anaheim-gazette 1951-08-01

Anaheim Gazette WEDNESDAY, AUGUST J. 1951 ANAHEIM, GALIFORNIA 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 3, 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: $0 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 dispatches. THEODORE B. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher LEONARD KREIDT City Editor HOWARD HALL News Editor STANLEY JONES Sports Editor NEIL STANLEY Advertising Manager G. E. MELLEN Assistant Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager DON YOUNG Circulation Manager Don't be a stranger... With California's steadily rising population—estimated at 25, 000 a month—we have an unusually high percentage of newcomers in our midst at all times. Most of these people have come here of their own choice to enjoy the better life which California has to offer. Their presence and the contribution of their time and talents to the vast diversity of California enterprises are helping to create a more prosperous economy and is enabling them and others to realize the full measure of better living. But being in unfamiliar surroundings some of the new arrivals are somewhat timid in making new contacts. Yet, it is through such contacts that they will more quickly feel at home and more readily take an active part in local civic, social and organizational activities. Local merchants and tradesmen are always glad to meet the newcomers and to be of service to them. So, it is well for the stranger to introduce himself where he will do his trading in order that he may quickly become known, and to open an account at the nearest bank so that his identity and credit standing may be properly established. The newspaper editor also likes to hear from new residents. The people of California are a friendly people and they welcome newcomers. If you have recently arrived in California the hand of hospitality is extended to you. WASHINGTON (C) Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the word to his ers that he is not int eresting Republican nomination tionally - mind cans and the way th attacks on him go. One close friend w from Paris recently way: "If the Republic merely to bail out th win an election, they' taken. That would be a million dollar joke dollar horse." "The general is n bit interested in m president just to a candidate for she who say they want lly are going to do than say. He's a fin will win the electi They'll have to work to make the Republ kind of a place general would feel e. Eisenhower's close that this issue will l whether he consents s on which party. The enhower is disturbed dctors: 1. The prospect th nominee he might h isolationist Republic which would then pro the military and c Drawing the line ... In the truce talks with the Chinese and North Korean communists we should be as insistent on holding the present battle line in Korea as we were in our refusal to discuss the removal of troops from the peninsula. The reds want the truce line to be established at the 38th parallel, although we are in some places 25 to 35 miles north of it. To accede to their demands would not only mean the surrender of hard won ground but would also put us back on terrain that is hard to defend. Where we are now we hold ridges which would give us a defensive advantage should the fighting break out again. According to one Pentagon spokesman we have already given the enemy a chance to recover from our northward drive by easing up during the truce talks in order to show our "good faith." The same spokesman said we had also pulled one seabed unit out of the battle line and sent it to Japan since the truce talks began. In the meantime, we know, the reds have been building up their strength at the front. If the Pentagon official's statement is accurate, then we have shown bad judgment in attempting to show good faith. Making concessions to the communists never gains anything—it merely puts us deeper in the hole. We should know by this time that the reds are neither rational nor reasonable. So, let's act accordingly. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago The irrepressible Jeff brought in from the Landing last evening a large sack of oysters. He intends to cultivate his oyster beds. If he can succeed in getting a good oyster bed he will be indeed a lucky Jeff. He has our thanks for a generous lot of bivalves, which he left in this office. About 15 minutes past nine o'clock last night, several shocks of earthquake were plainly felt. The direction of the shocks seemed to be from southeast to northwest. The following was shipped from the depot yesterday: 2 kegs wine, absence of some years. They are guests at the Commercial hotel. Col. R. J. Northam and bride passed through town on Monday morning, on the Southern Pacific from the north, on the way to the Colonel's country seat at Las Bolsas. Oscar Renner and Pat Seales are rusticating at the Landing for a couple of weeks. Arthur Lewis and family are spending a couple of weeks at Avalon. During his absence his place as city electrical engineer Eisenhower's close contact with this issue will lead whether he consents on which party. The enchower is disturbed by it: 1. The prospect that nominee he might be isolationist Republic which would then provide the military and c program which he has heading. 