anaheim-gazette 1951-04-03

4 Anaheim Gazette TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2206. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1869, under the Act of March 2, 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: 500 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.P. news dispatchers. THEODORE E. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher ERNEST BEYER Editor and Sports Editor LEONARD KREIDT Assistant Editor MYLES BRADLEY Picture Editor NEIL STANLEY Advertising Manager G.E. MELLEN Assistant Advertising Manager MARY ROULAND Assistant Advertising Manager RALPH NOULAND Classified Advertising Manager LUCY HUBBARD Circulation Manager Babies and booms... Yesterday the Anaheim Rotary club heard a Department of Commerce official from Los Angeles describe "the might of America." Barring an air-out war, the speaker said, the American standard of living this year will soar, production for non-war uses will be right up there, and everything will be humkey-dory if the value of the dollar holds out. One of the big points brought out by the speaker is the expanding markets in the United States. The population is growing steadily, production of goods and services is reaching into figures not dreamed of as short a time ago as 1940. Where are these expanded markets? One of the big points brought out by the speaker is the expanding markets in the United States. The population is growing steadily, production of goods and services is reaching into figures not dreamed of as short a time ago as 1940. Where are these expanded markets? Count on the babies and the sturdy oldsters. They're creating the expanding markets that makes optimists out of Commerce Department lecturers. They keep America ever raising its sights on industrial capacity, agricultural output, sales, profits, jobs and pay checks. Doctors spanked breath into some 2,700,000 babies last year. The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, which always likes to see potential new customers coming along, notes that 1950 was the fourth year in a row that the American baby crop topped 3.5 million. Older people live longer. And as the life term lengthens, and people have more and more babies, the U.S. population is increasing at the highest rate in history. At the same time the nation's population pattern is shifting drastically, and businessmen find that their markets are not only growing, but also are moving. Sales and distribution set-ups of yesteryear don't work today. Manufacturers are wondering where to put their new plants, where to find labor. They also find wage scales shifting fast among classes of workers. America just doesn't stand still. Birth rates rise when econom- IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of the Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Bids will soon be called for from contractors wishing to build the bridge over the river at Los Angeles. 50 Years Ago A smart shower of rain fell yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. As we went to press last evening appearances were good for more. Effects on business markets have great, offering more customers than anyone dreamed of 10 years ago. Even greater has been the effect of shifting population patterns across the nation, particularly the marked population growth of the Far West and the industrial growth of the southeast and west, according to the advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson Co. "The cream of the market may not be where it was 10 years ago, or even five," says the company. It reports the cream is concentrated in only five per cent of the total area of the country. The company means 162 market areas which hold one half of the total population of the nation and account for two thirds of the national retail sales volume. The industrial population is shifting, too. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports manufacturing employment has risen to a post-war high of 15.9 million, almost up to the wartime high of 16.1 million. And industry is expanding to meet both defense needs and the needs of a growing population. Will this greater industrial capacity be unjustified, if defense needs slacken? The baby room and the longer-living oldsters make many laink such a post-armament depression is not in the cards. As Fortune puts it: "A civilian market growing by the size of Iowa every year ought to be able to absorb whatever production the military will eventually turn loose." 75 Years Ago Bids will soon be called for, from contractors wishing to build the bridge over the river at Los Angeles. Colored people in Los Angeles had a ball on the night of the 3rd, in celebration of the fifteenth amendment. A very prominent San Francisco artist is now engaged in making sketches on the Santa Anita, with intention to make paintings of the many picturesque scenes on the ranch. This is the large tract recently bought by the millionaire, Lucky Baldwin. As an example of the aggressive American-aping manners of the Chinese, we noticed yesterday this entry on the arrival book of a first-class hotel of this place? "Hew Lee and friend." We learn that J. W. Wolf, near the Artesia school house, while boring a well, at a depth of 212 feet, struck some pine and redwood timbers, pieces of them being brought to the surface by the augur. An attempt was made by burglaries several nights ago to break into the wine store of Mr. Keller of Los Angeles. The thieves removed enough bricks from the wall to allow a man ingress, but, for some reason the attempt was abandoned at that point. 50 Years Ago A smart shower of rain fell yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. As we went to press last evening appearances were good for more. Rain is needed and an inch or two would be worth millions to growing crops. Rival teams from Company E and the young men about town will play a game of baseball on the Lemon st. grounds on Sunday afternoon next for a valuable trophy. The civilians have adopted the name "Olympics" and the club embraces such well-known players as Frank Dyer, Nick Hugo, Robert Mills, Joseph Backs, Stephen Rimpau, W. Churchill, William Friese and August Menzel. Members of the military team are: Ira McAuley, Otto Baum, Dave Bush, Gene Adams, Murry Paschall, Dick Zerman, Fred Rimpau, Herman Stock and Charley Woelke. 