anaheim-gazette 1951-07-26

Your unpredictable money... You never can tell how people are going to spend their money. The yen to spend ran strong through the nation the first part of the year. Now saving is in fashion. Department of Commerce officials estimate that in the last three months total savings were more than double what people put away in the first three months of the year. What will consumers do this fall? A lot of businessmen would sleep better if they knew. Will people invest their money? Will they use their savings to whittle down the huge totals of home mortgages and consumer credit debt? Or will they use these sums they've been squirrelling away to start buying up "big income kept rising. In May it reached an annual rate of nearly $250 billion, up about 15 per cent from the year before. Taxes rose, too, but still not as fast as income. Swelling savings accounts, insurance sales and bank deposits attest to the new savings trend. These savings look mighty tempting to businesses. But you never can tell how people are going to spend their money—or if they'll spend it. Right now most people are looking for bargains. If they see one, they buy. Meantime, most people go on spending for their immediate needs, and including themselves occasionally—at the mo... What will consumers do this fall? A lot of businessmen would sleep better if they knew. Will people invest their money? Will they use their savings to whittle down the huge totals of home mortgages and consumer credit debt? Or will they use these sums they've been squirrelling away to start buying up "big ticket" consumer goods again? The switch from spending to saving was sudden and sharp. It caused most of the troubles that businessmen have been having in recent months. They went on producing and stocking up even after the public stopped buying hand over fist and began counting pennies. During the first part of the year—when the second secre-buying wave was on—consumer spending topped pre-Korea 1950 by 20 per cent. Then in March people stopped buying so much, started saving more. They are now putting away a larger part of their current incomes than they usually do. All the time total personal income were totally destroyed. Her's hotel was saved by blowing up a wing of the building nearest to the fire. The block which was burned was in the central part of town. The loss will amount to between $15,000 and $16,000. 50 Years Ago A marriage license was issued on Monday by County Clerk Beckett to Charles McMillin of Los Angeles and Miss Josephine Benner-schmidt of this city. R. J. Morton of the Santa Ana Standard, having amassed a large fortune in running that newspaper has disposed of the property to R. O. Shively and will retire from business. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Supervisor Hannon has furnished the El Monte Observer with the names of the heaviest tax payers of the county. Hon. J. G. Downey $133,428; Michael Reese $140,000; E. J. Baldwin $133,685; Don Domingues $121,000; Mrs. Baker $182,870. The above includes only real estate and improvements in Los Angeles County. There are some light-fingered gentry wandering around town that need the attention of our constables. They appropriate everything from a clothes pin to a piano forte, and on Saturday evening they made love to a new stew pan, the property of one of our stage men. There are some light-fingered gentry wandering around town that need the attention of our constables. They appropriate everything from a clothes pin to a piano forte, and on Saturday evening they made love to a new stew pan, the property of one of our stage men. A "Literary Society" has just been organized at St. Helena, Napa county. One clause in their by-laws we commend to the favorable consideration of our Anaheim Society. It is this: "Ladles may become members without money and without price." Andreas Mivena brought suit against A. La Paz yesterday, before Justice Bailey, charging him with hacking his arm, punching his head, and sundry other playful demonstrations of his loving disposition. The farms lying between town and the Santa Ana river, have suffered very much this year from the depredations of rabbits. The fruit dealers found watermelons to be in good demand yesterday, and large quantities of soda and beer were consumed in the frantic endeavors of our citizens to keep cool with the thermometer indicating around 97 degrees in the shade. About 8 o'clock Sunday evening, a disastrous fire occurred at San Juan Capistrano. The fire originated in the house of Dan Juan Abilla. That building together with the block adjoining probably cause the sugar content on Monday by County Clerk Beckett to Charles McMillin of Los Angeles and Miss Josephine Bennerschmidt of this city. R. J. Morton of the Santa Ana Standard, having amassed a large fortune in running that newspaper has disposed of the property to R. O. Shively and will retire from business. Henry Albrecht has secured the contract to build a two story addition to Mr. Zeller's residence on Broadway. Col. R. J. Northam was married in San Jose on Tuesday to Mrs. Leola Keyll Storey of Los Angeles. Supervisor Potter and S. D. Walker of Buena Park were in town on Saturday to ride the Masonic goat. Billy Hale was a visitor in town from Placentia on Saturday. Fritz Ruhman, J. P. Zeyn and William Fischer departed yesterday for a two weeks pasear in San Francisco. 