anaheim-gazette 1950-12-19

Some red! That ol' "McCarthy communist" Drew Pearson sounds off daily in the Gazette. It is one of most popular features in Anaheim. If you haven't been initiated, start today. "Merry-go-Round, Page 4. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAH Allied Guns Blast Disaster Relief Plans Spring Murdoch Tells Legionmen of City Setup Anaheim's long-called-for disaster relief setup got a big push into the transition from dream to reality last night. City Administrator Keith Murdoch briefed members of the Anaheim American Legion post on what the city has done in the way of setting up a disaster corps in Anaheim and what is yet to come. City Setup Anaheim's long-called-for disaster relief setup got a big push into the transition from dream to reality last night. City Administrator Keith Murdoch briefed members of the Anaheim American Legion post on what the city has done in the way of setting up a disaster corps in Anaheim and what is yet to come. He was enthusiastically received by Legionmen who since the start of Korean hostilities and before, have been on the backs of city fathers for action. Legionmen last night deplored early inaction, Advisory Council Meets Tomorrow Anaheim's disaster relief advisory council meets tomorrow night in the City Council chambers to discuss corps organization, City Administrator Keith Murdoch told members of the Anaheim American Legion post last night. Upwards of 20 corps division heads will be in attendance to begin in earnest the creation of disaster relief divisions and to get started detailed planning activities for the city's disaster relief operations. Legionnaires hailed Murdoch's announcement as a big step toward the establishment of an effective, sound, well-trained corps which will be on immediate call whenever disaster of any type may strike. Listened avidly to Murdoch's description of what has been done, and voiced active support of the big organizational task yet to come. This is the administrative setup for the disaster corps as outlined by Murdoch last night. The executive board of the Anaheim Disaster Relief Corps is the City Council. Nominal commander of the corps is Mayor Charles Pearson. Vice commander of the corps is Judge L. P. Bonnat. Advisory Council There is an advisory council of 19 members or more consisting of delegates from various local organizations and service groups. MEETING OF MINDS—Legionmen, anxious to see disaster relief with City Administrator Keith Murdoch last night at a meeting told them of city plans thus far; Legionnaires voiced approval and hours discussion group above includes, left to right: Tom Hoag, Murdoch, Fire Chief Ed Stringer, and Ted Masterson. Be Prepared This is it. Creation of a permanent, effective Disaster Relief Corps for the City of Anaheim is underway. Last night Anaheim Legionnaires met with City Administrator Keith Murdoch to discuss disaster relief organization plans. It marked the first real get-together of the people calling out loudly for a Disaster Relief Corps, the Legion, on the one hand, and the people in a position to do something official about it, the City Council, on the other hand. Legionmen have been voicing their demands for a serious effort in the direction of a Disaster Relief Corps for some time. They started early this summer. Recently they patched a letter to councilmen demanding to know what had been done. The indicated answer: not much. Last night, the answer was more satisfactory. City Administrator Murdoch outlined the executive fabric of Anaheim's Disaster Corps. It is the resurrection of the Disaster Corps dormant since World War II ended. It is the starter the foundation for the new Disaster Corps to come. Executive officers and the various division heads have been named (See accompanying story.) What remains is the recruitment and training of volunteers to fill out the ranks of the corps. Anaheim now has facilities to handle "limited emergencies, a little greater than current police and fire requirements." It needs facilities to handle ANY emergency, flood, fire storm, war or whatever. Legionnaires last night demanded to know what they could do to aid in the creation of a Disaster Relief Corps. Murdoch told them they could aid in the recruitment volunteer themselves, assist in the detailed planning—when preparations for such activities have been made. by Murdoch last night. The executive board of the Anaheim Disaster Relief Corps is the City Council. Nominal commander of the corps is Mayor Charles Pearson. Vice commander of the corps is Judge L. P. Bonnat. Advisory Council There is an advisory council of 19 members or more consisting of delegates from various local organizations and service groups such as the medical association, the American Legion, Boy