anaheim-gazette 1952-06-11

Daddy Sunday is Father's day. Want some suggestions on a gift for him? Please see "Home-Makers Forum," Page 4. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHI Anahi Trustees Ban Textbook The Anaheim High school board of trustees yesterday backed down in the face of some local criticism of a text-book called "Our Changing Social Order," and eliminated the book from the social sciences department of the school. The board gave no reason for the ban. However, portions of the book were criticized several weeks ago by a local business group because of alleged "socialistic" views in the book. In order to eliminate the criticism, the board eliminated the book; although at least one member of the board said he had not read the book. The board, however, had asked non-partisan individuals in the community to read the book. The verdict was that there is nothing wrong in the book, but that the spirited criticism had caused the book to be suspect in some quarters. Since the book was not basic text book it was easily discontinued. Senate Rebuffs Second President Truman Steel WASHINGTON UP—The Senate, sticking by its stand that President Truman should use the Taft-Hartley act in the steel crisis, today rejected another move to give him the plant seizure powers he asked. Some government officials were of the opinion the Senate stand would virtually force Truman to turn to the T-H law, which he dislikes, in an effort to end the strike of 650,000 CIO steelworkers. There was no sign, however, that the administration contemplated any imminent action. Senator Morse (R-Ore), offered the new seizure proposal in the Senate. It was slapped down, 53 to 26. Morse argued that the Taft-Hartley law, which permits anti-triangle injunctions, would not assure production of steel. "Americans have been deluded into a conclusion that there is something about Taft-Hartley that would keep steel production go- State Pay Hike To Cost Public $6,600,000 SACRAMENTO, (CNS) California taxpayers will be relieved of another $6,600,000 annually beginning July 11, when pay increases for 53,500 state employees go into effect. Officials of the state person board said the state emploi would receive the raise, which the most part amounts to five percent of the salary they receive the present time, in their Aux paychecks. The personnel board grilled 5800 psychiatric technicians tendants in the state's 12 m The board, however, had asked non-partisan individuals in the community to read the book. The verdict was that there is nothing wrong in the book, but that the spirited criticism had caused the book to be suspect in some quarters. Since the book was not a basic text book it was easily discontinued as a class room reference. At the same meeting the board initialed the proposed high school budget for next year. The budget calls for expenditures of $689,927 as against $667,644 for the current year. In addition, $75,000 goes into the permanent building fund. Clyde Nickle, business manager of the school, said the increase in the budget is due principally to wage increases and jumps in the enrollment. The budget will be submitted to county officials for revisions based on the new assessed valuations of the county. Jury Convicts Stewart of Armed Robbery Deliberating an hour and thirty-three minutes a Superior court jury yesterday convicted Clifford Clyde Stewart, 23, of Bell Garden of armed robbery of a liquor store at Fullerton last Feb 21. Stewart will be sentenced June 17 by Superior Judge Kenneth E. Morrison. Conviction of Stewart was based chiefly on circumstantial evidence which linked him as one of three men who had held up and robbed Clerk George B. Martin in the liquor store. Martin identified Stewart and a German-made automatic pistol which Newport Beach police testified they found in his possession when Stewart was arrested in the beach cty shortly after the stick-up. The prisoner's alibi was that he Senator Morse (R-Ore), offered the new seizure proposal in the Senate. It was slapped down, 53 to 26. Morse argued that the Taft-Hartley law, which permits antitrike injunctions, would not assure production of steel. "Americans have been deluded into a conclusion that there is something about Taft-Hartley that would keep steel production going," Morse told the Senate, and added: "It just ain't so." To invoke Taft-Hartley now, Morse said, would put the government "on the side of the employers." Morse's plan would have authorized plant seizure, with powers to raise the workers' pay and seize part of the plant's profits. The seizure would be limited to 60 days unless Congress extended it. Supers