anaheim-gazette 1952-01-29

Agriculture leads the way... With the California farm income in 1951 rising to an estimated $2 3/4 billion plus, it becomes evident that our state is not only keeping pace with agricultural progress throughout the nation but is actually leading the way. One of the most healthy signs is that nearly all of our varied crops—we produce more than 200—had a good year. Cotton, the relative newcomer to the 'big time', again was king with a total crop value of more than $400 million. Animal and poultry products alone topped the $1 billion mark with plenty to spare. Commercial vegetables also had a record year with lemons the outstanding item. And the state produced 80 per cent of all the cranges consumed in the nation. In awarding the accolades for the state's fine showing, the farmers' achievement in boosting output in the fact of rising costs is especially deserving of note. Their use of the most modern machinery and their willingness to experiment with new methods were important factors too, in the great farm year. The cooperation of truckers and rail lines in speeding the produce to market and the aid of good financing—these also were and are indispensable services to the farmer's success. It is interesting to observe that as we study the farm figures of this record year we do not get the feeling that California has reached its limit in agricultural production. Rather we feel that the horizons ahead are virtually boundless and that our production capacity today is certain to be exceeded tomorrow. One thing is sure: if it can be done, California farmers will do it. 'Liberty's Team'... With the slogan "Forward on Liberty's Team" the American Boy Scouts will observe their 12nd anniversary during the week of February 6 to 12. Since 1910, more than 19 million American boys and adults have been associated with the Boy Scout organization. They are better citizens because of this association and our country is a better country because of them. It is well for us to recognize the value of this great youth movement. May the Boy Scouts of America continue to grow and thrive in the continuance of their fine traditions and achievements. OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN HORIZONTAL NEARBY BY WALDO HUNTER DESPITE THE FACT that their editorial policies are about as reasonable as a bale of hay, we must give credit to the Freedom Newspapers, Inc., (of which the Santa Ana Cash Register is the sturdy copperstone) in bringing to heel the trustees of the Placentia Unified School district the other day and forcing that body to deliver up out of hiding the letter of resignation of Dale I. Glick, former superintendent of the district. The whole story is one of those lurid affairs which crop up occasionally in the run-of-the mill day's news: someone accuses a public official of having an "affair" with his secretary, and, brother, the lid blows off. These things occur quite frequently and in most cases no one presses the issue. But in the case of a public official, either appointed or elected, there is plenty of publicity. In this case, the Register threatened legal action to get a copy ofunity to further its case of eternal damnation of the public school, without which this country would be at least 100 years behind the rest of the nations in knowledge and progress. The letter of resignation itself, as finally printed, was a decided disappointment to a drooling public which entertained visions of soul-haring and confessions of intrigue embellished with tittilating accounts of things and stuff like that there. It was the biggest let-down a circulation manager could ever imagine. It said, simply: "I hereby present my resignation as district superintendent of the Placentia Unified School District in accordance with the agreement between myself and the board of trustees." I repeat that the Register performed a necessary function when it demanded the letter. But this admiration of the free press in action is tempered somewhat by the Meanwhile, I went Reidsville, N.C., only town where I have spent some—aside from a short Business, Realty Law Course Offered Law as it relates to business and real estate will be the subject of the class work in a course to be taught by Charles Ruby, well-known Fullerton teacher. Listed as one of the spring semester offerings, the class has been scheduled by the Fullerton evening junior college to meet Tuesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. The first class will meet Feb. 5. Ruby, who is an experienced teacher in the field of business and real estate law, plans to take up the problems relating to property transfers in the early meetings of the class. Some consideration will be given to tax problems arising from such transfers. Registration for the law classes, as well as for the other classes offered by the evening college, may be made in the office on the front arcade of the Fullerton Union High school campus. I hereby present my resignation as district superintendent of the Placentia Unified School District in accordance with the agreement between myself and the board of trustees." I repeat that the Register performed a necessary function when it demanded the letter. But this admiration of the free press in action is tempered somewhat