25 Years Ago One of the incidents in the celebration of the Bell telephone system of the fiftieth anniversary of its birth will be the luncheon at Elks clubhouse at 12:15 o'clock Monday, with officials of the company and the original subscribers to the telephone in Anaheim being entertained by the Rotary club. Invitations have been extended to the few survivors of the 20 original subscribers who installed phones when the system was extended from Los Angeles to this city in July, 1897, nearly 29 years Of the original subscriber's telephone system here in 1897, the writer Kuchel) is the only one continues in business as telephone had been in nearly 20 years before: Anaheim, and only 20 zens installed instrument was a small beginning of weeks ago new direction distributed in this city found that 2500 were not supply the subscribers. Switch board was install rear of a drugstore on ter street and a toll o was charged for each m between Anaheim and Full other points in the north of the county. Night so poor. The druggist's assistant slept in the rear apart savered calls on the sw and when he was out calling on his young lad service. In 1900 the sw was moved from the front of the establishment the first "hello girl" was Service immediately imp many new subscribers w WASHINGTON — Benny Buttenwieser, U.S. deputy high commissioner for Germany, had a conversation with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer some time ago which illustrates one of the most important problems the United States faces in Europe. The new German parliament had scaled down taxes on wealthier taxpayers about a year ago, leaving a proportionately heavy tax burden on labor and white collar workers. The United States, which has the right to intervene in certain affairs of the new German government, objected, and it was following this that Deputy Commissioner Buttenwieser had his talk with Adenauer. Showing him the high tax scale prevailing in the USA, Buttenwieser argued that wealthy Germans also must shoulder their share of the tax burden. Chancellor Adenauer replied that he just couldn't believe the United States collected such high taxes. If German taxes remained too high, he argued, the German government would not be able to collect them. "We have a very good tax collector in the United States—Buttenwieser replied, "jail." "Yes, I know," replied the German chancellor, but that is just for your gunmen. "On the contrary," countered the deputy high commissioner, "I can show you a list of quite solid citizens, including doctors and ago. The original subscribers and their phone numbers were as follows: Main 611—Anaheim Brewery, F. Conrad, proprietor. Main 521 — "Anaheim Gazette," Henry Kuchel. Main 511 — "Anaheim independent," B. L. Bourland. Main 633—Bentz Brothers, wholesale and retail butchers. Main 631—Boyd, William & Son, Groceries, Hardware & Crockery. Main 623—Citizens Bank of Anaheim. Main 531—City clerk's office, City Hall. Main 633—City Livery Stables, A.L. Lewis & Co., proprietors. Main 641—P. A. Dergo, residence. Main 634—Dickel, H. A., General Merchandise. Main 621—Fleischman F. W. Meat Market. Main 626—Gade, H. C. Truckman, office Boyd & Hatfield. Main 613—Griffith, J. M. Co., W. T. Brown. Main 626—Hahn's Livery Stable. Main 615—Mercereau, Exchange. Main 625—Schauman, John Blacksmith. Main 641—Southern California Railway Company. ception of England and the Scandinavian countries, our major European friends are not taxing themselves. Furthermore, if they paid taxes on anywhere near the same scale as the USA and England, they could do two things: 1. Come close to balancing their budgets. 2. Come much closer to wiping out communism. For when you lighten the tax burden on the poor and shift part of it to the upper brackets, as is now done in the United States and England, then standards of living are raised and one of the most fertile fields for communism vanishes. In both France and Italy, in addition to Germany, the working classes pay taxes out of all proportion to the upper brackets. Actually French income taxes are high, just as high as in the United States. However, evasion among the higher bracket and middle class taxpayers is notorious. The average French businessman, lawyer, farmer or doctor just doesn't dream of revealing his real income. This throws a heavy burden on French labor and white collar workers, because their salaries are a matter of record with the companies for which they work. This unfair tax distribution plus the high cost of living is probably the biggest cause of communism in France. In most European countries, also, there is a heavy tax burden on the consumer through sales, transfer and various consumer taxes. ANOTHER ATOM SPY A theft of atomic secrets worse than the Dr. Fuchs case is wrapped up in a report picked up by U.S. intelligence agents in Ger- Hal Boyle NEW WORK (P)—Once upon a time there were six men who worked for the same firm and lived in the same apartment building. Their names were Wilch, Yilch, Bilch, Dilch, Tilch and Pilch. They ate lunch together and bowled on the same office team, and liked each other very much. So did their wives. Their immediate office boss was a fellow named Filch who lived up the street in a somewhat classier apartment. It was so fancy it even had a separate elevator for the mice. Well, one day Mrs. Filch thought it would be nice to have in the wives of her husband's subordinates for a quiet after noon of rum and gin rummy. None of the guests was stupid, naturally, so Mrs. Filch came out $18.45 winner. But during the course of the game, as girls will, they fell to talking about their husbands' salaries. Mrs. Filch knew the figures and gaily bandied them about. It turned out