anaheim-gazette 1951-08-15

Presidential Talk... The 1952 presidential election still is more than a year away. But the political experts already are beating their gums about events ahead. But they're being pretty cagey about it—they have to—because the future is uncertain. As it stands now, the picture can be summed up briefly: Republicans — General Eisenhower and Senator Taft of Ohio are the two most prominently mentioned for the Republican nomination. Taft is running for it as hard as he can go. No one can predict at the moment what Eisenhower will do; he may want no part of it; or he may think he's more needed in uniform because of a war or because he thinks might try to persuade the general to be a candidate. If Eisenhower ran as a Democrat a lot of Republicans backing him now as their candidate would be badly embarrassed. They couldn't very well campaign against him later. From what he's said in the past, Eisenhower doesn't seem very close to Mr. Truman's thinking on domestic affairs. The president has urged much wider economic security for everyone, for instance, through a national medical health program. While he was still active as president of Columbia university Eisenhower once said people looking for security could find it in jail, a remark which brought him criticism, even from his own stu- Republicans — General Eisenhower and Senator Taft of Ohio are the two most prominently mentioned for the Republican nomination. Taft is running for it as hard as he can go. No one can predict at the moment what Eisenhower will do; he may want no part of it; or he may think he's more needed in uniform because of a war or because he thinks his job of rebuilding Europe's defenses isn't finished. Democrats — President Truman has given no hint of whether he'll seek re-election. Apparently awaiting his decision, most of his fellow democrats have remained pretty mum on any other choice of their own, if any. They don't seem to have a wide choice. Given most mention as possible Democratic candidates if Mr. Truman doesn't run are these three: Senator Douglas of Illinois; and the Supreme Court's Chief Justice Vinson and Associate Justice Douglas. The Supreme Court is not a place for developing political attractiveness and the two justices don't have much popular backing; and as for Senator Douglas—the president is reported to dislike him intensely. The experts ridicule any suggestion that if Mr. Truman doesn't run he might. If he wanted to be able to persuade Eisenhower to take the Democratic nomination. Republican hackers of the general claim to know he is a Republican and would run only on the Republican ticket. Only last week the president said he doesn't think the general is a candidate for the Democratic nomination although that doesn't rule out the chance he IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anahelm Gazetti By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago We have just been told that the artesian well boring appartus, the invention of Mr. J. A. Woodhouse, is considered by competent me Santa Ana and Tustin to attend the general ratification meeting. The meeting then adjourned to meet at Blanken's store on next Wednesday evening. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago We have just been told that the artesian well boring appartus, the invention of Mr. J. A. Woodhouse, is considered by competent mechanics to be a practical working machine. Mr. Woodhouse will be in a position to commence boring wells in a few weeks. As he will charge the same as other well-borers, and as it is a certainty that with his invention a well will be obtained, we predict that he will be remarkably successful in securing work. Another daily stage will commence running between Anaheim and Santa Ana next week. Westminster reports that twenty-six artesian wells have been finished there since January 1st, and the work still goes on. The Republican club met at Kroeger's hall Wednesday evening. A permanent executive committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Guinn, Pierce, Fischer, Viles, Higgins and Henderson. The correspondence of the Central Committee at Los Angeles was read, and Thursday evening was fixed upon to receive ex-Governor Woods and hold a general ratification meeting for this portion of the county. The reception committee appointed to receive ex-Governor Woods consisting of Messrs. Mitchell, Guinn and Knox was appointed to invite the Rebublican Clubs of Orange. Santa Ana and Tustin to attend the general ratification meeting. The meeting then adjourned to meet at Blanken's store on next Wednesday evening. 50 Years Ago Merrell Rice, manager of the Modjeska ranch reports an inch of rain in Santiago canyon in the neighborhood of the Modjeska ranch during the unsettled weather of last week. He says six inches of water was running in Harding canyon creek, and the rain increased the volume of wafer running into the reservoir. The olive crop on the ranch is not in a promising condition, a blight having fallen upon a part of the trees. 