anaheim-gazette 1952-05-23

Rule book doesn't cover it... Sometimes, walking around in broad daylight, the little man felt it was 4 o'clock in the morning, still dark outside, and he was lying in bed, wide awake, listening to the night sounds, waiting for daylight to come and clear things up. It was an unreal feeling. It made him fuzzy in the head. He always felt all right when he could figure two and two make four, particularly when everybody else agreed at the name time that two and two make four. He was trying to tell himself: I feel all right when I can follow the rule book. But now, somehow, everything seemed at sixes and sevens. Too many big things were happening for him to keep them all clear in brought about only after months of falking between Germany and this country and this country's western friends. This build-up in Europe brought the little man's thinking back home to this country where Congress is working on a foreign aid bill which President Truman says is the backbone of this country's foreign program. Eisenhower said Congress might cut the money the president asked for a bit, and things would still come out all right, but he said if Congress lopped off as much as a billion dollars it would hurt and a cut of more than a billion might endanger the military build-up. But Senator Taft, campaigning here at home against Eisenhower's New Politics To Present Views... He always felt all right when he could figure two and two make four, particularly when everybody else agreed at the same time that two and two make four. He was trying to tell himself: I feel all right when I can fellow the rule book. But now, somehow, everything seemed at sixes and sevens. Too many big things were happening for him to keep them all clear in his head and some of the old rules weren't any good any more. They seemed out of date. Like war. War used to be simply war. But not war with communism. Only yesterday Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, fresh from running the war in Korea, told Congress further bargaining is out of the question and the issue of war or peace is up to the communists. For 10 months Ridgway's men have been talking truce with the communists and now, Ridgway seemed to be saying, there was not much left to talk about but both sides might keep talking because neither seemed at this minute anxious to start a full-scale war going again. TO THE LITTLE man this was a strange war, not at all like the old-time wars. But Ridgway was on his way to Europe to relieve General Eisenhower who was trying to build an army where a shooting war with Russia hadn't started but might. But the Army was getting built over there. And this weekend Germany was going to sign up with the American league against Russia, an achievement foreign program. Eisenhower said Congress might cut the money the president asked for a bit, and things would still come out all right, but he said if Congress lopped off as much as a billion dollars it would hurt and a cut of more than a billion might endanger the military build-up. But Senator Taft, campaigning here at home against Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomination, said he favored a two billion dollar cut. These were the big leaguers, Eisenhower and Taft, so the little man couldn't tell—this early—who was right. There wasn't any rule book on that one. But last night a majority in the House seemed to side more with Taft than Eisenhower because the House voted a cut in foreign aid closer to Taft's figure than to Eisenhower's. All this foreign stuff got the little man twisted in the head but no tso much as things at home. After two weeks of talk the Senate last night passed the immigration bill which President Truman might veto, thus knocking two weeks' work into a cocked hat, and the president himself was in the midst of stuff he little man got dizzy trying to follow: The steel case, the clean-up of government corruption which never seems to get started . . . The little man got out a pencil and began to write down everything that has him puzzled. He used up two note books and was starting on a third as this was being written . . . IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago May 1877 The railroad company find it difficult to furnish cars for freight at the Anaheim depot as fast as they can be used. 50 Years Ago May 1902 Charley Fay is in San Francisco, attending the session of the Odd Fellows grand lodge as a delegate from the local lodge. HOLLYWOOD—With this year considered one of the most important in political history, the airplanes soon will be filled with verbal ointment from the many aspirants who hope to hold the nation's No. 1 job. As a public service type program, and to better acquaint the young and first time voters, a new show will bow in on the California scene starting this Sunday. Released from the NBC-TV Southern California outlet, KNBH, Channel 4. "First-Time-Voters" makes its debut at 10 p.m. and in Northern California the program, under a