anaheim-gazette 1951-03-21

Planning Anaheim Planning commissioners have an important job to do. Who are they and what are they working on? Read the interesting story, Page 4. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE Series of County Traffic Accidents Leave Eight Hurt Eight persons were injured in a series of Orange county traffic accidents during the past 24 hours, it was disclosed by official reports today. Mrs. Mildred Lusk, 40, of Costa Mesa, had an apparently near-miraculous escape from death when her car plunged over a 100 foot bluff to the mudflats along Upper Newport Bay not far from the Coast highway at 9:40 p.m. yesterday. Mrs. Luck was driving along a private road which ended at the cliff. Her car tumbled all the way to the bottom where it was completely wrecked. She escaped with slight injuries and was taken home. City Traffic Officer Douglas E. Garrison, 2d, of Santa Ana, sustained a broken left leg in a traffic crash on N. Broadway near Santa Clara ave., Santa Ana, late yesterday. He is the third Santa Ana traffic officer to be badly hurt within a distance of a few blocks on N. Broadway in recent weeks. Garrison was riding his motorcycle south on Broadway in the outside lane and started to pass an American Legion Auxiliary announced yesterday this year's representative for California Girl's State will be Barbara Ann Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ryan, 627 S. Indiana st. Mrs. Floyd Peterson, Girl's State chairman for the Anaheim unit of the American Legion Auxiliary stated yesterday that each year a representative is chosen from the junior class of the local high school on three qualities: citizenship, leadership and scholarship. During the three years since this practice was inaugurated representatives have been: 1950 Shelley Smith; 1949, Jackie Whiteman, who also was chosen to go on to Girl's Nation in Washington, D.C., and 1948, Barbara Barfoot. Miss Ryan's talents include musical ability with an accordian. The representatives are chosen by the high school faculty and the year. The local Legion Auxiliary will pay for all the expenses for and during the trip, including spending money. Girls will be sent from almost every high school district in California, during the period from June 20 to the 28, to Sacramento to take over the duties of California legislature in supposition. During this time the girls learn about our government and its policies through actual practice. The state capital is at their disposal during the time and conferences and meetings of the girls' legislature will be held in the capitol building. Chamber to Hear Robertshaw Veep Thomas T. Arden, executive vice-president of Robertshaw-Fulton Controls Co., will be the speaker when members of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce meet for lunch in the Anaheim Elks club at 12:10 p.m. tomorrow. The meeting, sponsored by the Industrial Division of the Chamber, will recognize each industry that has moved to this city in the past year, according to Clyde Cromer, chairman. City Traffic Officer Douglas E. Garrison, 28, of Santa Ana, sustained a broken left leg in a traffic crash on N. Broadway near Santa Clara ave., Santa Ana, late yesterday. He is the third Santa Ana traffic officer to be badly hurt within a distance of a few blocks on N. Broadway in recent weeks. Garrison was riding his motorcycle south on Broadway in the outside lane and started to pass an automobile driven along the inside lane by Dean O. Russell, 25, of Brea. Russell heard the motorcycle and thought it was passing on his left so he turned quickly to the right, forcing Garrison's motorcycle against a parked car. Burns Prove Fatal To Casper Reinert C. C. Reinert died yesterday at 4:10 p.m., about three hours after he had been rushed to the Anaheim Community hospital. Mr. Reinert never regained consciousness to tell if he had started the small bonfire in the alley behind his home at 217 N. Helena and his clothes had caught fire, or if he had been attempting to extinguish it. He died of first, second and third degree burns, covering his entire body. Reinert was born in Iowa and has been a resident of Anaheim since 1913. He was a member of the White Temple Methodist church. Surviving him are his wife, Nellie; three sons, Carl, Afton and James, all of Anaheim; one daughter, Mrs. Helen Whiteman of Anaheim; six grandchildren and one great grandchild; two sisters, Miss Bertha Reinert of Iowa and Mrs. Bessie Strupp of Iowa; four brothers, Charles William and G. A. of Iowa and Fred of Colorado. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars at 2 p.m., Saturday, Rev. Frank E. Butterworth will officiate. Entombment will be at Melrose Abbey Mausoleum. Behind That Fog Lurks Springtime LOS ANGELES (F)—Spring arrived at 2:26 a.m., today, but nobody could see it for the fog. International airport was closed down and visibility was zero at several coastal points. The meeting, sponsored by the Industrial Division of the Chamber, will recognize each industry that has moved to this city in the past year, according to Clyde Cromer, chairman. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars at 2 p.m., Saturday, Rev. Frank E. Butterworth will officiate. Entombment will be at Melrose Abbey Mausoleum. TRAPPED—Joe Cypien, Crane ambulance service driver, offered aid to Mrs. Emma Mulhall, Orange, while she was trapped in her car after an accident yesterday (no Anaheim-Olive rd.) Mrs. Mulhall, who sustained major injuries in the crash, had to be epried out of the wreck. (Gazette photo by Bradley) ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1951 Reds Leave May Have FIGHTING FRONT— the central front just 81 east const also within 814 the west front north of S Third which has been re PARIS—Deputy For Larry Parks T Of Early Ties WASHINGTON—OPE today he was a communi party. At the time he joined was about 25. Just before the comm son (R-Calif.) asked Parks would bear arms for the U States in event of war Russia. "Without question," the wi ERGROUND RIVER—Shown above is part of the man-made underground river which will conOrange county sewage to the ocean. It is part of the 78-inch pipe of Section 1 of the Magnolia Trunk Sewer at the northern end of the present construction, south of Talbert. PE—A 16-foot section of 48-inch pipe is lowered into place to become part of the Magnolia Trunk under construction now from Bushard and Ellis aves. to Orange ave. (Gazette photos by Kreidt) County Press Gets Closeup Peek At Progress of Sewer Construction George Holyoke, Anaheim city engineer, yesterday conducted a tour of the Magnolia Trunk Sewer construction for the benefit of Orange county's press and to get a progress report before the public. According to Holyoke, the whole project is proceeding very nearly on schedule, give or take a bit either way. County Press Gets Closeup Peek At Progress of Sewer Construction George Holyoke, Anaheim city engineer, yesterday conducted a tour of the Magnolia Trunk Sewer construction for the benefit of Orange county's press and to get a progress report before the public. According to Holyoke, the whole project is proceeding very nearly on schedule, give or take a bit either way. The construction has proceeded now from Bushard and Ellis sts., in Talbert almost to Orange and Magnolia aves. Holyoke's tour began at the Bushard and Ellis end of the sewer where the pit for a pumping station is being dug. Here Sections 1 and 4 will meet and in the future, the marine outfall sewer of the Orange county Sanitation Districts will begin. The pit is some 20 feet deep. The pumping plant will force sewage from the 78-inch pipe of Section 1 into an 18-inch force main which will carry it to the JOS treatment plant 7600 feet east. Famularo and McElvaney, contractors of Santa Ana, are laying Section 4 and will construct the pumping station for a total cost of $121,672. The pumping station cost will be $76,500. Section 1 pipe, the 78-inch reinforced concrete variety, has been laid from the pumping station site to the southern edge of Talbert. Matt J. Vukojevich, the "V" in VCK Construction Co., contractors for Sections 1 and 2, said his outfit laid around 80 feet of sewer yesterday, which is a good day, according to Holyoke. Cave-in trouble has slowed them to three 16-foot sections per day at times, but the average has been four and five sections, Vukojevich said. Pipe for Section 1, 78 inches in diameter, and for Section 2, 48 (Continued on Page 8) Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 78, which was also high for the past 24 hours. Low at 6 a.m. was 46. Killer Cook Service In Prison with 'N' OKLAHOMA CITY (P) — Amitted slayer William E. Cook Jr. today was sentenced to term totaling 300 years in "Alcatraz" another safe prison where he no chance to escape" for the slaying of the five members of the Carl Mosser family of Atwood Illinois. U. S. District Judge Stephen Chandler gave Cook, who showed no visible signs of emotion, 6 years for each of five counts in the kidnap murder of Mr. and Mrs. Mosser and their three children. "Society stands indicted for permitting this child to grow up in human conditions that permitted these crimes," Chandler said. These crimes might not have been committed if he (Cook) received civilized care and training, Chandler added. The sentencing came as a su... ZETTE 1, 1951 5c a Copy — 50c Per Month NUMBER 100 Reds Leave Chunchon to Allied Forces; May Have Withdrawn to North of 38th INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCE FIGHTING FRONT—Battlefront reports say the reds have abandoned Chunchon on central front just 8½ miles south of the 38th Parallel; South Korean troops on the coast also within 8½ miles of border; new communist troops reported digging in on west front north of Seoul; this may signal he relief of the China's Fourth Army by therd which