25 Years Ago The Los Alamitos Sugar Company will not operate its refinery at Los Alamitos this summer, on account of the reduction in the acreage devoted to the growing of sugar beets through the factory of the Holly Sugar Company at Dyer, according to G. J. Strodthoff, manager of the Los Alamitos refinery. The sugar content of the beets was to be officially tested today. Cloudy weather recently would probably cause the sugar content to be slightly under normal combined acreage of the trees will not exceed 12,000 acres at Los Alamitos and the Dyer plant. At present price of 100 pounds of sugar San Francisco, is $5.60, but it is expected to go up before the Cuban sugar harvested. WASHINGTON—The demoralized mobilization chiefs met behind closed doors the other day and tried to be cheerful about the gutted controls bill which Congress voted them. The meeting was called by economic stabilizer Eric Johnson, but it was jolly price boss Mike Di Salle who tried to cheer up his colleagues with some of his famous wise cracks. "Hello, fellow sufferers," he boomed cheerily. He said his feeling about the new controls bill was best illustrated by a Berryman cartoon. "A guy went into the gas station to get some gas, and they took two tires off his car," quipped Di Salle. Di Salle was philosophical, however, and remarked ruefully: "We went in for an operation. We thought we might lose our life, but we only lost an arm." Leon Keyserling, the president's chief economic adviser, agreed. "After many years of observing legislative battles," he commented, "I can say that when the smoke of battle clears away, the defeats are not as great as imagined." Di Salle reported that slaughter quotas are so important in keeping down the price of meat that he would submit a special bill in another last ditch attempt to get Congress to restore slaughter controls. Turning to wage stabilizer George Taylor, Di Salle wisely cracked again: "George talks about our dealing with inanimate battle clears away, the defeats are not as great as imagined." Di Salle reported that slaughter quotas are so important in keeping down the price of meat that he would submit a special bill in another last ditch attempt to get Congress to restore slaughter controls. Turning to wage stabilizer George Taylor, Di Salle wisecracked again: "George talks about our dealing with inanimate objects, and he deals with theanimate. The only trouble is, the inanimate objects are handled by the animate." The other mobilization officials made brief technical reports, and Johnston adjourned the meeting. Surprise Oil Vote Tidelands oil lobbyists are planning a neat trick in order to win the wealthy submerged oil lands off the coast of Texas, California, and Louisiana. They are secretly planning to bring up their bill for a surprise vote tomorrow when northeastern Congressmen begin their Friday exodus to New York and Philadelphia. Northeastern Congressmen for the most part favor the plan proposed by ex-Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and pushed by Senator Hill of Alabama and others, to use royalties from submerged oil lands to aid the schools and colleges of the entire nation. The Supreme Court has ruled that tidelands oil belong not to the three states which have large deposits off their shores, but to the entire 48 states. However, the oil lobby has introduced a bill which would reverse the Supreme Court. This is the bill set for a surprise vote on Friday. Note 1—Several hundred thousand teachers, school boards, and parent-teacher associations will be watching to see what Congressmen are absent on Friday and how the others vote. Note 2—Senator Case of South Dakota, Republican, who went on record several years ago for the use of tidelands oil royalties for education, is now helping the fight for the improvement of schools and colleges. Protecting the Lobbyists Though the law requires that Congress publish quarterly reports, and Johnston adjourned the meeting. OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD By WALDO HUNTER MONDAY AFTERNOON, I went for a leisurely ride in the cool of the day in a 1932 Ford V-8 with 1939 Mercury engine attached, sans fenders, and powered by 100 proof aviation gasoline assisted. I think, by turbo-jet auxiliary motors in the rear. Never one to turn down a dare. I accepted a ride with Bernard (Curley) Couch, Gazette printer, in his "roadster" which we motorists who like to dodder along at 60 or 70 miles per hour generally refer to as a "hotrod." Curley is a member in good standing of "The Strokers," a group of mad automobile mechanical wizards who stand agast at anything so silly as putting regular or ethyl gasoline in a car. Curley might OK the use of 28-cent ethyl as something for cleaning windshields, but should you suggest he burn it in his "roadster", he might look at you and ask, "would you put molasses in your fountain pen?" But to get back to my first ride in a "hot rod," Curley pumped air into the gas tank by means of a plunger under the dash, yelled "stand clear of the props," and about a minute later we had traversed the distance from the Gazette