different title ("Political Round Table") makes its bow from the CBS-TV outlet, KPIX, Channel 5, Wednesday at 8:30 p.m., San Francisco. It is the idea of the sponsors, a beer company, to present many first time voters—those reaching the voting age for the first time, those receiving their citizenship papers — who in turn will ask questions of the various political candidates. They feel that people must be heard, and this show offers that opportunity. It is strictly non-rehearsed with "no punches barred" on the questioning. The National Republican committee is watching this program with great interest, for along with the regular forum type questioning, the sponsor is placing 10,000 ballot boxes in Southern California, and 10,000 in Northern California for the purpose of getting a straw vote. Three lovely girls, called "The Balloteers," will travel from city to city in patriotic red, white and blue uniforms, gathering addi- LONG AGO May 1877 The railroad company find it difficult to furnish cars for freight at the Anaheim depot as fast as they can be used. W. H. Blennerhassett was down from Los Angeles on Monday on a short business trip. Joseph Helmsen attended the Superior court on Friday last in his capacity as administrator of the Bittner estate. Mr. and Mrs. Otto G. Messer of Los Angeles were last week guests of L. Kweger and sisters. J. B. Roe and family joined the throng bound for the fiesta on Thursday last. Andrew Gillison writes us from England, desiring a change in his paper's address. He adds the weather is wet and cold. He is prospering, but says nothing about coming back to California. W. A. Frantz and family departed on Monday for Redlands for a short visit with friends. The parachute is a development of the modern umbrella. In 1800, every large European country, including Spain and Turkey, had a larger population than the United States. The Chinese are believed to have been the first to raise silkworms. 50 Years Ago May 1902 Charley Fay is in San Francisco, attending the session of the Odd Fellows grand lodge as a delegate from the local lodge. Tom Dunn was in town yesterday from Redlands, shaking hands with old acquaintances. Deputy Sheriff Jim Sleeper, F. D. Daniel, Mr. Wright and Mr. Tiffany were in town from Santa Ana conferring with a number of local politicians some evenings ago. 25 Years Ago May 1927 The Lemke oil well came in with a roar of gas two weeks ago and stirred up a lot of excitement in the Placentis district. Doheny has entered the field and leases and sales of land at good figures are being effected every day. Mrs. Lucana McFadden leased her 20-acre ranch for a cash bonus of $10,000. William H. Bates sold his 11 acres adjoining the Lemcke place for $110,000. William Berkensstock declined an offer of $600,-000 for his 60 acres but leased it for $100,000. H. H. Hale leased his 20 acres east of Valencia ave., to the Standard Oil Co., for a cash bonus of $10,000, L. Jacobson leased his 5 acre on Carolina ave. for $500 an acre. The Associated Oil Co.'s Kemmerer No 12, which came in Monday at Atwood, at 500 barrels, has cleaned out and increased to 1200 barrels. Three lovely girls, called "The Balloteers," will travel from city to city in patriotic red, white and blue uniforms, gathering additional votes. It has been estimated that there will be at least one million new voters this year in the nation. As an example, University of California at Los Angeles will offer 5000 new voters, and an estimated 8000 from the University of California at Berkeley. Slated for the first KNBH telecast is W. Averill Harriman, who will answer questions on his own behalf, and it is hoped that Paul G. Hoffman will appear for Eisenhower. The "First-Time-Voters" program is being presented on a strictly non-partisan basis, with the hopes of stimulating interest in a get out and vote campaign for this most important election. DOWN TV-RADIO ROW . . . There's talk that Bing Crosby wants to buy several TV channels in the Pacific Northwest . . . Gisele MacKenzie, the eyeful-earful vocallovely is doing a musical film short at Universal-International . . . Ex-child star Freddy Bartholomew has won his TV spurs in Manhattan and has just been upped to a full director at WPIX . . . Actor Hugh Marlowe and wife, K. T. Stevens, are slated for a Mr. and Mrs. show. TELE-TIPS . . . Luise Rainer has the starring role in "Love OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD BY WALDO HUNTER SEX-MAD MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS RAISED WOMEN'S DORMITORIES IN UNITED S THOUSANDS OF WOMEN STUDENTS TERRORIZED BY DEGENERATE U. S. "PANTIE BURGLAR" If they haven't already, headlines such as these will soon appear in Russian newspapers and in the press Iron curtain satellite nations. No enemy propagandist worth half his salt to help would pass up this opportunity to capitalize on the collegiate goofiness going on over here. It is an ex- opportunity to libel the United States male collegian uncultured brute. University