRESH PEACH CREAM PIE with WHIPPED CREAM Try Our Dellelions Luncheons Served Daily Home Cooked—A FINE VARIETY Of about 18,000 divorce cases filed in Los Angeles last year, only 70 couples were reconciled, according to records submitted by Superior Judge Thomas Cunningham. Chronicling the colorful, surprising, and sometimes bloody history of mankind, the collection covers eastern, midwestern and Mexican Indian cultures—but most importance to Orange county—contains an abundance of relics that once belonged to Indians who lived in the hills and valleys of Orange county hundreds and even thousands of years ago. LITTLE KNOWN Visited only by occasional small groups of school children, handling of adults interested in Indian life, the small museum remains little known to the people of Anaheim. Yet among archeological hobbyists and specialists, the small museum represents an important storehouse of artifacts constantly visited and revisited. The majority of Strandt's Indian relics are housed in a single large, modernly-decorated building whose four walls are lined with neat showcases and frame displays. Here is found the "cream of the crop" of the collection. The overflow, as large or larger than the main collection itself, is located on trays and on the ground in front of the museums or in workshop to the rear. Nearly all of objects have come from Indian burial excavations; the larger share of them unearthed by Strandt himself in the Orange county area. UNIQUE ROCK GARDEN MODERN LORE—In contrast to more primitive artifacts, H. F. Strandt shows finer specimens of contemporary Indian art in his museum. Other items seen in this corner include "ollas," or crude pottery vessels, stone mortars, and in case directly to rear of Strandt, a group of Mayan idols, 4000 years old. (Gazette Photo by Hall) 100 Years of Orange County’s History Found at Local Museum The size of the collection is surprising. Strandt’s arrowheads run into “several thousand” and most of his early Indian grinding stones, numbering in the hundreds, he has simply stacked up outside where—together with a petrified shark vertebra, drilled and shaped rocks, and odds and ends of pottery, they form a decorative rock garden entryway to the door of the “Strandt Indian Museum.” In the small workshop, attached to rear of the main building, shelves bulge with additional “extras”—tools, implements and relics of uncountable variety. Here too Strandt has a shelf of Indian skulls—some as old as 3000 years and most “good” examples of death by disease or war-club fracture. Most of these heads he pointedly has kept out. “KILLED” VESSELS Other items include all sizes of “ollas,” or pottery vessels; the largest standing 24 inches high and extending six feet around. Storage vessels for food, most of the “ollas” have been patiently pieced together again by Strandt, since most were “killed” or smashed when their owners died. Some of these are more than 1000 years old. In showcases are found crude stone scrapers, awls, stone pipes, net sinkers, fish hooks, lethal-looking war clubs, axes, knives, authentic scalping tools, and even women’s jewelry, which includes ornate hairpins and intricately carved necklaces. Some drilled and decorated shell necklaces are so small they are almost microscopic. The first crude pieces of iron, taken from Missions, trappers, and prospectors and placed in Indian burial mounds, are here too; including iron spikes, adobe building tools, knives, needles, showels, 49er skillets, and rifles. and sometimes bloody histories best museums. In the small workshop, attached to rear of the main building, shelves bulge with additional "extras"—tools, implements and relics of uncountable variety. Here too Strandt has a shelf of Indian skulls—some as old as 3000 years and most "good" examples of death by disease or war-club fracture. Most of these heads pointedly has kept out of the main museum, however, for fear of offending visitors. SUB-HUMAN MAN? Perhaps most unique skull fragments in the collection are several skull tops which presumably must have belonged to the nearest thing to an "ape-man" ever to inhabit the coastal areas. Small brain cavities and flat-topped heads that directly extend rearward from eye-sockets, demonstrate the skulls to have belonged to an almost sub-human species. A quick trip through the main portion of Strandt's museum shows an assortment of equally interesting relics. Near the door first of all, is found three cases of arrowheads and spearheads which vividly illustrate the three distinct cultural groups of Indians who have inhabited the Orange county area. Crudest of them, dating three to four thousand years ago, belong to the Scraper or Oak Grove peoples—prehistoric Indians who trod the