anaheim-gazette 1952-05-27

Anaheim Gazette TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1903 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA School Superintendent Cautions Against Hasty Expansion Act Paul Cook, Anaheim's superintendent of elementary schools, yesterday indicated Anaheim should observe a proceed-with-caution attitude in proposals for expansion and realignment of the school systems. Mr. Cook spoke before the Anaheim Rotary club where he pointed out that inflation and expansion are the chief problems facing the schools. He stated that "schools are expensive" but said no other public institution has "repaid you so well in the public schools." The superintendent said it is the intention of the elementary school board to tap every resource possible before embarking on an expensive building program to take care of the 400 additional youngsters who might descend upon the schools in the near future. About 450 new students entered the schools this year and another jump is expected next September. There are now about 2350 pupils in the grade schools and Fremont school. He explained that the board has determined the most inexpensive course in obtaining additional classrooms is to re-convert the old Broadway school into a first class elementary school to make it ready to take an overflow of children expected to arrive with the completion of several hundred new homes on the eastern fringes of Anaheim. SPEAKING OF the proposal to build two new junior high schools plant right now. If the vote on merging the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades with the high school district is successful on Sept. 23, two new junior high schools would be created. One would be built near Cypress and the other would be located in Anaheim. If the high school board elected to construct a new junior high in Anaheim, it was pointed out, the elementary school board would have a school plant (Fremont) on its hands which is much too elaborate for a grade school. However, it has been proposed in some quarters that, if the school vote carries, Fremont should be sold to the high school district to be used as a junior high and the money paid for it could be put into expansion of the grade school system where needed. MR. COOK advanced the idea that consideration should be given to purchase of Fremont because of a belief that the construction of two complete new school plants would cost more money than the district could raise. He also said further consideration might be given to a relatively inexpensive program of building more classrooms onto the existing Anaheim high school plant to take care of a foreseeable rise in high school enrollment. This, he indicated, might relieve the pressure until some future time when the junior high schools could be built on a more advantageous construction and economic situation. SPEAKING OF the proposal to build two new junior high schools and add them to the Anaheim Union high school system, Mr. Cook said the elementary school board felt some concern for the future of Fremont school under such a plan. Fremont, he pointed out, is a good junior high school. WE WILL RESTORE ORIGINAL SOFTNESS AND BEAUTY TO YOUR BLANKETS THROUGH Dry Cleaning and Re-Binding We also offer the only Pillow Renovating Service in Orange County Renovating - Re-Tickling "LEAVE IT TO RITZ" CLEANERS & DYERS We SPECIALIZE in DRY CLEANING 307 K. Center Anaheim $229 He also said further consideration might be given to a relatively inexpensive program of building more classrooms onto the existing Anaheim high school plant to take care of a foreseeable rise in high school enrollment. This, he indicated, might relieve the pressure until some future time when the junior high schools could be built on a more advantageous construction and economic situation. Mr. Cook emphasized that he and the board did not oppose a junior high school program. He and the board, he pointed out, are searching for the best way to save money and avoid a large construction program at a time when building costs are sky high and the future needs of the school systems are not yet completely in focus. He also said Anaheim would be required to provide some 52 per cent of the money for the Cypress school. Mr. Cook indicated that the voters of Anaheim must decide if they want to subsidize, in effect, a school program in the western part of the county. Forty-five per cent of the students reside in Anaheim, but the city would provide 52 per cent of the funds for the over-all junior high school program. DURING THE program, the Rotarians heard several selections by the Harmonettes, a group of 15 young ladies from Fremont school. Miss Harriet Schadewald, music instructor, was the piano accompanist. Program