Scouts, etc. There are nine divisions calculated to plan for and take care of all phases of activity necessary to the alleviation of disaster whenever and however it occurs. The divisions, their leaders and (Continued on Page 5) Legion Initiates Six New Members Main topic on the Legion agenda last night was discussion of disaster relief measures. However, Legionmen also found time to initiate six new members into the ranks of the Anaheim post. The six were Wes Osborne, Bill Murphy, Jim Curry, Howard Harvey, Tom Hoag and Jack Hoag. Members of the honorary 40 and 8 did the initiating, headed by Lucky Baldwin. Others included Dick Haster, Carl Proctor, Roy Killion and C. M. Featherlee. Other business finished, the Legionmen exchanged Christmas presents, the offerings being selected on a basis of humor and appropriateness to the recipient. SANTA BARBARA PREPARES SANTA BARBARA (AP)—Sixty more volunteers were summoned today to complete Santa Barbara's aircraft warning service. The organization will be ready for instant service when the posts are filled, said M. H. Cain, head of the service. Car-Train Crash Hurts Mothers, Children Two young mothers and four st. crossing near Cypress yesterday small girls were injured when a car driven by Mrs. Monica Godinez, 21, 8872 Moody st., Cypress, was struck by a Pacific Electric one-car freight train at the Moody day afternoon. Receiving major injuries were Mrs. Godinez, who suffered a fracture of the right leg, her daughter Mary, 3, who was seriously cut on the forehead and ear, and Mrs. Virginia Gomez, 18, of the same Moody st. address and an expectant mother, who received severe shock. Connie Godinez, one, and Lupita Godinez, four months, and Shirley Gomez, one, received minor injuries. All of the injured were taken to Anaheim Community hospital (Continued on page 5) ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1950 Blast Reds With T s Spring to Life Relief Planners Talk UN Troops Stage Slow Beach Retreat TOKYO (AP)—Allied naval, air and ground forces slammed tons of steel today at Chinese and Korean reds pressing down on the slim Hungnam beachhead in north-east Korea. The Allies slowly were giving ground with their backs to the sea. A delayed field dispatch said the U.S. Air Force abandoned Yonpo airfield, Hungnam's major airport, Sunday. The dispatch had been withheld for security reasons. Army engineers destroyed supplies and disabled air- to see disaster relief plans underway, met and talked last night at a meeting at the local Legion hall. Murdochaires voiced approval and called for increased action. After left to right: Tom Hoag, Harold Harvey, Ralph Osborne, Ed Masterson. Gazette photo by Gregory Seven Per Cent Citrus Drop Seen WASHINGTON (AP)—California navel and miscellaneous orange production for the 1950-51 season is expected to be seven per cent less than last season, in the face of a national crop increase. The Agriculture Department's first forecast of the season yesterday placed California valencias at 25,900,000 boxes, two per cent less than last season. Navel and miscellaneous oranges are forecast at 14,500,000 boxes. Desert valleys grapefruit is forecast at 1,100,000 boxes, slightly above last season, and summer grapefruit is estimated at 1,400,-000, slightly below. California lemons are forecast at 12,500,000 boxes, seven per cent above last season. For the nation as a whole, an orange crop of 106,500,000 boxes is forecast, three per cent above a year ago. The total grapefruit crop was estimated at 48,500,000 boxes, Early and midseason orange production is set at 51,600,000 boxes, slightly more than last season, and valencias at 54,900,000 boxes, a five per cent increase. Planners Deny Variance Request Anaheim planning commissioners yesterday denied the variance request of Dr. Charles E. Schutz for permission to add to his 226 N. Clementine st. dental office. Dr. Schutz operates his office in the residential area on a variance obtained in 1937. Planning commissioners, in addition, approved two subdivision maps yesterday. One was the final map for the Morris tract on E. Santa Ana st. The other was the tentative map submitted by Dr. Truxaw for 19 lots beginning at the intersection of La Verne and Citron sts. Paul Demaree, 1024 W. Sycamore, appeared before commissioners to protest the variance under which the Mother Colony memorial is sanctioned on its N. West st. location. The museum is classed as multiple-family building. The area is currently zoned for single-family residences. Demaree fold planning commissioners that he felt the museum devalued his near-by residential property. CHRISTMAS CRUSH—Business is really booming at the heim post office. The Christmas cascade has the inside swamped and the outside men with their backs bending. It is a sample of the letter table these days. Ashford Marshall up John Terck. (Additional photos page 8.) CALIFORNIA STATE Weather S. Calif.