by the suspicion that the whole thing was played up all out of proportion, to further circulation and at the same time to swing another haymaker at the Public School. Drop over some time and we'll go out and set fire to a kindergarten or two. Business, Realty Law Course Offered Law as it relates to business and real estate will be the subject of the class work in a course to be taught by Charles Ruby, well-known Fullerton teacher. Listed as one of the spring semester offerings, the class has been scheduled by the Fullerton evening junior college to meet Tuesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. The first class will meet Feb. 5. Ruby, who is an experienced teacher in the field of business and real estate law, plans to take up the problems relating to property transfers in the early meetings of the class. Some consideration will be given to tax problems arising from such transfers. Registration for the law classes, as well as for the other classes offered by the evening college, may be made in the office on the front arcade of the Fullerton Union High school campus. Business, Realty Law Course Offered Law as it relates to business and real estate will be the subject of the class work in a course to be taught by Charles Ruby, well-known Fullerton teacher. Listed as one of the spring semester offerings, the class has been scheduled by the Fullerton evening junior college to meet Tuesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. The first class will meet Feb. 5. Ruby, who is an experienced teacher in the field of business and real estate law, plans to take up the problems relating to property transfers in the early meetings of the class. Some consideration will be given to tax problems arising from such transfers. Registration for the law classes, as well as for the other classes offered by the evening college, may be made in the office on the front arcade of the Fullerton Union High school campus. (Editors Note—Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of a letter to his daughter, Mrs. George L. Arnold, of Santa Monica, Calif.) Washington, D.C., Jan. 26, 1952. Dear Daughter, The house has seemed very empty ever since you kids left. I suppose I shouldn't call you kids anymore inasmuch as you're a grown up lady now with two sons of your own. A lot of things have been happening since you left. Among others, Harry Truman has been trying to put me in jail again. Undersecretary of the Navy Whitehair tipped him off that I had written a column about a White House conference with General Bradley and he immediately blew his top. The column had only been on the teletype to New York one hour when I began to hear about it. The president was really mad. He stormed and raged and said he would throw me in jail. I can't begin to repeat his language, but it was pretty rough. Finally he told General Bradley to get hold of me and kill the column. However, when General Bradley read the column he didn't seem to think there was much wrong. He suggested only two changes, which I was glad to make. Investigation Begins But that didn't end the matter. Immediately afterward, the president ordered the FBI to make a superduper investigation of your old man, together with just about IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Ansheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago January, 1877 The assesser and collector of the school fund handed in his treasury receipts yesterday. The amount paid in amounted $3196.50. The second trial in the case of the people vs Sin Si Wau came off yesterday and the verdict was rendered in favor of the defendant. It is reported that a $50,000 suit has been brought against the Southern Pacific Railroad companies by parties residing in San Bernardino county. Some time since a boy who was lying on the track near Colton, was run over and every morning the American Tobacco company hands Uncle Sam a check for $800,000, as its daily cigarette tax. The welcoming committee drove me down to the railroad yards to try to find the spigot and the scene of the alleged crime, but we couldn't locate it. The town has changed too much. Before the A-Bomb In fact, it's become quite modern. There is an up-to-date Negro high school more modern than the white schools. And I saw a blue-tile community swimming pool which should make impromptu bathing much easier—and less public. I also drove by the high-school grounds where we once pitched our chautauqua tent. By the cars, both his legs being cut off and this is made the basis for the suit. S. H. Purcell of Newport called upon us yesterday. He informs us that the "Olio Club" of that place will give a dramatic and musical entertainment at the Newport school house on the evening of the 27th. The proceeds of the entertainment will be used to purchase an organ for the use of the church. A dispatch from New York says that a report is current that James Gordon Bennett and Fred May fought a duel this morning near Lake Champlain and that Bennett was wounded. Mr. J. T. Ellis of Los Angeles, widely known as a member of the old firm of Caswell & Ellis, died yesterday in Los Angeles. The Water Company will elect a Zanjero on the 27th Inst. Col. Crocker is at Indian Wells. 