anaheim-gazette 1951-03-16

Green Break out your green socks, dust off the green hat, and put on a necktie (green, of course). Why? Tomorrow is none other than St. Patrick's Day. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM BIRTH OF ANAHEIM OPERA?—The group shown above yesterday agreed to see what could be done to bring Dollar Opera, produced by the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Art, to Anaheim BIRTH OF ANAHEIM OPERA?—The group shown above yesterday agreed to see what could be done to bring Dollar Opera, produced by the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Art, to Anaheim. From left they are: Conrad Schultz, star tenor of the Conservatory, Mrs. Max Besler, former Philadelphia opera singer and New York stage performer, George Hedstrom, AUHS music instructor, Paul Demaree, AUHS superintendent, Glen Ross, Conservatory director, and Charles K. Eaton, temporary chairman of the group. Marywood Offers 'Madonna' Night Marywood Central High school will present "Madonna Evening" Sunday evening in the Anaheim Ebell club beginning at 8:30 p.m. The program will consist of a series of tableaux accompanied by a choral group of Marywood girls. The tableaux will be replicas with Marywood students as the personalities involved, of master paintings of madonnas. Pictures depicted will include "The Child, Mary and St. Ann" by Mauro; "The Annunciation" by Fra Angelico; "The Visitation;" "Holy Night" by M. Tarrent; "Our Lady of Providence" by Gaetano; "Fatima" by Luke Ch'en; "China" by Luke Ch'en; "Guadalupe" by Gomez; "Queen of Peace" by Sinkel; "Queen of Martyrs" by Janssens and "Return from Calvary" by Janssens. Mary Lawrence and Gail Nolan will serve as narrators. Glee club selections to accompany the tableaux will be "How Pure, How Frail and White" with Imogene Larson as soloist; "Ave Maria" by Montani; "Our Lady of the Flag" by Theodosia; "Oh Come and Mount" by Montani and a Gregorian chant, "Parce Domni." Fall from Auto Injures Boy, 4 Tumbling from a station wagon on Highway 101 several miles Local Sea Scouts At Lake Henshaw Lake Henshaw was made a port of call today for approximately 25 Sea Scouts from Anaheim Ship 280 who left for that well-known Southern California lake this afternoon for a two-day outing. The outing will give the Sea Scouts a chance to train for the annual Sea Scout Regatta that will be held next May. The boys also include a little fishing, hiking, and swimming in their plans. The party left La Palma school Scout headquarters at 4 o'clock this afternoon accompanied by two enthusiastic Scout leaders, Ben Stakemiller, first mate, and Rex Koontz, committeeman. An advance detail made up of six selected apprentice Scouts left for the lake at 2 o'clock today, for the purpose of selecting and readying a good campsite. The crew will leave for home on Sunday evening. C of C Accepts 18 New Members The board of directors of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce last night accepted membership application from Reagan Realty, Roddick Tool co., Kirvin Car co., Dugan-Hylton, Ralph Spencer, Reimer's Country Sausage store, Northgate market, Truxaw drug, Pepsi-Cola, Lorene's maternity, Hadley's bakery, French laundry, Iven Harberg, Hatfield Cleaners, Hansen's floor service, E. A. AUHS to Present Jr. Play Tonight Tonight is the night for the junior class play, "Not in a Thousand Years," to be presented in the high school auditorium. The play begins at 8 with Bill Cook's AUHS band playing music by Jerome Kern. Tickets may be obtained from any junior class member or at the door tonight. Leads in the play are Mary Jo Duncan as Jeannie, who is Junior's date for the night. Playing the part of Junior is Jerry Farrow, who goes through the trials and tribulations of a high school boy on his first date. Others in the cast are Don Nevins and Georgia Drake as Jeannie's mother and father. Playing the part of Junior's mother and father are Dixie Lee Hopkins and Philip Tayer. Leah Gerber is Junior's little sister and Dilly is played by Jean Bastian. "Not in a Thousand Years." is a three-act comedy directed by Miss Louise Hitt, drama teacher at AUHS. Unusual settings are being used in the play. One is a bathroom scene in which the audience is a mirror into which Junior looks into to shave. The other is a patio scene. Temperatures The temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m., today was 68. High for the past 24 hours was 83 at 3 p.m., yes- Imogene Larson as soloist; "Ave Maria" by Montani; "Our Lady of the Flag" by Theodosia; "Oh Come and Mount" by Montani and a Gregorian chant; "Parce Domini." Fall from Auto Injures Boy, 4 Tumbling from a station wagon on Highway 101 several miles south of Anaheim last evening, James Steidley, 4, Silverado, sustained injuries of undertermined extent. The child was riding in a station wagon driven by Lloyd Ui-rich, 29, Silverado and apparently was playing with the door