25 Years Ago Another old-time resident has passed on to join the Pioneers of Anaheim who are sleeping under the sod. Mrs. Johanna Strodthoff died at her home on No. Lemon st. Sunday night. She was 79 years of age. Mrs. Strodthoff came here with her husband, Deldrich Strodthoff, in 1870, and for 56 years this has been her home. Her husband died many years ago. She was the mother of four sons and one daughter—Hugo, Henry, Gus and Otto Strodthoff and one daughter, Mrs. E. A. Kingblush. Only a few weeks ago Mrs. Strodthoff attended the old timed brick rat-the City park, and greatly enjoyed meeting many persons whom she had known in her Funeral services were chapel of Backs. To bell yesterday after G. H. Bode conducted leses, Mrs Walter R. singing. The bobbed in Fairhaven pallbearer went W.J.Dysen L.S.She Fay, Harman Dick Schneider." THE GREAT RUSSIAN BALLET WORLD PEACE COLD WAR PROPAGANDA NOTE: Editors note that the image is on a similar tone to the period of world temp. Following is another patch from some Czechoslovak border. SOMEWHERE NOW CZECHOSLOVAK anyone who thinks launch freedom—loops across the Iron another guess com balloons are in the fact that "wind blow from west to east of the rest. But the getting them into the And that both sambling hydrogen it in tracks to hard man workers to fill with hydrogen and all this keeping secrets from the cu population which The man who deserved credit for overc headaches in Ha Dewey, who, with a word of German coaxed and whe 1000 hydrogen tanks all over German them all in one p them filled with takes so much hyd 11 million pieces across the Iron Czechoslovakia it collected just ahead in West Germany. Hal Boyle HIBBING, Minn. (AP) — "Bus Andy" didn't drive the first bus in the United States. But he did pioneer in establishing the modern bus industry in America back in 1814. Today, at 68, "Bus Andy"—Andrew G. Anderson—still owns his old line and can take his turn in the driver's seat whenever he is needed. "It is nothing now—compared to the old days," said Andy. He loves to recall those days when he and his first motor car struggled over dirt roads together on the first lan of his rise to wealth. Andy borrowed money from his mother to come here from Sweden on a battle boat in 1800. He was a farmboy of 18 and couldn't speak English. His only possession was a fine hand-made wooden suitcase. Figuring a boy might want to eat while looking for a job in the new land, he thriftly loaded his suitcase with herring from the ship's food locker. "But it was spring," he laughed, "and the herring spoiled. The suitcase smelled so bad I had to drop it and the herring overboard before we landed." Andy labored in the iron mines to earn enough to pay back his mother. Gradually he worked up to a job of machinist. Then, in 1914, he and a blasting powder salesman, Charles Wenberg, raised $1250 and bought a seven-passenger, open-air Hupmobile. "We got the agency for the car," he said. "But I guess I was a poor salesman, and my partner was, too. We didn't sell any cars. Everybody wanted to take a ride—it was a real thrill then to go 20." Colony Quips By the Garolle Farm Editor ANYONE INTERESTED in the good of California citrus growers should begin every excursion into their problems with something like this: The establishment of a California Citrus Mutual designed to do for the California grower what Florida Citrus Mutual has done for the Florida grower, but adapted to conditions peculiar to the California industry, strong enough to correct some of our faulty practices, would be of great economic service to every resident of the citrus belt or anyone connected with the California citrus industry. Yep, that is pretty long, but it is the thing that must be done if the California grower is ever going to get an equivalent price per pound net on the tree, as the Florida grower. Even though, as the Exchange so carefully points out, the Florida grower's cost of raising citrus is less than in California. That statement never did mean anything except to point out what a poor job the Exchange was doing but as of today the Florida grower is faced with almost the same cost as the California grower. The big difference is that the Florida grower is simply getting a LOT MORE DOUGH for his fruit, especially when it is nearly on a par with our valencias. If his fruit is as good as our valencias are right now then that Florida grower is making us look like a bunch of suckers. MR. WILCOX won't like that. His cohorts and hired men (with your money) will tell you that this colony is not on the level does not deal in facts, but, never once, has he answered a single little question we have asked. This merely points up the astounding lack of leadership in this multi-million dollar excuse factory, which is sowing the seeds of its own destruction, a thing we are fighting to keep from happening, and everyone of the hired help is so fat and sassy they don't give a hoot. Florida Mutual has been of inestimable value to us here in California as it has stabilized the market and returned Florida growers higher prices and so we have been helped by the backwash. But Florida is not resting on her ladrels. They came up with frozen orange concentrate, which is showing a 44 per cent increase in sales since last year, and have made it possible for only 18 per cent of families to buy, together with putting many extra million of dollars in their grower's pockets, before we Exchange growers have even encountered the worst of our "blessed event" labor pains. But Florida is not stopping. They are getting ready to enter the beverage field. Yes, boys and girls, FLORIDA IS THINKING about five