50 Years Ago January, 1892 As soon as permission is received from the post office department in Washington, the post office will be moved from its present location to the premises at present occupied by Mrs. Carver as a millinery store. The place now occupied by the post office will be used as an extension of County Clerk pointed Joseph Judge Shanley clerkks for this purpose as the necessary they will begin mailing voters. The canceled and a register. Uncle Jake Eve Kraemer, the other $25 on the rain. $25 that it will fore the first offender and Kraemer be money is up, and wise are specula will win the bet. 25 Years Japan Adalph Luedke Angeles jewelry templates purchased land west of town a chicken ranch. Rickman and Mont nursery men 25 acres from S. frostless belt nor will remove their er. The land lies of Los Angeles and on the line of the railway and extra quarter of a mile consideration is $ Ira McAulay position as foreman packing house in house has shipped season 18 carloads. Col. R. J. Nor drive through Angeles on Tuesday of friends on tha However, I'm still out of jail, and if anyone has detected any pulling of punches as a result of all this, I hope my family will be the first to tell me. Meanwhile, I went down to Reidsville, N.C., last week, to the only town where I was supposed to have spent some time in jail—aside from a short interim in a Siberian jail as the guest of the Soviet. I don't know whether it's because a criminal always returns to the scene of a crime or whether the folks of Reidsville wanted to give their most famous alleged jailbird a home-coming reception. But anyway I went down to North Carolina and had a wonderful time. Predawn Bath P. W. Glidewell, the attorney who defended me against the charge of taking a sponge bath in the Southern Railroad yards at 3 a.m., after taking down a chautauqua tent, introduced me to the Reidsville Chamber of Commerce where I spoke in the evening, and we had quite a time. A lot of things have changed about Reidsville since that first memorable occasion when I was there. And I guess a lot of things have changed about your father, too. I was 16 then, just out of high school, and no one ever dreamed I would become the bete noir of certain politicians, least of all myself. Reidsville was just a country village then, and its chief industry was Red Jay and Black Eagle chewing tobacco. Now that same tobacco factory turns out 180 million Lucky Strikes a day, Before the A-Bomb In fact, it's become quite modern. There is an up-to-date Negro high school more modern than the white schools. And I saw a blue-tile community swimming pool which should make impromptu bathing much easier—and less public. I also drove by the high-school grounds where we once pitched our chautauqua tent. The old school is gone now and a modern one has taken its place. It made me feel a little old to see how things had changed. Those were the good old simple days before The atom bomb, the days when William Jennings Bryan, then secretary of State, had time to get out and speak to the people on chautauqua; the days when a lecturer didn't need a microphone and a loudspeaker. He used his lungs instead. That was also the summer that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a Serb-assassin in a little town in Bosnia, thereby precipitating World War I and a series of events which have made all our lives a lot more complicated ever since. And, though things have changed a lot, there is one thing about this and the other small towns that hasn't changed—the people. Their understanding of the fundamental things of life remains unchanged and unspoiled by the complexities of modern civilization, and as long as we have this kind of people in America I am not too much worried about what's going to happen to my grandsons in the future. Give both of them a hug, and I hope to stay out of jail a little while longer. Your Father. 50 Years Ago As soon as permission is received from the post office department in Washington, the post office will be moved from its present location to the premises at present occupied by Mrs. Carver as a millinery store. The place now occupied by the post office will be used as an extension of Federman's store. Mrs. Carver has not yet selected a location for her store. The Orange county Bar association held a special meeting in the superior judge's chamber, on Monday, and perfected organization. Laws relating to mutual relations of attorneys with clients, witnesses and judges were treated of at length and adopted, together with a constitution. The following were selected as the first officers of the association: Victor Montgomery of Santa Ana, president; Richard Melrose of Anaheim, first vice-president; J. C. Scott of Santa Ana, second vice-president; W. E. Parker of Santa Ana, third vice-president; H. J. Forgy of Santa Ana, secretary; Homer Ames of Santa Ana, assistant secretary. Attorneys E. T. Langley, F. Q. Daniel and Judge J. W. Towner were elected a committee on complaints. The Board of Supervisors has appropriated $400 to assist the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce in preparing literature concerning the resources of Orange county. Nappleon Hart spent Tuesday in Riverside. He reports many orange orchards badly affected by frost and wind. Ira McAulay Jr. position as foreman packing house in