anaheim-gazette 1951-01-24

4 Anaheim Gazette WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1851 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA 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, 1869, 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: One 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.F. news dispatches. THEODORE B. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BELEM Assistant Publisher WILLAND GREGORY Editor ERNEST BEVER Assistant Editor MYLES BRADLEY Picture Editor NEIL STANLEY Advertising Manager G. E. MELLEN Assistant Advertising Manager MARY ROULAND Assistant Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager Big City, California... Although we have become quite accustomed to California's leadership in many fields we're always pleased when further honors are gained. The latest is the Golden State rise to the top in the number of cities with more than 25,000 population. California has 35. That is two more than Ohio, with Massachusetts having 30 and New York and New Jersey 28 each. While quite a few of these over-25,000 communities are adjacent to larger cities, many of them have grown up "on their own," so to speak, in areas well removed from metropolitan centers. The building up of sizable comfrom a number of factors. The creation of good highways and the development of instant communications have been important. Good banking and financial facilities, modern and progressive retail stores have also been vital. Full and effective use of the natural resources, especially the fertility of the soil, has been still another strong factor in community development. California's strong leadership in the number of cities with more than 25,000 residents is just another of the many achievements which must eventually fulfill the Golden State's destiny of becoming the most important popula- Wouldst add to the motorists woes... There is a proposal in the state legislature to boost automobile registration fees to obtain funds to be used other than for highway and highway improvements. It might be timely right now to give some thought to the proposal. We say "right now" because still fresh in your minds is the high payment you made for your 1951 automobile registration and license fees. One purpose of the measure introduced into the legislature is to raise funds for California schools. Now, school support is worthy indeed, but if the motor tax funds are used in this way they undoubtedly soon would be diverted to many other channels having nothing to do with their present uses. And, in the same vein, think what could happen to the all-mighty high tax on a gallon of gasoline if such taxes got into the realm of general use. As things stand, the state motor taxes, at least as far as the gas tax is concerned, cannot be used for anything other than highway improvement. And this is as it should be. It's hard enough to hold these taxes down even when applied only in this way. Imagine what taxes would be like if motorists were called upon to carry the load for many other things too. There would be virtually no limit to the burden imposed on them. Another dangerous phase of the proposal in question is that it also would give part of the money to the cities and counties with the latter being permitted to use it for general purposes. Let's hope the legislature doesn't start loading more taxes on the already overburdened motorist. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of the Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago We give it up. Uncle Henry's big toe is a better judge of the weather than our whole carcass. The rain still continues and he is liable to get his ten inches yet. Louis Wartenberg, the great discoverer, has made another find. This time it is a gravel bank, which he says is located so near town as to enable him to hail their spare time in stealing sugar cane from the Chinamen on Scott's place near town. A large portion of the railroad track near El Monte was submerged yesterday afternoon. Notwithstanding the rain, the disciples of Confucious commenced the celebration of their New Year yesterday afternoon with the Schumacher of this city, who solemnized at the residence bride's parents on Monday, groom is one of Anaheim's popular young men and the one of our most charming ladies. The best wishes of friends will go with their honeymoon will be spent Angeles. 25 Years Ago George Leiner, a known resident of this city, in town the first of the coming down from Los Angeles to meet his cousin, Miss Haak, of Sneboygan, Wis. 75 Years Ago We give it up. Uncle Henry's big toe is a better judge of the weather than our whole carcass. The rain still continues and he is liable to get his ten inches yet. Louis Wartenberg, the great discoverer, has made another find. This time it is a gravel bank, which he says is located so near town as to enable him to haul four or five loads a day. The gravel is quite coarse and Louis will no doubt have a deluge of orders from those who desire to improve their garden walks. The matrimonial knot was tied yesterday in Los Angeles between Mr. C. F. Smurr of the S.P. Railroad co., and Miss Arcadia Cavillo. The stage drivers report the roads between San Juan Capistrano and this place as being very heavy. The rainfall since Jan. 20, is three and one quarter inches. On Sunday night Newmark & Co.'s store, in Los