office to Placentia ave. For at least half of this distance we were within the limits of the City of Anaheim, a bit of information which the city police can mull over during these long summer evenings. Turning right on Placentia, after a stop which sounded like two mild panthers loose among a flock of turkeys, my chauffeur stomped on the accelerator like someone trying to trample a rattlesnake, and as his impatient steer violently responded to this sudden applause when I wouldn't push the thing up to 60 mph in low gear. Curley has actually driven this car 135 miles per hour up at El Mirage Dry Lake where members of the Southern California Timing Association gather periodically to test the durability of man and machine. The public has come to associate "hot-rods" with teen-agers, but I am informed that a majority of the members of The Strokers are family men. Fuels used to power their snorting mechanical monsters range from the milder aviation gasoline to menthenol "a percentage of sodium nitrate," and hydrogen peroxide. They have even mixed gun powder with alcohol with "amazing results," Curley said. From left to right on the dash panel are the following instruments: oil pressure gauge, tachometer (rpm gauge), gas pressure gauge, ammeter, engine temperature gauge, speedometer, and vacuum gauge. I looked in vain for the altimeter. Membership In The Strokers is not restrictive, but your induction into the inner circle will be expedited if you can drive from Valencia hotel in Anaheim to the General Grant hotel in San Diego in 68 minutes flat with a short stop for lunch at Groom's. MOUNT RUSHMORE. Four great stone faces on Ca's past look serenely on the mountains here. And each year nearly living Americans come to this quartet of their heroes, fixed forever in g It took $900,000 and put these great faces on a 6000-foot peak Black Hills. The faces four American presidents from left to right are George Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Each measures 60 feet echin to forehead, the help five story building. The gigantic faces would into big stone grins if they hear the remarks of some confused at their identity. Dren are often better than parents at naming all four names. Almost all the visitors nize Lincoln and Washington. But several have starved Roosevelt and demanded did Tom Dewey get up. Oddly, Thomas Jeffers wrote the Declaration of Independence and bought this whiskey from France in the Louisiashale, is the most confusing guess him to be President or President Madison. And it is a wonder that son didn't blush at one told her questioning husband. "The one next to Was You're a college graduate and you mean to tell me you recognize Martha Washina." The tourists are always... Note 2—Senator Case of South Dakota, Republican, who went on record several years ago for the use of tidelands oil royalties for education, is now helping the fight for the improvement of schools and colleges. Protecting the Lobbyists Though the law requires that Congress publish quarterly reports on lobbyists in the Congressional Record, giving their names, incomes, and affiliations, no report has been made so far this year. However, a report on the lobbies for the first quarter of this year has been gathering dust at the government printing office for almost three months — all because Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, chairman of the joint committee on printing, has refused to permit its publication. Senator Hayden claims that it would cost too much to print the full report in the Congressional Record. However, the Arizona Senator hasn't raised his voice against filling the Record with page after page of form letters against price controls which these same lobbyists have inserted through friendly Congressmen at the taxpayers' expense. Naturally, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the American Medical Association, and other big lobbyists agree with Senator Hayden in not wanting the names of their pressure men, or their fees trade public. However, the law is quite clear, and at the moment Senator Hayden is violating the law. POP BOTTLE BAND SWIFT CURRENT, Sask., (P)—An old aluminum teapot and a pile of soda-pop bottles are the mainstays of Swift Current's unique "Bottle Blowers" Orchestra." Using small medicine bottles, ordinary-size pop bottles, and quart-size pop bottles (the "bass" section) for accompaniment, the youngsters who make up the band supplement the musical group with tonettes, and auto harp, drum, and a set of melodic bells. Each bottle is filled with colored water to a different level, producing a musical note when the player blows into the top of the bottle. All musicians play from music. Citrus Market The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all markets California oranges were higher in spots. REPRESENTATIVE PRICES BY SIZE: SUNKIST (First Grade)— Size 126 150 176 200 220 232 248 6.24 5.56 5.60 5.62 5.30 5.31 CHOICE (Second Grade)— Size 126 150 176 200 220 232 248 5.08 4.93 5.00 5.04 4.97 LOS ANGELES, July 26—(P)—The Federal State Markets service reported today lemons and oranges steady, prices unchanged; grapefruit about steady Arizona, steady others. - Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor THE OLD LAW of demand