anaheim-gazette 1960-04-28

EDITORIAL Be A Saleslady Dr. California is the third largest U.S. state in land area... it is second in population. But the Golden State, unenviably, leads the nation in tragedy on the thoroughfares. The annual California Highway Patrol report sent to this newspaper points up how terrible this carnage is: If every single person—man, woman and child—who live in Anaheim and Fullerton were hospitalized it would barely match the number of injured (143,634) in the state last year. Every Anaheim child under 7 would have to die to match the number of deaths on state highways (3,588) during 1959. Californians died at the rate of 10 per day. Why? SPEED (one third of all fatal and injury accidents can be attributed to violation of speed laws). RIGHT-OF-WAY (selfish) is the second leading cause of fatal accidents in the state). TRAVELING ON THE CAUSED 6.1 per cent of all reported trips. IMPROPER TURNS, off-road and rate of travel or lack of most frequent cause of reports about six per cent of all accidents. DISREGARD OF STOPPINGS accounted for 3.9 per cent. One of every 31 reportable incidents from following too close. Orange County’s Oldest Newspaper Established in 1870 Published Every Thursday VOL. LXXXVIII, NO. 46 11 Budget Cut Seen COUNTY POPULATION Budget Cut Seen COUNTY POPULATION GETTING 165 NEW Aide Morris Says Sales Tax Revenues Up 500% Orange County’s population is now 811,239. Board of Supervisors administrative aide R. I. (Cuba) Morris has announced. Morris, who is in charge of compiling the Orange County Progress Report, said the present population means that 76,030 new citizens have moved into the area in the past nine months. THIS IS A GAIN of more than 600,000 persons since the 1950 census. Morris said. Of the total population, Morris reported that 71.6 per cent or 579,592 persons live in the county’s 22 cities and the remaining 231,-647 citizens reside in unincorporated areas. He said the County is growing at a rate of 165 new residents per day. MORRIS ALSO NOTED the following percentage gains since 1958: School enrollments (20.3), vehicle registration (14.6), telephones (20.7), electric meters (11), gas meters (6) and postal receipts (23.6). Taxable retail sales in Orange County during the past five years have risen 250 per cent, the highest percentage in the state for the period, Morris said. Double Sessions 1,400 Face Part-time Schooling More than 1,400 intermediate school children will go on half day sessions here this fall. The double sessions for seventh, eighth and ninth grade students will be in effect until an $895,384 school addition is completed in November, according to Supt. Paul Cook of the Anaheim High School District. Work was started on the addition to the 20-classroom school at Dale St. and Ball Rd. and will be completed in mid-Autumn, Cook said. Walt Disney PTA Regains Charter Walt Disney School PTA has regained its state charter after a three-month suspension because of dissension and strife among the membership. In a re-organizational meeting Mrs. Ann Husmann was named president of the PTA. General membership meeting of the chapter will not be held during the remainder of the school year. 'Wind Is Blowing Snow Is Snowing' The full range of weather — rain, chill winds and snow — hit Orange County during the weekend. Winds, clocked at up to 35 miles per hour here, left little appreciable damage in their wake, but drizzles and showers made motorizing hazardous. One and one-half inch of snow fell on Santiago Peak. 'Martin Luther’ Hospital Completion Date Moved Up To Mid-October Completion date of the 150-bed Martin Luther Hospital has been moved up two months. The medical center, being constructed on a site at 1201 N. Euclid Ave., will be completed in mid-October instead of Dec. 10 as predicted earlier, hospital officials have announced. Administrator Arthur G. Turner has issued an invitation to doctors to join the 200-member staff. In addition to the hospital proper plans call for construction of 70 medical offices immediately adjacent to the building. LY DRIVING ON TUES. IN ced to violation of speed limits). RIGHT-OF-WAY (selfishness and disregard of courtesy) second leading cause of accidents. UNK DRIVERS were involved in 7.5 per cent of all accidents in the state). AVELING ON THE WRONG SIDE of the road 6.1 per cent of all reportable accidents. PROPER TURNS, often due to misjudging distance of travel or lack of alertness, represent the fifth frequent cause of reportable accidents, accounting for ix per cent of all accidents investigated by CHP. REGARD OF STOP SIGNS, signals or control decounted for 3.9 per cent of all accidents. of every 31 reportable accidents in CHP areas refrom following too close. IMPROPER PASSING, either when view is obstructed when there is insufficient clearance, or in defiance of road markings caused 2.6 per cent of all accidents. IMPROPER STARTING, principally failure to be aler for a yield to moving traffic when entering a stream of traf fic, was ninth leading cause of accidents. What did the CHP learn from investigating more than 1,000,000 accident reports? 