anaheim-gazette 1951-02-27

Anaheim Gazette TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951 ANAHEIM, GALIFORNIA Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 258 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2208. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1889, 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: 50¢ 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 MAX BESLER BENEST BEYER LEONARD KREIDT MYLES BRADLEY NEIL STANLEY G. E. MELLEN MARY ROULAND RALPH ROULAND LUCY HUBBARD The high cost of eating... The high cost of living is taking a breather. For the first time in months it has halted its advance. And the prices of some foods, chiefly meat, have slipped back. It's probably no more than a breather while getting its second wind, but take what joy from it you can while it lasts. The chief credit is being given to the housewife. It seems she took a look at the law of supply and demand. She was told there was an abundant supply of food, in almost all categories. So the trouble must be in the demand—her demand for the most expensive cuts of meat, for instance. "Consumers resisted buying the higher-priced cuts of meat enough to drop dollar volume in retail stores somewhat," says the Amerociated Press. The meat industry has been telling the consumer for a long time that it was the unusual demand for only the best cuts that kept them so expensive. At the moment the housewife appears to be taking the industry up on its tip. Wholesale meat dealers in several cities report their lockers are filled and retail food dealers not buying because the consumer isn't. The Food Institute isn't much perturbed, however. It notes that Americans are "the eatingest consumers in the world" and continue "to eat to their appetites so generously, except sporadic flare-ups of resentment at sky high prices for fancier meat cuts, that live retail merchants are daunted by promotions." WASHINGTON — Dispairs circles are now convinced long-anticipated big tour ministers meeting will not be held this April but will be in Washington. The meeting between Secretary of State Acheson, French minister Schuman, British minister Bevin and Soviet minister Vishinsky is generally looked upon by the diplomatic corps as the world's last opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement between the East and West. In the delicate touch - an atmosphere of high level macy, Washington analysts detected what they interpreted "secret" signals from Moscow dictating that the Kremlin is going to talk out, rather than out the differences between morality and communism. The most important clue contained in dispatches to papers from Moscow — dispair that have to get by tough M censors. These stories have reed that the Kremlin was "deemed" to recieve "encouraging sponses" to its recent diplo notes. Washington experts rene that these stories would be by politburo censors unless Kremlin intended to convey message to the U.S. through them. Note 1—The U.S. wants meeting held in Washington world prestige and domestic public reasons. Helping Small Business Threatening tail for five to the housewife. It seems she took a look at the law of supply and demand. She was told there was an abundant supply of food, in almost all categories. So the trouble must be in the demand—her demand for the most expensive cuts of meat, for instance. "Consumers resisted buying the higher-priced cuts of meat enough to drop dollar volume in retail stores somewhat," says the American Institute of Food distribution. "Beef cattle, hogs and lambs weakened as buying interest backed up. There were small declines by dressed beef, pork and lamb." The Associated Press wholesale commodity index reflects the drop in livestock prices. It took a sharp drop last week, the first since September. The government's wholesale price index of all commodities was halted on its upward climb for the first time in 18 weeks. Price controls apparently have had little to do with it. The consumer, faced by the frozen prices in the retail butcher shop, turned to the cheaper cuts of meat, or stocked up on eggs and filled and retail food dealers not buying because the consumer isn't. The Food institute isn't much perturbed, however. It notes that Americans are "the eatingest consumers in the world" and continue "to cater to their appetites so generously, except sporadic flare-ups of resentment at sky high prices for fancier meat cuts, that live retail merchants are daunted by prosperity gold." The institute also notes another working of the law of supply and demand. The housowife, turning away from the choicer meat cuts, bought so many eggs that she sent their prices up. However, over the long range the prospect is still for higher prices. The price of non-food goods in the stores is also about ready for another step higher. Merchants will soon be allowed to take their customary mark-ups on goods they bought from suppliers at higher prices. An average advance of five per cent is expected in the prices of non-food items as a result. Meantime enjoy the breather in inflation. You may need it for the next whirl. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of the Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago The dust which annoys everyone so much now is but a foretaste of what it will be in the summer months. It and the street-staking of stock and the bad condition of the sidewalks and sometimes a drunken man ripping around with impunity—all these go to show the necessity for incorporation. A runaway saddle horse passed at a tearing pace up Centre street last night. Petition for letters of administration of the estate of Barbara Boege, and order directing the posting of notices were filed in the best of meats, sausages, hams, bacon and lard of their own rendering. The boys are experienced butchers and their popularity ought to insure them a lucrative patronage. Emil Dreyfus, son of the late Ben Dreyfus, arrived in town from San Francisco on Monday for the purpose of considering various offers for property owned by the Dreyfus estate in this city. Mr. Dreyfus is one of San Francisco's rising young business men and is recognized as one of the shrewdest young men in the wholesale district. He returned to his home on the afternoon train, taking with him several offers for his property here. These sponses" to its recent diplomatic notes. Washington experts note that these stories would be by politburo censors unless Kremlin intended to convey message to the U.S. through them. Note 1—The U.S. wants meeting held in Washington world prestige and domestic public reasons. Helping Small Business Threatening jail for five centers mobilization boss Chie Wilson promised Congress watchdogs the other day that would establish a Small Business Office to circumvent influenza peddlers and help small firms government contracts. He made the offer behind doors of the joint Congress committee on defense produce at the suggestion of chain Burnet Maybank of South Carolina. "I hate to see five or ten centers around," snorted bank. "You should do something so that a man can come to Winston to find out what is withoutut paying some for $2000 or $3000." "If I find that, the two them will go to jail," warned bank. He agreed to organize a Small Business Office "that will be complete to give all help and information that we know how to give aid small business." This was a relief to Seneca Capehart, Indiana Republic who complained that "small-business men are worrying every businessman and Senator to deal with telephone calls and letter asking how do we get business." "Senator, I have thousands letters," sympathized the mayor boss. "The first week I down here, I had 26,000 letters think the problem is very pressing." Here are other important lights of Wilson's closed-door vision with the Congressional watchdogs: 1. Wilson warned against expansion of industry. "We got to strike a balance on our program for increased facility particularly in such things as steel and aluminum," he declared "because if we just go willy-nilly and permit expansion." A runaway saddle horse passed at a tearing pace up Centre street last night. Petition for letters of administration of the estate of Barbara Boege, and order directing the posting of notices were filed in the probate court at Los Angeles on the 21st. The object of the mass meeting to be held tonight at Enterprise Hall is to adopt some feasible plan for raising means to erect new school buildings. The present buildings are inadequate to accommodate our school population and are certainly no credit to our town, viewed from an aesthetic standpoint. A handsome school house, surrounded by tastefully laid out school grounds, would contribute more to enhance the value of property and facilitate the growth of our town than any other public enterprise we can inaugurate. We hope there will be a general turnout of our people. 50 Years Ago Capt Williams and wife who have spent the winter here, departed on Monday for Los Angeles, where they will remain some weeks before their departure for their home in Pittsburg. John Kellenberger and Everett Davis, two of the popular young men of Bunena Park, have opened a meat market in that thriving burg, and announce they will keep Ben Dreyfus, arrived in town from San Francisco on Monday for the purpose of considering various offers for property owned by the Dreyfus estate in this city. Mr. Dreyfus is one of San Francisco's rising young business men and is recognized as one of the shrewdest young men in the wholesale district. He returned to his home on the afternoon train, taking with him several offers for his property here. These will be submitted to the family and an early answer forwarded. Jake Everhardy, son of Uncle Jake Everhardy, paid his parents a visit some days ago. He is an engineer on the Southern Pacific in Arizona and came home