presidents, deans of women, chiefs of police, psychiatrists and psychologists, service station attendants, in the street are puzzling over the current epidemic of "pantie" at our institutions of higher yearning. And it IS a puzzler. Some have wistfully attempted to pass it off as just an outbreak of spring fever. If this be spring fever, times have changed more precisely than I had suspected hitherto. Get Mildred in off the street, here comes a B.A., Phd. WHEN I WAS a young blade, in the springtime we boys it a bit of a lark to swipe apples from the nearest corner. But THIS sort of thing . . . why we never thought of it as a project at all. If done, it was handled quietly, devoid of fa- publicity and strictly as an individual enterprise. An imme- of personal accomplishment was derived therefrom, but th- no mass visit to dormitories. Despite alarmed reaction in some quarters over this la- (if we can call stealing feminine undergarments a fad) you ful correspondent feels that the thing will all die down in days and that the situation on the campus will return to whatever that is. The colleges and universities will continue to turn out bu young men equipped to take their place alongside the next in the infantry platoon. And, 10 years hence, when little Juniper asks daddy HAL BOYLE NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (P)—Many have dreamed of winning fame and fortune by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Six people have done it. Three lived—three were pounded to death by the waters. The only surviving victor of the falls now is Jean Lussier, who bounced and floated in a home-made rubber ball over the Canadian side of the catraet on July 4, 1928. He emerged uninjured. Jean, a rugged former carnival stunt man, now works as a machine operator in an industrial plant here. He will be 59 years old this year and next Sunday will attend the Baptism of his fourth child—a five-week-old boy. Lussier, who has escaped the bad luck that caught up with other conquerers of the Niagara, says he would like to go over the falls a second time. But with him it's strictly business. "Show me the dough, and I'll go," he said. "But it will have to be this year or next year—after that I'll be too old." the world in a rubber bag said. "If the fall is too hard put wings on the ball." The first person to ride Niagara Falls successfully doughty lady schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor. Here was a crude wooden barricade iron husps. According to local tradition, the last moment she said she want to go. But her back portedly poured her two glasses full of scotch, cloak hatch, and pushed the bar into the current. Mrs. Taylor emerged from the falls unscathed, sold her cards of her exploits, local museum, and died later in the poorhouse. An English daredevil, Leach, floated over the an iron barrel in 1911. He to strap himself in, and was pulled out of his metre he had a broken jaw and broken kneecaps. Leach had a rather unfunny publicity and strictly as an individual enterprise. An immense of personal accomplishment was derived therefrom, but the no mass visit to dormitories. Despite alarmed reaction in some quarters over this law (if we can call stealing feminine undergarments a fad) you ful correspondent feels that the thing will all die down in days and that the situation on the campus will return to whatever that is. The colleges and universities will continue to turn out brute young men equipped to take their place alongside the next in the infantry platoon. And, 10 years hence, when little Juniper asks daddy learned in college, the old man will be able to say from best newspaper: "Well, for one thing, I learned that a handful of rayons is hardly worth the price of a bucket of cold water over the berry." No, our college students haven't all gone mad. They are on escapades like this every decade or so. In the '30's, they ate live gold fish. Perhaps some good may come from it all. Who knows, perhaps the inventor of a new type dirigible may be able to say: "I got the idea back in 1952 at the University of Minnesota after assiduous study of a size 34 double 'B' bra filched from Felicity Hall just across the campus." with great interest, with the regular forquestioning, the sponlacing 10,000 ballot Southern California, in Northern Californe purpose of getting vote. lewely girls, called "The will travel from city patriotic red, white and arms, gathering addition. estimated that there least one million new year in the nation. As the University of Calilos Angeles will offer poters, and an estimatfrom the University of At Berkeley. for the first KNBH W. Averill Harriwill answer questions own behalf, and it is Paul G. Hoffman for Eisenhower. first-Time-Voters" proceeding presented on a partisan basis, with of stimulating interest and vote campaign most important election. TV-RADIO ROW ... ask that Bing Crosby by several TV channels Northwest ... Giszie, the eyeful-earful that Universal-InternaEx-child star Freddy has