—Scattered night cloudiness and mostly sunny Wednesday. Local night and early morning fog. OCTER 19, 1950 5c a Copy — 50c Per Month No. 187 th Tons of Steel HUNGNAM DEFENDERS BLAST ENEMY — Yank artillerymen fire their 105mm howitzer from a position within the defense arc around Hungnam on the northeastern Korea front Sunday. Warships from seven countries today were adding their firepower as United Nations defenders held off persisting red attacks on the receding Allied shoreline strip.—(Associated Press Wirephoto.) Atlantic Nations Name Eisenhower, Agree on Germany BRUSSELS (AP) — The 12 Atlantic Alliance nations announced today Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will begin early in 1951 to organize an international army to keep the peace in Europe. A communique issued at the end of a two-day conference said the Atlantic Pact chiefs also agreed on plans for German participation "an integrated force under a centralized command." The 12 nations earlier had approved the appointment of Gen. Eisenhower as the supreme commander for the international force. The terse communique said German participation would strengthen the defense of Europe. The bulletin emphasized that allans agreed upon by the Allies be destined for purely defensive purposes. The council of 12 foreign miners asked the United States, Britain and France, as the occupy- Truman Backs Acheson; Lashes GOP Opposition WASHINGTON (AP) — President Truman today labeled Republican charges against Secretary of State Acheson as "false" and reiterated firmly that Acheson will stay in the cabinet. He challenged the Acheson opposition to come forward if it has any alternative foreign policy to offer. In a vigorous defense of Acheson, Mr. Truman read a long statement to his news conference describing the secretary as "alive to communism's threat to freedom" and adding: “If communism were to prevail in the world—as it shall not prevail—Dean Acheson would be one of the first, if not the first, to be shot by the enemies of liberty and Christianity.” “I refuse to dismiss Secretary of State Acheson,” he said. In response to questions, the president also: 1. Denied there is a wave of isolationism in the country, and said all the people are behind the government in the present crisis. Don't let anyone fool you about that, he advised. 2. Said the price rollback in the automobile industry will be enforced as ordered by the economic stabilization director, despite General Motors' protests that it is discriminatory. 3. Stated he would order additional U.S. Armed Forces to join the Western European defense set-up under the newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said he talked to Eisenhower on the telephone last night. Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 72 degrees. High temperature for the past 24 hours was 77 at 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Low was 46 at 7 a.m. today. Group Takes Preliminary Steps for Western Handicapped Children Home Group Takes Preliminary Steps for Western Handicapped Children Home Primary steps were taken last night toward establishment on the West Coast of a Lutheran home for mentally handicapped and epileptic children. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yarde, 9002 Loara Rd., were hosts to a group of interested persons. Present to assist the group in laying plans was Miss Martha Theilmann, until recently matron of Bethesda home in Watertown, Wis. Miss Theilmann is visiting in California before assuming new duties at the Child Welfare Assn. adoption agency in Indianapolis, Ind. Indications were that the home would be organized like Bethesda, where 350 patients are cared for and taught according to learning capacity, with complete medical and educational facilities. Aim of the group is to establish a home that would serve children of the western area closer to home and alleviate crowded conditions at Bethesda. Planning to meet regularly after the holidays, the group appointed Mr. and Mrs. Yorde to act as temporary chairmen. Rev. Edwin H. Pflug, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, was delegated to seek the support of Lutheran pastors of Southern California district when they hold a conference in Orange Jan. 9. Meanwhile the committee decided to make a study of state law requirements and methods of meeting the financial problem. Attending the meeting besides the Yordes, Miss Theilmann and Rev. Pflug were Mrs. Eric Winger and Mrs. Henry Bamesberger of Anaheim; Mmes. Christina Alpers Anna Grieser, Marie Mueller, Laura Webbeking, Stade, Leo C. Bunke, all of Orange. Anyone interested in the project may contact Mr. and Mrs. Yorde for information."