for a short lay-off. 25 Years Ago Mrs. Olive Lopez, city treasurer of Santa Ana and Mrs. J. E. Pleasants, wife of Judge Pleasants, county bee inspector were callers at this office a day or two ago in search of data for a paper which is being prepared by Mrs. Lopez on early-day newspapers in Orange county which will be read by her at a meeting of the Orange County Historical society in the near future. They looked over files of the Gazette running back to 1870. Mrs. Lopez is the daughter of the late Alonzo Waite, who published Los Angeles News, which is supposed to be the first English paper ever published in that city. Mr. Waite later came to Santa Ana, where he was engaged in the newspaper business and his daughter became a member of his staff. Mrs. Pleasants is the wife of Judge Pleasants of Silver-ado, who has lived in Oran County since 1861. Judge Pleasants held the position of Judit at the Santa Ana racetrack in the palmys days of Silkwood, Klamath Wood, Our Dick and other notable horses. Silkwood made the hard mile post repeatedly in one minute flat, and was one of the few horses in the country that ever accomplished that feat. Klamath was also a great horse, and some of the best records in the west were made on the track. Witness Judge Pleasants in the judge stand were Don Marcus Forster, Cash Harvey, R. J. Blee and others among them a bunch of the old newspaper men. (Among the latter was the editor of the Gazette, Henry Kuchel). WASHINGTON — Diplomatic circles are now convinced the long-distance big four foreign ministers meeting will not only hold this April but will be held Washington. The meeting between Secretary of State Acheson, French foreign minister Schuman, British foreign minister Bevin and Soviet foreign minister Vishinsky is generally looked upon by the diplomatic corps as the world's last opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement between the East and West. In the delicate touch - and - go atmosphere of high level diplomacy, Washington analysts have detected what they interpret as "secret" signals from Moscow indicating that the Kremlin is willing to talk out, rather than shoot at the differences between democracy and communism. The most important clues are contained in dispatches to U. S. peers from Moscow — dispatches that have to get by tough Moscow advisors. These stories have reported that the Kremlin was "delighted to recieve "encouraging re-uses" to its recent diplomatic ties. Washington experts reason that these stories would be killed politiburo censors unless the Kremlin intended to convey a message to the U. S. through them. Note 1—The U. S. wants the meeting held in Washington for world prestige and domestic politi-reasons. Helping Small Business TUG-OF-WAR Lawmakers Have Problem of Telling Communists from Other People How, do you tell communists from other people? And then what do you do about them? That's another of the puzzles California lawmakers will be working on in Sacramento this spring. They'll have loyalty oaths to argue about again, too. And several miscellaneous proposals aimed at making life harder for California's subservies. The questions of how to smoke out communists and what to do about them are answered, their authors hope, by several bills requiring registration of communists, forbidding them to have certain weapons of violence and banning them from public jobs. Other bills, such as AB2366-Shaw and SB438 Regan, would establish state commissions with tongue-twisting names to compile a "who's who" of totalitarianism in California. Sen. Jack Tenney (R-Los Angeles) has the same thought (SB98) but he deals strictly with communists instead of followers of other totalitarian philosophies, such as nazis and fascists, as well. Shaw would call his commission the "anti-totalitarian civil liberties defense commission." Regan's has the same name except that "anti-communist" is substituted for "anti-totalitarian." Tenney's would likewise be "anti-communist" but the word "liberties" would be dropped from the title. Shaw and Regan propose 12-member commissions—four each representing education, labor and industrial management—at sala court appeal from decisions of the commission. Failure to register would carry maximum penalties of five years in prison and/or a $5000 fine in the Shaw and Regan bills. Violation of the Tenney measure would be declared a misdemeanor, but each day of failure to register would be a separate offense. Other proposals, such as SB1727-Burns, would require that all communist party members and others consistently participating in party activities register with local sheriffs. SB1167-Burns and AB1573-Beck have the same requirement except that registering would be done with the attorney general. The measure would forbid those who registered to possess guns or other weapons or any explosive substance stronger than ordinary black powder. Registrants also would be barred from civil defense