anaheim-gazette 1952-06-27

Police Gunfire Kills Santa Ana Man, Wounds 2-Year-Old Hostage SANTA ANA (P)—An aircraft worker was shot and killed and his two-year-old son critically wounded in a gunfight last night with police who had forced him from his barricaded home with tear gas. Officers said the dead man, Gary F. Kauffman, 30, had taken hostages his own baby, Gary, Jr., and two others. James Merritt and his son, James, Jr., also 2, in an eight-mile terror ride after Kauffman had shot and wounded Merritt's wife, Ellie. Police pieced together this account of what happened: Kauffman and his wife are separated. She recently moved from their home in nearby Costa Mesa to the Merritt home here, taking Gary, Jr., with her. Last night as Mr. and Mrs. Merritt stood in their yard, Kauffman approached them, demanding to see his wife. He brandished a pistol. As the Merrits entered their house, Mrs. Merritt tried to slam the door against Kauffman. He fired, wounding her in the arm. Mrs. Kauffman telephoned police, saying her husband was threatening her with the gun. Four police cars converged on the house. JABBING the gun in Merritt's back, Kauffman picked up his own child and forced Merritt to carry his. As they reached the front porch, Kauffman told police he'd shoot if they didn't let him through. He used his child as a shield. The two men and their sons got into Merritt's car and Merritt was forced to drive away slowly. The police cars followed, also slowly. The grim procession continued for eight miles to Kauffman's home at Costa Mesa. Kauffman and Merritt and their sons entered the house and Kauffman proceeded to barricade it against the police. Tear gas bombs were hurled through the windows after Kauffman refused to surrender. He threw several of the bombs back out. One set the house on fire. Soon Merritt, carrying his son, and Kauffman, carrying his, emerged and got in Merritt's car. A police bullet punctured a tire. There were more shots. Kauffman and his son each was hit in the head. When police opened the car door, Kauffman fell out, still clutching his son. The man was dead. ART ATWELL ART ATWELL former Trumpet Player for THE SPADE COOLEY BAND will be at the CHURCH of the NAZARENE Claudina and Cypress Sts. SUNDAY AT 9:45 A.M. AT THIS SERVICE, MR. ATWELL WILL PLAY HIS TRUMPET AND TELL OF HIS CONVERSION SEE OUR WINDOW SPORT SHIRTS SALE FAMOUS MAKER CLOSE OUTS MANUFACTURER SELECTED COTLER'S FOR THIS BIG MONEY SAVING EVENT! BIG SELECTION ALL NEW STOCK 100% Single Needle Construction! Imported Fabrics! Unlimited selection of both short and a few long sleeve styles in a multitude of patterns and colors. Complete size range. Small, medium, large and extra large. SHIRTS FAMOUS MAKER CLOSE OUTS MANUFACTURER SELECTED COTLER'S FOR THIS BIG MONEY SAVING EVENT! BIG SELECTION ALL NEW STOCK 100% Single Needle Construction! Imported Fabrics! 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Large crowd is expected to the first meal prepared by canteen members, of which Marjorie McBratney, presi- tive the Lady Lions, is chair- 300 EXPECTED Al C. Marten, newly elect-ident of the Lions and Sa- vanna coordinator will be assisted by Lions in preparing places for 300 guests at one time, 600 tickets having been disposed of. McMahon's furniture store in Anaheim have donated a valuable door prize, the winner of which does not have to be present. Mrs. Florence P. Black as personnel officer of the defense unit and canteen will act as program chairman and will present two hours of continuous musical entertainment from local and AUHS students. Nolan Blackman will act as master of ceremonies and as soloist. Janice Pullman, queen of Job's Daughters Bethel No. 5, and JoAnn Faust will be presented as a dance team. Delores Pool will dance Hawaiian routines. Delores Giardino, Marion Caracausa, Mildred Buehler and Barbara Bryan will sing. Harlene Heitmiller will be an accordion soloist with Jerry Almand, Lois Strong, Emille Bradley and Paul Winters as pianists. COMMITTEES Defense council members on food committee are Paul Pietz, Adrian L. Wolfert, Melvin S. Huss, Lewis C. McBratney and Carl Jameson. Council chairman, Rev. Charles A. White, will welcome the guests, with invocation by council member, Rev. Herman H. Wedel. MEMO—More than motor vehicles travelle lion miles last year 37,100 persons and in million more. That's Don't help to break it Drive carefully. When home, plan to return. NUGGETS — Fred Water Companies Seek Use of Abandoned Prado Pipe Dump Water of New Wells Being Drilled in Area Mission of the Orange County Control District to dump from wells being drilled in basin into the county's idle that passes under Prado on the channel downstream, requested by the Santa Ana River Development company, decided late yesterday at a held in the offices of the San Union Water company. Santa Ana River Develop-company, formed by the San Union Water company and Santa Ana Valley Irriga-company, to develop water in the Prado basis area for both companies, drilled one well there last year. However, the well was not pumped after Orange county entered the Tri-County agreement with Riverside and San Bernardino-county water interest that was designed to protect the up river water supply from infringement by this county's proposed water salvage program at Prado. SARD now plans