2. The lack of a hard fective international bloc in Congress, as Senator Arthur Van Vanderveen active. The last attempt to organize the international Senate Republicans in January, 1949, when Sen Cabot Lodge, Jr., came in. 3. Taft Tightens Grip 4. The noisy attackal from both the China and the Gerald L. K. of hate-mongers. The being flooded with w against the general, w friends sit on the side. NOTE — Meanwhile Dewey's brain trust plans to organize tha for Eisenhower. The Lockwood, now with Far East; his shrewd tary, Jim Hagerty; a Truman's 1948 camp writer, former col Franklin. Sam Stands Pat. House Republican make a deal recently No. 1 penny-pincher Taber of New York, or propriations subcommittee would enable him to ter bed he will be indeed a lucky Jeff. He has our thanks for a generous lot of bivalves, which he left in this office. About 15 minutes past nine o'clock last night, several shocks of earthquake were plainly felt. The direction of the shocks seemed to be from southeast to northwest. The following was shipped from the depot yesterday: 2 kegs wine, 17 sacks potatoes, 1 box butter, 1 pipe wine, 1 can honey, 1 box trees, 2 half bbls. beer, 34 sks. castoor beans. For Sale or Rent—The undersigned will sell or rent his house on the corner of Adele and Hermine sts., Anaheim. The house contains four rooms and is well finished. There are the usual outhouses, fine well of water and fine yard. Will be disposed of at a great bargain.—Obed Macy. The Hayes and Wheeler club held a meeting last night, and arrangements were made to hold a ratification meeting on next Thursday night at which ex-Governor Woods will speak. 50 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Peter Syre celebrated their wooden wedding on Monday and were remembered by their friends of the Turner Society who called to wish them many happy returns of the day and to present them with suitable gifts. Mrs. Charles Hilmer and her son Louis of San Francisco are visiting friends in town after an Oscar Renner and Pat Seales are rusticating at the Landing for a couple of weeks. Arthur Lewis and family are spending a couple of weeks at Avalon. During his absence his place as city electrical engineer is being filled by his brother Fred. Peter Weisel departed some days ago on a trip to the east and to Europe. 25 Years Ago Mrs. Julia Clabaugh celebrated her birthday Thursday by giving a party to a number of friends. Those present were her daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Frank Borth and Mrs. Robert Gibbs; Mrs. W. S. Price, sister of the hostess, Mrs. Ernest Zitzman and daughter Mrs. Wilhelmina Zitzman; Mrs. Peter Miller and Mrs. Alice Miller. Mr. and Mrs. William Stark and son, Judge Eldon Stark, are at home again after an extended tour through the northern part of the state. They report an enjoyable trip. An eight and a half pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Mattis, at the home of Mrs. Mattis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montenyohl, at 131 West Chartres street; Saturday, Grandpa Montenyohl, who is a veteran city mail carrier, was so excited over the event that he got his deliveries Far East; his shrewd tary, Jim Hagerty; a Truman's 1948 camp writer, former col Franklin. Sam Stands Pat House Republican make a deal recently No. 1 penny-pincher Taber of New York, or propriations subcommittee would enable him to eye on every penny by Congress. The GOP return an offer not to cut department's tions. This was a shift because they knew Power appropriationterior bill were dealt Speaker Sam Raybuck It was left to GO Martin to try to make Ambling up to Raybuck bled: "I plan to object to bill unless a deal can out." Rayburn wouldn't fact, he wouldn't ever "I'm not interested before Martin could GOP offer." considerably mixed two. Miss Beryl Kenned popular young school spending her vacation summer school in Long Edward Lee Conart rect name for Irish light-heavyweight picked up the "Murph in the Navy." WASHINGTON (P) — General Dwight D. Eisenhower has quietly passed the word to his GOP boosters that he is not interested in the Republican nomination—if isolationists control the party. In addition, like let it be known that he is upset by the