1. Most dangerous hours of the day in traffic are between 4 and 7 p.m. During this time 22.4 per cent of all fatal accidents occurred and 29.2 per cent of all injury accidents happened. 2. Most dangerous day of the week in Patrol areas is Sunday, closely followed by Saturday, while Tuesday is generally regarded the safest day. ANAHEIM GAZETT ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SEEN FOR County Gov't. LATION SET AT 811,239 een For County Gov't. LATION SET AT 811,239, NEW RESIDENTS A DAY Rename Municipal Park For Pearson Anaheim City Park Monday night was renamed Pearse Park in honor of Charles A Pearson who retired from pub lic life after serving the cit for 25 years. A scroll commemorating th e event was presented to Pearse by City Clerk Dene M. William at an acclamation dinner he for the long time city official in the Gourmet Restaurant. More than 550 Orange Coun tians attended the affair. Blood Donations Pacific Scientific Co. of An heim employees donated 12 pin of blood to the Red Cross Bloo mobile at Santa Ana. Anaheim Ties for Be Journalism A In Annual Wo Journalism students from An heim Union High School attend the seventh annual Santa A College Journalism Worksho last weekend, with more than 1 trophies, certificates and awa ELECTRONIC DETECTION—Theron Johns (left), chemist with Beckman Instruments, matches as W. J. Cadman, chief criminalist for Orange County, inserts extract from files of a fire into a gas chromatograph. The instrument provides a major breakthrough in arson detection. Inists, Beware! Foolproof Electronic ‘Sleuth’ Goes To Work For Local Law Enforcement Calculating detective that gets a whiff of smoke is test weapon against Cadman, chief criminal-Orange County, said this live”—actually an electronic probing powers—figures every case of suspected arson in the county. AID the instrument, a chromatograph built by an Instruments, Inc., of Hon., is the first of its kind used for criminal detection in California. Part does the gas chromatograph play in arson detection? “In 90 per cent of our arson cases, the fire is ignited with gasoline,” Cadman, a veteran of 12 years on the job, said. “And from the most minute traces, sometimes obtained weeks after the fire, the instrument is able to identify gasolines by brand, and even by grade.” Through this process, he said, the law gains an important ally in its attempt to link the gasoline...HERE ARE TWO examples suspected arsonist. HERE ARE TWO examples of how the instrument is used: A factory was damaged by fire, and police suspected arson. The gas chromatograph detected fumes in the ashes, and an extract of the ashes showed gasoline traces where no gasoline should be. A can partially filled with gas was found near the fire’s origin. The instrument matched the contents of the can, as to brand and grade, with the mixture that started the fire. An attendant at a nearby service station identified the container as one of his. He also identified the customer who had borrowed it. The customer already was under suspicion, and in this case the scientific (Continued on Page 2-A) Journalism students from Anheim Union High School attend the seventh annual Santa Ana College Journalism Workshop last weekend, with more than 10 trophies, certificates and awards presented for outstanding work. The Santa Ana High School "Generator" won the sweepstake newspaper prize from the Orange County unit of California New Paper Publishers Association, followed by Orange, Newport Harbor, Garden Grove, Valencia and Rancho Alamitos. Anaheim and La Habra tied for the yearbook trophy of the Piring House Craftsmen of Orange County. The Orange County Pride Club presented Carol Shipe of Orange the best journalist award and Miss Shipe and Bill Linstrom of Santa Ana were given $50 Press Club Scholarships. Anaheim also tied in second place for the best Feature Section and received honorable mentions for the best Sports Section. THE COLLEGE ADDED th names to the Orange County Journalism Roll of Honor: Couhouse Pressroom Newsman Geo E. Hart and Publisher James F quhar and Managing Editor George Farquhar of the Hunti ton Beach News. College alumni honored Mrs. Hilda Crawford, Pa Springs Desert Sun; Mrs. Ly Wilson, Garden Grove Daily Ne STATE LIBRARY SACRAMENTO CALIF In Feb. To Live 3. October is the most dangerous month to be on the highways. February is the safest motoring month. 