anaheim-gazette 1951-12-17

Schools...Reds "Why give the communist enemies more support in their efforts to destroy our country?" That is a question asked by Roy E. Simpson, state Superintendent of Public Instruction, "Mail Bag." Page 4. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE 400 CONTEST WINNER—Mrs. Alden O. Gragg, 129 S. Bush st., Anaheim, accepts check for $300 from Kelley Norwood, manager of Anaheim Appliance store. The check plus a $100 donation from the store to Mrs. Gragg's favorite charitthe Community Chest, are first prizes in t Crosley "American Way" contest, which Mr. Gragg won locally.—(Gazette photo by Kreid Mrs. Gragg Wins 'American Way' Contest Locally Mrs. Alden O. Gragg's ideas of the meaning of the American way of life won her a $300 merchandise check and her favorite charity, the Community chest, a check for $100. Mrs. Cragg, who lives at 129 S. Bush st., Anaheim entered the Crosley "American Way" contest in which she was to complete the following sentence in 50 words: "To me the American Way of Life Means:" Winning Entry Her entry read: "To me the American Way of Life means freedom of individual enterprise which has achieved for our people the highest standard of living in world history. It means that Mr. Average American and his family enjoy conveniences and liberties envied by the peoples of all other countries. It means living in the greatest country on earth." Saturday Kelly Norwood, manager of Anaheim Appliance store which sponsored the Crosley contest locally, presented Mrs. Gragg with a $300 merchandise check. Mrs. Gragg hasn't made up her mind yet, but thinks she will use the check to buy an electric sink to relieve some of her more arduous kitchen duties. Local Judges The local contest was judged by Wilbert Bonney, principal of Benjamin Franklin school, Walter Swanberger of Swanberger's, ano Theodore B. Kuchel, publisher of the Anaheim Gazette. Mrs. Gragg's statement has been entered in the national Crosley contest and may win her a from the store to Mrs. Gragg's favorite charity the Community Chest, are first prizes in the Crosley "American Way" contest, which Mrs. Gragg won locally.—(Gazette photo by Kreidt) Thirteen persons were injured, one critically, in a series of week-end traffic accidents in Orange county, the Highway Patrol reported. Ray D. Trotter, 55; Los Angeles, driver of a midget-type car, suffered a critical head and internal injuries at 6:30 a.m. today when his car collided with a car driven by Arthur F. Miller, 22, 755 N. Philadelphia st., Anaheim. The accident took place at Lincoln ave. and Hanson rd., west of Anaheim. Anaheimers Hurt Two Anaheim residents, Wilford Todd, 37, 817 N. Sabina st. and Herbert Brandon, 1026 N. Olive st., passengers in Miller's car received major injuries. Also receiving major injury was Elmer Thornson, 47, of Long Beach. The injured were taken to Anaheim Community Hospital. Mrs. Saints Hernandez, 28, and Mike G. Camache, 19, both of Stanton, were injured Sunday night in a crash on Garden Grove blvd., east of Hanson rd. Injured in other accidents were Mrs. May LaFond, 30, and Palla La Fond, 11, of Midway City; Donald D. Carlson, 28, Huntington Beach and Daniel O'Leary, 62, of Oceanview. Dope Suspects Crash Three persons were injured in Santa Ana traffic accidents over the week-end, police reported. One involved a police patrol car. Roy Villalobos, 18, 336 N. Lemon st., Orange, received minor injuries and was taken to the City hospital after his car upset S. McClay st., near McFadden Sunday at 5:10 p.m. Villalobos and his company Gerald Patrick Smith, 21, 899 Batavia st., Orange, both of whom figured in a recent police round-up of alleged narcotic users, right (Continued on Page 5) Chamber Schedule Induction Banquet For Board Members Directors of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce will meet at 20 in Anaheim Elks club for induction banquet at 6:30 Wives and friends of the directors will be invited to attend dinner and ceremonies, an innovation in Chamber inductions according to A Schoepe president. New directors to be induced for three-year terms are Coons, Bob Borden, Harry I. H Claude Owens, Ray Reafsny Oscar Schultz and Walter Sw伯ger. Dr. Samuel Gendel elected to fill an unexpired year term. The year 1951 will be officially closed by the Chamber and will be begun with the election of president, vice president secretary-treasurer-manager. Ballots for election of executive members of the Retail division of the Chamber were to members today. Four will be elected from the follow- Local Judges The local contest was judged by Wilbert Bonney, principal of Benjamin Franklin school, Walter Swanberger of Swanberger's, and Theodore B. Kuchel, publisher of the Anaheim Gazette. Mrs. Gragg's statement has been entered in the national Crosley contest and may win her a $10,000 prize plus $10,000 for her favorite charity. Decision on the national contest has not yet been rendered. County Man Wins Rhodes Scholarship PRINCETON, N. J. (P)—Thirty-two persons, representing 28 states, today hold scholarships as winners of this year's Rhodes competition. The winners were announced yesterday by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, of the Institute for Advanced Study. J. L. Steffensen, Corona del Mar, and a student at Pomona college, and a Stanford university student, Alan C. Enthoven of Seattle, Wash., were competition winners from California colleges. Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 68. High for the previous 24 hours was 80 at 2 p.m. yesterday. Low was 44 at 6 p.m. today. Anaheim officials today stood by their offer of a free court house site to the county, for the proposed new municipal building for Anaheim-Fullerton municipal court district. Recent ruling by County Counsel Joel Ogle that the county cannot accept the gift from the city because property that has been dedicated or used for park purposes can not be given away. Ogle assumed that the cite was a part of Anaheim's La Palma park, located at La Palma and Los Angeles sts. Anaheim officials, however, declared that the site, while adjoining the 18-acre La Palma park, was never actually intended as a part of the park and was not dedicated as a part of the park. City Attorney Preston Turner is preparing a statement of his opinion in the matter for presentation at tomorrow's meeting of the county supervisors. Citrus Market The California Fruit Grove Exchange reported today allation markets California or were higher. Representative Prices by SUNKIST (First Grade)—100s 8.01; 126s 7.57; 150s 176s 7.88; 200s 7.57; 220s 252s 6.46; 288s 6.01; 344s CHOICE (Second Grade)—100s 6.58; 126s 6.18; 150s 176s 6.50; 200s 6.58; 220s 252s 6.03; 288s 5.14; 344s ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1951 s. Gragg's favorite charity, st, are first prizes in the Way" contest,' which Mrs. (Gazette photo by Kreidt) ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 17—PLUNGING TO ITS DOOM—A crippled non-scheduled airliner, a converted C-46 Curtis Commando, roars flaming and smoking across sky here yesterday as it plunges earthward. Flames spurt from the transport's right engine as it carries 56 persons to their deaths minutes after the plane took off from nearby Newark Airport. The plane crashed into a building on the bank of the Elizabeth river. This is an exclusive New York Daily News picture.—(Associated Press Wirephoto) Gretchen Glover, AnaHi Senior, Elected to 'Y' Model Legislature At the YMCA Youth and Government pre-legislative conference held in Los Angeles Saturday to elect officers for the model legislature, Gretchen Glover, an Anaheim high school senior, was elected secretary of the senate. Delegations from all over the southland met in the downtown Los Angeles YMCA for the elec- Elected to 'Y' Model Legislature At the YMCA Youth and Government pre-legislative conference held in Los Angeles Saturday to elect officers for the model legislature, Gretchen Glover, an Anaheim high school senior, was elected secretary of the senate. Delegations from all over the southland met in the downtown Los Angeles YMCA for the election of half the officers for the state while the delegates from the north meet in San Francisco early in January to elect the other half. Only Girl Elected The officers elected from the south were Governor, Ron Apperson from Alhambra; Secretary of the Senate, Gretchen Glover from Anaheim; Chaplain o. the Senate, William Souveroff from the Wes Valley YMCA of Los Angeles; Speaker of Assembly, Robert Black of North Hollywood; Sergeant at Arms of Assembly, Alan Johnson of Eagle Rock; and Secretary of State, John Sutherland of the Southeast branch YMCA of Los Angeles. Gretchen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Glover of 421 N. Janss. Amid stiff competition she was the only girl elected. She was a delegate to the model legislature last year. In January she will be sent to Los Angeles for special training in parliamentary procedure. Work on Legislation The Anaheim delegation is now working hard on a bill which they will sponsor. The subject they have chosen is the licensing of pri- City Officials Fume-Hunting Industrial Area Following receipt of paper over asserted air pollution Northern Anaheim from reevaluation of the area, City Engineer Hollyoke and Wynn Priday stituring for City Manager Murdoch who is on vacation making a systematic inspection of the industrial section and carrying with plant managers to mine measures to be taken in the nuisance. Hollyoke and Priday said morning that all plants are operating whole-heartedly due air-borne moisture and from industrial processes. Anaheim Citrus Producer for instance, they said, hadured out that, with the existence of $10,000 to $15,000 can eliminate any noxious produced by their plants Stewart, manager of Essex Corp., of California plant, is ous to reduce the odorous emanating from the plantamel wire process. Hollyoke Stewart assured residents area that the odors are absot not harmful to health and out that statement by pout that his firm has never compensation for anything ing to the odor. CALIFORNIA STATE ZETTE The Weather S. Calif.—Mostly clear and sunny Tuesday. Windy mountains and locally in interior. Little change in temperatures. 5c per Copy — 50c per Month NUMBER 83 ELIZABETH, N.J., Dec. 17—TAKE DEAD FROM PLANE WRECKAGE—Volunteer rescue workers and firemen edge way along plank-covered fire ladder as they carry charred body of victim to river bank from wreckage of crashed two-engine airliner here yesterday. Part of plane's wreckage is at right. All 56 persons aboard the non-scheduled G-46 died in the disaster. The plane, bound for Florida, had taken off from nearby Newark Airport only a few minutes before the crash. It was the second worst commercial airline disaster in the nation's history.