timid and hesitant policy of internationally-minded Republicans and the way they let bitter attacks on him go unheeded. One close friend who returned from Paris recently put it this way: "If the Republicans want Ike merely to bail out the party and win an election, they're badly mistaken. That would be like putting a million dollar jockey on a two dollar horse." "The general is not the least bit interested in running for president just to accommodate a candidate for sheriff. Those who say they want Ike so badly are going to do a lot more than say, 'He's a fine fellow and will win the election for us.' They'll have to work and fight to make the Republican party the kind of a place where the general would feel at home." Eisenhower's close friends agree that this issue will largely decide whether he contents to run—and on which party. They claim Eisenhower is disturbed by four factors: 1. The prospect that as the GOP nominee he might help elect an isolationist Republican Congress which would then proceed to dump the military and economic aid Eisenhower's close friends agree that this issue will largely decide whether he contents to run—and on which party. They claim Eisenhower is disturbed by four factors: 1. The prospect that as the GOP nominee he might help elect an isolationist Republican Congress which would then proceed to dump the military and economic aid program which he has been spearheading. 2. The lack of a hard-hitting, effective international-minded GOP bloc in Congress, as existed when Senator Arthur Vandenberg was active. The last attempt to organize the internationalists among Senate Republicans was in January, 1949, when Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., called a meeting. The rump group met only once. Tuft Tightens Grip 3. The way the Taft-isolationist wing has grabbed control of the GOP party machinery. Ab Hermann, the national committee's executive director, boasted to Senate secretaries the other night: "We're building a sound organization precinct by precinct, so we won't have to ride to victory on the coattails of a strong and popular figure." The Taft crowd are in charge of the Chicago convention machinery and determined to prevent an Eisenhower gallery demonstration. 4. The noisy attacks on the general from both the Chicago Tribune and the Gerald L. K. Smith brand of hate-mongers. The mails are being flooded with vile distribs against the general, while his GOP friends sit on the sidelines. NOTE — Meanwhile, Governor Dewey's braintrust is laying out plans to organize the East Coast for Eisenhower. The trio is Paul Lockwood, now with Dewey in the Far East; his shrewd press secretary, Jim Hagerty; and President Truman's 1948 campaign speech writer, former columnist Jay Franklin. Sam Stands Pat House Republicans tried to make a deal recently to put their No. 1 penny-pincher, Rep. John Taber of New York, on all the appropriations subcommittees. This would enable him to keep a hawk-eyed economy uncontested. Hal Boyle By FRANK ECK (For Hal Boyle) NEW YORK (F)—My entire life has been changed. It took me five years of contemplation and people said I was crazy. They told me not to do it, but I built a home. Or rather, I got a builder to build it on my own little half-acre 40-odd miles out on Long Island on the former Otto Kahn estate—now known as Cold Spring Hills. This however, is not a complaint, even though people still continuously warn me about the Long Island railroad, the biggest little railroad in the world. Thus far, I don't have too many complaints about the LIRR, but I've been riding it only a few weeks. A country boy who moved into the city, I decided maybe the country wasn't so bad after all, six years ago my wife Vi and I picked up our own plot of ground. We paid our taxes every year, except one time when the bill got shoved back in a seldom-used drawer. Every so often we would drive out and admire our hunk of woods, occupied by some 40 oak trees, a couple of birches and poison ivy. About 14 months ago, we decided it was time. We became more friendly with a University of Michigan graduate who came close to winning a national contest in architecture last winter. Maybe if we hadn't bothered him so much about the plans for our six-room ranch house he would have won it. Anyway, he promised the plans would be under our Christmas tree. Christmas day, we looked. No plans. Two weeks later, after several long conferences with Vi and some muscle. But that's just a minor detail. First day in I had to erect a medicine cabinet in the cellar lavatory so I could shave. The medicine cabinet in the bathroom was in, but there's no basin. Shortages it seems. In some places the painter put more brush on the window panes than on the woodwork. He didn't miss the