Angeles was entered by burglars. They attempted to open the safe and had about succeeded in their undertaking when daylight interrupted them in their labors. There was about $1500 in coin in the safe. Mr. Charles A. Gardner, lately connected with the Napa Register and formerly a resident of Anaheim, has bought the St. Helena Star and promises to furnish the citizens of that place with a first class newspaper. We wish him success in his enterprise. More complaints have been entered against the young hoodlums. Lately they have been employing their spare time in stealing sugar cane from the Chinamen on Scott's place near town. A large portion of the railroad track near El Monte was submerged yesterday afternoon. Notwithstanding the rain, the disciples of Confucious commencement the celebration of their New Year yesterday afternoon with the firing of crackers and other ceremonies. 50 Years Ago Mrs. Wm. Falkenstein entertained on Thursday afternoon at a musical at her home on Broadway. The house was decorated in smylax and roses. At the close of the program the guests were served with delicious refreshments. The program which was as follows, was well rendered and much enjoyed. "Simple Confession," Edmond Cahen. "Cantata (Haydn), Mrs. Otto Storm." "The Holy City," Miss Melanie Cahen. "Valse in D Flat" (Chopin), Mrs. Wm. Falkenstein. "The Violet" (Albert Nildenberg), Mrs. Wm. Konig. "The Rosary," Miss Melanie Cahen. Those present were: Mrs. J. Harris, Miss Hilda Harris of Santa Ana, Mrs. J. Ascher, Mrs. Henry Kuchel, Mrs. H. Cahen, Mrs. J. Hartung, Mrs: Zeus, Mrs. Wm. Konig, Mrs. R. Melrose, Mrs. N. F. Steadman, Mrs. S. G. Wilson, Mrs. T. S. Grimshaw, Mrs. C. Heimann, Mrs. H. A. Johnston, Misses Melanie Cahen, Margaret Wilson, Zolla Smythe Backs, Certrude and Elsa Ascher. The marriage of John A. Eyman and Miss Louise M. Schumacher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. An advertisement in a Ana newspaper, offers to twenty acres of Florida land one acre in California. The whose name is W. A. Paxton he is willing to trade his share millionaire sunshine, balm mosphere, luxuriant plant greed etc., for the simple, well reared life of Southern California where there are no cyclones is tired of the hectic existence tropical Florida with its whirl of pleasures and rust fresh sensations. He is not tired over the dire prediction the skeptics who claim that boom bubble will burst wi crash, nor is he overly excited the assurance that this is in the beginning of our unprecedented era of prosperity. He prefers California with its climate and comfortable life. A big drive is on this week add to the Chamber of Commerce. Efforts will be made to up all citizens loyal to Anaheim and interested in its contigrowth. One hundred and people attended the banquet Elks club Monday and plans made for new members. WASHINGTON — One of the things bothering Congress about drafting 18-year-olds is the problem which Winston Churchill pounded home on President Roosevelt when he opposed a second front across the English Channel. "I do not," said the prime minister in typical Churchillian language, "propose to lose the seed of the British Empire." What we had in mind was the fact that in 1914, the cream of Britain's young men had been shipped across the English channel and mowed down in Flanders. Those first waves of troops that went to Belgium included the best-trained men in the nation. Today it is a recognized fact in both England and France that national leadership is more difficult because of those 1914-15 casualties. Men who were 18 and 19 during the battle of Flanders would be 54 and 55 today, and in their prime for leadership. But their ranks were seriously decimated. In the United States today the question of drafting 18-year-olds is serious for another reason. They are what are known as depression babies—born during the nadir of the depression in 1932. In those depression years babies were fewer. People couldn't afford them. And many Congressmen now feel we hefty Ohioan, who won back his Congressional seat in November. "They are registered up yonder." 27-Cent Dollar The housewives probably won't be surprised at this, though the figures look pretty bad on paper. However the inescapable fact is that the 1939 dollar is now worth only 27 cents, when it comes to buying such everyday items as butter, coffee, cocoa, sugar, silk and print cloth. This is shown in the price increases of 28 commodities, compiled daily by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In other words, what a dollar would buy in 1939 now costs approximately $3.65. This is a measure of how the dollar's purchasing power has dwindled for the following commodities: barley, burlap, butter, cocoa bean, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, cottonseed oil, flaxseed, hides, hogs, lard, lead, print cloth, rosin, rubber, shellac, silk, sweet scrap, steers, sugar, tallow, tin, wheat, wool tops and zinc. Acheson and Seward North Dakota's big homespun Congressman Usher L. Burdick, a Republican, compares the current attacks on Secretary of State Dean Acheson with the Civil war attacks on William Henry Seward, also secretary of state. "Let us turn over the musty pages of the War Between the States," says Burdick. "We got licked twice at Bull Itun and our Army beat it back across the Potomac in a panic. Lincoln and his secretary of