anaheim-gazette 1953-02-25

DRESS REHEARSAL—Anaheim Union High school juniors give their roles in their annual class play a final polish before the production is put on for the public tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the AUHS auditorium. Working on the parts last night were Gruber, John Brooks, Heffern and Mary C entitled "Down to Ea Anaheim Gazetteer by JOHN S. NEUBAUER Be still, sad heart, and cease re-pining; Behind the clouds the sun is shinging; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary. Brown Says Dope Peddling Nur One Law Enforcement Problem SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Tuesday said dope peddling has become "the number one law enforcement problem in California" and charged state courts have "fallen down" in dealing with it. The State's top prosecutor said he would ask the legislature for stiffer jail terms for the courts to hand out to California's growing number of narcotics offenders. To Study Problem Citizens' boards will be set up to study the State's dope-dealing parts last night were Gruber, John Brooks, Heffern and Mary C entitled "Down to Ea 1. Establishment of advisory committees" he Los Angeles to gain pubance in combatting narrations. The groups all study problems connected alcoholism, racial ten county jail conditions. 2. Setting up of an General branch office Diego to work with feeds agents in the area. Be still, sad heart, and cease re-pining; Behind the clouds the sun is shinging; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. —Longfellow. THE WORD — What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder—Matt. 19.6. RAIN—It’s really an ill wind that blows no good. Last week’s blustery weather blew up this week’s rain. Rain is what the farmers must have been answered. Although it seems as if there has been more rainfall this season, the weather chart clearly indicates that less—nearly half as much—rain has fallen this year than last year to date. Long range weather prognosticators, however, say there’s nothing to be worried about. Their forecasts indicate that March will be a wet blustery month that will be long remembered. If it does anything for the underground water supply, it’ll be worth the discomfort. LINES-O-TYPE — Al Burgess was all set to work for Daystrom in Anaheim. He is an able production man who is adapted to the assemblyline production methods. When Daystrom suspended its West Coast operations, Al—like a lot of others—was up against it. He’s now building housetrailers. Alberto Peralta and Eddie (Bunky) Ochoa switched to Northron after finishing up with Daystrom. They’re a couple of exceptionally fine hands... That reminds us that Walt Lunsford has been elected president of the Northron Toastmasters Club. Didn’t know Walt needed any pointers when it comes to talking. FIRST—They claim that George Tokar’s former boss Earle C. Anthony established the first service station in 1915. Does anyone remember the first service station in Anaheim? Seems like Ben Fraser could qualify as the service station attendants’ attendant. He’s been at it longer than anyone else we know... Remember the old Standard station under the pepper tree at the corner of Broadway and Lemon? Both the station and the pepper tree has gone with the march of progress... Come to think of it, there are still a few hitching posts around, but it’s been 25 or so years since anyone has hitched a host to em SAN FRANCISCO UP—Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Tuesday said dope peddlings have become “the number one law enforcement problem in California” and charged state courts have “fallen down” in dealing with it. The State’s top prosecutor said he would ask the legislature for stiffer jail terms for the courts to hand out to California’s growing number of narcotics offenders. To Study Problem Citizens’ boards will be set up to study the State’s dope-dealing problem, Brown promised, and an attempt will be made to improve standards of those who enforce the state’s narcotics laws. Brown, who returned this week from a conference with U.S. Narcotics Bureau Chief Harry J. Anslinger in Washington, said his office is about to launch a drive to halt the California dope traffic. Arrests for the possession of heroin have increased 300 per cent in the past two years, he pointed out. He said he will ask the legislature to provide a maximum jail sentence of 10 years for the courts to impose on first offenders convicted of dope peddling. Stiff Sentences Peddlers would face 20 years in jail for a second offense and a life term the third time, if Brown’s probosal are accepted. Under present laws, courts are handling out one to six years sentences for first offenses and jail terms up to 10 years for subsequent convictions. “The thing to do is send these people to the pententiary—and for a long time,” Brown said. “That’s the only deterrant that has proved effective.” He said he and Anslinger had agreed that traffic in dope is now “big business” in California. He blamed the success of racketeers on “the war a feeling of unrest and uncertainty, and an increase in illegal dope imports from Mexico and the Orient.” Measures Proposed Brown promised these measures in his drive to rid California of Woman Scares Off Attackers By Screaming Screams of a Long Beach woman as she ran from two men who, she said, had twice tried to attack her after she had accepted a ride with them in South Gate, put ben assailants to flight on West Orange road