anaheim-gazette 1960-04-14

SEVEN CITY BOND STILL IN DOUBT Seven city bond proposals were approved by Anaheim voters Tuesday and an eighth issue—expansion of the municipal park system—still was in doubt today. Incumbent Rector (Rex) Coons of 208 E. Broadway and attorney Odra Chandler of 1432 Beverly Dr. won the two open seats on the City Council against a field of 13 other candidates. Coons' total was 5,302 votes while Chandler had 2,991. CITY OFFICIALS described the balloting as relatively light with 10,536 of the city's 29,654 registered voters visiting the polls. Another 113 absentee ballots will be counted Tuesday when the election results are officially verified by the City Council. To Your Favorite Carrier Boy YOUR BEST BUY 30¢ PER MONTH VOL. LXXXVIII, NO. 44 11 Rev. Muhly NewHospital Rev. Muhly NewHospital Board Chief Rev. Lester Muhly, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, is new president of the board of directors of the Orange County Lutheran Assn. The association will operate the $6 million Martin Luther Hospital here. Others named as hospital association directors are the Rev. Leslie F. Brandeis Maston Lutheran Church, Westminster; George J. Busdiecker, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Santa Ana; John H. Sullivan, St. John's Lutheran Church, Orange; Elvin S. Hanford, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Orange. Gov. Knight To Address Chamber 'Martin Luther' Medical Center To Employ 275 Arthur G. Turner, 49-year-old administrator of Whittier Hospital, has been named administrator of the 150-bed Martin Luther Hospital under construction here. Turner has had 31 years experience in hospital administration. He is married and the father of three children. The hospital, being built at 1201 N. Euclid Ave., will employ 275 persons when it is opened later this year. At present Turner will handle the job on a part time basis, but his position will become full-time and permanent within three months. Prior to heading up the staff at Whittler Hospital in an, 1957, Turner was director of Woodland Clinic Hospital for six years and before that was the head man of Cincinnati General Hospital in Ohio. Former Governor Goodwin J. Knight will be the speaker for the first annual ladies' night dinner meeting of the professional department of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, it was announced this week by Dr. Samuel Gendel, chairman of the professional department. THE MEETING will be held at the Disneyland Gourmet Restaurant, Tuesday evening, April 19, at 7:30 o'clock. Also invited to attend the buffet dinner meeting are the members of the chamber of commerce board of directors and associate directors and their wives and also chamber of commerce members from other departments who are interested in hearing Knight talk and meeting him and his wife again. Reservations should be made at the chamber of commerce office. Trio May Delegates Opal Walter, Florence Carroll and Elizabeth Aldrich have been selected as delegates to the May district meeting for Ladies Auction 3173, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Seek State Meet County Chambers Orange County Assn. of Chamber of Commerce Managers has made a bid for the statewide convention of their group in 1961. THE STATE GROUP is known as the California Assn. of Chamber of Commerce Managers and has 300 members. Fred Clatworthy, secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County, heads a convention committee that will extend this county's invitation to the state organization's directors when they meet April 23 at Fresno. State Sets Grove Populace at 80,000 The city of Garden Grove has 80,000 residents now, the State Department of Finance has estimated. The city had 68,866 residents 13 months ago. The state survey was taken to determine the city's share of gas tax revenues for the coming fiscal year and based on the estimate Garden Grove will receive an additional $96,000 in revenues. OND PROPOSALS PASS, BT -- COONS, CHANDLER The fate of the city's $1,400,000 park acquisition and improvement program hangs in the balance on the count-of the absentee ballots. Official returns at city hall are the proposition 6,510 yes to 3,304 no votes, slightly than the two-thirds majority needed for passing. Most experts agreed that the overwhelming approval of Coons' re-election, the easy passage of seven ballot votes of the $12 million capital