anaheim-gazette 1951-02-09

Fire Paralyzes Michigan Govt. LANSING (UP)—A stubborn fire, flaring in old records in Michigan's huge state office building, today burned into its 25th hour, still defying control. Damage to the eight story structure, housing key state offices, already was estimated at $4 million, with an upward revision possible. Part of state government was temporarily paralyzed. Firemen from five cities joined in fighting the treacherous blaze, which broke out shortly after noon yesterday, on the "M" floor, six and a half stories up. The firefighters, working through the night in sub-zero cold, fought the blaze at close quarters inside. A total of 12 firemen and one police officer were overcome by smoke or injured by falling debris. By noon, more than 25 million gallons of water had been poured into the structure. Five crews worked from scaling ladders. Two other crews attempted to find the heart of the blaze inside. Six inches of ice covered the street outside. Water, turning to ice, cascaded down the main stairway and crept along pipes and wiring. Current records of key state offices were endangered. Governor G. Mennen Williams held an emergency conference of state department chiefs to get government back in operation. THE BOYS FROM MIAMI GAINSVILLE, Fl. (UP)—The Florida Citrus Garden is closed until further notice. ALOHA BAKER Film of Mexico At AUHS Forum Aloha Baker, world famous woman adventure seeker—will present on Feb. 12, a color motion picture entitled "Magic of Mexico," to a forum audience in the Anaheim Union High School auditorium. Starting at 7:30 the glittering and dramatic history of Old Mexico will be flashed across the screen in vivid color. Century old colorful cities and the modern metropolis of Mexico city are featured in the film. Chapultepec of incomparable beauty, Mazatlan by the sea and the two lovely lakes of Patzcuaro and Chapala are a few more of the beautiful places shown. Mrs. Baker, known as the optimists hail their travels she has met m the world's most interesting rites and personalities. She explored Australia and isla the Pacific. She was the woman to explore South America and the Amazon by airplane. Mrs. Baker and her h Walter Baker, after wei world as few others have had opportunity, have finally clit of terra firma for them. THE BOYS FROM MIAMI GAINSVILLE, Fla., U.P. — The Florida Gators could field a basketball team of Miami boys and still have a substitute. Six on the squad call Miami their home town. SALE or NO SALE! You CAN'T BEAT Our PRICES! and YOU CAN'T BEAT OUR TERMS! Shop Anaheim Appliance First Biggest Trade-In Allowance for Your Old Range! Trade-In Allowance for Your Old Range! See our selection O'Keefe and Merrill Gaffers and Sattler Chambers and Di Gas Ranges Pay As Little As $1.65 A Week! Big DeLuxe Ranges Nationally advertised "DIXIE" Gas Range with many Deluxe Features. 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The annual election of officers will be held. Fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing of his whatever evils beset, or dangers whatever evils beset or dangers lie in the way—John Locke. Her travels she has met many of the world's most interesting celebrities and personalities. She has explored Australia and islands of the Pacific. She was the first woman to explore South America and the Amazon by airplane. Mrs. Baker and her husband, Walter Baker, after veiling the world as few others have had the opportunity, have finally chosen a fit of terra firma for themselves. Anheim Gazetteer by JOHN S. NEUBAUER Blessed are they whose inequities are forgiven—Rom. 4:7. TOPIX—Robert Larson of the Sanitary Laundry Larsons is heading the South Orange county Red Cross fund-raising campaign. A good man will do a good job... Herman Jungekelt, the door rattler, does an exceptional job because he believes an ounce of prevention is worth a lot of investigation... Herman Allgeyer and Willard McLaughlin are in complete agreement with authorities who predict better crops. Maybe there'll be a little left over for the grower this year... Sheriff James Musick sent out a number of registered letters to Anaheimers this week. They're summons for jury duty... Incidentally, John Mayfield, the prominent Northern Orange county building contractor, is acting as foreman of the 23-member federal grand jury now considering dapper Mickey Cohen's income tax returns... High business rentals forced Carl Born to move to Anaheim where landlords have a heart. PROFILES — Thomas Taylor, the capable Anaheim police lieutenant is a meticulous and methodical individual who leaves no stone unturned. He is an investigator. Church of Christ To Show Movie The crisis of "Christianity or Communism" in Japan will be told this Sunday evening, 7:30 o'clock, at the Church of Christ, Broadway and Helena, with the showing of the new sound-color motion picture "Japan Welcomes the Word." The 30-minute documentary film was photographed during the recent visit to Japan of Alfred A. Kunz, executive director of the Pocket Testament League. The