anaheim-gazette 1951-03-15

On Time Gazette pictures and news are published while at peak of their interest and value. Note on this page TODAY exclusive train wreck pictures taken in Detroit TODAY. Anaheim deserves this top news-picture coverage. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM AUHS Marksmen To Compete in Statewide Shoot Anaheim Union High school marksmen of the California Cadet Corps will compete with riflemen from 16 other schools this week-end in the state finals for the Governor Earl Warren, Lt. Robert A. Clausen and Dion O'Sullivan rifle matches, which are to be held in the 184th Regiment armory in Sacramento. Local contestants will be accompanied by Commandant William Hicks and will be housed and fed in the Sacramento armory. At 10 a.m., March 16; competition will open for the Clausen trophy. The O'Sullivan match will commence at 7:30 p.m., that day and the Governor Warren Trophy shoot will be held the next morning at 8 o'clock. Don Barrett of AUHS, who won the Warren Trophy last year, will not be competing. Rifleman shooting the highest individual score in any of the At 10 a.m., March 16, competition will open for the Clausen trophy. The O'Sullivan match will commence at 7:30 p.m., that day and the Governor Warren Trophy shoot will be held the next morning at 8 o'clock. Don Barnett of AUHS, who won the Warren Trophy last year, will not be competing. Rifleman shooting the highest individual score in any of the three matches will receive the Major Maurice Veronda Trophy. Trophies will be presented to the winning teams and individuals by Maj. Gen. C. D. O'Sullivan. 1951 Grand Jury For Co. Sworn In Close on the heels of the 1950 Orange county grand jury's dismissal, the new 1951 grand jury was sworn in today by Superior Judge Robert Gardner, who appointed Sam Meyer, former Newport Beach newspaper publisher, as foreman. The county grand jury itself then elected Mrs. Leslie Kimmel, wife of a Laguna Beach attorney, as secretary. Foreman Meyer announced the grand jury will meet March 26 at 10 a.m., in the jury room of Superior Court department One to organize its committees for the various tasks of investigation with which it is charged. The grand jury will have before it the report and recommendations of the outgoing grand jury, as filed last week. State Gives 42 Gs To Harvey School Allocation of $42,000 by the state to the Carl Harvey school for handicapped children in Santa Ana, which serves all of Orange county, was announced today by Santa Ana School Superintendent Lynn Crawford. Crawford had received notice by telephone from Speaker of the Assembly Sam L. Collins of Fullerton. The state allocation will apply toward the expense of an expansion program to enlarge the LOST WIFE AND CHILD IN TRAIN WRECK—R. S. Allen, of Easlansing, Mich., is saddened by the tragedy of losing his wife Grace, 25, and one-year-old baby in New York Central passenger train wreck (near Detroit), this morning. They were among three persons who died in the derailment.—(Associated Press Wire photo) Crash Kills Pair in Auto Two persons, a brother and a sister, were dead today following temperatures Downtown reading at 2:15... Low today, 4:05 a.m.... High yesterday, 2:45 p.m.... (A record for March 14) Allocation of $42,000 by the state to the Carl Harvey school for handicapped children in Santa Ana, which serves all of Orange county, was announced today by Santa Ana School Superintendent Lynn Crawford. Crawford had received notice by telephone from Speaker of the Assembly Sam L. Collins of Fullerton. The state allocation will apply toward the expense of and expansion program to enlarge the school, which will cost an estimated $180,000. Santa Ana city has allocated $65,000 and another $25,000 has been allocated from county funds. The state had been asked to appropriate $90,000 but could spare only the $42,000 from its depleted funds for such schools. Legion to Aid Friday Services Beginning tomorrow, members of the American Legion post in Anaheim will visit all the merchants and other places of business in the city with a request for their consent to place a placard on display in their stores. The card will list the services to be held at four places of worship in the city: The Union Services at the Church of Christ; the Lutheran Service at Grace Lutheran church; the Roman Catholic Service at St. Boniface church and the Episcopal Service at St. Michael's. The Legion said that it recognizes the splendid spirit of cooperation and civic interest with which the churches of Anaheim are approaching this great religious day and desires to assist this effort in every