and supply works today as it always has but with the exception that we now know a few things about putting a cushion under the effect it might have on the economic condition of the producer. Of course, we will admit that the California valencia grower is the poorest protected person in our entire economic scale—but it is not because he doesn't spend money to protect himself. He certainly spends enough through all the tremendous, expensive ramifications of the California Fruit Growers Exchange who seem totally unprepared to return the California valencia grower a profit on his crop. The odd thing about it is the fact that the average grower does not realize and DEMAND a better job from his sales agency. Why should the California valencia be the only fruit with no decent return to the grower? And with the great (by their own admission) Exchange on three-quarters of the selling end? LOOK AT ANY OTHER crop. Look at Florida citrus with a FLOOR price of $2.35 a box—with the LARGEST crop in their history to boot. Let the Exchange try to laugh that one off. The Florida grower has the money in his pocket—if he so chose. The big Wall Street processors have the product—and they will sell it, too. That Exchange talk about a large "carry-over" sounds like the same song they put out last year—or do you remember? But you didn't hear anything about it later on, did you? No, it all was sold. It is our considered belief that the great Exchange puts out this kind of propaganda to scare the growers into taking the kind of money it looks like they will get this year with no large moans. And remember a dollar today, on the tree, meant 50 cents a box ten years ago. As a little aside the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has announced this year's BUMPER tobacco crop is breaking all records for money return to the grower. We hardly need to add that the tobacco growers have no "Exchange" running their deal. Now to get back to the old law of supply and demand. In our somber view the Exchange was put together by California citrus growers to EXPAND the demand for California citrus. Over the years this has been done by the California citrus industry. Not by the Exchange alone. They were probably the pioneers—but they were run when the records were made by an entirely different group of people. Hal Boyle MOUNT RUSHMORE, S. D., UP — Four great stone faces of America's past look serenely out across the mountains here. And each year nearly 750,000 living Americans come to stare at this quartet of their national heroes, fixed forever in granite. It took $900,000 and it killed a great sculptor, Guizom Borglum, to put these great stone faces on a 6000-foot peak in the Black Hills. The faces are of four American presidents. Reading from left to right, they are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Each measures 60 feet from chin to forehead, the height of a five story building. The gigantic faces would break into big stone grins if they could hear the remarks of some tourists, confused at their identity. The children are often better than their parents at naming all four correctly. Almost all the visitors recognize Lincoln and Washington. But several have stared up at Roosevelt and demanded: "How did Tom Dewey get there?" Oddly, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and bought this whole area from France in the Louisiana Purchase, is the most confusing. Many guess him to be President Monroe or President Madison. And it is a wonder that Jefferson didn't blush at one wife who told her questioning husband: "The one next to Washington? You're a college graduate, John; and you mean to tell me you don't recognize Martha Washington." The tourists are always impressed of money it looks like they will get this year with no large moans. And remember a dollar today, on the tree, meant 50 cents a box ten years ago. As a little aside the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has announced this year's BUMPER tobacco crop is breaking all records for money return to the grower. We hardly need to add that the tobacco growers have no "Exchange" running their deal. Now to get back to the old law of supply and demand. In our somber view the Exchange was put together by California citrus growers to EXPAND the demand for California citrus. Over the years this has been done by the California citrus industry. Not by the Exchange alone. They were probably the pioneers—but they were run when the records were made by an entirely different group of people. THEY NOW LACK LEADERSHIP. They now lack incentive. They now lack a great deal of their former value to the valencia grower. They now are better to work for; better jobs, more provident plans moola, more "hired help" control, and we could go on and on. Now, wait a minute before you throw that briekbat, Mr. Wilcox. Or call that awful—awful name in the telephone, yep, we heard. Instead of getting irked about being talked to straight why don't you tell the eastern boys that the slesta is over and your growers need a little gelt? Hey? That the dollar return won't pay the bills back on the grove. That many sharp California growers are demanding a floor under the auction prices or we will not go to auction. That they are now aware that