last night, according to a Santa Ana police report. The woman, Mrs. Willie Claudine McWhorter, 36 of 722 To SIDELINERS — Bob Wurgaft, the E. A. Silzie Corp., executive, isn't wasting any time. They made him general chairman of the annual Anaheim Hallowe'en Parade and Festival and he's already working to make the October 1953 event the biggest and best ever. Harold Smith, the furniture man, is right behind him 100 per cent. Adequate planning will make the Anaheim festival the best ever. Oscar Schultz, the tool and machinery concern executive, suggested the "Out of This World" theme for this year's parade. Perhaps he was thinking of Miss Slick Chick. Anaheim gals are out of this world... Sam Miller who is now a mixologist for a Frank (Red) Angell enterprise didn't leave his station even though the place was on fire. He was really working in a smoke-filled room that time. All women of the United States first had the right to vote in a national election in 1920. Wombats are bearlike in gait and structure, but they are small animals living in Australia and are marsupials. Off Attackers By Screaming Screams of a Long Beach woman as she ran from two men who, she said, had twice tried to attack her after she had accepted a ride with them in South Gate, put her assailants to flight on West Orange road last night, according to a Santa Ana police report. The woman, Mrs. Willie Claudine McWhorter, 36, of 722 Toledo Court, Long Beach, rushed to the nearby home of Robert D. Smiley, 2900 N. Flower st., crying for help. Mrs. Smiley saw the car, a light gray sedan, taking off rapidly along West Orange road. Mrs. McWhorter related that she had gone to South Gate yesterday to visit her parents. From there she intended to take a bus to visit her brother, Aubrey Tucker, 7903 E. King st., Downey. While waiting, she went to a cafe, where she drank beer. As she stood at the bus stop the gray sedan stopped and the two young men offered her a ride, which she accepted. The driver was about 25, 6 feet. 2 inches tall, light complexion. His passenger, aged 19 to 22, was medium height, stocky build, and wore a sailor's uniform. They refused to let her off at her brother's home and told her she must accompany them to "Santa Ana." They also talked of making "mad love" to her. At some point between Downey and Santa Ana, they drove on a side road, and the sailor tried to attack her, she said. She broke away, but they caught her and dragged her back to the car. She then "played up" to them for the time being, she said, to ward off further attack. They drove on until they reached West Orange road, where the second attempted attack took place, she said. She again broke away and ran screaming to the Smiley home. LOS ANGELES (P)-The up of a heroin smuggling and theft gang that has cost SoCalifornians thousands of wives in the last five years was ed Tuesday by Dist. Atty. Sest Roll. Roll said five men are today here and four in Mesa and that he is asking the jury for indictments charged with theft and conspiracy to seize and sell narcotics. Patricia Williams, 19-year Pasadena girl who volunteered to an arrest last year as a heroin addict, dispatched spring through on the gang which Roll said headed by Frank H. Telle Belvedere Gardens, one of arrested here. "He's the man we've been," said Roll. "We think the big shot who is behind entire ring." Roll said the gang played the appetites of narcotics and getting them to steal expensive automobiles here and deliver to points in Mexico in return for payoff in heroin smuggle across the border from Mexicans. Miss Williams appeared Tu before the federal grand jury testify about her part in roundup of the gang. It is believed there are no wolves cast of the Mississippi er in the United States. Newport Policemen in Hot Water Not Typical of Average Law By GEORGE E. HART There is no disguising the fact that recent upheavals in two Orange county police departments have been a severe blow to public confidence in law enforcement. The charge that a group of Newport Beach police men had formed their own burglary ring, even using police equipment in some of the burglaries, and the grand jury probe of inside skull-duggery in the Santa Ana police department, where evidence in a racetrack bookie case was stolen from a police locker, have cut deeply into the normal assumption that officers of the law are straight. Recalling the rather frequent Los Angeles police scandals, and recognizing the probability that, here and there, gamblers are able to buy protection from police officials, the cynic is likely to brand all law enforcement as corrupt and untrustworthy. Few Bad Apples Such a conclusion is far off the mark. The fact that policemen are like other people—most of them are trustworthy and a few are not. They are more apt to encounter temptation, in the form of bribery, than other people, but, by and large, the great core of law enforcement organization in Orange county is sound. The honest law man, of course, will not consider dishonesty or criminal conduct. The really smart officer, even though without scruples, will have nothing to do with it, because he knows that sooner or later he would be caught at it. The unscrupulous officer who overestimates his own cleverness and winds up in a batch of trouble, is an overwhelming minority, though he manages to cast reflection on all his fellows. It's Happened Before There have been such incidents In some quarters the picion-that the granddaughter and the