anaheim-gazette 1953-12-31

OBLONG VIEWS (From an Egg-Shaped Head) BY WALDO HUNTER, P.S.B. If Drew Pearson can do it, why can't 17? Here are some predictions for 1954: 1. All taxes will be cut by one-third. 2. Social Security benefits will be tripled. 3. No one will come out with a report that Hitler is still alive. 4. People will start using automobiles as vehicles instead of missiles. 5. Southern California will get 15 inches of rain. 6. Much to the consternation of Adolf Schoepe, everyone will become so honest that it will no longer be necessary to lock our doors. 7. At least 13 business houses on Center street will modernize their fronts. 8. They will take down the 1890 gas jet chandellers down at that leading 5 & 10. 9. The police chief will come out from behind mufti and start wearing a uniform. 10. Someone will establish a cafeteria in this town. 11. Anaheim merchants will do something to prevent the city's vast payroll from flowing into the tills of Santa Ana department stores. 12. Westbrook Pegler will ask Eleanor Roosevelt out to tea. 13. R. C. Holles will publish a picture of his public high school diploma. 14. Management and Labor will see eye to eye (not over the muzzle of a gun). 15. Elsenhower will admit that Joe McCarthy is running the country. '53 Juice Pool Highest in Golden Citrus History Closed and completely paid out are all 1953 juice fruit pools due to citrus growers whose fruit is consigned to Golden Citrus Juices, Inc. Totaling over $2,500,000.00, the growers payments is the highest in the four years this processing plant has been in operation. Golden Citrus Juices is also the first processor to close both the 1953 orange and lemon pools. The payments made to growers are complete, without revolving funds or withholdings of any type. The processor's returns represent an average of $43.03 per ton for Valencia oranges and $111.97 per ton for lemons delivered to the plant. Fruit processing is supplied to Golden Citrus Juices by Blue Goose citrus packing houses. General Manager of Golden Citrus Juices, Phill Twombly says, "The competitively high average return being made to growers for their fruit sent to Golden Citrus Juices by Blue Goose packing houses is due to two reasons. The Golden Citrus plant, because of the large volume of fruit handled and many different products produced, was operated at capacity." 12. Westbrook Pegler will ask Eleanor Roosevelt out to tea. 13. R. C. Holles will publish a picture of his public high school diploma. 14. Management and Labor will see eye to eye (not over the muzzle of a gun). 15. Eisenhower will admit that Joe McCarthy is running the country. 16. Moscow will buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal for all of its citizens who can read. 17. Sometime, somewhere, a U.S. farmer will state that he is satisfied. 18. Food prices will get down to 1932 levels but wages will hold as they are. 19. Hospitals will pare their fees by one-sixty-fourth of one per cent. 20. All TV commercials will be limited to ten seconds. These predictions may sound unreasonable to some people, but they COULD come true. Oh shucks! Why keep up this pretense any longer? I'm blasting marijuana. Someone come and take me away. Christmas has come and gone, and now looms the New Year's celebration. The death toll in traffic over the Christmas week end was appalling, and the coming week end may even see more carnage, for it is traditional that there is more consumption of alcohol on New Year's than at Christmas. This is regrettable, for to enter a new year in a drunken blur is hardly the way to turn a new page. Hard liquor can do some peculiar things to people. Take the case of a Linotype operator we had down here at the Gazette a few years ago who sat down at his machine with a pint or so under his belt. Here is a sample of a story he tried to set into type. (One of the boys took a proof of it and saved it). SHRDLL HRDL TTH TH THTH ENGINEERS SEEK For several days past representatives of the U. S. Engineer corps have been busy sinking holes in the vicinity of Olinda for the purpose of determining soil that havong in viewing of building the ram to control these floods. Fruit processing is supplied to Golden Citrus Juices by Blue Goose citrus packing houses. General Manager of Golden Citrus Juices, Phill Twombly says, "The competitively high average return being made to growers for their fruit sent to Golden Citrus Juices by Blue Goose packing houses is due to two reasons. The Golden Citrus plant, because of the large volume of fruit handled and many different products produced, was operated at capacity production during all of 1953. This flexible, efficient operation makes possible Golden Citrus' overhead to be prorated over the entire year and over many products. "With the Minute Maid Corporation as sales agent for Golden Citrus," states Twombly, "a ready market was available for the frozen concentrates we produced. Minute Maid, the leading brand of frozen concentrated orange juice and lemonade, consistently sells at a premium price. Thus, the higher selling price realized for the finished products permitted Golden Citrus Juices and in turn Blue Goose to return to growers a competitively higher average return for their juice grade fruit." Expansion Planned Tom Eadington, president of Golden Citrus Juices, declares a major 1954 expansion program will be started early, the second increase in plant facilities undertaken by Golden Citrus since 1950. It is expected the new facilities will not only increase the plant's production capacity, but also operating efficiency and reduce operating