won his TV inhattan and has just to a full director at Actor Hugh Marlowe T. Stevens, are slated and Mrs. show. PS ... Luise Rainer carring role in "Love In its recent questioning of offificials involved, Orange County Grand jury did not find out very much about the reasons for delay in flood control work, but residents of the 3rd Supervisorial district did learn that their supervisor is not at fault. As Mayor of Fullerton I charged that the county had continued to raise large sums of money from taxation and had "done nothing on flood control." The Grand jury called officials and as a result it was determined that the Flood Control office now has on hand the sum of $1,443,400 and of this sum $876,000 is a cash balance and could be expended, if approved. Supervisor Ralph McFadden of the 3rd district told the Grand jury he had been head of the flood control committee of the County board the first two years he had been in office, but had been relieved by Chairman Willis Warner of Huntington Beach, who is now handling that department. Supervisor Warner appeared before the League of Cities of Orange county and explained the sum of money raised for flood control work, and an explanation for delay. He stated the federal govern­ment had taken over control of the Carbon Canyon dam and work and because of the "Korean police action" had not appropriated any sum of money large enough to begin this $3,000,000 dam. He said the county would not build a control channel until the large dam is erected. Thus the outcry of the cities in northern Orange county did establish two facts which were outlined by myself, and backed up by the city of Anaheim. First. That the county does have on hand almost one million dollars, raised from taxes, for will attend the Baptism of his fourth child—a five-week-old boy. Lussier, who has escaped the bad luck that caught up with other conquerers of the Niagara, says he would like to go over the falls a second time. But with him it's strictly business. "Show me the dough, and I'll go," he said. "But it will have to be this year or next year—after that I'll be too old." Jean would like to become the first man in history to go over the American side of the falls, which is particularly hazardous because of the rocks beneath. He already has designed a three-layer rubber ball to be built around an aluminum frame. He says all he needs now is a sponsor willing to put up $3000 to construct the ball—and the $10,000 fee he wants to make the voyage. "ILL GO OVER any waterfall in flood control work, and is doing practically nothing. Second. That Supervisor McFadden is not chairman for the flood control committee, though he did appear before the Grand jury and gave information. Supervisor McFadden also pointed out he had been able to get the Flood control to build a "pilot channel" in this La Jolla road section south of Placentia which during the heavy rains of the past winter saved thousands of dollars in property damage, and possibly some lives. Supervisor McFadden has stated that he believes the relief channel for the Carbon canyon project can be built by Orange county, at reasonable cost, without waiting on the big federal job on Carbon canyon. TOM EADINGTON. If You Drive! Don't Drink WASHINGTON — Now that Jim McGranery has become attorney general, it might pay him to have his subordinates dust the cobwebs off all the reports sent by other government departments requesting investigation of graft and corruption. He would get some interesting cases from the RFC on Congressman Boykin of Alabama, and the B. and O. railroad; from the Commerce Department on shipping and sales of tin to China; plus various others. And if McGranery's subordinates fail to locate all these cases underneath the dust, this columnist will be delighted to help. As a starter, the new A.G. might look at a case which the Commerce Department sent to the Justice Department months ago involving surplus government tankers, this one featuring Adm. Harold G. Bowen, former Chief of Naval Research who assisted in developing the atom bomb. Shortly after Bowen retired in 1947, he turned up as a stockholder in the United States Petroleum Carriers, Inc. He bought 250 shares at $2 a share, signed applications to buy four surplus tankers from the government, then sold out for $250 a share immediately after the tankers were delivered three months later. In other words, he reaped a fabulous $62,000 profit after investing only $500. His chief contribution was use of his name to wangle tankers from the government. An immense sense of enterprise. An immense sense of there was the quarters over this latest fad undergarments a fad) your faithing will all die down in a few campus will return to normal, continue to turn out brilliant place alongside the next guy Juniper asks daddy what he be able to say from behind his that a handful of rayon or silk of cold water over the head." Gosh! all gone mad. They take off or so. In the '30's, remember, it all. of a new type dirigible in 