anaheim-gazette 1950-11-22

Thanks... The entire Gazette staff wants to wish each and every one of you a most bountiful Thanksgiving. No paper tomorrow, but we'll be back with you Friday. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM Sacramento River Santa Brings Christmas Season to Anaheim Friday By JOAN S. WHITE Santa Claus is coming to town! Those magic words give a thrill of anticipation to youngsters from six to 60 for the sight of St. Nick with well-rounded red suit and snowy white beard brings visions of a glittering Christmas tree, shiny new toys and the joy of giving that the Christmas season brings. The merry old gentleman himself will ride into town in Santa Claus is coming to town! Those magic words give a thrill of anticipation to youngsters from six to 60 for the sight of St. Nick with well-rounded red suit and snowy white beard brings visions of a glittering Christmas tree, shiny new toys and the joy of giving that the Christmas season brings. The merry old gentleman himself will ride into town in his sleigh on Friday evening. November 24 at 7 o'clock to the tuneful accompaniment of the Elks Club band. He will enter the city on E. Center and continue west through town. His arrival amid a blaze of light and the strains of Yuletide music will mark the official opening of the Christmas season in Anaheim. As part of this colorful holiday ceremony which is under the auspices of the Retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, the city's Christmas decorations will be lighted. The red and silver garlands, interspersed with bells and wreaths, will stretch across the avenues to add a warm glow to the scene. Anaheim stores will be beautifully decorated both inside and out in keeping with the arrival of the Christmas season and will remain open from 7 until 9 o'clock on Friday evening for shopping. Through foresighted and skillful buying, local merchants will be able to display the largest selection of Christmas merchandise in the history of Anaheim. The world of toys is particularly alluring this year. Adults, shopping for toys for "good little girls and good little boys," may buy things for themselves if they don't watch out for the wide variety offers a strong temptation. In the mechanical line, for instance, there are many "scale" reproductions. The Betty Rose shop at its new location on E. Center has a big collection of fire engines, motor cars, trains and (Continued on Page 7) Mountaineers Start Trek Toward Site of Missionary Plane Crash MORAN, Wyo. (P)—Four skilled mountaineers started at daybreak climbing cloud-shrouded Mount Moran in search of a missionary plane that disappeared near the peak last night with 21 persons aboard. Forest Ranger Blake van de Water and three ski-shod Alpinists started trudging through snow toward a spot where watchers last night saw a huge fire. Heavy clouds cloaked the scene this morning. Winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour whipped the area but there was no snow fall. The temperature is around freezing. Only faint hope was held by Forest Service officials that there were any survivors if the plane crashed and burned on the mountain. The four mountaineers carried radio and light signaling equipment but it was expected to US Takes Time To Evaluate Many Blessings By The Associated Press As a year of strife and anxiety draws to a close, the American people take time out tomorrow to count their blessings and to return thanks. Chamber Asks Continuance of Local Air Run Contending that there is a need for the "continuation of this service and the need for local passenger service," the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce today petitioned the Civil Aeronautics board to act as intervenor in the application to continue helicopter mail service to Anaheim. Anaheim is currently served by Los Angeles Airways Inc., and the Chamber of Commerce also asked that local passenger service between Anaheim and the Los Angeles International airport also be included in the renewal. The airway had been operating on a temporary three-year permit which expired on Sept. 30, 1950. Permission to continue service is Heavy clouds cloaked the scene this morning. Winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour whipped the area but there was no snow fall. The temperature is around freezing. Only faint hope was held by Forest Service officials that there were any survivors if the plane crashed and burned on the mountain. The four mountaineers carried radio and light signaling equipment but it was expected to take them six to eight hours to reach the scene of last night's fire. A resort owner said he saw a burning fuselage in the flames far above timberline on the precipitous east face of the mountain. Marine Flyers Found Dead A rescue crew today reached the burned wreckage of a two-engine Marine training plane that crashed 4500 feet up Santiago Peak in the Santa Ana mountains last Saturday, killing its four occupants. The plane became lost in fog while on an instrument training flight from Tucson, Ariz., to its El Toro Marine Base, near Santa Ana. Capt. Flavio Madriaga of Riverside, a Civil Air Patrol flier, sighted the wreckage yesterday. The rescue crew was headed by Capt. Paul Cooke of St. Louis, a friend of one of the victims, student pilot Lt. Willard Grubbs, 30, also of