house has shipped season 18 carloads. Col. R. J. Norris drove through to Angeles on Tuesday of friends on the beach. Louis Kroeger albeit have formed and will open a m goods emporium in now occupied by as a tailoring establishment. Charley Fleming a position with the cific bridge building yesterday to join Citing pressure Frank N. Gibbs, pts Gibbs Lumber company Adams, part owner ams-Bower Lumbers have resigned as d Anaheim Chamber Their places have William Schurman manager of the A Association, and Osceola S.Q.H. store. More than 150 m Orange County Troop alumni organization versity of Southern siding in Orange county a dinner meeting W ning at the Women Orange. Samuel Laheim, vice president will preside. An agram will be given. TV-RADIOLOGIC Biggest Star in Video Subject of an Interview By TOM E. DANSON HOLLYWOOD — I was out with the biggest star in television the other night. I use the word "biggest" loosely because he is not the best known star, he doesn't make the most money, and he isn't on the air more than the others; but, brother, he does outweigh anyone else. Jack Carson is the fellow I'm talking about—big Jack, who stands 6 feet 2, and tips the scales at around 250. Jack had just finished the Saturday night All-Star Revue (NBC-TV-KNBH), and a number of us went over to the Brown Derby to have a snack and post-mortemize the show. Talking to Jack, I found that he's a big man in more ways than one. A lot of people were talking about the brilliant performance turned in by 9-year-old Sherry Jackson, who acted, sang and danced her way right into everyone's heart. "There's only one thing I don't like about Sherry," Carson told me. "She's more talented than I am." But seriously," he went on. "I think the secret of putting on a good TV show is to surround yourself with the best talent you can get. That's why I had Sherry on, as well as Irene Ryan, who's one of the best comediennes in the business. And don't forget the Honey Brothers, and Hal March and Jack Norton. They're all great performers, and if any one of them, or all of them, seal the show, so much the better." It takes a big man to say that Stars" presentation of the life of Grandma Moses, which will find Helen Hayes in the starring role, scriptor David Shaw obtained permission to visit the aged painter to get material. This permission wasn't easy to get, however, for he discovered that Grandma easily falls for a "line." therefore her benefactors try to keep strangers away from her Eagle Bridge. N.V., home. Currently her paintings bring more than $1000 in the New York market. One day an unannounced visitor won Grandma's fancy and succeeded in buying one for $1.50. TELE-TIPS . . . "The Late President Roosevelt—His Influence in 1852" will be discussed when 770 On the Air is presented over KTTV (11) at 7 . . . Hugh Beaumont and Steve Dunne star in "Personal Appearance Theater!" in the story "One False Step" from KECA (7) at 7 . . . Four of the country's outstanding authors will appear on "Editor's Roundtable" from KNET (2) at 8:30 . . . "Land of Destiny" an exciting story about the fight for land in Lower California in the last century will be dramatized on "Fireside Theater" from KNBH (4) at 9 . . . From Olympic Auditorium, boxing is featured over KTLA (5) at 10. DIAL-LITES . . . From the files of Scotland Yard, Orson Welles solves a crime by a slip-of-paper County Clerk Beckett has appointed Joseph Helmsen and Judge Shanley to be registration clerks for this precinct. As soon as the necessary blanks arrive, they will begin the work of making voters. The Great Register is canceled and all citizens must register. Uncle Jake Everhardy and Ed Kraemer, the other day wagered $25 on the rain. Uncle Jake bet $25 that it will rain 10 inches before the first of June this year, and Kraemer bet $25 it won't. Money is up, and the weather-wise are speculating as to who will win the bet. 25 Years Ago January, 1927 Adalph Luedke has sold his Los Angeles jewelry store and contemplates purchasing a tract of land west of town and starting a chicken ranch. Rickman and Mills, the Fullerton nursery men have purchased 25 acres from S. H. Dyer in the frostless belt north of town and will remove their nurseries thither. The land lies at the corner of Los Angeles and North streets, on the line of the new electric railway and extends easterly a quarter of a mile to Olive st. The consideration is $1500. Ira McAulay has accepted a position as foreman of the Fay packing house in Fullerton. The house has shipped out so far this season 18 carloads of pranges. Col. R. J. Northam, and wife drove through town from Los Angeles on Tuesday with a party of friends on their way to a good TV show is to surround yourself with the best talent you can get. That's why I had Sherry on, as well as Irene Ryan, who's one of the best comediennes in the business. And don't forget the Honey Brothers, and Hal March and Jack Norton. They're all great performers, and if any one of them, or all of them, seal the show, so much the better." It takes a big man to say that and mean it, and I know Jack was sincere. He is trying to give Tviewers something a little different on his Saturday night show. Instead of standing in front of the camera and telling jokes, he is weaving a story line throughout the