1965 the University of Minnesota double 'B' bra filched from Old ones." The world in a rubber ball," he said. "If the fall is too high, I'll put wings on the ball." The first person to ride over Nagara Falls successfully was aaughty lady schoolteacher, Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor. Her vehicle was a crude wooden barrel with iron hasps. According to local tradition at the last moment she said "I don't want to go." But her backers reportedly poured her two water masses full of scotch, closed theutch, and pushed the barrel out to the current. Mrs. Taylor emerged below the falls unscathed, sold souvenir cards of her exploit at a local museum, and died years later in the poorhouse. An English daredevil, Bobby Beach, floated over the falls in iron barrel in 1911. He forgot strap himself in, and when he pulled out of his metal cask had a broken jaw and two broken kneecaps. Beach had a rather unfortunate bought 250 shares at $2 a share, signed applications to buy four surplus tankers from the government, then sold out for $250 a share immediately after the tankers were delivered three months later. In other words, he reaped a fabulous $62,000 profit after investing only $500. His chief contribution was use of his name to wangle tankers from the government. A similar quick killing was made by another stockholder in the same company, Robert W. Dudley, who, like Bowen, parlayed a $500 investment into a $62,000 profit in three months. Here is the amazing sequence that led to the get-rich-quick profits by Bowen and Dudley: THE GREEKS HAD FRIENDS 1. Dudley represented a group of wealthy Greek shipowners who were trying to purchase surplus tankers from the Maritime commission. The application was turned down Sept. 12, 1947, on the ground that the applicants were not American citizens. 2. Two weeks later the United States Petroleum Carriers, Inc., was formed with Dudley and Bowen as stockholders. The only other stockholder was Robert L. Berenson, an intimate of the Greek shipowners, who held 100 shares. The new corporation promptly filed an application for tankers, signed by Admiral Bowen as president. 3. The Maritime Commission approved the sale of four tankers to Bowen's corporation on Dec. 30, 1947. Exactly one week later, both Bowen and Dudley sold out to the Greek shipowners' friend, Berenson. He, in turn, sold a 48 per cent interest to Sociedad Industrial Maritima Financiera Arizona, a Panamanian corporation owned by the same Greek shippers who had tried to purchase the tankers in the first place, but were turned down. 4. Berenson borrowed the money for this deal from Simpson, Spence and Young, New York fiscal agents, who happen to represent Berenson's Greek shipowner friends. But what is even more peculiar, Berenson was able to Fast dependable service on repairing of washing machines, wrinklers & auto. (pick-up & del.) irons, toasters, vacuum cleaners, fans, waffle irons, elec. ranges motors re-wound. "If it has a wire we'll repair it" 116 N. LOS ANGELES PHONE 4070 REMEMBER!!! You can get a Card of Thanks or In Memoriam for only $1.00. Call 2206 for information. LEGAL NOTICES (Pub. Anaheim Gazette, May 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, June 2, 3, 1952.) 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No. 11626 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, as Executor of the Estate of Bernice Bidart, deceased, will sell, at private sale to the highest and best bidder, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned, and subject to confirmation by said Superior Court, on June 10, 1952, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A.M., or thereafter within the time allowed by law, at the law offices of Mack & Blanco, at Room 100 Truxtun Avenue Building, 1107 Truxtun Avenue, Bakerfield, California, all right, title, and interest in the estate of said deceased at the time of her death, and all right, title and interest the said estate has acquired by operation of law or otherwise, other than or in addition to that of said decedent at the time of her death, in and to the following described parcel of real property in the County of Orange, State of California, to-wit: An undivided one half (½) interest in and to all right, title, and interest in and to the following described land situated in Orange County, California, EVCEPING the North 17 acres thereof: Parcel L. The West Seven Hundred Ninety-six (796) feet of a parcel of land bounded as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Section 36, in Township 3 South, Range 10 West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, and running thence North 40 chains; thence East $9.18 chains to the center line of Placentia Avenue as established by the Orange County Board of Public Works. NOMINATED—Myron M. Cowen, State Department advisor and former envoy to the Philippines, has been nominated by President Truman to be the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium. For Health. Eat California Fruit!