to drill three more wells in the basin northerly along Chino creek and already has started one of them. The company plans to pump the wells, it is said, and wants permission of the flood control district to carry the water down stream through the $400,000 pipeline that extends under the dam, up stream 1700 feet and downstream 2500 feet. This pipe never has been used, its upper end being plugged. Use of the pipeline, providing the water emprious reasons, including tests being conducted by the up river interests to satisfy themselves that the salvage program would not hurt their supply. Yesterdays' meeting was advised that county flood engineer J. A. Bradley has indicated he would not object to use of the pipeline, providing the water entied into it is clear and free of silt. SARD officials say the experiment, if carried out, will be closely watched to determine whether it actually produces any increase in the downstream water supply. There might be a possibility the same water would get down stream, anyway, by natural flow or perculation. Dem. Presidential Seeking Votes In Colorado DENVER. (UP) — Four prime Democratic party presidential hopefuls gathered here today in a bid for Colorado's 16 votes at the party's national convention in Chicago July 21. Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia arrived in Denver yesterday and promptly claimed a "very conservative" 300 votes for the presidential nomination on the first ballot. Russell was to be followed by Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, who will share the platform at the Colorado state democratic assembly and convention today. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Averell Harriman, mutual security director, will address the Colorado Democrats Saturday during their sessions at nearby Golden. Russell declined to name states he expects to swing behind him. He did say he would get 52 votes from Texas, 28 from Virginia and 18 from Mississippi, plus others already pledged to him. The personable lawmaker claimed 11 additional votes from North Carolina and predicted some backing from Nevada. Russell said he is counting on some of Colorado's votes. MEMO—More than motor vehicles traveled million miles last year 37,100 persons and in million more. That's Don't help to break it Drive carefully. When home, plan to return. NUGGETS — Fred personable Anaheim but to be buddies with H who with his big brow Rapp, has become San leading contractor-build Walt Boeckler has a picked out, if it ever shit get hot. The coolest pla in the Anaheim Cold S vault . . . Oscar Hanson luck banker, will tell some Anahelmers are overdrawn at the ban no vault of their own Anaheimer, whose name mention, remarked tha are big business as h the report that a budget 000 had been set for t year and the administ their salary hiked. I ary based on degrees a salary of a school teach depend on his (or her) teach rather than the education he (or she) exposed to." That so logical criticism. VIGNETTE—A few one of Anaheim's bet young fellows was called school office and given down for his inability up with his studies. The lad listened atthe administrator who the vital necessity of tion in a highly compciety. The lad shrugged his and replied: "Oh, yeah? What the administ failed to learn was wh Eisenhower Lashes Out at Democrats As the "Men Too Long in Power" DENVER. (AP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took a strong party stand here last night in an enthusiastically received attack on what he called "the men too long in power"—the Democratic party. The Republican presidential aspirant ticked off charges of internal corruption, fear and indecision in foreign policy and runaway big government against the democrats, whom he accused of "complacency, negligence and cynicism." The general, speaking before some 11,000 in Denver's coliseum, spoke particularly to the nation's youth. He said they are sick at heart and cynical because of corruption in high places, but added that the "idealism and energy of youth" can be trusted to meet the moral issues of the campaign. Of domestic matters Eisenhower said there has been corruption before, "but never before has it reached such epidemic proportions." He said 177 persons have been discharged from the Internal Revenue Bureau in a little more than 12 months for improper activities, and that the figure does not include others who quit "because of ill health." "Other agencies of the government have been infected with the same poison," he said, and their exposure has been due to the efforts of the Republican members of congress. Referring to world affairs, the general stated, "We are too ready to trust the godless dictatorship," and our willingness has brought on the war in Korea, the communization of China, the splitting of Germany, enslavement of Baltic and Balkan countries and struggle in Greece. The war in Korea, one of these "blacic monuments," might have been avoided if we had been "less trusting, if we had been less soft and weak," Eisenhower said. Still "Russia's Kremlin masters are not supermen. There is one language they understand without an interpreter—that is the language of strength—economic, military and spiritual strength." Anaheim Gazetteer by JOHN S. NEUBAUER ... The way of the transgressions is hard—Prov. 13:15. LINES-O-TYPE—Edwin