anaheim-gazette 1951-08-10

Garden to Scale To find out how one couple handled a small-yard landscaping problem, turn to the Homes-Garden-Building page, Page 5, of today's issue of the Gazette. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM Oil: Is It Good or Bad for City? Coffee-Circuit Busy Speculating By LEONARD KREIDT The coffee circuits in Anaheim are currently buzzing with pro and con arguments on a highly interesting, highly controversial subject: oil. Comment was lacking to some degree immediately after Anaheim City Council signed a lease on some city-owned industrial zone land July 24 on which the Steele Oil Co. of Phoenix, Ariz., was to erect its whipstick drilling equipment, but there was no lack of comment following last Monday's Planning Commission meeting in which Chairman Joe R. Thompson warned in a prepared statement that there was more to the leasing proposition than met the eye. Thompson proposed that, before an oil drilling permit for the Steele Oil Co., was considered by either the Planning Commission or council, the will of the electorate should be sought on the question: Shall oil drilling be permitted within the city limits or not? Thompson was concerned, he said, that citizens in other areas of Anaheim should not be bound by a precedent established in the granting of a drilling permit in one small section of the city. "If it is granted in the indus- Chula’s Defense Motions Denied; Trial to Proceed Motions on behalf of Henry Ford McCracken for a change of venue for his murder trial from Orange county to San Francisco and for a 30 day postponement of his second trial, scheduled for next Monday, were denied today by Superior Judge Robert Gardner. Accordingly the way was cleared for opening of the second trial Monday morning before a special veniry of 50 jurors. Defense Attorney George Chula, arguing the motion for change of venue based his appeal chiefly on widespread newspaper publicity of the case and editorial criticism of 21 Local Future Farmers Plan Fair Exhibits Twenty-one boys from the Anaheim Union High school chapter of the Future Farmers of America will be represented in agricultural competition at the Orange County Fair, AUHS instructors Avon Carlson and Leland Hanson revealed today. Final arrangements for their entry was completed at a meeting of the chapter held Monday evening at the school. The chapter is also entering a booth in the fair, with Louis Stevens in charge. The booth will display products grown by members of the local chapter. Robert Van Dyke was placed in charge of the animal exhibits. The following boys will have exhibits at the fair: Bill Teague, steer; James McLaughlin, fat hog; Robert Vah Dyke, 4 steers and 2 heifers; Kenneth Van Dyke, 2 steers and 2 heifers; Roger Burrows, 2 steers; Richard Toussau, 1 feeder steer; Carroll Coykendall, 2 steers; Louis Stevens, 1 steer; James Cuthbert, goat; Ronald Korn, fat hogs, poultry and farm mechanics; Rodger DeMille, fat hog and farm mechanics; Eddie Herrera, poultry watering trough; Thomas Heinrich, saw horse; Jerry Fischbeck, cow, hay hooks and nail box; Larry Fischbeck, fat hog, rope halter and hog feeding trough; Andy Johnson, wall tool cabinet; Jack Dierberger, fat hog; Charles Holland, steer and Stanley Spicer, stock trailer. After the meeting they enjoyed and for a 30 day postponement of his second trial, scheduled for next Monday, were denied today by Superior Judge Robert Gardner. Accordingly the way was cleared for opening of the second trial Monday morning before a special veniry of 50 jurors. Defense Attorney George Chula, arguing the motion for change of venue based his appeal chiefly on widespread newspaper publicity of the case and editorial criticism of the jury disagreement at the first trial. Chula admitted there would be prejudice among the jurors anywhere in the United States but not as much as in the Southern California area and particularly in Orange county. He said the jury at McCracken's first trial was undoubtedly prejudiced to some extent or McCracken might have fared better than he did. Chula said he understood that the San Francisco newspapers had carried only a few back page stories about the trial and he considered that it would be a good place to try the case. The question of heavy cost involved in transferring the case to that city should not be weighed against justice for an innocent person, he said. District Attorney James L. Davis made no argument in rebuttal, having filed written objections to the motion. Chula's motion for a 30-day postponement of the trial date was submitted to the court without oral argument and only upon Chula's affidavit, which urged delay in holding the trial to allow all possible time for public passion and prejudice to subside. The court also denied that motion without comment. Citrus Market The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were slightly higher. SUNKIST (First Grade)—126s 6.69; 150s 6.93; 176s 6.83; 200s 6.77; 