and all other public jobs in the state. A state commission is proposed (SB437-Regan) to study the need for legislation strengthening internal security in California, including the question of registering communists. The commission also would study the need for civil rights legislation. It would make its recommendations to the legislature in March, 1953, and go out of existence at that time. School and college teachers who advocate or teach overthrow of the government by force would be fired (SB319 and 473, Tenney and AB2616, Chapel). Bills-to both widen the scope of national standards (SB1665 also are proposed. Here are some other billing with the subversive proSB97-Tenney—allows coinvestigate the loyalty and matters concerning persons' legal permission to change names. SB55-Tenney — permit ployers to fire or to refuse workers who are communiaffiliated with subversivtivities. Wilson warned against over-vision of industry. "We have to strike a balance on the aim for increased facilities, regularly in such things as and aluminum," he declared, use if we just go willy-nilly permit expansion beyond a point, we will handicap lives in the production process for military items." Advocates Trailers Wilson advocated trailers in of temporary housing to workers in defense areas. "If hate to see the taxpayers' wasted in building short-houses, because it would be complete waste," he warned. Wilson was not worried the copper shortage. "I do who has lived in Orange since 1861. Judge Pleasants in the Judges were Don Marcus Forster, Harvey, R. J. Blee and among them a bunch of newspaper men. (Among latter was the editor of the Henry Kuchel). not think the copper shortage is quite as serious as it has been made out to be. But we could use more copper," he said. "In my judgement, you can get more copper if you will take the two-cent duty off copper that comes from Chile and other places." 4. Wilson agreed to organize a committee on science and development to develop new production methods, such as manufacturing aluminum from clay. "In the next three years—and this is the fundamental philosophy in my office — we must really make America mighty from a military standpoint and at the same time keep a sound economy in the country;" declared the defense mobilizer. Then he added firmly: "I believe it can be done." The commissions proposed under all three bills would be charged with determining which organizations are totalitarian or communists and deciding which members of such organizations should register. Each bill contains provisions for the commission also would study the need for civil rights legislation. It would make its recommendations to the legislature in March, 1953, and go out of existence at that time. School and college teachers who advocate or teach overthrow of the government by force would be fired (SB319 and 473, Tenney and AB2616, Chapel). Bills to both widen the scope of the controversial loyalty oath and eliminate it altogether are before the legislature. Assemblymen Edward D. Elliott (D-Los Angeles) and George D. Collins, Jr., (D-San Francisco) would repeal the oath altogether (AB1950). Collins goes a step further (AB2610). He proposes that public employees take the regular oath set forth in the constitution and that "no other oath, declaration, or political test shall be required." The constitutional oath calls only for the support of the state and national constitutions. Senator Tenney and a group of 68 Assemblymen would fix that, though. They propose the constitutional oath be amended (SCA1 and ACA9) to contain statements making those who take it—all public employees—swear they do not advocate overthrow of the government. The constitutional oath would then be much like the loyalty oath. Under another Tenney measure (SB321), candidates for public offices would have to declare they are not communists. Loyalty oaths for lawyers (SB1666-Burns) and all other persons holding licensee permits issued by the department of professional and voca- -Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor THE GENERAL Ceiling Price regulation has not been explained to California citrus growers very satisfactorily by the "big brass" who take the attitude that this sort of thing is none of the growers business. They seem to believe that when money is mentioned it should only be mentioned by them among themselves and that the growers, who make their jobs possible, should take what they get and be satisfied. We reprint below an article sent to all Florida growers by Florida Mutual which will explain how the thing works. The Florida grower is far ahead of the California grower in being informed about the citrus business. Here is the article: CEILING PRICE REGULATION The General Ceiling Price regulation issued by the Economic Stabilization agency went into effect January 26. So far, we have been unable to obtain any official clarification or interpretation of the sections pertaining to