earth before even the Egyptians had built their pyramids. The second group, largest and deadliest of the arrowheads, belong to the succeeding culture—the early Shosoheans, savage hunters and warriors. The third and latest group belongs to the Canallino and later Shosoheans of the type in Southern California when the Spanish explorers arrived 350 years ago. looking war clubs, axes, knives, authentic scalping tools, and even women's jewelry, which includes ornate hairpins and intricately carved necklaces. Some drilled and decorated shell necklaces are so small they are almost microscopic. The first crude pieces of iron, taken from Missions, trappers, and prospectors and placed in Indian burial mounds, are here too; including iron spikes, adobe building tools, knives, needles, showels, '49er skilletts, and rifles. Long strands of wampum, strung shells used for barter, and intricately woven burial clothes are also displayed. GRISLEY ITEMS Many of the Indian items were collected from Santa Rosa islands; the more grisley items including a child's skelton encased in a large abalone shell and several large, unopened funeral urns. In another showcase a human backbone, embedded with countless arrowheads, tells a grim story. One corner of the museum contains relics from Aztec and Mayan civilizations, most advanced prehistoric cultures in the western world—among them several idols probably qualifying as the oldest items in the entire collection, dated at about 4000 years old. In contrast with the relics of the dead, Strandt also has decorated the museum's walls with superior examples of modern Indian basketmaking, and jewelry craftsmanship. Among these items is an authentic and workable bow and group of clever, detachable arrowheads. Most such items in the collection come not from tourist trade stocks, but from remote contemporary Indian area: Many come from a remote island off the Mexican coast where inhabitants continued to dwell in stone-age savagery up to less than a dozen years ago. (To be Continued Tomorrow) U.S. COMBAT ENGINEERS FIRE ON SNIPERS—Helmeted U.S. combat engineers and a heavy machine gun fire on snipers in hills near Yongdong as an ammunition convoy not shown) heads for U.S. troops on the Korean front. Citrus Market LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1—(AP)—The Federal State Market News service reported today lemons steady, prices unchanged; grapefruit steady; oranges slightly wkr pckd fcy, stdy loose. Grapefruit—Per bx, local loose 80s 3.00-25; 100s 2.00-25; 126s 1.00-25, others unchanged. Oranges—Per bx, Valencias local pckd fcy 126s 5.00; 150s 4.75-5.00; 176s 4.25-50; 200s-283s 3.25-50, others unchanged. The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were higher. Representative prices by size: Sunkist (first grade)—126s 4.96; 150s 5.18; 176s 5.36; 200s 5.15; AUSSIES ORGANIZING TROOPS WASHINGTON (AP) — Australian and possibly New Zealand ground troops will be sent to Korea as quickly as it is possible to organize them, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia announced today. FINED $300 FOR DEATHS SANTA MONICA (AP)—For the traffic deaths of a former Hermosa Beach mayor and his wife, Leonard Wesley Graves, Oxnard, was fined $300 and given a suspended six months jail sentence in Superior Court here yesterday. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1—(P)—The Federal State Market News service reported today lemons steady, prices unchanged; grapefruit steady; oranges slightly wkr pckd fcy, stdy loose. Grapefruit—Per bx, local loose 80s 3.00-25; 100s 2.00-25; 126s 1.00-25, others unchanged. Oranges—Per bx, Valencias local pckd fcy 126s 5.00; 150s 4.75-5.00; 176s 4.25-50; 200s-283s 3.25-50, others unchanged. The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were higher. Representative prices by size: Sunkist (first grade)—126s 4.96; 150s 5.18; 176s 5.36; 200s 5.15; 220s 4.85; 252s 4.68; 288s 4.81. Choice (second grade)—126s 4.17; 150s 4.24; 176s 4.42; 200s 4.30; 220s 4.22; 252s 4.22; 288s 4.64. NEW YORK, Aug. 1—(P)—(FSMN)—New York orange auction—California Valencias: 100s 4.25-7.00; 126s 4.45-7.90; 150s 4.25-7.90; 176s 4.25-7.45; 200s 4.25-7.60; 220s 4.25-7.45; 252s 4.25-7.45; 288s 4.25-5.70. FINED $300 FOR DEATHS SANTA MONICA (A)—For the traffic deaths of a former Hermosa Beach mayor and his wife, Leonard Wesley Graves, Oxnard, was fined $300 and given a suspended six months jail sentence in Superior Court here yesterday. Graves, a music store owner, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor manslaughter in the deaths of George V. Learned, 72, and his wife, Janette, 65, killed May 8 near Malibu when their automobile and Graves' car collided. 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