years ahead of us here in California. Deway, who with a word of German coaxed and wheeled 1000 hydrogen tanks all over Germans them all in one pile them filled with water so much hydra 11 million pieces across the Iron Crecho levada it collected just above in West Germany. You can imagine of the local tank disclosing why one man around picking up number of hydrogras They popped the quarks every time a new load and diploma in career expertly ducking th It was a little bit to dick the queen men recruited to fill They were to be the Czech border five-hour drive from gin launching ball midnight, finish wi then get home at Barraga Czech West. The reason for me is that the balloon for arrival at six just as the Czech being to work. Two loons are being us lar rubber balloon by Dewey and A load of about three pounds or 2200 Use Special Balloon. Another is pillow made by General M contributed generals and time to lift The pillow carrying a lighter down to earth and the ground in an bound to incite its side, in large written 'Svoboda,' freedom, incidentally the name of His grandfather and I appropriate, as an part Czech decent, tending this launch Propaganda Stimulus. Aim of all this is in satellite minds of the Iron Curts their government to earn enough to pay back his mother. Gradually he worked up to a job of machinist. Then, in 1914, he and a blasting powder salesman, Charles Wenberg, raised $1250 and bought a seven-passenger, open-air Hupmobile. "We got the agency for the car," he said. "But I guess I was a poor salesman, and my partner was too. We didn't sell any cars. Everybody wanted to take a ride—it was a real thrill then to go 20 miles an hour—but nobody wanted to buy." One night his partner's uncle suggested to the glum pair, "why don't you run your automobile like a street car?" That ten-word sentence made Anderson's fortune. "It hit me like a stroke of lightning," he said. "I started out the very next morning." He charged 15 cents for a two-and-one-half-mile ride between the towns of Hibbing and Alice. The first day he cleared $7.40 above fuel costs. Soon his seven-passenger car was carrying as many as 21 customers a trip. Fearing the car would break down before it could pay for itself, Wenberg sold out. But "Bus Andy" stayed and gambled. He took in other partners and expanded his line, driving himself from six in the morning until 11 had known in her younger days. Funeral services were held at the chapel of Backs, Terry & Campbell yesterday afternoon, Rev. A. G. H. Bode conducting the services, Mrs. Walter Ross leading in the singing. The remains were buried in Earlhaven cemetery. The pallbearers were W. J. Sleeman, J. Dwyer, L. S. Shiridan, Charles Fay, Harman Dickel, and J. J. Schneider. But Florida is not resting on her laurels. They came up with frozen orange concentrate, which is showing a 44 per cent increase in sales since last year, and have made it possible for only 18 per cent of families to buy, together with putting many extra millions of dollars in their grower's pockets, before we Exchange growers have even encountered the worst of our "blessed event." Labor pains. But Florida is not stopping. They are getting ready to enter the bovage field. Yes, boys and girls, FLORIDA is THINKING about five years ahead of us here in California. LET'S SEE, when was it the Exchange had that deal on silverware? About 1920? Well that was probably the last idea to SELL oranges that came out of the precincts now encompassed by the Kremlin. No it wasn't. Last year, we believe it was, they came out with some beautiful advertising copy about: Now you can BUY oranges that are JUICY and small. No foolin' that was about the list of it. And you suckers paid MONEY for that stuff. You growers we mean. Nobody else would buy that sort of thing—that's for sure. And look at the record—that is at much of it as you can get. Just remember what the old dollar is worth today. And who gets more than a 50 per cent shift? A California Mutual is overdue for us growers—and it would help every California processor and shipper, the Exchange most of all. Where was Wilcox when them things was passed out? Or is that too uncultured to even think about? We would rather have 50 cents a pound net on the tree, for our soluble solids. That would shut us up and the rest of the growers, too. at night. It was a haphazard industry at the start. In the winter we had to go out at night and blow the snow off the road ourselves." he said. "And in the spring we had to keep two borses handy to pull us out of the mudholes. "Once a man showed up with a trained bear, I told him the bus was for people, not bears. He said he would sit by the bear and if would take up no more space that he old." It finally agreed to take the bear for $5. On the way he broke out a window, and I made him pay for that, too. He was really mad—the man, not the bear. The bear didn't care." A number of Andy's partners and drivers went on to executive posts in the mushrooming Greyhound Bus Company. He sold out most of his own extensive lines to the Northern Greyhound system in 1928. But he still operates about 100 public and school buses here and in three other Minnesota cities. "It a driver can't show up for some reason," said Andy. "I can still take the bus out myself I do too sometimes." But Andy now is about the best-paid bus driver in