Refuse Rotary Mud Dump Permit Request Climaxing a two-hour meeting, the board of supervisors late yesterday refused a permit to James Parkes for a rotary mud dumpground in an old sandpit near Lincoln ave. and hwy. 39, south of Buena Park. Sparkes last March won approval of the Orange county planning commission of his proposal to use the old sandpit for discharge of oil-well wastes. Neighbors objected and supervisors called the hearing. The board's review was spiced by somewhat vitriolic remarks by attorneys representing Sparkes and the protestants. Most of the objections were based on the claim that rotary mud and brines which would be dumped into the old sandpit might contaminate the underground water supply, would have an odor, and would remain in a semi-liquid state indefinitely. MILAN, Italy, (P) — An explosion flattened a three-story apartment building in Milan's industrial outskirts today, killing 11 persons and injuring five others. Officials of the state personnel board said the state emploi would receive the raise, which the most part amounts to five cent of the salary they receive the present time, in their AW paychecks. The personnel board grew 5800 psychiatric technicians tendants in the state's 12 m hospitals, a ten per cent increase. The board said in addition, a 3200 employees in 250 classes for which the salariecorrresponding private busineare higher, will get the larger crease. This group includes countants and auditors, janitor elevator operators, engineersaids and related classes. Employees in 34 job classes will receive no increase to the fact that they hold highministrative posts. "Increasing their salaries," board said, "would have reside in their being paid salaries close to the department direct whose salaries are set by the legislature." Most department directors ceive from $12,000 to $15,000 nually. Average monthly service salary, however, is $45,000. Congress Asked To End Housing Contract in LA SANTA MONICA (P) — A lution asking Congress for action to terminate the 110 million lar federally subsidized Los Angeles public housing program submitted in Congress today. Jackson (R-Calif) told the S Monica Outlook by telephone. He said he had requested gressional action and also sent letter to President Truman as that he direct the Housing Ministry to drop furtherceedings. Jackson's action followed week's referendum balloting which Los Angeles voters did prove the project. Hallowe'en Council Meeting Scheduled For Tonight First meeting of the Hallowe'en Festival council will be held at the Anaheim High school Little Theater at 7:30 p.m. today. All clubs, schools, fraternal organizations and churches are urged to have representatives in attendance. All civic leaders and Hallowe'en enthusiasts are invited, according to Adolf Schoepe, chairman. Plans will be formulated to make the 1952 Hallowe'en the most outstanding in the 29-year history of the event. Robert Paulsen, executive secretary of the Prescott, Arizona Chamber of Commerce, will be on hand to explain in detail how the Arizona Northland Chambers of Commerce will cooperate in working out the theme of this year's Hallowe'en Festival. The theme, tying us with the state-of-Arizona and the colorful American Indians of this region, promises to place the Anaheim Hallowe'en Festival among the nation's top community celebrations. High School Graduation Exercises Set for Greek Theater Tomorrow With 243 students to receive diplomas, the class of '52 of Anaheim Union high school will take part in commencement ceremonies in the Greek theater in Anaheim city park tomorrow at 7 p.m. Principal speaker will be J. Roger Deas, former secretary to Gov. Warren and now manager of the Public Information service of American Can company. Student speakers will include Valedictorians Barbara Ryan, Philip Taylor and Don Hillary, Salutatorian Stuard Schmid, '52-'53, Student Body President Ronnie Legg, and Senior Class President Dale Moist. Senior Dieter Hessel will give the invocation. Awarding of diplomas will be given by James A. Baker, member of the board of trustees, following the presentation of the class of '52 by Supt. Paul H. Demaree. Musical portions of the commencement program will include a brass ensemble playing "Suite Miniature," the entire graduating class singing the class song, "An American Prayer," and three selections by the school orchestra preceding ceremonials. The ensemble is composed of trumpet Paul Billow, Richard Ramsey Steve Knutzen, Ken Lehman, Hutson and Phillip Ruberio; trumpets Dieter Hessel and Chauncey Bourne; and bass Jim Rolve. Chestra is under direction of Cook and vocal music, Sheila Disrud. Harry S. Burden, teacher reeling after 29 years of instruction at Anaheim high school, will be presented by Mr. Demaree. Graduation tomorrow will cover a full week of activities that under way for graduating seniors last Friday with dismissal for regular classes. The class has spent seven hours each morning rehearsing the Greek theater. Yesterday afternoon the students held their annual bar-B-Q in Irvine Park and tomorrow morning they assembled for their last informational function at the traditional breakfast at City park. The class activities are under the joint direction of senior advisors Charles Rhart and William Rickel. ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE Paper ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1952 Second Attempt to Give American Steel Seizure Power Hoffman Prot State Pay Hike to Cost Public 4,600,000 ACRAMENTO, (CNS) — California taxpayers will be red of another $6,600,000 anly beginng July 11, when new increases for 53,500 state emes go into effect. Officials of the state personnel said the state employees receive the raise, which for most part amounts to five per of the salary they receive at present time, in their August checks. The personnel board granted psychiatric technicians, attments in the state's 12 mental School Board Okays Teacher Pay Increase The Anaheim Elementary board last night adopjusted salary schedule increase teachers' pay tem by about $300 a age. The scale ranges f year for beginners t teachers with masters 15 years experience generally helps the groups most. At the same time th received a petition fro teacher employers ask month across-the-b increase. The board petition pending fun CHICAGO—CHEMICALS EXPLODE IN $500,000 FIRE—A giant fireball explodes above the burning warehouse of the Witco Chemical Co., as fire swept the plant in Stickney, a southwest suburb, here last night. Firemen reel back from the blast. Fire Marshall John Haberkorn estimated damage at $500,000. The one-story warehouse contained 400 drums of mastic and 300 drums of drier. Veteran AUHS Teachers Retire At Term's End Two veteran teachers at Anselm Union High school, one with 29 years of instruction here, will bring their teaching careers to an end this week by retirement. Along with other AU teachers, Harry L. Burden, mechanical drawing teacher, and Mrs. Shirley Bayard, gym teacher, will close out affairs this Friday. Mr. Burden, who has made a life time career out of instructing Anaheim youth, originally came from Nebraska, attending school at Hebron, Neb. He received his teaching credentials at Santa Barbara State college, then came directly here as a woodshop and metal shop teacher. Following 10 years of instructing these subjects, he took over his present duties of teaching mechanical drawing. Gasoline Blast Shakes Texas Panhandle Town DAWN, Tex. (P)—A tremendous explosion on the El Paso natural gas pipeline near this Texas panhandle town today shook houses here and set off a blistering fire visible for 50 miles. It was not immediately known whether anyone was injured. The explosion was four miles south and four miles east of Dawn. There were no buildings within three quarters of a mile of the scene. The blast was out two and a half hours after it started. Intense heat kept firefighters from the area. Dawn is about 30 miles southwest of Amarillo and has a population of 100. The pipeline was shut off soon after the blast, and the fire was burning itself out two hours later on the flow still left in the line. Communist POWs Butcher Fire Anti Reds in Night of Terror Communist POWs Butcher Fire Anti-Reds in Night of Terror KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (P) — Communist prisoners of war in compound 77 murdered 15 fellow POWs in a night of terror, then meekly surrendered to United Nations troops today for dispersal to smaller stockades. American guards seized seven of the compound's leaders after the group had been shifted. The red leaders were put in isolation cells. Other red prisoners in a central exercise ground of the new enclosure, then refused to return to their compound but sullenly complied when a company of American troops rushed up. A leader of tough prison pen 66—holding 2700 North Korean officers and 650 enlisted men—was shown the shambles of compound 76 where the reds resisted dispersal. But American guards said throughout the day they heard considerable hammering in 66, an indication the POWs were shaping crude weapons. American paratroopers found eight POW bodies still oozing blood in a well in compound 77. After a ninth body doubled up in an oil drum was discovered in the same well. Five bodies