way possible. Crash Kills Pair in Auto Two persons, a brother and a sister, were dead today following a terrific crash between an automobile and a heavily loaded cement truck at the junction of the old and new Santa Ana Canyon highways above Olive. The accident took place shortly before noon yesterday. Grover C. Lankford, 57, was killed instantly. He was a passenger in the automobile driven by his sister, Mrs. Willie Ethel Burkhalter, 53, of Wilmington. Mr. Lankford was from Yakima, Washington, and had been visiting in San Pedro. Mrs. Burkhalter died in St. Joseph hospital, Orange, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday. A report of the California highway patrol said there were indications that Mrs. Burkhalter, entering the new highway from the old road, had failed to observe the boulevard stop and drove into the path of the cement truck, which was travelling down the canyon with William C. Fisher, 34, of Fontana, at the wheel. The heavy truck shoved the automobile 100 feet broadside and then crushed it. Mrs. Burkhalter, known to her friends as Violet, had been widowed only a week ago. She had been a resident of Wilmington for nine (Continued on Page 5) ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM. ORANGE COUNTY. CALIFORNIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951 United Nations Allies Poker Optimist Official Lauds Work He Optimist International Work Director from St. L. Louis C. Jurinich in an official it to Anaheim today, had not but praise of the local club the fine boys work that they doing. Taken to the Optimist Boys ter, now being constructed joint occupancy with the Scouts of America, Mr. Jurr stated that he would submit a port to Optimist Internat showing what may be accomped by a "wide-awake club with interest of the boy at heart." Amazed to learn that the house was a community prohe asked for details regarding two fund raising programs so ed, together with the huge PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED—Two of the five passenger cars of a Cincinnati-bound New York Central train which left the rails in suburban Trenton (near Detroit), this morning. Two women and an infant child are known dead.—(Associated Press Wire-photo) Train Jumps Track in Snow, Fog Kills Three, Hurts 30 Near Detroit DETROIT (AP)—Two women and the infant child of one were killed in a train wreck west of here last midnight and more than 30 persons were injured. Five cars of a Cincinnati-bound New York Central passenger train left the rails in suburban Trenton as the train felt its way through fog and snow. John Sowell, 72, Passes in Orange John Russell Sowell, 72, died early this morning at an Orange hospital after an extended illness. A native of S. Carolina, he came to California 19 years ago and has lived in Anaheim for 13 years. He is survived by his wife, Mary M. Sowell; two daughters, Mrs. Rebecca Singleterry and Mrs. Lois Moore, six sons, James Buren, Barrett, Edgar, Charles and Morris; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Neal, Mrs. Myra Huffhines and Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, all of Texas; two brothers, Joseph E. Talevich of Washington, James C. Talevich of Richmond, Calif., and William J. Talevich of Anaheim. He was a member of the White Temple Methodist church. Funeral arrangements have not been completed and will be announced later by the Hilgenfeld mortuary. The victims included a Michigan State college student's wife and child. Early today the body of the second woman was still unidentified at the Waype county morgue. Crushed to death in one overturned coach were Mrs. Grace Allen, 25, East Lansing, Mich., and her year-old baby, Janet. The young husband, R. S. Allen, was injured. His hurts were reported minor. Rescuers and wreckers worked for hours in the fantastic glare of searchlights playing over upset and tilted cars. Two cars lay on their sides. Three others, including a baggage car, were off the rails. The jumble was in the shape of a huge "U." A fleet of ambulances, including some from the nearby Grosse Ile Naval station on the Detroit river, raced with the injured to a hospital in neighboring Wyandotte. Crews of rescuers worked in the (Continued on Page 5) Temperatures Downtown reading at 2:15... 