St. Louis. Others killed were M/Sgt. William Follmer, 27, Newport Beach, T/Sgt. Keith Ferguson, 27, Orange, and Sgt. Milton Johansson, 21, Galveston, Tex. US Takes Time To Evaluate Many Blessings By The Associated Press As a year of strife and anxiety draws to a close, the American people take time out tomorrow to count their blessings and to return thanks. It won't be a holiday for fighting men in Korea, and there will be vacant chairs at many Thanksgiving tables. And yet for millions of families it will be a day of reunion and quiet comfort — begun in many cases with an offering of gratitude at a special service in the family church. The weather will give a foretaste of Christmas in many areas. Resident 33 Years Passes Away Chris E. Lopez, 39, died yesterday after a lingering illness. He was born in San Bernardino and had made his home in Anaheim for the past 33 years at 120 So. Zeyn st. Surviving him are his wife Carrie Y. of Anaheim; four sons, Chris; Alfred; Henry and James; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jose E. Lopez of Anaheim; three brothers, Leonard of Orosi, California; Eulojio of Anaheim; and Edward of Anaheim; and two sisters, Celeya of Mexico and Mrs. Delores Paul of Oregon, Illinois. Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars will be directing funeral arrangements which will be announced later. LOS ANGELES (AP)—Tears and heartbreak were eased by a judge's words and a tender ending provided to an old story: an unwed mother who wanted her baby back. Principals in yesterday's Superior Court drama were the mother, Barbara Jean Mark, 19, of Anaheim; the child, four-month-old Linda Sue, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Smith, North Hollywood, who were given the baby shortly after its birth and planned to adopt it. Although Miss Mark gave the ANAHEIM GAZETTE EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950 river Threatens New Northstaters Washed Out by Floods VILLE, Calif.—RURAL AREAS FLOODED—Olivehurst, an unincorporated area adjacent to Marysville, with flood waters after the Yuba river, gorged with water from nine days of rain and melting snow, surges in banks. An estimated 40 square miles were inundated and 10,000 persons made homeless.—(Associated Precinct to.) Anaheim Churches Combine to Give Community-Wide Thanks Tomorrow Ten church choirs, soloists, Anaheim ministers, city administrator Keith Murdoch, members of the high school cadet corps, all combine tomorrow to present Anaheim's annual Community Thanksgiving service. The place is the high school auditorium. The time is 9:30-10:30 a.m. Speaker for the day is Rev. Robert Kevorkian of the Calvary Baptist church. His topic will be "Only One Came Back." The choirs of 10 churches will combine to provide two Thanksgiving anthems, "The Heavens Are Telling" and "Praise Ye the Lord." Gania Demaree, director of music at AUHS and at White Temple Methodist church, will conduct the group. Virginia Sims Burk will be at the console of the organ. Soloists will be Bill Fackiner, bass; Ray Link, tenor; Santa Claus Comes To Town on Friday Santa Claus is coming town. For a month yet. Friday, he makes his great appearance in Anaheim, properly greet Mr. Klein Anaheimers will turnout watch a gay Christmas parade. The time is 7 p.m. The parade starts on E. Carter st., at Olive. Route west to Clementine, south Chestnut, east to Los Angeles the finish line at Chartres. Honored individual for parade will of course be Nick himself. Music for the casion will be provided by combined Elks and High School bands. For Santa Claus, the visit be the first of many between Friday and Christmas. He co-back again on Saturday to give one and all from his decor house trailer in the 100 b TWO MORE NABBED IN TRUMAN GUN TRY NEW YORK (A)—The president and former president of the Puerto Rican nationalist party in New York were arrested today on a charge of conspiracy to assassinate the president of the U.S. U.S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol, who announced the arrests, identified the men as Julio Pinto Gandia and Juan Bernardo Lebron. Other Ending Provided in Case Young Unwed Anaheim Mother GELLES (P)—Tears and sadness were eased by a child, four-month-old and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mark, were in court in her behalf. "She's been a good daughter," said her father: "She made that one mistake. I don't think she should be condemned, especially by her parents." "She's paid and paid and paid for her mistake," said Mrs. Mark. The parents promised to assist scheduled to finish at 10:30 in order to make way for individual Thanksgiving celebrations in the homes. Tomorrow's program: organ prelude, "Thanksgiving," the call to worship, the invocation, the Thanksgiving Proclamation, the anthem, responsive reading, prayer of Thanksgiving, the Lord's Prayer, a hymn of praise, presentation of the offering, the of-continued on Page 4) Gazette Football Field Day Friday Full of Turkey day vim and vigor, Anaheim youngsters from junior high school age down work off some of the feast Friday when they participate in the Football Field Day at the City Park. The athletic affair commences at 10 a.m. Football Field Day is sponsored by the Anaheim Gazette, and conducted by the Anaheim Recreation Department. Field Day participants will demonstrate their skill in four separate events. There will be place kicking for accuracy and punting for distance; passing for accuracy and distance; running with the ball for time; and passing teams. Top men in the three divisions, junior high, 12 and under and 10 and under, will receive tickets to the Ram-Packer pro grid game on December 3. In addition to the football goings-on, there will be special events for girls. Included are a jump-rope tournament, a hopscotch tournament and volleyball games. There will be special awards for girls. WEATHER So. Calif.