has been resting in North Korea since Hungnam battles in northeast Korea. PARIS—Deputy Foreign Ministers of Big Four remain deadlocked primarily over discussion of German and Big Four rearmament; the Western powers reject a Soviet proposal calling for "control" of Big Four armaments but failing to mention Soviet satellites. Larry Parks Tells Investigators of Early Ties with Communists WASHINGTON—(P)—Movie Actor Larry Parks said he was a communist 10 years ago but later quit the city. At the time he joined the party, in 1941, Parks said, he about 25. Just before the committee recessed for lunch, Rep. Jack(R-Callif.) asked Parks if he'd bear arms for the United States in event of war withcia. Costello Again CALIFORNIA S LIBRARY WASHINGTON—(P)—Movie Actor Larry Parks said he was a communist 10 years ago but later quit the city. At the time he joined the party, in 1941, Parks said, he about 25. Just before the committee recessed for lunch, Rep. Jack(R-Callif.) asked Parks if he had bear arms for the United States in event of war with Asia. Without question," the witness added. Is insistence against naming was prompted Chairman Wood Ga. to order a policy meeting the committee during the noon session to consider "the apparent inclination of the witness to answer questions." Parks told the committee he be led to the communist party in 1941 to 1945 for idealistic reasons that "didn't work out." He added that he was an irregular attendant at meetings of an enemy's cell, but balked at naming associates there. In response to questioning, he was acquainted with Actor (Continued on Page 5) Costello Again Rebukes Question NEW YORK (P)—Underworld Boss Frank Costello today defied Senate Crime investigators for the fourth time in their efforts to find out his net worth. He said he wouldn't answer the question. With the same sullen stubbornness he has displayed when the matter came up previously, Costello said the committee was asking for information it had no right to. "I refused before," Costello said. "I'm not going to answer that question." The gambler, labeled by the (Continued on Page 6) TOKYO (P)—An American tank force today rumbled into the former Chinese stronghold of Chunchon. It met only flag-waving Korean civilians. The Chinese, who had made the central Korean road center their troop massing point in South Korea, apparently had withdrawn north of Parallel 38. Chunchon is 8½ miles south of the red Korean border. It was from Chunchon that the Chinese mounted their two massive offensives in January and February against Wonju, deep in central Korea. On the western front, South Korean and American task forces ranging up the historic invasion route of Korea bumped into bitter communist resistance north of Seoul. An American tank patrol on the road to Uijongbu ran into a heavy mine field. "The small arms and mortar fire were so intense that it was impossible for the men to leave the tanks and remove the mines." (Continued on Page 8) MER Cook Sentenced to 300 Yrs. Prison with 'No Escape Chance' LAHOMA CITY (P) — Adslayer William E. Cook Jr., was sentenced to terms of 300 years in "Alcatraz or safe prison where he has chance to escape" for the slaying of five members of the Mosser family of Atwood. S. District Judge Stephen Her gave Cook, who showed visible signs of emotion, 60 for each of five counts in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. and their three children. He stands indicted for perishing this child to grow up in conditions that permitted crimes," Chandler said. These crimes might not have committed if he (Cook) re-licvized care and training," Her added. Sentencing came as a sudden end to a sanity hearing to determine whether the 23-year-old ex-convict from Missouri knew right from wrong. Closing arguments had been scheduled for today but at the beginning of the session Chandler said he had already made up his mind and turned down an appeal by U.S. District Attorney Robert E. Shelton to continue the hearing until Monday for submission of further evidence. Cook, dressed in a zipper jacket and khaki pants, sat as he had in past hearings, staring at the floor. Not once did he move or indicate he knew what was going on in the federal court room which was packed with more than 200 spectators. Only when pushed by his court-appointed attorneys did he stand. Group Forms To Discuss Gauer Ouster Eleven prominent Anhelm business and professional men and civic leaders met today in Anaheim Elks club to throw their collective influence into the current struggle over the ouster of City Superintendent of Schools Melbourne A. Gauer. Those attending were the Rev. Philip Selfridge, John Bowe, Warren Ashleigh, Ray Realanyder, Frank Gibbs, Ernest Ganahl, Clyde Cromer, Joe Thompson, J. J. Dwyer, Tex Middleton and Harry R. Fox. Warren Ashleigh was appointed chairman of the committee to consolidate the opinion of the committee and present it to the school board.