latch which caused the door to fly open letting the child drop to the pavement. He suffered pavement burns and other injuries and was taken to St. Joseph hospital in Orange. The accident took place at 6:40 p.m., a quarter mile north of Placentia ave., junction with Highway 101, north of the Orange Drive-In theater. Three File for School Board Three candidates for spots on the 1951-52 elementary school board of trustees had filed for the coming election by yesterday afternoon, it was announced this morning by City Clerk Charles Griffith. Besides incumbent John P. Mary, Jr., others filling were Dr. Cyril A. Smith and Mrs. J. Lee Rogers. The election will be held on May 18. INSPECTION TOUR—District and international officials of the Optimists Optimists yesterday on a tour of the Boys' Activity and Scout Center W. Chartres ave. Shown above, left to right, are: J. W. Stephen, Louliator of Optimats International, Barney J. Koster of Santa Ana, gov wood Larson, Walt Gooden, L. H. Paxton, Boy Scout executive, Al partially-completed building is shown in the right background. NAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1951 Civil Progress Week May 7-11 May 7 through May 11 has been set for Anaheim's annual Civic Progress week. The week is designed to foster public interest in Anaheim by getting the citizens behind far reaching programs of development in civic planning, transportation, recreation, housing, industrial planning and other phases of city progress. Plans for the event were described to members of the board of directors of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce last night by Barney Jordan, vice-chairman of the Civic Progress week committee. The tentative scheduling of events is as follows: Monday, May 7, Joe Scholz, chairman. Seminar on longrange planning of transportation facilities to be held in conjunction with the Anaheim Rotary club. Tuesday, May 8, Don Derr, chairman. Recreation planning, to be held in conjunction with the Kiwanis club. Wednesday, May 9, a seminar Anaheim to Have Dollar Opera Meeting with representatives of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Art yesterday afternoon, five Anaheim citizens decided to do what they could to bring Dollar Opera to this city. Paul Demaree, superintendent at AUHS; George Hedstrom, AUHS music instructor; Mrs. Max Besler, former Philadelphia opera singer and New York stage performer; Albert Cranston, Fullerton junior college music instructor; and Charles K. Eaton, salesman for LaMont Printing in Anaheim met with Glen Ross, director of the Conservatory, in the lounge of the Ebell club to get the story on Dollar Opera. Conrad Schultz, a Santa Ana man who sang the part of Don Jose in the recent Santa Ana production of "Carmen," accompanied Ross. Ross pointed out to the group that Dollar Opera is the Conservatory's attempt to bring the great music of the stage to the small-town resident who has neither the time nor the money to attend performances in the metropolitan area. "In fact," he said, "Dollar Opera got its start because a director of the Conservatory objected to driving from San Pedro to the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles to see an opera production. From his gripe, discussion of grand opera in outlying towns grew still now it has become Dollar Opera." For another impulse than any year the Conservatory has been producing Dollar Opera in San Pedro, Santa Monica, Whittier, Santa Ana and other southland cities and it has not been a paying proposition. Last year they ran $6000 in the red according to Ross. However, he said, they feel that the tentative scheduling of events is as follows: Monday, May 7, Joe Scholz, chairman. Seminar on longrange planning of transportation facilities to be held in conjunction with the Anaheim Rotary club. Tuesday, May 8, Don Derr, chairman. Recreation planning, to be held in conjunction with the Kiwanis club. Wednesday, May 9, a seminar on housing to discuss development of housing for all income classes of Anaheim and to accommodate new families. Special emphasis will be placed on designating an area for better classes of housing to combat the trend toward Anaheimers moving to Ful- (Continued on Page 2) Girl Scouts Sell Easter Seal Lilies Anaheim Girl Scouts will do their part to help Orange county's crippled children tomorrow by selling miniature Easter lilies to the public. Simultaneously, Girl Scouts and Y-Teens in other communities of the county will conduct sales. The lily sale is being held in conjunction with the Easter Seal campaign sponsored by the Orange County Society for Crippled Children. Money from the Easter Seals and lilies goes into the county society's fund to carry out its program of activities to help handicapped children. Mrs. E. J. Power, chairman for Anaheim, said. Although it is a young organization with only one previous Easter Seal campaign, the society already has an active program