—Clear sky through Thursday except local fog along south coast tonight. Windy north coast today with strong northeast winds through mountain passes. Warmer west of coast range today. NEW Flood Breaks Army Engineers Warn Residents to Guard Dikes; River Flow Hits Peak By The Associated Press Two north central California areas today faced new threats from avalanches of muddy, debris-filled flood waters that had begun a general recession elsewhere in California and Nevada. The floods have caused at least nine deaths and more than $20,000,000 damage in three days. Guard Dikes; River Flow Hits Peak By The Associated Press Two north central California areas today faced new threats from avalanches of muddy, debris-filled flood waters that had begun a general recession elsewhere in California and Nevada. The floods have caused at least nine deaths and more than $20,000,000 damage in three days. Fight Eases As UN Troops Move North SEOUL (AP) — United Nations ground troops advanced generally against light red resistance and B-29 bombers blasted communist battle staging points in northeast Korea Wednesday. The U.S. Seventh Division, on the Manchurian border at Hyesanjin, sent patrols west and south of the Yalu river city. Light skirmishes were reported with small groups of reds on both patrol fronts—the first opposition for the Seventh Division since it reached the international frontier. The 22nd Regiment of the South Korean Third Division occupied Hapsu, a rail and road center about 37 miles southeast of Hyesanjin. The Third’s 23rd Regiment ran into a red battalion seven miles southwest of the town. A U.S. Tenth Corps spokesman said the red unit was being squeezed between the two South Korean elements. The South Korean Capital Division sent spearheads advancing between four and five miles to a point about eight miles southwest of Chongjin, last big east coast port between the Allied troops and the Siberian-Korean border. Waves of superforts rained Continued on Page 5 FRIDAY STORE HOURS Anaheim stores will close at the regular 5:30 p.m. hour on Friday, then reopen at 7 for the Santa Claus parade, Chamber of Commerce retail division Christmas chairman Joe Hurst announced today. Army Engineers warned residents along the Sacramento river between Sacramento and its mouth to watch for possible levee breaks as the crest of the combined Sacramento and American rivers surges downstream. The engineers termed the situation critical and ordered out 150 men to patrol levees near Sacramento. Crews worked on levees weakened by nine days of rain. The Sacramento river flow reached 100,000 second feet greatest volume since 1907. A second foot is a flow of one cubic foot per second. The second danger area was near Modesto, where runoff waters from the Don Pedro dam are expected to invade lowlands and residential areas today. The dam filled yesterday and 26,000 cubic feet of water a second are still flowing into it. General relief seemed to be at hand, however. The U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco reported "the ex-Continuum on Page 5" Weather Sails To 88 in City Southland weather did flip-flops during the past 24 hours. The high in downtown Anaheim for the period was 64 degrees at 3 p.m. Today at 2 p.m., the Gazette thermometer stood at a scorching 88. Low for the past 24 hours was 55 at 6 a.m., today. The agriculture station on Harbor blvd., reported 87 shortly before 2 p.m., today. Humidity was 43. In Santa Ana, the weatherman registered 91 at 2 p.m., humidity 32. Predictions he added are difficult. He did say that his barometer has taken a decided drop from 30.15 at noon yesterday to 29.8 this afternoon. The sun hit 92 at Long Beach. FRIDAY STORE HOURS Anaheim stores will close at the regular 5:30 p.m. hour on Friday, then reopen at 7 for the Santa Claus parade, Chamber of Commerce retail division Christmas chairman Joe Hurst announced today. The street decoration lights go on at 7 also, he said. And the parade starts at the same time. COMPLETED—Anaheim youngsters currently are practicing their pigskin prowess for perusal this Friday at the Gazette-sponsored Football Field day. The most adept will get tickets to the Ram-Packer game in Los Angeles Dec. 3. Above, Kenneth Parker completes a spot pass to Tom Stagner. Center is Harold Cantz. Chest Drive Hits 52 Per Cent The Community Chest drive has reached 52 per cent of its goal for 1950. The goal is $22,500. That was the boildown following a meeting of team majors last night. Chairman Ray Reafsnyder indicated some pleasure with the results thus far in the current campaign, added that he is hopeful of going over the top by the end of the month. Reafsnyder urged team majors to get their collections in as soon as possible. Also, he commended rural area collectors for their good showing to date.