were found in trenches and another in an abandoned well. ONE VICTIM'S hand behind his back. Other beaten and ropes were on the necks. Twenty anti-red prison barbed wire fences night. They said red planned to kill them. The 6288 North Kore compound were the group to be dispersed compounds in Brig. G. L. Boatner's campaign tested control over the The 6400 reds in co-first to be dispersed savagely for 2½ hours before being subdued tough paratroopers from Airborne Combat Team. Thirty-one reds were the fight. The Army wounded POWs had boosting the death toll new survey showed about oners were wounded. One American bled ter being stabbed by a spear. Fourteen other cans were injured, non-The bloody fight has on POWs in other Those in adjoining 78 w to new, smaller pens assistance a few hours later sent word to Boatner obey moving orders. ZETTE JUNE 11, 1952 5c per Copy — 50c per Month NO. 160 Protests Keynote Choice School Board Okays Teachers' Pay Increase The Anaheim Elementary School board last night adopted a readjusted salary schedule which will increase teachers' pay in the system by about $300 a year, average. The scale ranges from $3000 a year for beginners to $4850 for teachers with masters degrees and 15 years experience. The boost generally helps the lower salary groups most. At the same time the board received a petition from the non-teacher employers asking a $25 a month across-the-board salary increase. The board tabelled the petition pending further study. Says Pro-Taft Forces Attempting To 'Steamroller' the Convention NEW YORK, U.P. — One of the top advisers in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination said today that selection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as GOP keynoter was an attempt to steamroller the convention for Sen. Robert A. Taft. This complaint against the arrangements committee for the party's national convention came from Paul V. Hoffman, chairman of the advisory committee of citizens for Eisenhower. He said MacArthur's selection as keynoter was a "pro-Taft" attempt "to get the old steamroller in motion." Talking with reporters after an hour-long conference with Eisenhower this morning, Hoffman said: "The nomination should not be decided by machine tactics. We knew the arrangements committee was pro-Taft. I'm surprised they did not give the keynote to Taft himself." Heralds Battle By The Associated Press Senator Robert Taft’s forces today held the controls, throttle and brakes of the Republican convention machinery—an omen of a possibly bitter-end fight over disputed delegations. Here was the line-up, adopted by the convention arrangement committee at its final meeting in Chicago yesterday: Keynote speaker—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a supporter of Taft and a critic of Taft’s chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Temporary chairman — Walter S. Hallanan of West Virginia, another Taft booster. Platform committee chairman—Sen. Eugene Millikin of Colorado, for Taft also. The fourth key post, permanent chairman, went to Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts, who has not taken sides in the Taft-Eisenhower rivalry but has spoken well of MacArthur. THE TAFT camp called the signals when the arrangements committee put together the men and the jobs for the July 7 convention at Chicago. It was noticed that the Ohioan, whose offer to compromise on contested delegations in the South was rejected by Eisenhower campaigners, was ready for a no-quarter battle. Of the 1193 convention delegates—out of a total 1206—already chosen, the Associated Press tabulation now gives Taft 484, Eisenhower 390, others 130 and uncommitted or disputed 209. Nomination requires 604 and in a squeeze the contested delegations—like those from Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi—could put a man across. The keynoter’s rallying speech can do much to set the tone. The platform committee will put into words what the party stands for. And the chairmen, first the temporary and then the permanent, will have plenty of power when disputes hit the floor—disputes tempt to get the old steamroller in motion.” Talking with reporters after an hour-long conference with Eisenhower this morning, Hoffman said: “The nomination should not be decided by machine tactics. We knew the arrangements committee was pro-Taft. I’m surprised they did not give the keynote to Taft himself. “When all the shouting is over, it’s the people who will decide, not the arrangements committee. I don’t think it will hurt Eisenhower a bit.” Eisenhower had a long list of engagements today, including one with a non-committal