4. Male drivers between the ages of 25 and 34 were most frequently involved in accidents in California during 1959. These drivers accounted for nearly 20 per cent of all accidents. 5. The professional driver (trucker, taxi cab, bus, etc.) is involved in fewer than 7.3 per cent of fatal and injury accidents and the often maligned traveling salesman is involved in only eight hundredths of one per cent (0.08) of all accidents. The moral isn't necessarily to become a female travel-ing salesman who drives only on Tuesdays in February. It is best to observe the laws and stay alive. To Your Favorite Carrier Boy YOUR BEST BUY 30¢ PER MONTH SIXTEEN PAGES THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1960 ov't. This Year Preliminary Fiscal Draft Smaller Than 1959-1960 gov't. This Year Preliminary Fiscal Draft Smaller Than 1959-1960 Orange County taxpayers face the happy possibility of the first fiscal budget reduction in the operation of county government facilities in the past 10 years in 1960-61, it was learned today. Census Report On Anaheim Due This Week Unofficial tallies of the population of Anaheim and other County cities of more than 10,000 population may be completed this week, U.S. Census supervisor Abbott Williams has reported. The official totals will not be available until later in the year. Monday night census workers visited all-night theaters and city parks in an effort to reach persons who have not been contacted by enumerators. During the height of the census here more than 620 enumerators were at work. A tentative budget of $47,010,-998—a decrease of $385,803 over 1959-60—has been submitted to the Board of Supervisors by County Finance director Larry Oxley. THE BUDGET, as drawn up by Oxley and his staff, is $1,064,947 less than the amount requested by various departments of the county government for operation in the upcoming fiscal year. Oxley and his staff, is $1,064,947 visors that a salary schedule for county employees, still to be determined, could affect the budget appreciably. Supervisors will open a series of hearing conferences with department heads on operation costs May 4. The 1959-60 budget was $47,-396,789. THE FINANCE BOSS said one of the highlights of the proposed budget is that 357 new county emplovers will be added to the massive payroll, a boost of 11½ per cent over the current 3,000. He explained his budget analysis takes into consideration the hiring of the new employees at the current wage scale. At prevailing wages, salaries cost alone for the next fiscal year will run $1,370,-848, Oxley said. On top of that is added cost of equipment needed for the new workers, an estimated $60,740 worth of it. Also figured on the employer's side of the budget ledger were $5 per month per employee as the county's contribution to a health insurance program, after 90 Annual Workshop Fete and John Dowden, of Orange, Bellflower Journalism Instructor. Harry Harvey, Santa Ana news-paperman and aide to Senator John Murdy, was the banquet speaker in the Penthouse Executive Club to climax the program. No Bones About It—‘Stinky’ Is Best Amateur Kids’ Dog Show Yields Numerous Winners "Stinky" and owner, Leslie Noah of Long Beach, walked off with top honors of Best of Show at the Third annual “Ken-L-Ration” Amateur Dog Show held Saturday, April 23rd, at Disneyland. Besides receiving top honors, "Stinky" also won in the special category of Best Costumed Dog. Winners in the other special categories were: Gary Fisher of Santa Ana with "Tinker," Smallest Dog; Pamela Badovin of Lakewood with "Boots," Best Trick Dog; Pamela Barneclt of Artesia with "Bo," Best Groomed Dog; Glenn and April Harwood of Long Beach with "Huckleberry Hound," Dog with Longest Ears; and Judy Ivanson of Santa Ana with "Vanguard," Largest Dog. Leslie Noah received a beautiful Schwinn bicycle as the Grand Winner. Other winners received radios for First Priez, wrist watches for Second Prize and cameras for Third Prize. Over fifty contestants from all over Southern California competed in the Dog Show. The event started with a grand parade featuring "Shaggy," the world famous movie dog; the Disneyland Band and costumed Disney characters. All contestants were guests of Disneyland Park following the show. Judging the contests were Mrs. Diana Patterson, Executive Director, Anaheim Girl Scouts; Mrs. Walter Pearson, District Executive, Northern Orange County Council of Boy Scouts; and Mr. W. B. Stronach, Director of Anaheim Parks and Recreation Department.