83 y today, 4:05 a.m... 53 h yesterday, 2:45 p.m... 94 (A record for March 14) Talevich of Richmond, Calif., and William J. Talevich of Anaheim. He was a member of the White Temple Methodist church. Funeral arrangements have not been completed and will be announced later by the Hilgenfeld mortuary. A fleet of ambulances, including some from the nearby Grosse Ile Naval station on the Detroit river, raced with the injured to a hospital in neighboring Wyandotte. Crews of rescuers worked in the (First 1951 Membership) above getting expert advice bership plaque from Floyd is high man in the membe Some of the newly-designed CAL COLLISION—Two persons died as a result of the crash shown above. Grover C. Lankford, 57, of Yakima, Wash., is show here he was thrown by the crash between his car and a Colton-Cement Co. truck where the old and new Santa Ana Canyon road large northeast of Olive. Mr. Lankford's sister, Mrs. Willie Burkhalter, 53, of Wilmington, who was driving the car, died at 2:3 m. yesterday, about three hours after the collision. William C. Fisher, 34, of Fontana, was driver of the tractor-semitrailer. (Gazette photo by Kreid UNITED NATIONS Troops Return to Seoul; Allies Poke to Within 18 Miles of 38th TOYKO (P)—United Nations troops returned in force to Seoul today and searched the rubbled streets of the old South Korean capital for hide-out communist soldiers. The capital's remnant population of old folks and children cheered the return of the Allied fighting men. Communists had held the city since Jan. 4, their second occupation of the war. All along the Korean front, Allied troops surged northward on the heels of retreating reds. At some points Allied troops were less than 18 miles from the old Parallel 38 border to North Korea. American assault troops stormed into Hongchon Thursday and found the former main communist supply base on the central front in ruins. G: I.'s rode tanks across the Hongchon river to reach the one time city of 15,000. Only five civilians and one mangy white horse greeted the U. S. column. The Americans met only light arms fire when they first entered Hongchon. Later mortar fire fell in the town. Bill Would Make Draw Poker Illegal SACRAMENTO (P)—A bill to outlaw the old game of draw poker was introduced in the legislature today by Assemblyman Herbert R. Klocksiem (R-Long Beach). He said he believes the proposal will do away "with what in itself is a bad situation and will tend to eliminate gathering places for underworld elements." Draw poker, which is technically deemed legal on the contention it is a game of skill, is played in numerous poker parlors where the house either charges a fee for a ST 1951 MEMBERSHIP PLAQUE—Bob Truxaw, pharmacist of 732 N. Los Angeles st., is shown above getting expert advice on where to hang his 1951 Anaheim Chamber of Commerce membership plaque from Floyd Heath, left, and Dick Gay, chairman of the membership drive. Heath is high man in the membership competition with 194 per cent of his goal of 106 points achieved. Some of the newly-designed membership plaques were mailed out yesterday. (Gazette photo by Kreldt) Merchants Hear of Challenge Of Ever-Increasing Population Retail Merchants division of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce were told this morning merchants must meet the challenge of constantly increasing population in the city with far-sighted vision if they are to keep Anaheim residents trading at home. E. W. Moeller, secretary-manager of the Chamber, was the speaker and he pointed out that continuing industrial growth is bringing ever larger payrolls to town, but that other cities, Santa Ana and Long Beach particularly, are bidding for new Anaheim workers as residents and customers. Moeller also stated that Anaheim must strive to keep goods and service sales to new manufacturing concerns in the city at home. As a horrible example, he cited the case of the local plumber who was offered a $600 contract by a concern new to Anaheim. "This plumber failed to answer the letter offering the contract, when contacted again put the manufacturer off for three or four weeks," he said. "Naturally, the manufacturer took his business elsewhere and painters, plumbers, electricians, etc., moved into town in droves from Santa Ana and Long Beach. That is the sort of thing we are seeking to avoid, and Anaheim Merchants are the ones who will have to cope with the situation." Local realtors will have to bear the responsibility of keeping employees of local concerns living in this city. Moeller said: Here again, he said, outlying areas and cities are trying to wean Anaheim workers to their cities to live. Former Anaheim Resident Passes Nellie (Weaver) Loveling died at her home at Three Rivers, Tulare county, Tuesday evening. She was born in Salina, Kana, and came to Anaheim as a small child where she spent her girlhood. After her marriage she moved to Orangethorpe ave.; in Fullerton. Funeral services will be held at Three Rivers Friday afternoon.