the country. INTERNATIONAL CREATED BY VIENNA (UP) — covers "Illegible trials from communal valleys recently." border crossers were of international origin several days before they won not pooled commuting could be forcibly... Note to editors: Drew Pearson is on another tour of Europe studying conditions there in this period of world tension and crisis. Following is another of his dispatches from somewhere near the Czechoslovak border. SOMEWHERE NEAR THE CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER — anyone who thinks it easy to launch freedom—friendship balloons across the Iron Curtain has another guess coming. Once the balloons are in the air, nature and the fact that “winds of freedom blow from west to east” take care of the rest. But the real job is getting them into the air. And that boils down to assembling hydrogen tanks to put it in trucks to haul it in. German workers to fill the balloons with hydrogen and on top of all this, keeping the operation secret from the curious German population which lays intrigue. The man who deserves the chief credit for overcoming these headaches is Harry Andrews Dewey, who, without knowing a word of German, cailed, coaxed and wheddled nearly 1000 hydrogen tanks from firms all over Germany, collected them all in one place and got them filled with hydrogen. It takes so much hydrogen to carry 11 million pieces of literature across the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia that Andrews collected just about every tank in West Germany. Local Sewers Are Overloaded Posing a Sanitation Menace The sewers which serve Anaheim are today overloaded. And, the new sewer system will not be operative until this fall. Consequently, the Anaheim City Council and the Orange County Health department are earnestly asking the citizens of Anaheim to think about the overloaded sewer and to find ways to reduce the amount of water they get into the sewer from their homes and businesses. The following is a letter to the Anaheim City Council from the county health officer outlining the problem and suggesting some remedies. You, the housewife and businessman, are asked to thoughtfully consider the problem and to institute other means of cutting sewage materials in the minimum. City Council, Anaheim, Calif. Gentlemen: On last Thursday and Friday nights (August 9 and 10) there was a heavy overflow of raw sewage at Orangehorpe and Lucida lives. Apparently this was due to concurrent high sewage flows from La Habre, Buena Park, Fullerton and Anaheim. A crew from the JOS worked diligently, decontaminating it with chemicals and discing it under. However, no amount of diligence on the part of the JOS staff can correct the basic difficulty—over-loaded and inadequate sewers which must provide for a greatly increased domestic and industrial load. The hazard to the public health, inherent in this situation, is obvious. The presence of an over-flow problem prior to the peak industrial activity, which I understand is to start about mid-April, indicates that the situation is more critical than usual. Therefore, the over-flows have occurred during the period of high industrial activity. The Joint Outfall Sewer plant, designed to provide adequate primary treatment to 10.2 million gallons a day, is now recording flows as high as 17.5 million gallons a day. This means a shorter detention period with resulting beach Deway, who, without knowing a word of German, caloled, coaxed and wheeled nearly 1000 hydrogen tanks from firms all over Germany, collected them all in one place and got them filled with hydrogen. It takes so much hydrogen to carry 11 million pieces of literature across the Iron Curtain into Crechovskaya that Andrews collected just about every leak in West Germany. You can imagine the curiosity of the local tank distributors supplying why one man was going around picking up this colossal number of hydrogen containers. They popped the question to Andrews every time he brought in a new load, and he deserves a diploma in career diplomacy for expertly ducking these questions. It was a little harder for him to duck the questions from 40 men recruited to fill the balloons. They were to be taken near the Czech border every night, a five-hour drive from Munich, begin launching balloons at about midnight, finish work at 4 a.m., then get home at nine. Barrage Czech Workers The reason for night launches is that the balloons are scheduled for arrival at six to eight a.m. just as the Czech people are going to work. Two types of balloons are being used: One circular rubber balloon, manufactured by Dewey and Almy, carries a load of about three and a half pounds or 2200 leaflets. Use Special Balloons Another is pillow-type balloon made by General Mills, which also contributed generously of its experts and time to help this operation. The pillow balloon, while carrying a lighter load, comes down to earth and bounces along the ground in an eerie fashion, bound to incite curiosity. Across its side, in large red letters is written "Svoboda," which means freedom, incidentally, avoboda is the name of Harold Stassen's grandfather and it is especially appropriate, as an American of part Czech decent, that he is attending this launch. Proparanda Stimulates Doubt Aim of all this is to raise doubts in satellite minds as to why of the Iron Curtain. Why does their