state, Seward, found themselves in a sea of criticism." County Comment By GEORGE E. HART Already they are busy electing Congressmen to represent the new Congressional district that has been suggested, to include Orange county with northern San Diego county in a new regrouping. It might seem that the cart is so far out ahead of the horse in this case that the animal would have trouble trailing it. But, the canny politicians do look a long way ahead. They are quietly campaigning already, just as though it were a certain thing that the California legislature will realign the Congressional districts just that way. Actually there is no assurance that this section will get one of the several new Congressional districts to which California is entitled on the basis of the 1950 federal census. But there should be good prospect of it, if the growth of population within the state is taken into account, as it is supposed to be. Under the proposal, Orange county would withdraw from the present 22nd Congressional district, where it is grouped with Riverside and Imperial counties, and where it dominates the district because of superior voting strength. It would form the new district with northern San Diego county and would dominate the new district even more. There are some factors justifying the new alignment, one of them being a community of interest, increased by the fact that many Orange county residents are operating ranches in the San Luis Obispo county through the valley's length beyond the Pala mission. Development links the two closely. Plans here to sever north Diego county from the ree County, so Yar as Concord district lines are concerned template including the Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista and Escondido. Diego county section of the district would have about population, to go with county's 214,000, thus agree more than the 350,000 people supposed to justify a central district. Congressman John Pike the present 22nd district to have no objection to the ment of his district and county legislators are unto be favorable. One of the semblyman Earl Stanley port Beach probably is not favorable to the notion; he is being backed alreast strong group for the job gressman from the new county. There is an equally movement aboard to candidacy of Ross Shafenrancher and water authority has not in any way indicated he wants to be a candidate agricultural interests. want him. Stanley adhered said to be looking for support along the coastal both counties for their mills. It will be observed that political activity is on the lican side of the aisle. District wouldn't be very hunting ground for the D candidates, perhaps, best would be strongly dominating Orange county which resides 25 Years Ago George Lemner, a former well-known resident of this city, was town the first of the week, coming down from Los Angeles to meet his cousin, Miss Ida Maak, of Sneboygan, Wis., who here to spend the winter. George is located in Los Angeles and is getting along very well. An advertisement in a Santa Ana newspaper offers to trade twenty acres of Florida land for the acre in California. The owner whose name is W. A. Paxton, says he is willing to trade his share of millionaire sunshine, balmy atmosphere, luxuriant plant growth, for the simple, well regulated life of Southern California, where there are no cyclones. He tired of the hectic existence of tropical Florida with its mad girl of pleasures and rush for fish sensations. He is not worried over the dire predictions of skeptics who claim that our tom bubble will burst with a rush, nor is he overly excited by assurance that this is just beginning of our unprecedented era of prosperity. He simply offers California with its mild climate and comfortable way of living. A big drive is on this week to go to the Chamber of Commerce. Efforts will be made to line all citizens loyal to Anaheim interested in its continued growth. One hundred and fifty people attended the banquet at its club Monday and plans were made for new members. State Dean Acheson with the Civil war attacks on William Henry Seward, also secretary of state. "Let us turn over the musty pages of the War Between the States," says Burdick. "We got licked twice at Bull Run and our Army beat it back across the Potomac in a panic. Lincoln and his secretary of state, Seward, found themselves in a sea of criticism. Newspapers demanded the ouster of Seward and said Lincoln was not to be trusted. Lincoln stood firm, cool and collected. He kept his secretary of state and went about the job of winning the war." The Congressman, a writer of many historical books, cautions: "Remember what happened in this country before. Remember that cool heads lead the way to victory." REFUSES BARGAIN ON OWN GUN WOODBOURNE UP—En route to his home here at an early morning hour, Burton McGray, New York City reservoir project worker, was halted by a man standing in the highway who offered to sell him a shotgun, at a bargain price. McGray looked at the gun, thought it looked familiar, but said he wasn't interested and drove home. There he found a window had been forced open, his house ransacked and his favorite shotgun stolen. THEY PLAY AT NIGHT ST. LOUIS UP—For the second straight year the St. Louis Cardinals will open their home season with a night game. The Red Birds, under new manager Marty Marlon, will face the Chicago Cubs on