doorknobs either, but he did miss a radiator cover completely and several strips of moulding. The electric light over the wash tubs doesn't work, but the cellar radio plays well. We're out too far to get good television reception and there's too much static. During the summer there's a pump at the water pumping station that beats and beats. For the first week Vi thought it was her heart kicking up again. I thought it was the drummer at the local military academy band until we learned that he only works-out on Saturdays. On Sunday we drive five miles basketball, tennis, swimming, and so on. I don't agree with reasoning. Boxing, sent today, is based on a sorry commute moral plane of our cern culture; it is coflame the innate sad mant in most hummies rendered all the men by the fact that it is commercialized by about the business pugs for the "big time men breeding prize." We have all kinds ofizations for the cruelty to animals yet we condone—n billions of dollars to satisfy in the boxing cruelty which we think as "sport." Reprinted below from an Associated describing a "bout" heavyweights Bob Mickelson before 16 fans in Boston: "Rindone had play Murphy at long range clever counter play all plans worked fairly the first four rounds almost on even ten to the fifth." By that time Mr. least 20 times in Far East; his shrewd press secretary, Jim Hagerty; and President Truman's 1948 campaign speech writer, former columnist Jay Franklin. Sam Stands Pat House Republicans tried to make a deal recently to put their No. 1 penny-pincher, Rep. John Taber of New York, on all the appropriations subcommittees. This would enable him to keep a hawk-eye on every penny appropriated by Congress. The GOP return pay-off was an offer not to cut the Interior department's appropriations. This was a shrewd move, because they knew the Public Power appropriations in the Interior bill were dear indeed to Speaker Sam Rayburn's heart. It was left to GOP leader Joe Martin to try to make the bargain. Ambling up to Rayburn, Joe mumbled: "I plan to object to the Interior bill unless a deal can be worked out." Rayburn wouldn't tumble. In fact, he wouldn't even listen. "I'm not interested," he snapped before Martin could make the GOP offer. considerably mixed for a day or two. Miss Beryl Kennedy, one of our popular young school teachers is spending her vacation attending summer school in Long Beach. Edward Lee Conarty is the correct name for Irish Bob Murphy, the light-heavyweight boxer. He picked up the "Murphy" monicker in the Navy. THE FOLLOWING is a reprint of parts of a column written by N. E. Lavigne, Florida Mutual tub-thumper, for another Florida newsman who is on a vacation. He goes into some of the things Mutual does for the Florida grower. It is always a relief to us to read reports of Florida writers who write with extreme candor and compare them with iron-curtain reports which are cautiously handed out to the California grower. From Florida we present Mr. Lavigne; Seems funny to be writing a column again. We did it every week for several years for the Lakeland Ledger, but we've had to forego it now that we're Mutual's press relations man, or as Jack Gurnett sometimes describes us, Mutual's chief tub-thumper. We never looked on our citrus column as work. We enjoyed the freedom it provided for interpreting the news of the week and editorializing. It gave us the opportunity to explain to our eight readers some of the things which were happening and which couldn't be explained in straight news stories. "COVERING" THE Florida citrus industry as a newspaperman is a highly specialized profession. We don't know of any other agricultural commodity which gets as thorough newspaper coverage as Florida citrus. Out in California, which grows more of almost everything than any other state in the union, the newsboys give the citrus business a lick and a promise and let it go at that. When California gets frozen out or something equally sensational happens, the newspapers print it. But they make no effort whatever to give the citrus business out there the probing day-to-day type of coverage which is done in Florida. The reason it's news is because there are probably 15,000 persons who own groves and several times that number who work in citrus plants or have a direct interest in the citrus business. On top of that there are several hundred thousand persons whose prosperity is directly tied to the prosperity of the citrus business. Doctors don't get paid, grocery store owners are hard hit, theater attendance falls off and every activity in the state is affected when citrus prices are low. That is why Florida newspapers devote so much space to citrus news. Their subscribers demand it. Only three newspapers have special citrus