—(Associated Press Wirephoto) Airliner Crashes in East Killing 56 Near Airport ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP)—Authorities, goaded by white-hot angry townspeople, opened a five-way quarry today of the flaming crash a Florida bound airliner in which 56 persons died. It was the second worst commercial airplane disaster in American history. Fifty-eight perished in a Lake Michigan crash on June 24, 1950. "It is too early to make any statements, but we are now in the initial stage of securing records," said Joseph O. Fluet of the Civil Aeronautics Board, who heads one investigation. The twin-engined C-46 Miami airline, Inc., plane—three miles tall of Newark airport—just missed the midtown Elizabeth business section and smashed into a early open river bank as the pilot might heroically to control it. He was Albert C. Lyons of Miami. "The pilot ought to have a place heaven for trying to save it," said one spectator, J. P. Ward, a City Officials Fume-Hunting in Industrial Area Following receipt of protests parking lot owner. And a woman resident of the area added: "I kind of think he hit the spot intentionally to save us." Aboard were 48 adult passengers, four children, a three-man crew and a stewardess. The blazing plane clipped a vacant house and wrecked an unused water pumping station, injuring one man slightly. Children fled screaming to safety from its path. State Sen. Kenneth C. Hand said on the scene: "It was only a miracle that hundreds of people weren't killed. Apparently the plane missed apartment houses by a small fraction. Brothers Rampage Through Camp in Car; Two Injured Assault with a deadly weapon, the weapon being an automobile, was charged against three brothers, Fidel Curiel, 19, Ambrosia, 29, and Victor, 22, all of Leffenwell ranch, after a wild scene on a WON'T TALK—Mrs. Pam Lang emerges from a conference (12-15) with District Attorney Ernest Roll (rear) in which he tried unsuccessfully to get her to answer questions about the shooting of her husband, Jennings Lang, by Walter Wanger in Beverly Hills, last Thursday. City Officials Fume-Hunting in Industrial Area Following receipt of protests over asserted air pollution in northern Anaheim from residents of the area, City Engineer George Holyooke and Wynn Fridley, submitting for City Manager Keith Murdoch who is on vacation, are making a systematic inspection of the industrial section and conferring with plant managers to determine measures to be taken against the nuisance. Holyoke and Fridley said this morning that all plants are cooperating whole-heartedly to reduce air-borne moisture and odors from industrial processes. Anaheim Citrus Products Co., for instance, they said, has figured out that, with the expenditure of $10,000 to $15,000, they can eliminate any noxious odors produced by their plant. Jack Stewart, manager of Essex Wire Corp., of California plant, is anxious to reduce the odorous fumes emanating from the plant's enamel wire process. Holyoke said. Stewart assured residents of the area that the odors are absolutely not harmful to health and bore at that statement by pointing out that his firm has never paid compensation for anything relating to the odor. Through Camp in Car; Two Injured Assault with a deadly weapon, the weapon being an automobile, was charged against three brothers, Fidel Curiel, 19, Ambrosia, 29, and Victor, 22, all of Leffenwell tanch, after a wild scene on a street in Alta Vista Camp at La Habra Saturday afternoon where one pedestrian was run down by the car and a boy was hit by a spent bullet fired by his own father. Fidel Curiel was at the wheel of the car occupied by the three brothers which assertedly rampaged up and down the street of the camp, chasing pedestrians off the sidewalks, until Albert Navarro of Artesia failed to escape the car and was struck down. A barrage of bottles and rocks began flying as pedestrians actively resented their narrow escapes from the wheels of the car. Fred Moriles, who saw his son, Joe, brushed by a fender of the lunging auto, ran into his house and returned with a revolver. He fired a shot at the tires of the Curiel car. The bullet ricocheted off the car and struck Joe Moriles in the seat of the pants. He was not badly injured, however. At that point, deputy sheriffs and the La Habra police arrived and took the three Curiel brothers to the county jail. WON'T TALK—Mrs. Pam Lang emerges from a conference (12-15) with District Attorney Ernest Roll (rear) in which he tried unsuccessfully to get her to answer questions about the shooting of her husband, Jennings Lang, by Walter Wanger in Beverly Hills, last Thursday night. Roll said she refused to answer several material questions and he was equally unsuccessful in trying to question Lang himself. — (Associated Press photo) AUHS Talent Team Wins Over Poly Hi A talented team of four Anaheim union high school students Friday night edged a rival foursome from Polytechnic high school 176 points to 172 to win the television program "Hi Talent Battle" on KLAV-TV. Cheered on by a full studio of Anaheim supporters, the contestants won a variety of prizes and the right to meet four challengers from Hamilton high school in Los Angeles next Friday night at 7 p.m. on the same show. Songstress Helen Oviedo, singing "And So to Sleep Again," and Saxophonist Mike Gerber, playing "Oodles of Noodles," both rated maximum 45 point scores on judges scorecards. Other contestants were Marian Caracausa, singing "Old Fashioned Walk," and Delores Giardino, singing "Un Bel De."