anaheim-gazette 1957-12-26

Dyke Water Co., In Financial Jam The California Public Utilities Commission last week declared that Dyke Water Company, serving some 19,000 customers in southwestern Orange County, is in such serious financial condition that "its ability to continue to furnish reasonable service to customers entitled to receive its service is in serious jeopardy." The Commission said that in the circumstances the public interest requires that customers be furnished reasonable service and in order to furnish such service an interim increase in rates must be authorized. Rate Increase Authorized The Commission therefore authorized Dyke to increase its flat rate for residential service from $3 to $3.75 per month. In its application Dyke Water Company asked a 50 per cent raise in rates to $4.50. The interim increase is 25 per cent of present flat rates. Deny New Area Service At the same time the Commission denied Dyke's application to provide service in a new area, Tract No. 3182, near Yorba Linda. The area is seven miles from the company's present service area. The Commission said that "because of the financial condition of applicant, as found herein, the Commission is unable to find that public convenience and necessity justifying granting of the application." Polio Rate Here Lowest Since 1944 The total incidence rate of polio in California is now lower than any year since 1944, and the incidence of paralytic polio is at the lowest level recorded since the reporting of paralytic status was initiated in 1948. Vaccination against polio has been a significant factor in the low incidence this year. The greatest reduction in paralytic rates has occurred among school-age children in whom immunization levels are known to be highest. The reduction is somewhat less among preschool children who have not been reached as extensively by local vaccination programs. The reduction is least among young adults, of whom only a minority have received vaccine. This year, for the first time in California records, the paralytic incidence rate is lower among children aged 5-9 than among adults aged 20-29. Proof That Vaccine Helps Approximately three-fourths of the paralytic cases this year occurred in patients who had received no vaccine prior to onset; 15 per cent had received a partial series of inoculation, and less than 10 per cent had had three inoculations. The 10 per cent represents 15 cases, predominantly with mild weakness, in which confirmation of diagnosis by laboratory study is still pending. No deaths have occurred this season among vaccinated cases. This emphasizes, of course, the importance of receiving all three of the recommended inoculations for the highest degree of protection. These evidences of vaccine ef- 15 per cent of the population under the age of 20 had not ridden any inoculations of Salix yucca less than one-fourth of the elimated had completed three of three inoculations. It would be premature to exclude that paralytic polio, the point of virtual eradication long as this considerable number of susceptible populations not been protected by immunization. Colorado River Water to Texas An immense new irrigation ject that could send Colorado water to the State of Texas proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it was revealed day by the Colorado River of California. Called the San Juan Project, the bureau's plan would take water from the orado River system and by implicated network of dams duits and tunnels transported to the Continental Divide into Rio Grande watershed in Mexico. From there it could into Texas. Violates River Compact Fred W. Simpson, chairman of the Colorado River Board that if further study of the eau's plan confirmed the fact Texas would get Colorado water, the board would be able to oppose the project because it would violate the Colorado Compact. The board is charged by protecting California's vital orado River water and rights. The Commission said that the company's emergency condition is due not to the inadequacy or insufficiency of its rates but to its unsound capitalization in the form of excessive advance payments collected from subdividers for construction of facilities. The Dyke Water Company "has provided approximately 78 per cent of its plant costs with borrowed money in the form of subdividers' advances and is faced with making annual repayments on its debt in amounts greater than it can generate internally or borrow from outside sources," the Commission said. During the first eight months of 1957, according to the evidence, the company's operations produced $117,057 in cash but it repaid advances for construction of $190,282. U. S. FORCES, GERMANY — Duane C. Lindgren, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lindgren, 1249 S. Nutwood Avenue, Anaheim, recently was promoted to private first class while a member of the 5th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion's Battery A in Germany, Lindgren, a wheel vehicle mechanic, entered the Army in February 1957 and arrived overseas last October. A 1954 graduate of Anaheim Union High School, he attended Fullerton Junior College. These evidences of vaccine effectiveness are in keeping with the 75-85 per cent reduction in paralytic disease among vaccinated children observed in evaluation studies in 1955 and 1956. These children received three vaccine injections. The first two shots were spaced one month apart, with a seven-month gap between the second and third shots. Need for Further Vaccination In reflecting the benefits of vaccination, the incidence data this year emphasize the need for further vaccination. Nearly 150 paralytic cases have already occurred since April 1 among persons who received no vaccine, and the number will likely reach 200 by the end of the "disease year" next March. (Since the upswing in polio cases starts in April and is lowest in March, the 12-month period used in tallying cases is April 1-March 31.) Approximately one-third of these unvaccinated cases are children under the age of five, another third are adults and the remainder are school children who still have not been reached by the vaccination effort. By July 1, after the local vaccination campaigns were for the most part concluded, estimates indicated that roughly 70 per cent of the population aged 20-40, and The Colorado River Board that if further study of the eau's plan confirmed the fact Texas would get Colorado water, the board would be able to oppose the project because it would violate the Colorado River Compact. The board is charged by protecting California's vital orado River water and rights. "The Colorado River Board which is between the states Colorado River Basin, is the low of the river." Simpson "Uses of Colorado River under the compact are confined to the states of the basin." The Reclamation Bureau being Congress to authorize structure of what it termed "initial stage" of the San Chama Project at this time also is requesting that the U.S. Congressional approval placed on an "ultimate plan" board reported. Water For Albuquerque The "initial stage" was cost $81,000,000, would supply municipal water for the city Albuquerque in the Rio Grande Valley, and would bring mental irrigation water to 12 acres of land. Cost of the "ultimate stage" not disclosed by the bureau it would allocate a large amount of Colorado River system water to the Elephant Butte Irrigation District which extends on sides of the Rio Grande down through New Mexico Texas. 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