to aid the handicapped, Mrs. Power said. Beside purchases of special braces and equipment, the society operates a crafts and recreation center where daily classes are held for the handicapped, and it has a visiting therapist for home-bound youngsters. Meanwhile, returns from this year's campaign are encouraging, she reported. The society has hopes of raising enough money to expand its present facilities and services. The campaign officially closes Easter Sunday. Formally Dedicate Jefferson School School board today did not renew contract of M. A. Gauer after 27 years. He had 3 years to go to qualify for pension. Before approximately 200 persons, Anaheim's newest and most modern school, Thomas Jefferson school at South and Olive sts., was dedicated to the people of Anaheim. M. A. Gauer, city superintendent of schools and speaker of the evening, opened the meeting with an invocation. Pupils of the fifth and sixth grades presented a short program. Gauer then asked L. N. Wisser, city councilman, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson to take a bow. Thompson is chairman of Anaheim Planning Commission. Mrs. Adaline Schroeder and ladies of the Women's Auxiliary of Anaheim Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars presented the school with an American flag. Gauer formally turned the key to the school over to its principal. (JEFFERSON DEDICATION—Chesapeake Thomas Jefferson school, display school which was presented him tendered of schools, at last night South and Olive sts. location, the program and ceremonies.) CALIFORN Weather S. Calif.—Variable high cloudiness tonight and Saturday with night and morning low clouds and low clouds and local fog coastal mountains and in- CETTE 5c a Copy — 50c Per Month NUMBER 97 UN Artillery Outdoes Reds INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCE FIGHTING Front — Eight-day red retreat in Korea ends. Artillery duel signals new red stand on defense line just below Chunchon, Chinese communist field headquarters. Red defense line stretches for 30 miles about 20 miles south of 38th Parallel. WASHINGTON—Senate debate continues on Troops-to-Europe issue. Republicans fear split in their ranks will kill resolution calling for both House and Senate approval of sending more than four divisions to Europe and old passage of resolution calling for only Senate consultations. PARIS—Deputy foreign ministers await word from Kremlin on whether Russia will agree to discuss arms for Germany as part of the whole European problem. It is believed Russia will list on separate treatment, which is opposed by the West. TOKYO (P) — American troops overwhelmed desperate reds in a PRINTS' TELLS THE STORY—A sad-sack Chinese prisoner for the rear under guard after capture by Marines near song on central Korean front. Footprints pointing north path followed by advancing leathernecks approaching burn-illage at upper right. (Associated Press Wirephoto) TOKYO (P) — American troops overwhelmed desperate reds in a roaring artillery duel on the Korean war front today and then crashed ahead for new gains. The reds threw their heaviest artillery fire of the war. Americans answered with a bar- (Continued on Page 2) PLANTS HUMMING—Local industrial groups have united to insure that Anaheim receives over share of defense production orders. Talking it over last night are: Adolf Schoepe, Clyde R. D. Taylor, and Burton T. Ellis (reading from left to right). In the picture, Mr. Schoepe, part of the Chamber of Commerce, is congratulating Ellis on Ellis’ appointment as “expeditthe group. Main goal of the business men is to insure full employment in Anaheim during the inties of the beginnings of the defense production effort. (Gazette photo by Bradley) Anaheim Industrialists Pick Expediter Lure Share of ‘War Work’ to City Anaheim Industrialists Pick Expediter Lure Share of ‘War Work’ to City The small industrial groups of Anaheim have worked out a program and have employed an “expediter” to insure that Anaheim will receive its proportionate share of “war work” and thus keep Anaheim industrial units working with full employment during the mobilization period, it was announced last night by Clyde Cromer, chairman of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce Industrial committee. Cromer, in presenting the plan to the chamber board of directors, announced that Burton Ellis, who prepared the engineers report and made the preliminary designs of the Magnolia sewer, has been employed by industrial units of Anaheim to carry the ball on defense orders. Ellis will be the field representative for the local firms. He will contact government agencies and defense manufacturers to bring contracts and sub-contracts to Anaheim. Although the plan to unite the local manufacturers was worked out by Cromer's Chamber of Commerce committee, Ellis will be employed by the local industrialists. His headquarters will be in (Continued on Page 5)