league is conducting a test to distribute millions of New Testaments and Gospels twice seen in the film, the campaign and unleague to "make it ten more Japan comes to life screen with its scenic beauty the colorful customs of life Scenes of communist parade demonstrations. Shintoism the great Kamakura Christian mass meeting dramatically portray Japanese cultural struggle. Mrs. Baker and her husband, Walter Baker, after veiwing the world as few others have had the opportunity, have finally chosen a bit of terra firma for themselves in Lido Isle at Balboa, California, where they will reside and edit their film for lectures and television, between new and always reckoning adventures ahead. PROFILES — Thomas Taylor, the capable Anaheim police lieutenant is a meticulous and methodical individual who leaves no stone unturned. He is an investigator's investigator—a man who is respected by his fellow workers for his painstaking, tireless search for clues that ultimately convict criminals. SHORTOPIX — Vernon Lee wrecked his car when he drove into the side of a freight train t'other night. The Anaheimer was fortunate in his misfortune as he wasn't hurt. Those pea-soup fogs are tough to drive through... Knott's Berry Place rates high as a tourist attraction. Art Sandberg, the retired umpire says so. So it must be so. Frank Schewitzer, Jr., who beside being a gear with a Brea manufacturer is also an Oil City city councilman, will tell you that Brea is the most industrial minded city in the county next to Anaheim. NOSTALGIA — There used to be a little island in the middle of the Five Points intersection. Remember? It was quite a traffic hazard as David P. Maynard, former Anaheim newspaperman, will tell you. He was there when a car knocked it off its foundation. Danna Newkirk who used to live at Five Points remembers how an E. K. Wood Lumber co., truck landed on his dad's—the late Dr. H. D. Newkirk's—front lawn and dumped its cargo there. The driver failed to negotiate the turn. "It was about as bad as driving around that flag pole they had planted in the Center-Los Angeles streets intersection about that time." ... Seems as if old timers made their traffic hazards even more hazardous than those of today. ASKING—"By what authority do you say that old timers were hard drinking men?" a client postcards... On the authority of The Dearborn is SAFE, too—because the Sal-T-Cabinet stays cool all the time on top, sides, back and bottom, no matter how long the Dearborn has been on. You can put your hands on it... drapes won't scorch... books and plants are safe on top of it—because the Dearborn cabinet DOESN'T GET HOT! Trade-In Allowance for Your Old Range! See our selection of O'Keefe and Merritt, Gaffers and Sattler, Chambers and Dixie Gas Ranges ek! 139 KNOW ANCE NAHEIM 5416 around that flag pole they had planted in the Center-Los Angeles streets intersection about that time." ... Seems as if old timers made their traffic hazards even more hazardous than those of today. ASKING—"By what authority do you say that old timers were hard drinking men?" a client postcards... On the authority of Dr. Dexter Ball who in 1928 wrote a terse medical history of Orange county. He said: "It was the boast of one of Anaheim's most prominent pioneer doctors that he had 'drunk whiskey enough in his day to fill full the irrigation ditches of the colony.' His friends said he never went to bed sober." ... Anyone who remembers those irrigation ditches knows that it would take a lot of bonded stuff for that... Speaking of early Orange county history, Anaheim lost its most promising young historian when Bay Holt moved to Pomona to become head librarian. He knew California and liked to write about it... Incidentally, Otte Des Granges, an old timer in these parts, is writing his memories—a document which will add considerably to the fund of historical data of Anaheim, Fullerton and the Placentia area. NITECAP — A lot of second guessers would do better by trying instead of crying. Intellectually, as well as politically, the direction of all true progress is toward greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.—Bovee. OPS Slaps Controls on Livestock In Try to Avert Meat Black Market WASHINGTON (P)—The government slapped strict controls on livestock slaughtering today in an effort to forestall black markets in meat. The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) issued an order bringing all livestock slaughter under a system of "slaughter quotas." OPS Director Michael V. DiSalle said: "We are determined to keep meat out of the black market and to see that steaks, pork chops and roasts continue to be available in all sections of the country at a fair price. We believe this slaughtering control order is a step in that direction." The order will have the effect of limiting slaughterers to the same proportionate share of animals they killed in 1950. New slaughterers are banned from starting operations, unless they can show they are badly needed by the public. 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