show, and building a stock company of experienced performers who will always be with him. This is a very smart move, for it is a well-known fact that TV drains talent faster than any other medium of entertainment. "We may not set the world on fire with a rush," he told me, "but, with situation comedy, we should last a lot longer." DOWN TV-RADIO BOW ... For a forthcoming "Playhouse of - Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor THE CALIFORNIA valencia grower as well as every producer of citrus in this state has before him a very important decision in the next few weeks. Some packing houses will vote for their growers while some others will handle their own ballot. It is our understanding that if a grower makes a big enough noise he can have his own ballot—if his house is going to vote contrary to the individual growers thinking. At least this is true: every grower can find out if he wants to, just how his fruit will be voted. The real important thing is that the grower becomes clear in his thinking about the pratee. He should understand the act as it affects the MONEY he receives for his crop. Let us say this right at the start: although it is true that the navel grower receives great benefit in the way today's pratee is handled the big question is still one for the ENTIRE industry. And it CAN be solved. DURING 1951 the OAC, which, let's not kid ourselves is run by the Exchange, issued sufficient pratee for the fresh shipment of 88.23 per cent of Central and Northern California pavels. The navels grown in the south were able to ship 86.16 per cent of their crop as fresh fruit. Ira McAulay has accepted a position as foreman of the Fay packing house in Fullerton. The house has shipped out so far this season 18 carloads of pranges. Col. R. J. Northam and wife drove through town from Los Angeles on Tuesday with a party of friends on their way to the beach. Louis Kroeger and Fritz Yungbluth have formed a partnership and will open a men's furnishing goods emporium in the premises now occupied by Mr. Yungbluth as a tailoring establishment. Charley Fleming has accepted a position with the Southern Pacific bridge builders and left yesterday to join the crew. Citing pressure of business, Frank N. Gibbs, president of the Gibbs Lumber company and Henry Adams, part owner of the Adams-Bower Lumber company, have resigned as directors of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. Their places have been filled by William Schurman, secretary-manager of the Anaheim Citrus Association, and Oscar Renner, of the S.Q.R. store. More than 150 members of the Orange County Trojan club, the alumni organization of the University of Southern California residing in Orange county, will have a dinner meeting Wednesday evening at the Women's clubhouse, Orange. Samuel Luce of Anaheim, vice president of the club, will preside. An attractive program will be given. DURING 1951 the OAC, which, let's not kid ourselves is run by the Exchange, issued sufficient prate for the fresh shipment of 88.23 per cent of Central and Northern California payels. The navels grown in the south were able to ship 86.16 per cent of their crop as fresh fruit. That, gentlemen, really is control in and out of the status of California and a man mentioned here before, Mc. McLain, sits in the drivers seat in the OAC as well as in the beautiful marble decked Kremlin. Now when this group get their fruit off the trees they "issued" prate to Southern California valencias in an amount to allow only 48.30 per cent to be sold as fresh fruit. These figures are from the official files of the Orange Administrative Committee for the year ending 1951. This identical pattern has existed for several years past—and is being set up right now for this year. We have been urging every grower to vote or at least to see that his fruit is counted in this referendum. To date there has been an alarming lack of interest. As long as the poorly informed California grower can be kept "in line" with the kind of returns he received this past year the "hired help" can be jubilant. They just must have a sadistic strain. How else can you explain it? ANYWAY THE present prate takes away the grower's freedom for the sole purpose of regulating shipments so that parity prices can be achieved. The order further states that if through regulation parity price is not attained then the Secretary of Agriculture shall discontinue the prate. For 1951 the California valencias grower received just over 40 per cent of parity as shown by the Bureau of Economics, Department of Agriculture. Why, in Heaven's name, should we not improve on our present deal? Here, in California, as Mr. Wilcox says, we have the Exchange, the prate and we don't need a Mutual. Yet we get only 40 per cent of parity for our fruit by official figures. Maybe Mr. Wilcox is not great an expert as he would like to have his employers believe? Maybe Bro. Brannan better be whispered to that Mr. Wilcox does not speak for the California grower, but only for the solish hierarchy that has him tied up tight. Maybe Bro. Brannan better be let in on a few things. But then the "hired help" would get new-dealing McLain to go to Washington and then where would the California grower be? In the same spot he is today; behind the 8-ball.