citrus, but because of many questions we know are being asked, we are giving you the interpretations we and others in the industry have placed on the principal provisions of the regulation as they apply to citrus. As a grower of citrus fruit, members of Mutual are not affected by the regulation. Prices paid to growers for raw fruit are not covered by the order in any way. You can sell your fruit for whatever price you can get without fear of violating the regulation. Citrus fruit marketed in fresh form is completely exempt, for the present, from the provisions of the order. There are no ceiling prices at any level. Neither are there any limitations on the mark-ups or margins at the packing house or other distribution or retail levels. The government could, under certain conditions, put in such ceilings starting at the packing house level, but even then the grower still would be exempt under the Defense Production Act. The situation would be much the same as during the last war, when the grower's price never was controlled although the price at which the packing house operator could sell his packaged product was limited, along with the mark-ups permitted at other distribution levels. At the moment, however, Florida citrus fruit marketed in fresh Citrus fruit marketed in fresh form is completely exempt, for the present, from the provisions of the order. There are no ceiling prices at any level. Neither are there any limitations on the mark-ups or margins at the packing house or other distribution or retail levels. The government could, under certain conditions, put in such ceilings starting at the packing house level, but even then the grower still would be exempt under the Defense Production Act. The situation would be much the same as during the last war, when the grower's price never was controlled although the price at which the packing house operator could sell his packaged product was limited, along with the mark-ups permitted at other distribution levels. At the moment, however, Florida citrus fruit marketed in fresh form has no price controls on it of any kind. So far as fresh fruit is concerned, the situation is the same as though no order at all had been issued. The regulation DOES apply to canners and concentrators, however. A processor, either a canner or a concentrator, cannot sell his finished product at a price higher than his highest price between December 19, 1950 and January 25, 1951, the base period. He may increase his selling price only if he pays more for his fruit. Even then, however, he cannot raise the price of his product more than enough to reflect in dollars and cents the exact amount of the increased cost to him of the raw fruit. The processors are allowed to make these adjustments because the price of citrus does not reflect parity to the growers. On the basis of the latest index, our calculations indicate that the parity price for Florida oranges is $3.53 per box on the tree, for grapefruit $2.23 per box on the tree, and for tangerines $3.60 per box on the tree. The Florida Citrus commission has distributed a bulletin to all citrus dealers in the state, containing these interpretations, and mutual is giving this information as wide dissemination as possible among Florida growers. Mutual is keeping in close touch with this situation, cooperating with the Citrus commission and other agencies. Changes undoubtedly will be made in the regulations as they apply to citrus, and you will be kept fully advised of any such changes which may affect your operations. Sargum Sprout Sez TIMES HAVE CHANGED Times have changed considerably in the last 50 years especially in government procedure. The boys in high places in the old days believed in speaking their minds and acting accordingly. Now days the boys in high places play alaround the mulberry bush. To day it is statesmanship that comes to the fore. Old Teddy and his Big Stick would surely be out of place now. There was a guy in the air service that spoke his piece right out loud not so many weeks ago. The big boys had a heck of a time covering up his uncuthed remarks. All that he said was that he could send the reds back to China in no time and he told how and why. We haven't heard of him since. Even MacArthur talked too freely once or twice. This is the land of free speech but you should use diplomacy whatever that is. England is the home of statesmanship and look where her government is to day. It took a week for her Prime Minister and our President to talk over a situation that was well known to both of them. TRUE ENOUGH A WHISKEY BOTTLE...MUST BE A LETTER FROM MY HUSBAND! BOTTLE POST: AGE-OLD MAIL DELIVERY OF THE SEVEN SEAS, STILL POPULAR... ONE LETTER...POLLED TRANS-ANIO AN GRADE ED OF TILES WALL RECORD... COLUMBUS POSTED IN AMBOIN CITY A LETTER DESCRIBING A HURRICANE AND THE FEARS OF US MARINERS. SLICE OF HAM BASE CENSORS OFFICE ETO CHIEF CENSOR "I THINK THE LIEUTENANT NEEDS A CHANGE IN DUTY!"