improvement program and light turnout of voters were an indication of citizen approval of the present municipal administration. CHANDLER, 44-YEAR-OLD Purple Heart veteran of World War II, was a close and surprising victor over businessman Jack Dutton (2,736), if 1010 E. Orangethous Ave., and retired real estateman Orval Halversen (2,667) of 2012 W. Orange Ave. Lloyd Mount of 929 N. Citron Ave., 337; salesman John Cummings of 1116 W. South St., 233; aircraft worker Wayne Reedstrum of 517 S. Falcon St., 414; insurance salesman Albert Best, 243; industrial manager Ken Keesee of 849 S. Clementine St., 584; businessman Wade Eggett of 1650 Crone Ave., 698; engineer John S. Wright of 1620 S. Euclid Ave., 962; engineer Thomas Thompson Jr. of 2234 Banyan Pl., 560; insurance broker Felix Marinel of 1025 Modena Pl., 213; industrial supervisee Cornelius Moyer of 2123 Victoria Ave., 212, and ret ANAHEIM GAZET ANAHEIM ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA FORMER P.O.W. BIELA AND HIS HOUSETOP OBSERVATORY Former POW Builds Rooftop Observatory here; One of Finest of Kind in U. S. Medc For F Lady! The Mayor Likes Apartment He Lives In One The debate over a apartment house at wood St. and Ball Rd. been long and bitter. A woman in the auditor rose and angrilily exclaimed, "You don't attract spectable peole in apartments." A stillness followed. "Well," said Mayor Schutte slowly, "I'm sorry, but I happen to in one." Saves Family From Flame An Anaheim postman rents his wife and three sons from fiery inferno of his 1984 Ave. home here Tuesday. Postal worker Arnold E. tenisen, 27, suffered burns arms, neck and face during two trips in and out of the ing home to save his wife, 28; and sons, Joseph, 5; Law 2; and Edward, 6. Christensen said he awoke at 3 a.m. and smelled smoke. He raced to the living room was met by a sheet of Christensen then aroused him and Joseph and Lawrence at them to safety. "Then it hit me that FORMER P.O.W. BIELA AND HIS HOUSETOP OBSERVATORY Former POW Builds Rooftop Observatory Here; One of Finest of Kind in U. S. A German POW who was interned in Southern California during World War II has set one of the world's largest private observatories atop his tract home at 325 Berry Ave. The $10,000 observatory Josef Paul Biela, 36, took one year to build. Biela came to Anaheim in 1954 to take a job with Kwikset Lock had entered the U.S. two years earlier. Co. as a tool and die maker. HE AND HIS WIFE, Helen. The blond naturalized citizen was captured in France in 1944 and interned in a POW camp in Pomona. At that time he decided to return to the U.S. after the war. A year ago Biela got started on his life-long ambition, a private observatory. He ordered a 16-inch Cassegrain reflecting telescope from Japan and set to work altering his 3-bedroom home to house it. BIELA, WORKING trim his own designs, sunk a 16-foot concrete pedestal into the earth to support the giant telescope and built a locomotion system to turn the observatory cupola in a 360 degree arc from industrial chain and one inch ball bearings. The native of Bremen, Germany hopes his housetop observatory (the telescope has 2,000-power) can be of use to Southland scientific groups, high school and college students and he plans some research work of his own. Anaheim Housewife Dies In CM Wreck Jeanette Krull of 631 Arden St. was killed Sunday in a traffic accident in Costa Mesa. The housewife was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Richard, 29. The Krull car collided with a vehicle driven by John D. McGee, a painter of Costa Mesa. Anaheim Sergeant Gets Merit Award Acting Master Sergeant Michael J. Neporadny, of 1771 Westmont Drive, Anaheim, of Marine Air Base Squadron-33, this week was awarded a Meritorious Mast by his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Neal Boortz. THE SERGEANT was commended for initiating and setting up new supply, fiscal and property control procedures while serving as noncommissioned officer in charge of his squadron's material section. STATE LIBRARY SACRAMENTO CALIF ASS, PARK ISSUE HIDLER ON COUNCIL surprising victor over busilf 1010 E. Orangethorpe Orval Halversen (2,648), ve., 337; salesman John T. St., 233; aircraft worker alcon St., 414; insurance industrial manager Kenneth 584; businessman Walter engineer John S. Wright engineer Thomas Thompson insurance broker Felix Le13; industrial supervisor ria Ave., 212, and retired