chairman was Walter Taylor. Other Rotarians heard from during the course of the meeting included Mel Gauer, Robt. H. WE WILL CLOSE FRI. AND SAT. MEMORIAL DAY WEEK END Please Order Early for Your Week End Needs GARDEN SUPPLIES Oil-Rich Birch Properties Sold At Auction Sale of the Birch Oil Co.'s properties, which have been solved in lawsuits for years, and which thirty years were the testing ground for so-called "sleeper" methods assessing oil properties, will place at public auction in Superior Court Friday afternoon, bid of $1,505,000 being made at Hillcrest Exploration Co. The sale is tentative and is subject to confirmation by Supervisor Judge Robert Gardner June 16 is possible that further bid may take place then. The sale includes the original Birch development of 20,16 acres which has 18 producing oil wells. Also included is a tract of acres of pasture land located higher in Brea canyon. Judge Gardner ordered that of the property some weeks after deciding a suit brought by A. Otis Birch, 88, president of Birch Ranch and Oil Corp., dissolution of a partnership which owned the properties. THE CORPORATION war partnership with two of Birch nieces, Mrs. Ruth Smith Hopkins and Mrs. Louise Smith Hopkins. The 20-acre oil property, proving since 1911, reputedly made millionaires of all the partners. They were in dispute as to percentage each partner owes and the court held that Birch corporation owned 70 and 17 per cent of the partnership, with each niece owned 14 and 19 per cent. The division of percentages WE WILL CLOSE FRL AND SAT. MEMORIAL DAY WEEK END Please Order Early for Your Week End Needs GARDEN SUPPLIES Clear Redwood LATH 1"x1" Redwood PLANT STAKES 4 foot $2.20 Per Hundred Pieces Lin. Foot 1¢ 6' and 8' also available REDWOOD BORDER STRIPS FOR GARDEN WINDOW SCREENS and SCREEN DOORS A good supply of the frameless aluminum window screens ready to go. REDWOOD FENCES 5' Solid REDWOOD BOARD FENCE $1.15 Per Linear Foot See our display of fence designs at popular prices. BUY IT BY THE MONTH Payments as LOW as $5.00 Monthly PHONE Anaheim 2118 for Free Estimates 125 N. MANCHESTER TAYLOR LUMBER CO. COUNTY LION OFFICIALS Named Elmonte Place of San Bernardino, district governor-elect of the Lions club, appointed Fred W. Hichman of Seal Beach as president of the Orange County Council, at the fourth and final council meeting in the Anaheim Elks club Friday night. Calvin Pebley, president of the Stanton Lions, was elected Zone A chairman to succeed Fred Lack of Fullerton; Al Hastie, Laguna Beach, zone B chairman; Ed Milum, Newport Beach, Zone C chairman. Henry Wilson, secretary of the Seal Beach club was appointed council secretary by Hichman, former Zone B chairman. ROBINSON CASE HELD OVER TO JULY 16 SANTA ANA, CA — Edward G. Robinson Jr., son of the actor, will face trial July 16 on charges of writing two bad checks totaling $164.81 in Anaheim and Santa Ana last February. Originally scheduled for trial yesterday, the case was put over until July 16 because of a heavy court calendar. Young Robinson, 19, is free under $10,000 bail. The checks subsequently were made good. ANAHEIMER SERVES ON MINESWEEPER Serving aboard the minesweeper USS Symbol in Korean waters in Benjamin M. Campos, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Campos of Route 3, Plac.-Yorba blvd., Anaheim Campos, who has served on the Symbol for five months, enlisted in the Navy June 29, 1951, and received his recruiting training at the CANCER SCORE AT TWO-THIRD OF FUND GIVEAWAY Two thirds of the cancer Society's goal of 1952 fund drive has it reported. Chairman Worth I. quarterly meeting with Santa Ana last week. The subscriptions reached a total of $1 reported. Receipts of the sale sponsored by County Florists Assn. as an addition to the Special Gifts division in $2858 thus far, $1187 came from the Industry division. The campaign has to the end of May nounced. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY A burglary was The Pantry, 701 W last night, but nothing ed missing, according police. Entry was gained front window than broken out. A. A. KANTALA DIE Armas Axel Kant early this morning at 617 S. Helena street of a heart attack. By one brother, Matt of Elburton, Ga. Fundments are in charge genfeld mortuary. There are 673 kind California's ocean aners, according to a reof the University of C H-Rich Birch Properties Sold Auction Man. Bidding started at $727,500, went up to $765,000, then Hillman jumped it to an even $1,000,000. From that point the bids rose $5000 at a time until Birch, the last contestant, dropped out at $1,500,000. Anahelmer Serves On Minesweeper Serving aboard the minesweeper USS Symbol in Korean waters in Benjamin M. 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