suspension of her have connection since she officers under fire from in the department were vive in running down gambling establishments were punished for the law enforcement, as they in their appeal to the ice board, the situation plosive possibilities. Childist Behavi The Newport Beach ring is as reportedly as the five officers under not only reprehensible ridiculous. For she misbehavior, it just a cake. The action to the officers have all of juvenile pilfering. In one instance, reeled the culprits entered house counted the $120 register, then left it stole a couple of garments value and probably them. And it was still whether they took much Peddling Number Problem the illegal trade: 1. Establishment of "citizens' advisory committees" here and in Los Angeles to gain public assistance in combatting narcotics violations. The groups also would study problems connected with alcoholism, racial tension and county jail conditions. 2. Setting up of an Attorney General branch office in San Diego to work with federal customs agents in the city. LA Deputy Chief To Succeed as CHP Head Man SACRAMENTO (P)—Gov. Warren said Tuesday he will appoint Bernard R. Caldwell, deputy chief of police of Los Angeles, commissioner of the California Highway Patrol. Caldwell, 52, will succeed Clifford E. Peterson, who died of a heart ailment two weeks ago. In police work in Los Angeles for 28 years, Caldwell organized National Guard Honored by Postage Stamp The National Guard United States is getting fit of one of the smost effective publicity in the world—a U. stamp. The Guard, which is military service in the States, is honored by a issue just released yet design of the stamp cover over an amphibian the illegal trade: 1. Establishment of "citizens' advisory committees" here and in Los Angeles to gain public assistance in combatting narcotics violations. The groups also would study problems connected with alcoholism, racial tension and county jail conditions. 2. Setting up of an Attorney General branch office in San Diego to work with federal customs agents in the prevention of dope imports from Mexico. 3. Talks with West Coast maritime unions to enlist their aid in preventing dope imports by merchant seaman. 4. A request to the State Personnel Board to set up higher standards in the hiring of state narcotics investigators. He said an effort would be made to get higher pay for the state agents. 5. The holding of "seminars" to coach law enforcement officers in the recognition of addicts and the detection of illegal sales. FUTURE APPLIANCE STORE—Carrying all types of appliances, Marvin's TV and Appliance co., now operating in Fullerton, will spread to Anaheim in a few weeks when their modern showroom, at 412'S. Los Angeles st., is completed. Store is owned by H. P. Tobbins, shown in foreground. (Gazette photo) California Still Top Farm State SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—California held its position as the nation's premier agricultural state last Orange county is sound. The honest law man, of course, will not consider dishonesty or criminal conduct. The really smart officer, even though without scrubles, will have nothing to do with it, because he knows that sooner or later he would be caught at it. The unscrupulous officer who overestimates his own cleverness and winds up in a batch of trouble, is an overwhelming minority, though he manages to cast reflection on all his fellows. It's Happened Before There have been such incidents in Orange county law enforcement from time to time. At least three sheriffs, in the memory of this department, although strictly honest themselves, had unpleasant publicity from bad eggs in their departments. The present Santa Ana police investigation, combined with the suspension of three officers and dismissal of a fourth for insubordination, may or may not add a chapter to the story of law enforcement gone wrong. It depends upon what the grand jury may dig up, or what the civil service board uncovers at its hearth. The National Guard United States is getting fit of one of the smoothest effective publicities in the world—a U. stamp. The Guard, which is military service in the States, is honored by a issue just released yesteryear design of the stamp cover over an amphibian indicating two sites which Guardsmen fight ditional disaster relief of the Guard is typical flood rescue scene. At the bottom of the scroll bearing the F "The Oldest Military tion in the U. S." The magazine "The Guardman" points out Guard has a century old over any of the regular credits with direct link the Middlesex County organized in Massachusetts 1835 and continuing too 182nd Infantry. The initial print order enough of the Guard co-operative stamps to supply very man, woman and the United States—110. Kwikset Promotion C. Douglas Sm C. Douglas Small has moted to superintendent tool and die shop at Locks, Inc., it has been by Adolf Schoepe, preface the Anaheim lockset mining firm. Schope also announced pointment of Bert B. K Playa Del Rey, as tool visor for the company. Small, who joined K August 1952, will be in charge of operations inside and die shop. He formerly and die foreman. Kenyon, who has helped positions in Chicago, O and Elyria, Ohio, will be of the tool design department Kwikset. FUTURE APPLIANCE STORE—Carrying all types of appliances, Marvin's TV and Appliance co., now operating in Fullerton, will spread to Anaheim in a few weeks when their modern showroom, at 412 S. Los Angeles