that there was a spread of $3.16 between the weekly incomes of the six men who called Filch "mister." Do you think a little discovery like that worried Mrs. Yilch, Mrs. Bilch, Mrs. Dilch, Mrs. Tilch and Mrs. Pilch? Well, hardly at all. No more than if they had just found out that their husbands had leprosy. And as soon as he came home each took her spouse to task and gave him the old marital hammer-and-tongue dialogue. "What are you a peon?" rea Main 621—Fleischman F. W. Meat Market. Main 626—Gade, H. C. Truckman, office Boyd & Hatfield. Main 613—Griffith, J. M. Co., W. T. Brown. Main 628—Hahn's Livery Stable. Main 615—Mercerau, Exchange. Main 623—Schauman, John Blacksmith. Main 641—Southern California Railway Co. depot. Main 614—Southern Pacific Company depot. Main 621—Stern Bros. General Merchandise. Main 626—The Club, R. Callahan, proprietor. Of the original subscribers to the telephone system established here in 1897, the writer (Henry Kuchel) is the only one who continues in business here. The telephone had been in operation nearly 20 years before it reached Anaheim, and only 20 of our citizens installed instruments. This was a small beginning. A couple of weeks ago new directories were distributed in this city and it was found that 2500 were necessary to supply the subscribers. The first switch board was installed in the rear of a drugstore on East Center street and a toll of 25 cents was charged for each message between Anaheim and Fullerton and other points in the northern part of the county. Night service was poor. The druggist's assistant, who slept in the rear apartment answered calls on the switchboard and when he was out evening calling on his young lady love—no service. In 1900 the switchboard was moved from the rear to the front of the establishment and the first "hello girl" was installed. Service immediately improved and many new subscribers were added. In most European countries, also, there is a heavy tax burden on the consumer through sales, transfer and various consumer taxes. ANOTHER ATOM SPY A theft of atomic secrets worse than the Dr. Fuchs case is wrapped up in a report picked up by U.S. intelligence agents in Germany. The report comes through devious channels from behind the Iron Curtain and has not yet been evaluated by the Atomic Energy commission. It will be recalled that last summer Professor Bruno Pontecorvo, an atomic scientist who spent some time in the United States, slipped mysteriously into Finland and then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. American authorities had warned British that Pontecorvo should be watched, but nonetheless he and his family left London in August, presumably on vacation, traveled a circuitous route to Rome, Stockholm and Helsinki. There Pontecorvo was picked up by a Soviet embassy car and driven across the border to Leningrad. The Italian-born professor allegedly had been in touch with the Russians long before he fled last summer, and made this move after he advised his Soviet contacts that he had information so "hot" he must bring it personally to the USSR. Once in the Soviet, it is now reported that Prof. Pontecorvo devoted himself to writing an exhaustive report on a new method of A-bomb production, a long-range guided missile, and an air defense system based on cosmic rays. He is said to have told Marshall Berle, in charge of secret scientific research, that the air defense system could be in operation by October 1952. Professor Pontecorvo is reported to be at work on all three projects with top priority given to an air defense system against the American atom bomb. In this connection it is interesting that the Supreme Soviet has within the last few weeks given special awards to several Russian scientists for cosmic ray research. Note — While in the United States, Professor Pontecorvo was not employed by the Atomic Energy commission but was in contact with many leading scientists. He is regarded here as a reactor expert. PREPARING FOR THE 'PROSITS'—Women clean Bavarian stelns as they get ready for the traditional "Salvator" springtime beer festival held in Munich, Germany. Dilch, Tilch and Pilch—all set off to work under orders to come home with a raise. Or else. Well, they went in and all day long tried to think up an excuse to bust into Filch's office and point out how valuable they were. But Filch looked fretful and worried and kept frowning and shouting. They stayed away. At the end of the day they all had the same idea—ambush him on the way out. There they stood—all six of them—looking uncomfortable at him as he started to get into the elevator. "Come on, boys," said Filch. "Let's go across the street and have one for the road home." They had one. They had two. They had three. Each time Wilch, Tilch, Bilch, Dilch, Tilch, and Pilch practically broke one another's arms picking up the check. But there were no bruises on Filch. "Fellows, I got a problem," said Filch. "And I wish you'd help me." Yes, sir, chorused Wilch, Yilch, Bilch, Dilch, Tilch and Pilch. "Well, it's this way," said Filch. "You know how wives are. My wife thinks I'm working for peanuts. She told me last night I got to get another raise or another address. What do think is the best way for me to approach the big boss? The way I see it, it is kind of a sales problem. What would you do if you were in my shoes?" Moral: Never marry a woman who can count. TRUE ENOUGH TRUE ENOUGH ABOUT MOLES A MOLE'S NOSE IS SO SENSITIVE, IT CAN DETECT A WORM OR BEETLE THROUGH A FOOT OF SOIL... ABOVE GROUND A MOLE IS HELPED—IT CAN ONLY SWIM IN SOIL. MOLES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO TUNNEL 300 FEET DURING A NIGHT. DESERT PALS—Gilbert Tinsley, of Astoria, Ore., makes friends with a baby camel near the Turaf pump station of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline on the sandy plains of Saudi Arabia. VERSATILE ATHLETE—Giants' shortstop Al Dark holds the J. G. Taylor Spink trophy after defeating leashmate Jim Hearn in the annual baseball players' golf final at Miami, Fla.