Friday, April 20. = Colony Quips= By the Gazette Farm Editor IN OUR GREAT democracy we have laid the foundations of human freedom on the rock-ribbed foundations of free enterprise. We, as individual citizens, have carved out our own niche in the history of mahkind and have chosen the American Way, intending by our efforts to make that way work. That might sound like the start of a speech to be given after dinner some evening to a group of patriots, very full of a good dinner, and just a little drowsy. eW think it sounds fine. But it is not very realistic, when applied to the California orange industry and the way in which it is run, ran, operated or have you a better name? We have but are afraid to use it. Some years ago out of that fountain of wisdom, Washington, D.C., came what we refer to today as a "farm plan" which was conceived with the idea of getting Uncle Sam, that old philanthropist with another guy's money, to "take care" of the farmer. Getting his vote at the same time was purely incidental. NOW LET this writer interject right here a personal word. We have always been on the other side of the fence in this sort of a battle. We have always stood for free enterprise and have voted for candidates who, we thought, had the same convictions as our own. We, personally, have never asked for a "farm plan." The farmer of the great middlewest thought differently, however, and received governmental help to keep green and profitable. He took some dictation about how much corn, wheat or pigs he should raise. But he also got a support price. The California Orange grower got the governmental dictation but was behind the door when the support price was passed out he was passed up. Did it ever strike you as funny that the California orange grower had what was bad about the deal but was not entitled to the good? Could it be possible that we would not need quite as expensive a "sales" force if we had a support price? We are not trying to throw any curves on this and only bring it up as a thought to be discussed. A prorate is just as effective control as a corn quota and, yet, with the corn quota there goes a guaranty of a certain number of dollars per bushel. With the prorate the producer gets no guarantee. influx of Orange county people through the valley's length, to beyond the Pala mission. Such development links the two sections closely. Plans here to sever northern San Diego county from the rest of that county, so far as Congressional district lines are concerned, contemplate including the towns of Oceanside, Carlsbad, Fallbrook, Vista and Escondido. The San Diego county section of the new district would have about 150,000 population, to go with Orange county's 214,000, thus aggregating more than the 350,000 population supposed to justify a congressional district. Congressman John Phillips of the present 22nd district is said to have no objection to the realignment of his district and Orange county legislators are understood to be favorable. One of them, Assemblyman Earl Stanley of Newport Beach probably is more than favorable to the notion, because he is being backed already by a strong group for the job as Congressman from the new district. There is an equally definite movement aboard to promote candidacy of Ross Shafer, Tustin rancher and water authority, who has not in any way indicated that he wants to be a candidate. Some agricultural interests, however, want him. Stanley adherents are said to be looking for strong support along the coastal areas of both counties for their man. It will be observed that such political activity is on the Republican side of the aisle. The new district wouldn't be very good hunting ground for the Democrat candidates, perhaps, because it would be strongly dominated by Orange county, which registers a should raise. But he also got a support price. The California Orange grower got the governmental dictation but was behind the door when the support price was passed out he was passed up. Did it ever strike you as funny that the California orange grower had what was bad about the deal but was not entitled to the good? Could it be possible that we would not need quite as expensive a "sales" force if we had a support price? We are not trying to throw any curves on this and only bring it up as a thought to be discussed. A prorate is just as effective control as a corn quota and, yet, with the corn quota there goes a guaranty of a certain number of dollars per bushel. With the prorate the producer gets no guaranty of dollar return. One thing that is sure for the California orange grower, besides death and taxes, is that $3.50 a box cost to pick, pack and ship his fruit to an eastern auction. There the wholesale buyer and no one else determine how much the grower will receive. If the wholesale buyer will not pay over the $3.50 a box the grower will have to pay the difference. They call that "red ink" in the industry. When fruit is sold fob the buyer rolls the cars east—at his expense. THE PRORATE is supposed (we thenk) to hold shipments to such a level that the old law of demand and supply will operate so the grower will receive enough money to grow the stuff. But when the prorate is subjected to Mr. Wohlwend's "move the crop" philosophy of last spring then the grower had better hunt a cyclone cellar. We intimated that the forces which controlled Mr. Wohlwend and his "move the