costs below their present low level. In Orange county, juice grade fruit processed by Golden Citrus Juices is supplied by the Eadington Fruit Company, Knapp Packing Company, both of which ship through Blue Goose, and the Blue Goose packing houses at Fullerton and Orange. Topperettes Elect Officers Sybil Ring was elected president of the Topperette club at a recent meeting in the new club home of Maxine Kurkharte. Date street. Helping to guide the club in the new year will be Maxine Carlson, vice-president; Vangie Schumacher, secretary; Betty Dodge, treasurer, and Maxine Kirkhart, historian. Installation has been set for January 5. SHRDLL HRDL TTH TH THTH ENGINEERS SEEK For several days past representatives of the U. S. Engineer corps have been busy sinking holes in the vicinity of Olinda for the purpose of determining soil that havong in viewing of building thee ram to control thee flood water of the Carbo Canyon creek zz z z and its trimutaries For several daah past represent For several days pst reep zzz For several days past represene-a- ETAOIT TH TH THee For several days past representatives of the U. S. Engineer corps Prviously a sit had been selected above the junction of Sarbon Canyon and selegraph Canyon in the vicinity of Gaine Aanch Goring thests beong considered. The new locatoion is about oamil le down strotm from the roinigal 1 For several days past representatives of the U. S. Engineer corps have been busy sinking test holes in the vicinity of Olinda for the purpose of determining soil stratification, having in view the bluld For severcal (At this point the operator turned off his machine,'stood up, and strode blinking and uncertainly out into the bright sunshine, and no one around here has ever seen him or heard from him since). P.S. — A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. Mr. and Mrs. Jan Spykerman of 700 S. Citron st. welcomed a baby boy on December 10. The infant weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. upon arrival in Fullerton Cottage hospital. Sybil Ring was elected president of the Topperette club at a recent meeting in the new club home of Maxine Kurkharte, Date street. Helping to guide the club in the new year will be Maxine Carlson, vice-president; Vangie Schumacher, secretary; Betty Dodge, treasurer, and Maxine Kirkhart, historian. Installation has been set for January 5. Jean Chamberlin presided at the business session which saw a monetary gift earmarked for elderly patients in Orange County hospital. The evening was devoted to bridge and canasta with prizes going to Lorraine Whitney, Selma Wood, Vangie Schumacher, Sybil Ring, Cy Massziger and Charlene Jaggers. At the conclusion of cards, guests gathered around the Christmas tree where molded salads and nut bread were served by co-hostesses Jean Chamberlin, Margie Long, and Corinne Deverall, and gifts were exchanged. NEW YEAR'S EVE WATCHNIGHT SERVICE The First Baptist church, Broadway at Citron, announces special services for New Year's eve. The service begins at 9 P.M. Thursday evening. A motion picture, "Return to Faith," games, refreshments, followed by a Candlelight Prayer and Communion Service is the order of the evening. Everyone is invited to attend. The Rev. Frank Butterworth of White Temple Methodist church has announced that there will be a candlelight New Year's Eve Communion and Watch Night Service tonight in the Sanctuary from 8 to 9 p.m. (Dec. 31). OF DEVOTION TO ALL THAT IS GOOD IN ANAHEIM HEIM ORANGE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN 1870 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1953 HAPPY NEW YEAR Battering Gales Damage Crops Orange County Gales with gusts up to 80 per hour again battered County this week leaving in wake many fires and damage avocado and citrus crops. Throughout the county crews were busy extinguishing blazes caused by unattended fires that were shipped into by the wind. Trees were throughout the county and were closed by blinding dust. Power lines suffered from ing trees and limbs and manhations of the county were blown out until crews could repair damage. Damage was of a minor rater over most of the county, plate glass windows blowr signs taken down and trees rer In some areas, small immature oranges littered the ground, were written off as a total loss growers. Groves hit the hills were those along highways those unprotected by windbreak Growers said only a few were down. No accurate estimate of date to orchard crops was avail NEW YEAR Damage was of a minor rate over most of the county, plate glass windows blown signs taken down and trees ripped. In some areas, small immature oranges littered the ground. were written off as a total loss growers. Groves hit the hills were those along highways those unprotected by windbreaks Growers said only a few were down. No accurate estimate of damage to orchard crops was available but some ranchers claim it will several million dollars. knocked to the ground, deflection and reduction in sizes due the dust, winds, scratched damaged fruit were figured in loss estimate. Dixon W. Tubbs, county cultural commissioner, said wind was the most severe in 1947 when ranchers suffered big crop loss. County Recruitment of Highland SACRAMENTO, CALIF., 21—Robert C. Kirkwood, Controller, today announced that Orange County receives $046.15 as its share of the $5,195 apportionment of highway taxes for the month ended October 31, 1953. Heretofore apportionments have been made on a quarterly basis. This is the first monthly apportionment under the provision 1953 legislation. Kirkwood state distribution of $22,800,285 f