government refuse them? The basic difficulty—over-loaded and inadequate sewers which must provide for a greatly increased domestic and industrial load. The hazard to the public health, inherent in this situation, is obvious. The presence of an over-flow problem prior to the peak industrial activity, which I understand is to start about there indicates that the situation is more critical than before. Therefore, the over-flows have occurred during the period of high industrial activity. The Joint Outfall Sewer plant, designed to provide adequate primary treatment to 10.2 million gallons a day, is now recording flows as high as 17.5 million gallons a day. This means a shorter detention period with resulting beach pollution which requires large quantities of chlorine to control. The available engineering experience indicates that, eventually, as waters become more and more polluted, no amount of chlorine, however great, will control the pollution. The long range solution of this situation lies in the Sanitation District program, the bonds for which were voted by the people on February 28, 1949. The critical situation, briefly outlined above, calls for a vigorous execution of this program. The present danger to the health of the people, now no longer potential, gives this project precedence over all other civic improvements. Immediate measures which, for a period of time, will reduce the frequency and the amount of flooding with raw sewage are: 1. Although certain industries have effected sizeable savings in water use, the further possibilities of reducing the industrial load should be explored. This should include a detailed review of plant processes and their wastes, with the plant management; and the extension of water savings practices to smaller plants using lesser quantities of water. 2. Another measure, which has the virtue that it will not endanger industrial production or reduce payrolls, is the saving which can result from reasonable reductions in the quantity of water in domestic sewage. The information we have available indicates that the newer types of washing machines use much more water than the older ones and, obviously, the garbage grinder uses more water than dry disposal. A properly presented public information program should result in significant changes in the water use habits of the public. Each housewife can, by conscious effort, materially reduce the quantity of water that goes down the household sewer, provided she knows how she can help. Such measures as washing vegetables in a pan of water rather than in running water in the sink, a reduction in the amount of water usually drawn for a bath, the discontinuance of flushing the toilet for a cigarette or a bit of facial tissue, and an alternating schedule of wash days, are examples of how large quantities of sewage flow can be saved without reducing the sanitary standard of the household, in any way. Although there are always some who are thoughtless and inconsiderate, the average citizen will, if properly informed, cooperate cheerfully in measures which will protect the health of his neighbors and his community. In conclusion may I urge the Council to devote whatever time, effort, and money is necessary to this problem which is now an expanding emergency involving not only the City of Anaheim but the entire District. As always, the personnel, the facilities, and the skills of this Department are at your service. INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT CREATED BY 35 COW VIENNA (P) — Thirty-three cows crossed "illegally" into Austria from communist Czechoslovakia recently. The four-legged border crossers were the subject of international negotiations for several days before it was arrested they were not political refugees fleeing communism and therefore could be forcibly repatriated. Mrs. Harold F. Lewis of 10321 S. Stanton Ave., and her friend, Mrs. Lawrence C. Martin, 9251 E. Ball rd., have just been notified that they are winners in the Thrifty Drug stores contest called "Win With Words." Mrs. Lewis sent in six different 25 word statements telling why she likes Hershey's miniature chocolate bars. Mrs. Lewis is to be on KTSL television channel 2, at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 16, to accept a new Ford, the first prize. Mrs. Martin, who also sent in a number of statements, won the 82nd of the 500 prizes offered. She was mailed a shock proof anti-magnetic men's wrist watch. Mrs. Martin, the Stanton librarian, also received a letter in the next mail saying that she had won the enclosed $10 check in the Procter and Gamble contest for a 25 word statement about Oxynot. It will be remembered that last year Mrs. Martin won a deep freeze in the Alpha Beta contest. Mrs. Lewis told the Gazette that she could be quoted as saying that "she is very, very thrilled and that it is one of the most wonderful things that has ever happened to her." REDS PLAN "MARTYR'S MUSEUM" HONG KONG (P)—The Hankow authorities are transforming the city's race course into a "Martyr's Museum." The museum will commemorate Chinese heroes "who gave their lives in the people's revolutionary wars" and "their courageous and unwavering fight on behalf of the people, the revolutionary cause and our fatherland ..." The inaugural ceremony has already been set for Oct. 1—"National Day" in Red China.