reporters, but through these three newsmen the happenings are furnished to the two big press associations: Associated Press and United Press, and through them to the radio stations. probably won't "set" too well with hard-working sport's editor, but he weeks in Mexico beginning Monday due the point anyway. The question all thoughtful readers is: Why is What is there sportsmanlike about basketball, tennis, pole vaulting, swimming, and so on down the line. I don't agree with this line of reasoning. Boxing, as it is presented today, is base vulgar, brutish, a sorry commentary on the moral plane of our so-called modern culture; it is contrived to inflame the innate sadism lying dormant in most humans, and it is rendered all the more disgusting by the fact that it is outrageously commercialized by men who go about the business of grooming pugs for the "big time" like stockmen breeding prize bulls. We have all kinds of organizations for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children, yet we condone—may, pay millions of dollars to support cruelty in the boxing ring, savage cruelty which we thinly disguise as "sport." Reprinted below is an excerpt from an Associated Press story describing a "bout" between light heavyweights Bob Murphy and Joe Rindone before 16,501 cultured fans in Boston: "Rindone had planned to keep Murphy at long range with a clever counter attack. Joe's plans worked fairly well during the first four rounds and he was almost on even terms going into the fifth. "By that time Murphy, hit at least 20 times in each round, The reason it's news is because there are probably 15,000 persons who own groves and several times that number who work in citrus plants or have a direct interest in the citrus business. On top of that there are several hundred thousand persons whose prosperity is directly tied to the prosperity of the citrus business. Doctors don't get paid, grocery store owners are hard hit, theater attendance falls off and every activity in the state is affected when citrus prices are low. That is why Florida newspapers devote so much space to citrus news. Their subscribers demand it. Only three newspapers have special citrus reporters, but through these three newsmen the happenings are furnished to the two big press associations. Associated Press and United Press, and through them to the radio stations. It took us five years to learn about the citrus business to be able to write a passably good story after attending a meeting of some agency. And we never fail to sympathize with the new reporter who is assigned to the citrus beat, during his first few weeks. Please note that we carefully qualified that statement above by use of the word "passably." We're a long ways from knowing very much about the citrus industry yet and the longer we stay close to it the more we realize just how much more there is to learn. Mutual each day, sometime after 6 p.m., issues a daily information bulletin which goes to all packing houses and processing plants in the state. This gives the FOB prices on fresh fruit, reviews what happened in the auction markets and also gives the prices being paid by processors for raw fruit. We have been told that this daily bulletin is invaluable to the fresh fruit operators as a means of knowing what is happening. It is delivered to them the next morning. Then each week Mutual issues its Newsletter, which is part of our job. Naturally, the Newsletter is devoted almost entirely to news about Mutual, but one part is reserved each week for a statistical table which gives day by day the FOB and auction prices, what canner and concentrators have been paying, how much fruit has been utilized and what's left. This Newsletter goes by first class mail, usually on Saturdays to Mutual's grower members. It costs over $200 a week just for postage, but unless it is delivered promptly, the price information is of no value. Joe Strickland, Mutual's fresh fruit division head, supervises the daily market information bulletin and is doing some deep thinking on plans to improve it for another season. There is no charge, of course, for either his bulletin or the Newsletter. Both are part of the service which Mutual is rendering the industry on the theory that a well informed industry will operate more smoothly and make more money for everybody all along the line. WE HAVE seen the industry grow from a production of 40,000 boxes to almost three times that much in the dozen or so years we have been associated with it. During the season just closing, Florida grew one and a half times as many oranges as it had grown all kinds of citrus put together back in those days. And always there has been the fear that we were growing too much, that we wouldn't be able to sell it. Except for