st., is completed. Store is owned by H. P. Tobbins, shown in foreground. (Gazette photo) Heroin, Auto Stealing Ring Break-up Told LOS ANGELES (P)—The break-of a heroin smuggling and auto theft gang that has cost Southern Californians thousands of vehicles the last five years was reported Tuesday by Dist. Atty. S. Ern-Roll. Roll said five men are in custody here and four in Mexicali that he is asking the grand jury for indictments charging and theft and conspiracy to posse and sell narcotics. Patricia Williams, 19-year-old Madena girl who voluntarily committed to an arrest last October as a heroin addict, disclosed she helped spring the trap the gang which Roll said was led by Frank H. Tellez, 29, vedere Gardens, one of those arrested here. He's the man we've been after said Roll. "We think he is the big shot who is behind the fire ring." Roll said the gang played upon appetites of narcotics addicts, giving them to steal expensive mobiles here and deliver them points in Mexico in return for payoff in heroin smuggled across the border from Mexico by others. Miss Williams appeared Tuesday more the federal grand jury to clarify about her part in the indictment of the gang. It is believed there are no wild lives cast off the Mississippi river in the United States. California Still Top Farm State SAN FRANCISCO (P)—California held its position as the nation's premier agricultural state last year with cash receipts from farm marketings reaching a new high of $2,807,318,000. The state widened the gap between it and second-place Iowa by amassing nearly one hundred million dollars more in cash receipts than in 1951 while Iowa suffered a decline. Iowa's total last year was $2,328,845,000, followed by Texas with $2,131,173,000 which also showed a decline from 1951. The figures were released today by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Is PW the Answer To Communism? Is CBMC Topic? John C. Broger, president of the Far East Broadcasting Co., Inc., will speak on "Is Psychological Warfare the Answer to World Communism?" at the annual banquet and ladies night of the Christian business men's committee to be held Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Elks club in Anaheim. The banquet is sponsored by the CBMCs of Orange county, Anaheim, Fullerton, and Santa Ana, and some 350 persons are expected to attend. Reservations for the $1.75 dinner may be made by calling Harry Fox, Anaheim 4886; Charles Kohlenberger, Lambert 5-3521, or Paul Fischer, Kimberly 8-2211. men in Hot Water Average Lawman ing of the insubordination charges. In some quarters there is suspicion that the grand jury probe and the suspension of officers may have connection since the four officers under fire from high brass in the department were most active in running down book and gambling establishments. If they were punished for their real in law enforcement, as they intimate in their appeal to the civil service board, the situation holds explosive possibilities. Childist Behavior? The Newport Beach burglary ring, is as reportedly admitted by the five officers under arrest, is not only reprehensible but also ridiculous. For sheer, senseless misbehavior, it just about takes the cake. The actions attributed to the officers have all the stamp of juvenile pilfering. In one instance, reports state, the culprits entered a business house counted the $120 in the cash register, then left it there and stole a couple of garments of little value and probably no use to them. And it was still a felony, whether they took much or little. National Guard Honored by New Postage Stamp The National Guard of the United States is getting the benefit of one of the smallest, yet most effective publicity mediums in the world—a U. S. postage stamp. The Guard, which is the oldest military service in the United States, is honored by a new stamp issue just released yesterday. The design of the stamp shows air cover over an amphibious land... The National Guard of the United States is getting the benefit of one of the smallest, yet most effective publicity mediums in the world—a U.S. postage stamp. The Guard, which is the oldest military service in the United States, is honored by a new stamp issue just released yesterday. The design of the stamp shows air cover over an amphibious landing, indicating two situations in which Guardsmen fight; the traditional disaster relief function of the Guard is typified by a flood rescue scene. At the bottom of the stamp is scroll bearing the inscription: "The Oldest Military Organization in the U.S." The magazine "The National Guardsman" points out that the Guard has a century of seniority over any of the regular services, credited with direct lineage from the Middlesex County regiment organized in Massachusetts in 1835 and continuing today as the 182nd Infantry. The initial print order calls for enough of the Guard commemorative stamps to supply one to every man, woman and child in the United States—110,000,000. Kwikset Promotes C. Douglas Small C. Douglas Small has been promoted to superintendent of the tool and die shop at Kwikset Locks, Inc., it has been announced by Adolf Schoepe, president of the Anaheim lockset manufacturing firm. Schope also announced the appointment of Bert B. Kenyon, of Playa Del Rey, as tooling supervisor for the company. Small, who joined Kwikset in August 1952, will be in complete charge of operations in the tool and die shop. 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