At the midnight chime of the bells, a New Year will cross the horizon of Time ... bringing with it the promise of a page, unread ... the hope of a new day's dawning ... the inspiration of a fresh beginning. May the promise be fulfilled, the hope realized, and the inspiration rewarded with achievement for you and yours in 1954. ANAHEIM GAZETTE MIN ANAHEIM ETTE No. 61 Hospital Building Fund Tops $300,000 Mark Crew Named Co-Chairman of Hospital Campaign Cecil C. Crew of Fullerton accepted the responsibility of General Co-Chairman with Harvey E. Stonehouse for the St. Jude Hospital Building Fund Campaign Committee. This action was taken at a luncheon meeting of all campaign committee chairmen held Monday, at La Habra's Cirque restaurant. It was pointed out that the volume of work involved in keeping abreast of twelve individual community campaigns being conducted simultaneously is such as to demand the attention of two chairmen. Crew will keep in touch with community committees heads for the purpose of advising and assisting them in completing their campaigns promptly and successfully. Will Not Seek Re-Election District Attorney James L. Davis has announced he will not be re-elected. The St. Jude Hospital Building Fund has topped the $300,000 mark, according to a progress-report released from committee headquarters, 103 W. Valencia Mesa Drive. The actual total was set at $300,601.67 which represents 39% of the $750,000 total needed to insure construction of the $2,000,000 multiple-story, 100-bed general hospital. By far the largest portion of the amount was contributed by the oil industry committee headed by Hubert C. Ferry and the manufacturers committee headed jointly by E. B. Buster and Adolf Schoepe. The oil committee has brought in $138,191.31 while the manufacturers committee has realized $977,000. However, it was pointed out that the big businesses and industries cannot carry the load by themselves. In the final analysis, it was said, the success or failure of the campaign will be up to each individual in each of the communities to be served by the hospital. Each of the communities must bear its share of the load, the report stated. Fullerton's quote is $125,000. C. Staney Chapman, chairman of the Fullerton St. Jude Campaign committee, said that 12% of the quota had been collected. The amount was set at $15,430.84. Buena Park has realized 10% of its $10,000 quotas according to D.C. McCom Damage was of a minor nature most of the county, with glass windows blown out taken down and trees ruined in some areas, small immature stages littered the ground. They were written off as a total loss by lawyers. Groves hit the hardest those along highways and unprotected by windbreaks. Lawyers said only a few trees are down. No accurate estimate of damage ororchard crops was available, some ranchers claim it will run several million dollars. Fruit picked to the ground, dehydrated and reduction in sizes due to dust, winds, scratched and aged fruit were figured in the estimate. Josh W. Tubbs, county agricultural commissioner, said the bill was the most severe since when ranchers suffered a crop loss. District Attorney James L. Davis has announced he will not be candidate for reelection in 1954, and plans to retire from office a year from now at the expiration of his third term as the county's chief prosecutor. Davis has served as deputy district attorney until 11 years ago when he was named for his present office. He is a native of Missouri and has been a county attorney in Montana before coming to California. County Receives Over $100,000 as Its Share of Highway Users Tax in October ACRAMENTO, CALIF., Dec. Robert C. Kirkwood, State Trooper, today announced that age County receives $100,-15 as its share of the $5,083.-apportionment of highway us taxes for the month ended Oct. 31, 1953. Pretofore apportionments have made on a quarterly basis is the first monthly apportionment under the provisions of legislation. Kirkwood stated distribution of $22,800,285 from the Highway Users Tax Fund for October, 1953, was as follows: Counties, $5,083,195; State highway fund for cities, $2,063,625; and state highway fund for expenditures on highways, $15,-633,465. The October apportionment represents an increase of $3,809,470 over the total distribution for September, and $6,614,844 over the distribution for the same period last year. The approximate 40% increase over last years period is primarily due to the increase in tax rate from 4½ cents to 6 cents per gallon on gasoline, said Kirkwood. The amount distributed was derived during the period Oct. 1 through Oct. 31, 1953 from the following sources: Net gasoline tax, $20,029,151; Use (Diesel) fuel tax, $1,242,-167; Transfer from Motor vehicle transportation tax fund, $1,528,620; and miscellaneous, $347. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. DEC - 7 1953 TO SEVIDITH & GRAND BRANCH SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. PAYMENT FOR $122,500 AND 00 CTS TO THE ORDER OF ST. JUDE HOSPITAL ERT C. PERRY, Union Oil executive, ents check for $122,500.00 to Harvey onehouse, General Chairman of the St. Hospital Fund. This is the largest ant expected from any oil operator. representatives of major and independent operators in Northern Orange county upon an industry contribution of $350,000.00 for the St. Jude Hospital. Basing each company's share upon its interest and number of employees in the area, representatives of the operators recommended the amounts to be contributed to their respective managements. To date, most of the operators have agreed to make their contributions.