220s 6.44; 252s 6.25; 288s 6.16. CHOICE (Second Grade)—126s 5.95; 150s 6.16; 176s 6.16; 200s 6.04; 220s 5.84; 252s 5.73; Battle Casualties In Korea Set at 1,237,872 Total WASHINGTON (P) — Total enemy casualties in Korea through July 31 reached 1,237,872. The U.S. Army estimated today. This is an increase of 991 in eight days. Enemy battles casualties were estimated at 182,278. There were 164,833 counted prisoners of war. The Rev. Philip Selfridge to Speak At Union Service Sunday Night The Rev. Philip R. Selfridge of Anaheim's Evangelical United Brethern church, will speak on "There is But One Way" at the union church service, Sunday, at 8 o'clock. The service will be in the Christian church, 325 W. Bradway. Special music for the evening will be provided by Mrs. Margaret Besler, Anaheim soprano, and a quartet composed of Rollo Taylor, Vern Stanton, Dr. John Wilcox and Joe Thompson, all from St. Michael's Episcopal church. Mrs. Juaneta Ross will lead the congregational singing and Marshall McFee will be the organist. Mrs. Besler will sing Schubert's "Ave Maria" and "The Lord's Prayer" and assist the quartet in one number. The Male Quartet will sing (Continued on Page 8) The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were slightly higher. SUNKIST (First Grade)—126s 6.69; 150s 6.93; 176s 6.83; 200s 6.77; 220s 6.44; 252s 6.25; 288s 6.16. CHOICE (Second Grade)—126s 5.95; 150s 6.16; 176s 6.16; 200s 6.04; 220s 5.84; 252s 5.73; 288s 5.67. Three Resurfacing Jobs Begun on City Streets Today Three resurfacing operations on State highways through Anaheim were begun today and scheduled for completion Aug. 2. Tack coat preparation began the day on Center st., from East st., 1000 feet east. Re-surfacing will be done sometime Monday. Traffic will be detoured only about three hours during the operation. Tack coat will be laid on Los Angeles st., between Chestnut and Water st., Monday with re-surfacing to be completed Tuesday. Traffic will not be detoured but half of the street will be closed during re-surfacing. Center st., between Los Angeles st., and Manchester blvd., will tack-coated beginning Tuesday. Re-surfacing will begin Wednesday and completion of the street is expected by Aug. 21. Half of the street will be closed at a time to traffic during the operation. ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1951 AS, Tex., Aug. 16—BEATING THE HEAT—Both ice and fans are brought into play by telephone operators at an exchange here today as the city continued to swelter under 100-degree or over tem-tures. The thermometer reached a high of 102-degrees to run the consecutive days of 100-degreeings to ten. It is the longest period of such readings since 1925 when a record of 11 straight days set. High mark for the present heat wave was 107 on August 6—(Associated Press Wirephoto) Hostile Silence Demand Chronology of Long Silence Reviewed U.N. Advance Headquarter Korea (P) — Chronology of the great silence at today's 20th armistice meeting; based on notes taken by Brig. Gen. William Nuckols, U.N. command briefing officer: 2:45 p.m., one minute after the silence started, Nam Il, chief rdelegate, examined some papers. 2:47—A note passed between Chinese generals Tung Hua and Hhieh Fang. They held a whispered conference. 2:50—Nam Il "fidgety." More notes passed. 2:58—Nam Il checked his wat Temporary' Breeze Cools Scorched Southwest After Two Week Heat Wave Anaheim Resident Takes Life with Shot from Pistol Edwin Watters Lawrence, 57, died today of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence arrived in Anaheim Sunday from Indianapolis, Ind., where he had suffered business reversals and had become increasingly despondent. The couple were to stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Walker, 410 S. Ohio st., while the Walkers were away on a fishing trip. Mrs. Walker is the sister of Mrs. Lawrence. The Lawrence's planned to stay here and Mrs. Lawrence had applied for a job at Northrop just this week. Yesterday afternoon he drove downtown and bought a gun, making arrangements to pay for it and pick it up this morning. Early this morning he went downtown and cashed two traveler's checks to pay for the $30.90 32 Colt revolver and a half box of shells. He deviated from his usual habit of parking the car in front of the house and drove into the driveway, up to the garage, got out and went into the garage. A few moments later his wife heard a shot and found him on the garage (Continued on Page B) Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 79. High for the previous 24 hours was 79 at 3 p.m. yesterday. Low was 63 at 6 a.m. Fair Queens (and Ostriches) Parade Tomorrow in City All 12 of Orange County's luscious Fair Queen candidates will be on tour through the county tomorrow and will hit Anaheim for a Center st. parade about 11:30 a.m. Also in the line-up, but not vying for the same honors will be one of the racing ostriches which are scheduled to burn up the track in daily