the Exchange CAN DO THIS VERY THING—IF they want to. How do you like that? It is a provable FACT and there sits the California grower, supinely waiting, for the "hired help" to get him some money for valencias. But if he would sit up and show his teeth to the Kremlin he (the grower) would not have but a few hours to wait. What are we waiting for? Mail Bag To the editor and fellow-citizens: We have in our midst a worthy fellow citizen, William "Bill" Tobin, who is, because of a physical disability, in need of an electric wheel chair as a means of transportation. His numerous services and kindnesses to service men during the last war, his always pleasant and happy hello to us who see him daily, regardless of how bad he may feel and the exertion which he has gone to, to wheel himself from his home some six blocks away to the corner of Center and Los Angeles streets where he sells his papers, has earned among many of us the thought that he should have his electric wheel chair, to ease his daily burdens. With this thought in mind, this group is undertaking the task of raising $650.00 to purchase a new electric Autoette Car, buy the material and build a suitable ramp terries. It is also our idea that at the time when Bill is no longer in need of the car, it shall revert back to some charitable organization in the city of Anaheim to be again given to some other worthy individual. With these thoughts in mind, we are appealing for funds in any amount which you feel you can give. We all know that Anaheimers have always been ready, willing and generous in donating to worthy causes and we that know Bill, feel that this is something we can all be proud to give towards. Thanking you for your kind consideration and looking forward to a phone call, we remain, Sincerely, Barney Brodie, 112 No. Los Angeles st., 4070. Win Burden, 709 E. Center st., phone 2204. Charlie Meeks, 115½ N. Philadelphia st., 7895. Steve Gallagher, Bank of America Bldg. phone 2745. ence and bought this whole area from France in the Louisiana Purchase, is the most confusing. Many guess him to be President Monroe or President Madison. And it is a wonder that Jefferson didn’t blush at one wife who told her questioning husband: "The one next to Washington? You’re a college graduate, John, and you mean to tell me you don’t recognize Martha Washington." The tourists are always impressed by such facts about the memorial as: The nose of Washington is longer than the entire head of the Sphinx. If turned upside down and filled with water, six men could swim comfortably in it. If completed, the figures would be 465 feet tall from toe to crown. The sparkle in Lincoln’s eye is a 30-inch-long granite block. A man could stand erect in Jefferson’s eyeball. One question almost every tourist asks is, "How long will it last?" The age of the memorial—it is named after Charles E. Rushmore, a mining engineer—was fixed by geologists at nearly 1,500,000 years. They have estimated the memorial would erode Market exchange reported today all auction eager in spots. IZE: 176 200 220 232 288 344 5.60 5.62 5.30 5.31 5.28 176 208 270 252 288 344 5.00 5.04 4.97 - The Federal State Market News ranges steady, prices unchanged; ready others. at the rate of an inch every 100,000 years. Told of this, Sculptor Borglum switched his plans to add another foot to Washington's nose, and explained: "That will give it another million years at least." Most tourists, probably Democrats, feel they put the wrong President Roosevelt on the mountain, and want to know when FDR's face will make a quintet of the quartet. The answer of most natives: "Never, as long as South Dakota votes Republican." The memorial, first proposed in 1924 by Doane Robinson, a historian, was actively opposed by many leading Dakota citizens. They liked their Black Hills as they were. They didn't want them turned into a mountain art gallery. But sculptor Borglum took up the dream. He wanted to put a part of the American story in stone as a rebuke to future "selfish, coveting civilizations." His heart, weakened by years of work in high altitude, failed in 1941. But his task was largely done. Today Mount Rushmore is a national shrine. Visitors who come to see it now spend millions ing odd jobs. annually in South Dakota, the state that at first rejected Borglum's dream. DREAM VOYAGE VANCOUVER (UP)—The incurable romantics who gaze on Vancouver's waterfront have just seen one family's dream coming true. Quietly and without fanfare, a little sailing ship put out to sea on an adventurous voyage recently. On board the Wind Song were a man and wife and their wideeyed child. The trip they had planned for six years was finally a reality. Skipper of the vessel was Allen Farrell, 39-year-old artist, and his crew consisted of his wife and eight-year-old son Kerry. For Farrel, the voyage was the start of a vagabond adventure he had planned years ago. The Wind Song is schooner-rigged, built by the Farrels out of the best and stoutest materials. On the first leg of their voyage the Farrells are heading for the Hawaiian Islands and the port of Hilo, 2,400 miles distant. They plan to earn their way from island to island by selling the skippers' paintings and stories, or do come to see it now spend millions ing odd jobs.