Albert Marcoux of 501 E. Orangethorpe Ave., 1482. Other candidates and their vote totals were engineer Dene Williams was re-elected city clerk on 8192 votes and Mabel Spencer retained the treasurer's post with 8104 votes. Municipal Bond Ballot Totals Fire Department ($420,000) Yes—8218 No—1882 Library ($1,160,000) Yes—6714 No—3133 Police ($750,000) Yes—7669 No—2323 Electrical ($2,770,000) Yes—7687 No—2263 Water ($3,800,000) Yes—8596 No—1500 Street ($1,400,000) Yes—7614 No—2346 Storm Drains ($1,300,000) Yes—7924 No—2152 Parks ($1,400,000) Yes—6510 No—3304 ZETTE Orange County’s Oldest Newspaper Established in 1870 Published Every Thursday A SIXTEEN PAGES THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1960 Medals Given Trio For Fire Rescue Medals Given Trio For Fiery Rescue Lady! The Mayor Likes Apartments, He Lives In One The debate over a new apartment house at Nutwood St. and Ball Rd. had been long and bitter. A woman in the audience rose and angrily exclaimed, "You don't attract respectable peole in apartments." A stillness followed. "Well," said Mayor A. J. Schutte slowly, "I'm very sorry, but I happen to live in one." Heroes of Anaheim Tragedy Honored By Employer, Get Vail Medals Three men who risked their lives to pull victims from a fiery tanker truck-car crash on the Santa Ana Freeway here a year ago have been presented hero medals and cash awards in Los Angeles. Granville P. Hopkins of 621 Anthony St., Anaheim and Sterling D. Ditchey and Robert F. Henderson, both of Orange, were honored by their employer, the Pacific Telephone Co. They were given Vail medals, named for the company's founder. The trio witnessed the crash that killed three persons last April and stopped to give aid. They had to run through burning gasoline to rescue the truck driver who later died from burns. Both Ditchway and Henderson were burned and hospitalized. Russell Fischer, 45; Walter Fullmer, 40; Eugene Megill, 30 and Franklin Carlson, 25, were killed in the crash with a giant truck trailer loaded with explosive fuel on the Santa Ana Freeway near th Lincoln Ave. turnoff last year. Carlson was a resident of Anaheim and Megill of Garden Grove. Fischer and Fulmer were also Orange County residents. All Cal-Federal Employees County Residents; New Office Holds Open House All California Federal Savings' personnel in the newly opened Anaheim office are residents of Orange County, according to Ernest A. McGill, assistant vice president of the firm and manager of the new Anaheim office, which is located in the Broadway Orange County Center. McGill said, "It has always been the policy of California Federal in rendering a neighborhood savings and home loan service, to employ, as far as possible, only persons from the local area, and to support all local community activities." McGill lives with his family in Fullerton. Other personnel in the Anaheim office are: Lloyd Robinson, resident of Tustin; Jerry ends next Friday, April 15. The public is being invited to receive free gifts and everyone who opens a new account is receiving up to 1000 free Blue Chip Stamps, depending upon the size of the account. This is the ninth office to be opened in Southern California by California Federal Savings since PERSONNEL OF CALIFORNIA FEDERAL SAVINGS' new Anaheim office (left to right): Jerry Nielsen, Grace Breisch, Ernest A. McGill, assistant vice president of the firm and manager of the new office; Faye Rothenberg, Lloyd Robinson. McGill said, "It has always been the policy of California Federal in rendering a neighborhood savings and home loan service, to employ, as far as possible, only persons from the local area, and to support all local community activities." McGill lives with his family in Fullerton. Other personnel in the Anaheim office are: Lloyd Robinson, resident of Tustin; Jerry Nielsen of Anaheim, Faye Rothenberg of Garden Grove, and Grace Breisch of Whittier. The 15-day open-house celebration of the new Anaheim office ends next Friday, April 15. The public is being invited to receive free gifts and everyone who opens a new account is receiving up to 1000 free Blue Chip Stamps, depending upon the size of the account. This is the ninth office to be opened in Southern California by California Federal Savings since 1925. Other offices are at Wilshire and Grand in downtown Los Angeles, Wilshire Miracle Mile, Reseda, Rancho Park, Lakewood, Hollywood, Granada Hills and Inglewood.