Ostrich Derbies during the fair. 12 Die, 60 Hurt As Streamliner, Troop Train, Ram SIMMESPORT, La. (P) — A head-on crash of a Kansas City Southern streamliner and a 300-marine troop train today killed 12 persons and injured 60 or more, state police reported. None of the dead was identified immediately, the state police report said. The bodies were on route to nearby Morganza, La. The wreck occurred about 7 a.m. (6 a.m. PDT) in a desolate swamp area 60 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, La. State police detailed 100 officers to the scene where communications were crippled by the wreck. Telephone lines parallelling the railroad were knocked down and only death messages could be telephoned out of the area. Several of the cars and both diesel engines caught fire after the smashup. A passenger on the Southern Belle said marines told him three or four officers were Nam II immediately began reeling from a prepared reply who had been translated in advance apparently in anticipation of Joe proposal. 5:29—Nam II finished. 5:31 — Joy extemporaneously summed up Nam II's refusal consider the next item and posed a recess until 11 a.m. (6 p.m. PDT, Friday). Nam II replied that he would continue to state communist views, and the me NO TIME WASTED—In the photo above, taken only five days after ground-breaking ceremonies Aug. 3, Northrop Aviation, Inc., looks like fulfilling plans to complete the $1,364,000 tank range finder factory in 100 days. Bulldozers, carryalls, earth-movers and graders have removed all orange trees from the site, a temporary office has been erected, rough framing is nearly complete on another building and a two-story residence on the site is jacked up and ready to move. Grading, which will raise the level of the building slightly, is under way in the cut above. (Gazette photo by Kreidt) ZETTE 1951 5c a Copy — 50c Per Month NUMBER 201 Hostile Negotiators Hold Violence Marathon as Reds Demand Own Way on Buffer Chronology of Long Ence Reviewed Advance Headquarters (UP) — Chronology of the silence at today's 20th armisseeing; based on notes tak- Brig. Gen. William P. is, U.N. command briefing p.m., one minute after the started, Nam Il, chief redate, examined some papers. A note passed between the generals Tung Hua and Fang. They held a whisperference. Nam Il "fidgety." More passed. Nam Il checked his watch. U.N. ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea (UP) — Deadlocked United Nations and communist truce negotiations delegations sat for two hours and 11 minutes in dead silence today, each waiting for the other to change his position. However, the two delegations agreed to meet again Saturday—at 11 a.m. (6 p.m., Friday, PDT). The unprecedented silence was presipitated, the United Nations command said, when the communists refused to talk about anything except a buffer zone located where they want it. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate, proposed several alternatives to break the deadlock. Then he waited for North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam Il, head of the red delegation to reply. Nam said nothing. For 131 minutes, nobody spoke. "The air was full of electricity," said Brig. Gen. William Nuckols, official U.N. command spokesman. Today's attack was on 20-track yards near Hwangju. Yesterday B-29s, escorted by Australian Meteor jets, rained 100 tons of explosives on two yards. Flak Nam II "fidgety." More passed. Nam II checked his watch, to drum on the table. Admiral Joy studiously loaded and polished his glasses, so it went. The U.N. side of the green table, Rear Adm. Arleigh loaded, cleaned and reloaded pipe. Maj. Gen. Henry I. puffed sporadically on his back cigar. Air Force Maj. C. Craigie busied himself noting. South Korean Maj. Paik Sung Yup just sat stolcaring at the communist del-communists, aside from the sece delegates who often ex-ced notes, stared back. Second hour's silence be-Nam II looked hopefully at the chief U.N. delegate pa-y returned the look. A U.N. stenographer en-the room to relieve the one get him up an hour before. Believed stenographer has a pad. Two full hours of silence. He passed to Nam II from the case, he did not reply. Nam II nervously at a cigarette. The electric silence ended easily. In a well rested voice that everyone by surprise, started of statement. Finished in five minutes hisusal that the conference pro-to the pext item on the caa. Nam II immediately began readom a prepared reply which been translated in advance,ently in anticipation of Joy's insal. Nam II finished. Joy extemporaneously sed up Nam II's refusal to enter the next item and pro-a recess until 11 a.m. (6 p.m. Friday). Nam II replied that would continue to state the unist views, and the meet-cated where they want it. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate, proposed several alternatives to break the deadlock. Then he waited for North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam Il, head of the red delegation to reply. Nam said nothing. For 131 minutes, nobody spoke. "The air was full of electricity," said Brig. Gen. William Nuckols, official U.N. command spokesman. He said General Nam fidgeted in nervous embarrassment, smoked cigarettes incessantly, drummed on the green-topped conference table with his fingers or his lighter, and glanced repeatedly at his wrist watch. Occasionally he received notes from staff officers behind him. But he said nothing. The other four communist generals held occasional whispered conference most of the time, Nuckols said, they remained impassive. Admiral Joy sat calmly, Nuckols said, "writing notes in a detached sort of fashion." Joy experienced patient; sometimes bored, Nuckols said. Joy finally broke the silence. The armistice talks appeared to be at their most critical point since they began a month ago today. The U.N. communique indicated the tension ridden conference might be nearing a breaking point. Three-Wheeled Vehicle Collides With Automobile A three-wheeled, electric Marketeer driven by L. H. Krick of 227 N. Clementine, suffered a collision with a DeSoto sedan driven by Dr. C. O. Patterson, 161 W. Center st., at Lemon, and Sycamore. Alice M. Krick, passenger in the Marketeer, received a bruised ankle. Ice Pick Mystery Heavy sales of ice picks at Martent Hardware store prompted the clerks to get in touch with the local police station and report the sales. It seems that 18 ice picks have been sold by the store within the last few days, and all sales have been to young men. Police are alerted for any reaction to this mass enthusiasm for ice picks. U.S. Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea (P)—Twelve superforts flew by radar today through heavy undercast to continue the blasting of major railway yards in western Korea. Today's attack was on 20-track yards near Hwangju. Yesterday B-29s, escorted by Australian Meteor jets, rained 100 tons of explosives on two yards. Flak caused some damage to the attacking planes, but all returned. Thursday's air action was marked by the return of red jets to Korea. Opposing jets clashed three times. One American RF-80 reconnaissance jet was slightly damaged when four red jets jumped it. No other damage was reported. In other encounters F-86 Sabre jets turned back 24 red MIG-18s that were gunning for a flight of American B-29s, and four F-80 Shooting Star jets fought a brief engagement with eight MIGs. Clouds and rain held U.N. air action to 475 sorties Thursday. Bains also limited ground action. U.N. troops stormed one strategic hill in eastern Korea. But they were thrown off another high ridge they have fought for off and on for weeks. Allies made no attacks in the west. But red troops launched several small probes of their own, mostly at night. Florida Mutual Head in Visit To Southland By the Farm Editor General Manager A. V. Saurman of Florida Citrus Mutual is presently visiting in Southern California. Mr. Sauerman is meeting with an industry-wide get together being held in the Sunkist building today. Mr. Saurman has been through the entire battle of Florida growers to bring themselves from a red ink industry to a prosperous one. He was first a member, then a director, an officer and finally the job of general manager found him. In this case the job was looking for the man and the success he has made is testimony that '51 Edition of Orange County Fair Opens Gates on Wednesday SANTA ANA—Spotlighting the mautical "Port O' Plenty" theme, the 1951 Orange County Fair, biggest in history, will be launched next Wednesday for a gala five-day run through Sunday, Aug. 19, at the fair grounds located on the former Santa Ana Army Air base between here and Newport Beach. bFour racing ostriches in dizzy dashes around the arena track will provide plenty of thrills and spills for spectators. Their premiere performance will be at the free Night Arena Show, at 7:30 p.m., on opening day. Other ostrich races have been billed as feature attraction for afternoon and evening horse shows. The National Horse Show, which has already attracted a record list of over 400 entries from finest stables in Western States, will start Thursday evening and continue in afternoon and evening performances through Sunday. The spectacular Flower Show, expected to be one of California's finest and biggest, will display more than 100,000 dazzling blossoms in a "Fairyland of Flowers." Hundreds of elaborate exhibits in dozens of departments will be displayed in the new $65,000 Agricultural Exhibit building, in big-top tents and other structures. The huge Hobby Show has already overflowed into three buildings. The big Junior Fair, including livestock, will display work of youthful farmers. Children under 12 will be admitted free of charge to the fair grounds on Children's Day, Friday, Aug. 17. Convenience to visitors will be the free nursery and playground for checking tiny-tots and the 50-acre parking lot near the main entrance.