an occasional year when there would be "economic abandonment," the polite term Uncle Sam uses to say some fruit dropped on the ground, Florida has sold its crops. The price wasn't always too good, but the fact remains that somebody bought it and ate it and got the benefit of the vitamins it contained. Looking at it over the years, Florida's energetic and ingenious citrus men have done an amazing job of selling. The job, you might say, was forced on them by ever increasing crops, but the fact remains that they did it. And they'll keep right on doing it, convincing more people all the time that they ought to cat more citrus. We welcome a chance to tell anybody about Mutual and what it is trying to do for the industry—an industry which was floundering helplessly in the mire of cut-throat competition and almost serile- describing a "bout" between light heavyweights Bob Murphy and Joe Rindone before 16,501 cultured fans in Boston: "Rindone had planned to keep Murphy at long range with a clever counter attack. Joe's plans worked fairly well during the first four rounds and he was almost on even terms going into the fifth. "By that time Murphy, hit at least 20 times in each round, was convinced Rindone could not hurt him. So he stormed out like a bull, wrapped his right arm around Rindone's neck and belted his body with terrific lefts. As Rindone started to sag, Murphy dropped him for the full count with a left hook in 2:02 of the fifth session. "While thus insuring his championship clash with Maxim, the California clouter upheld ringdom's theory that big men generally beat smaller ones in devastating fashion." This column is receptive to arguments pointing out how such antics could by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as "sport." Here is another little item further describing the fine points of the "manly" art: "MONTREAL, July 25 (P)—Charles (Caby) Lewis, 128½, of Brooklyn, last night lost by an eight-round technical knockout to Montreal's Armano Savole, 136, in a scheduled 10-rounder here. Lewis went down for eight in the first round and again in the sixth, but fought two more rounds, using only one arm. Then the referee found Lewis' left arm was broken." Some fun, huh? Except for an occasional year when there would be "economic abandonment," the police term Uncle Sam uses to say some fruit dropped on the ground, Florida has sold its crops. The price wasn't always too good, but the fact remains that somebody bought it and ate it and got the benefit of the vitamins it contained. Looking at it over the years, Florida's energetic and ingenious citrus men have done an amazing job of selling. The job, you might say, was forced on them by ever increasing crops, but the fact remains that they did it. And they'll keep right on doing it, convincing more people all the time that they ought to eat more citrus. We welcome a chance to tell anybody about Mutual and what it is trying to do for the industry—an industry which was floundering helplessly in the mire of cut-throat competition and almost sacrilegious ignorance. Mutual is no panacea for all the industry's ill and has never claimed it was, even though some of its ardent supporters sometimes put it on an awfully high pedestal. But it has truly tried to do something to eliminate the blind competition of the past, with its vicious circle of price-cutting, and put a little stability into the business. It isn't easy. But then, very few things worth while are easy. Come see us, won't you? Two Grades Ground Beef Legalized by New OPS Ruling Two grades of ground beef may now be offered for sale in meat markets under a new rule issued by the Office of Price Stabilization, according to William C. Mooser, director of the San Diego District O.P.S. office. The meat shall be known as "Regular Ground Beef" and "Lean Ground Beef." The lean variety carries a ceiling price of 10 cents higher than the regular type. Mooser said the regular ground beef must contain no more than 25 per cent beef fat and the lean variety is limited to 12 per cent beef fat. O.P.S. rules provide that the lean ground beef can be offered for sale only when a supply of the regular kind is also available and that both types must be displayed side by side in trays with the prices plainly marked. The ceiling price on beef brains has been advanced 10 cents per pound. Mooser said. Frozen food lockers also are permitted an additional markup on prices of certain wholesale cuts of meat, he said. The cuts are listed under Schedule 1 of Coiling Price Regulation 24. Food locker operators may obtain full information at the district O.P.S. office. When the children get grass or leaf stains on summer clothing that is washable, use a warm solution, on the spot and rub between your fingers.