John Fosse Dulles, former Republican advisor to the state department, and some doubtful New Jersey delegates. Dulles is so far non-committal on his choice for the party’s presidential candidate. Reporters asked Hoffman what Gen. Eisenhower had said of the MacArthur selection. “Well, he asked me what I thought,” Hoffman replied. Hoffman made a few spurious remarks on relations between Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Eisenhower, er. He mentioned that once MacArthur chose Eisenhower, then a colonel, to be his chief of staff in the Philippines. “As long as Ike was in a subordinate position, Ike was wonderful,” Hoffman said, declining to go further. Pentagon Lawyers Nurse Keynote Speech Nerves WASHINGTON (AP)—The selection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for keynote speaker at the Republican national convention may compel nervous Pentagon lawyers to lay out political ground rules for the former Pacific commander. The Army's legal experts are known to have been tip-toeing for sometime around the question of whether MacArthur's activities Ws Butcher Fifteen Night of Terror ONE VICTIM'S hands were tied behind his back. Others had been beaten and ropes were taut around the necks. Twenty anti-red prisoners sealed barbed wire fences during the night. They said red leaders had planned to kill them. The 6288 North Koreans in the compound were the third such group to be dispersed to 500-man compounds in Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner's campaign for uncontested control over the POWs. The 6400 reds in compound 76—first to be dispersed—fought savagely for 2½ hours yesterday before being subdued by 750 tough paratroopers from the 187th Airborne Combat Team. Thirty-one reds were killed in the fight. The Army said seven wounded POWs had died since, boosting the death toll to 38. A new survey showed about 150 prisoners were wounded. One American bled to death after being stabbed by a crude prison spear. Fourteen other Americans were injured, none seriously. The bloody fight had its effect on POWs in other compounds. Those in adjoining 78 were moved to new, smaller pens without resistance a few hours later and 77 sent word to Boatner it would obey moving orders. Fluor Corporation Executive Dies In Kansas City Henry D. Fischer, 62, an executive of the Fluor Corporation, died yesterday in Kansas City, where his office was located. Born in Clifton Springs, N.Y., Mr. Fischer made his home in Paola, Kan. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Peter Fluor of Fullerton and a brother, Francis E. Fischer of Arcadia. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary. Requiem Mass will be said at St. Boniface church Friday at 9 a.m. Interment will follow in Holy Sepulchre cemetery. MANILA (P) — All male U.S. citizens between 18 and 26 living in the Philippines were told yesterday by the American Embassy they must register next month under the Selectiae Service act. However, the embassy said there is no plan to induct Americans abroad into the Armed Forces. WASHINGTON (P)—The selection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for keynote speaker at the Republican national convention may compel nervous Pentagon lawyers to lay out political ground rules for the former Pacific commander. The Army's legal experts are known to have been tip-toeing for sometime around the question of whether MacArthur's activities have strained beyond the bounds of military regulations that forbid officers on active duty to engage in political campaigning. Up to now, all they worried about were MacArthur's speeches, statements and support of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the Republican presidential nomination. But unless he resigned from the Army ahead of time acceptance by MacArthur of any bid to keynote the GOP convention would lead to even more fingernail biting. For the regulations specifically ban "activity at political conventions" and "the making of political speeches." Even in retirement, some military lawyers say, it would be necessary for both Eisenhower and MacArthur to pull their punches at the Democrats. The uniform code of military justice, applying to active and retired officers, says in Article 88 that an officer who uses "contemptuous words" against the president, vice-president, cabinet, members of Congress, governors or state or territorial legislators "shall be punished as a court-martial may direct." Legal authorities think it might be difficult for MacArthur to avoid clashing with that article in a keynote address that is supposed to whale away at the Democrats and glorify the Republicans.