Tyreman, the genial good-natured wood-butcher, has watched the old home town grow. It's really bulging at the seams with new housing projects ... Tony Moreno believes the building activity is good, but it would be a whole lot better if they'd find better land for their subdivisions ... Mabel Moore thinks it is strange that the subdividers provide all the modern conveniences in tract housing except adequate street lighting. Why it's so dark on some of the streets, that cats can't see ... Elbert Duran would suggest that tract home owners eat a lot of carrots. Maybe that'll help ... But Howard Stith knows that folks can't live on bread alone; so a carrot diet is out ... Maybe, Earnle Moeller has to devote some of his energy to getting Anaheim lit up. He's done practically everything else. MEMO—More than 52 million motor vehicles traveled 465 billion miles last year and killed 37,100 persons and injured two million more. That's a record. Don't help to break it this year. Drive carefully. When you leave home, plan to return. NUGGETS — Fred Klein the nameable Anaheim builder knew: man has an inherent lust for a quick buck. Man is a gambling animal. The kid (whose name you'd recognize immediately) is smart. He has acquired an insight to basic psychology without studying a three or four unit college course on the subject. If a kid wants to bet a buck on a bangtall, he knows whom to see ... If a kid wants to try his luck at African dominoes, he knows who'll play ... If a kid wants to bet on his favorite team, he knows whom to see ... "He's the type of a kid who'll be riding around in a Cadillac when some of those studious buddies of his will be sweating out the next payment on their home or car," the observer said. "He may be dumb as far as schoolbooks are concerned; but he is smarter than a lot of straight A students I've known in my day." NITECAPSULE—The toughest part of attaining success, is the ability to stand it. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL All boys who signed up for High school basketball league are reminded that the league starts next Tuesday night at the Fremont gym at T o'clock. Boys who have not signed up as of yet are urged to do so next Tuesday night. Navy Now Boasts Seven New Jets Better Than MIG WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of the Navy Kimball says the Navy how has about seven planes coming into production that are better than Russia's highly publicized MIG jet fighter. The Senate appropriations committee made public yesterday this testimony by Kimball at a closed hearing on the defense department money bill for the next fiscal year. Kimball identified the new planes as the F-J, coming into production this fall; the F-9-F, the F-10-F, which has a fixed wing to take off and land and a swept wing when it gets in the air; the F-3-H; and "a very fine seaplane," which he didn't describe beyond saying it is being made in San Diego. This league is for all interested in basketball and are of junior and senior high school age. Rosters of boys already signed up are posted at the City park, along with schedules for the first round. Next Tuesday will be the first league game to go on the win and lost records. If You Drivel Don't Drink You Always Look WELL DRESSED WHEN YOUR GARMENTS MEMO—More than 52 million motor vehicles traveled 465 billion miles last year and killed 37,100 persons and injured two million more. That's a record. Don't help to break it this year. Drive carefully. When you leave home, plan to return. NUGGETS — Fred Klein the personable Anaheim builder used to be buddies with Harpo Rapp, who with his big brother, Bill Rapp, has become Santa Rosa's leading contractor-builder. Walt Boeckler has a cool spot picked out, if it ever should really get hot. The coolest place in town in the Anaheim Cold Storage Co. vault ... Oscar Hanson, the hard luck banker, will tell you that some Anaheimers are a little overdrawn at the bank through no vault of their own ... An Anaheimer, whose name we won't mention, remarked that schools are big business as he scanned the report that a budget of $667,000 had been set for the coming year and the administrators had their salary hiked. "I believe salary based on degrees are unjust; salary of a school teacher should depend on his (or her) ability to teach rather than the amount of education he (or she) has been exposed to." That sounds like logical criticism. VIGNETTE—A few years ago one of Anaheim's better known young fellows was called into the school office and given a dressing down for his inability to keep up with his studies. The lad listened attentively to the administrator who explained the vital necessity of an education in a highly competitive society. The lad shrugged his shoulders and replied: "Oh, yeah? So what." What the administrator had failed to learn was what the lad Start Today EARN A FULL 3% CURRENT RATE on All Savings Received by The 10th of July From July 1st You earn a FULL 3% on all savmade from July 1st on deposits made by July 10th, and receive your interest checks each quarter by mail if you desire. Come in and learn more about this convenient plan and the other advantages at this pioneer company. SAVINGS INSURED TO $10,000 Our 63rd year in Anaheim 211 E. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM- PHONE 7283