crop and avoid a run-away market" philosophy should be sent out to hunt the cellar for the grower and all we got was dirty looks from the "hired help" but from the growers a pat on the back. And it was worth it. Mr. Prizer hasn't said anything about us being controlled by the "interests" of late, has he? Or is he one of the "boys" who sold your "juice" fruit "cheaper" and still returned you more money. Guess we got him mixed up with "Honest John" who buys automobiles higher and sells them cheaper. Who said let the buyer beware? Let the "biter" beware. OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD By WALDO HUNTER NOT LONG AGO a lady back in the midwest wrote me asking for descriptive literature on Southern California and Orange county. Said she was tired of death of the sultry and soporific summers of Illinois, to say nothing of the bitterly cold winters when frigid blasts from Canada cause water meters to freeze right in the kitchen, when streets are coated with ice, when snow piles up and becomes dirty with soot from coal smoke, and all those other rigors of the so-called temperate zone. You don't know what cold weather is until you have stepped outdoors from a warm room into 10-below weather. When you inhale, the nostrils pinch together, and the lecy air pains your throat. There is actual danger of frost-bilten lungs! Lord, how we Southern Californians are blessed and don't know it! In that kind of cold, if you try to lick the frost off an iron pump handle, you will find yourself in the hapless predicament of having your tongue frozen tight to the iron. Many a farm boy has had this experience, to the horror of his mother who comes to the rescue with a pan of luke-warm water. There's one thing to say for this salubrious California climate. Agricultural interests, however, want him. Stanley adherents are said to be looking for strong support along the coastal areas of both counties for their man. It will be observed that such political activity is on the Republican side of the aisle. The new district wouldn't be very good hunting ground for the Democrat candidates, perhaps, because it would be strongly dominated by Orange county, which registers a Republican majority and votes even more Republican than it registers. Accordingly, the Democrats no doubt will not get heated up about the matter until they know the district will be formed. You don't know what cold weather is until you have stepped outdoors from a warm room into 10-below weather. When you inhale, the nostrils pinch together, and the levy air pains your throat. There is actual danger of frost-bliten lungs! Lord, how we Southern Californians are blessed and don't know it! In that kind of cold, if you try to lick the frost off an iron pump handle, you will find yourself in the hapless predicament of having your tongue frozen tight to the iron. Many a farm boy has had this experience, to the horror of his mother who comes to the rescue with a pan of luke-warm water. There's one thing to say for this salubrious California climate—you can lick all the pump handles you want with no fear of such a harrowing experience. But climate is not the only reason why this Illinois woman desires to move her family to California. She didn't say so in her letter, but I suspect that the latent spirit of the pioneer, ingrained in all Americans, is stirring within her, and she and her husband yearn for the adventure of yanking up the old tap-root and striking out for new horizons. This peculiar urge to leave established jobs, friends and relatives and head west over the trails originally blazed by their forebears lies dormant in nearly all Americans. All that is needed to galvanize it into action is a letter from someone out here, or a Chamber of Commerce pamphlet extolling the area. The reaction is a heady feeling of "to heck with this dump. Let's go to California." Of course, my frivolous statement to this lady in a recent letter to the effect that the county gives a free Cadillac to all settlers guaranteeing to stay in Orange county may have had some minor effect on her ultimate decision. After all, I must be a booster. At any rate, in answer to her request for information on the area, I went to the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and gathered up a nice pile of descriptive folders of Orange county and Southern California. When I got through, I had a stack of stuff about five inches high, telling about Palm Springs, Idyllwild, Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead, San Diego, L. A., and all the many resort areas, and more locally, illustrated literature on Santa Ana, Fullerton, Knott's Berry Farm, Placentia, Orange, Newport Harbor, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, San Juan Capistrano, and so on. This mass of folders covered Southern California and Orange county to a very great degree and would give an out-of-stater a fine over-all picture of the area. BUT, get this: In all the literature on hand at the C. of C., the ONLY THING AVAILABLE CONCERNING ANAHEIM WAS A STRICTLY COMMERCIAL "MARKET MAP AND GUIDE." packed with ads, telling absolutely nothing about Anaheim's schools, recreational areas, industries, parks, agricultural pursuits, churches, or other important facets of community life. I had to enclose a note with the material advising my friend that no folder about Anaheim was available.