anaheim-gazette 1961-04-20

Eunorale Cottage Funerals Cost Less at Peek's Remember This—At the Peek Family, You Get Warmth and Understanding, Dignity and Beauty, as Well as... LOW COST These Are the Reasons Why So Many Orange County Families Come to the Beautiful Peek Family Colonial Funeral Home PRICE OF FUNERALS at PEEKS - From $250 Families Come to the Beautiful Peek Family Colonial Funeral Home PRICE OF FUNERALS at PEEKS - From $250 Peek Family Colonial Funeral Home —LON and MAY Serving All of Orange County 7801 BOLSA AVE.—(1st St.) One Block West of Hwy. 39 Post Office: Midway City, Calif. LEhigh 9-9642 TWinoaks 3-3525 GEne YOUR BEST BUY! Per Month 25¢ Delivered Telephone PR 2-1800 VOL. LXXXIX, NO. 46 11 Anaheim, Calif. Incumbents Win ANAHEIM COMMENT How does it feel to be forced out of your home when all you were doing was seeking a "little gold"? Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Thayer and their two children were forced to leave their home at 9772 Clearbrook Lane after mercury fumes spread throughout their house, entering the forced-air heating system. Thayer had heated the mercury on the theory it would stick to gold. He undertook the experiment to determine if he had found the precious metal after coming across golden... Thayer had heated the mercury on the theory it would stick to gold. He undertook the experiment to determine if he had found the precious metal after coming across golden-colored flakes on his property. Not only did the family fail to find gold but it now faces approximately $2,000 in medical bills and up to $4,000 to decontaminate the house. The family was hospitalized for six days and this week is making plans to decontaminate their home. Thayer, a sheet metal production planner, is still recuperating. Instructions for decontaminating the house have been provided, and pending funds for financing the work the Thayers are residing with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elam, 9792 Clearbrook Lane. Rather ironic, and at approximately the same time as the near disaster at the Thayer home, a first-place safety award was presented to the City of Anaheim. The award came from the Greater Los Angeles Safety Chapter of the National Safety Council. City Manager Keith Murdoch said the safety program has saved Anaheim taxpayers $72,000 through reduced insurance premiums. The Kuchels still are associated with the Gazette and present on the SAC campus to share in the family honors will be Mrs. Henry Kuchel and her two sons, Co-Publisher Theodore Kuchel and United States Senator Thomas H. Kuchel. Their names have been engraved on the plaque of the Orange County Journalism Roll of Honor at SAC. Senator Kuchel will speak for the college assembly at 11 a.m., the entire family will be honored at the Workshops Award Assembly at 4:15 p.m., and then Senator Kuchel will be speaker again for the College Press Club banquet for honored guests in the Penthouse Executive Club. Henry Kuchel only last December was elected to the California Newspaper Hall of Fame, the first Southern Californian to be so honored. The family attended the San Francisco ceremonies. Research for the award was done by a family friend, John (Sky) Dunlap, assistant to the president, Santa Ana College, a newspaper historian. Blindness did not deter Kuchel from prolific writing and his wife took his dictation. The sons read constantly to their father and news on the radio was a boon to him. He learned to set type in the Gazette office and at 16 set out to see the world as a printer. He variously wrote sports and set (Continued on Page 6-A) PEek Family From $250 Family Funeral Home —LON and MARNETTE PEEK All of Orange County SA AVE.—(1st St.) Stock West of Hwy. 39 Midway City, Calif. noaks 3-3525 GEneva 1-2128 THIS WEEK IN ANAHEIM This is National Library Week. A book exhibit geared toward teenage tastes is on display through Saturday in the children's library at 241 S. Los Angeles St. For the second time in a year realty promoter Raymond Spehar has withdrawn an application to the Anaheim City Council for rezoning approval to put up neighborhood commercial buildings in the entrance to Anawood residential area. Preston Turner of 1005 W. Sycamore St. is Anaheim's first full-time city attorney. Turner was appointed by the City Council. He has been the city's legal counsel 15 years on a part-time basis. Location of the proposed Los Alamitos High School has been set by the Anaheim Union High School District board of trustees. The site agreed upon covers 50 acres, with 700-ft. frontage on Cerritos and 500 ft. on Los Alamitos. Interstate Electronics Corporation of Anaheim has been awarded a letter of intent contract for $9.5 million from Navy to design, manufacture and test nine instrumentation systems for the new 616-Class of nuclear powered submarines in the Polaris program. Building in Anaheim during the first three months of this year showed a sharp increase of $2.5 million for the same period of 1960. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Orange County's Oldest Newspaper Established in 1870 Anaheim, California, Thursday, April 20, 1961 ts Win In School District Kuchel Family Receives Honors y; Senator Featured Speaker Kuchel, blind editor of the Anaheim Gazette until his death in 1935, will with his family as a highlight of the eighth annual Journalism Workanta Ana College today. Kuchel publishing saga started in 1870 when young Henry as a boy of 11 hand press for the first issue of Southern California's second oldest Then after learning trade, he returned purchase the paper family in control. Is still are associGazette and presSAC campus to family honors will ry Kuchel and her o-Publisher Theoand United States mas H. Kuchel Voting Is Very Light For Election Incumbents in both the Anaheim city and high school districts rolled to victory in Tuesday's election. Not more than 12 per cent of the registered vote went to the polls to decide four seats in each district. City school district winners were G. C. Easton, David Snow, Charles Bush, incumbents, and Floyd E. Boyer. Unofficial results, but apparent winners in the high school 400 Students Will Attend Press Workshop Nearly 400 high school and college journalism students will join with professional newspapers and graphic arts specialists for the eighth annual Santa Ana College Journalism Workshops today, in what has become one of the major press conferences of its kind in the Southland. Scouts Open Drive With School TV Show Tonight One of the largest captive closed circuit TV audiences will this forthcoming second annual display of scouting in each district. City school district winners were G. C. Easton, David Snow, Charles Bush, incumbents, and Floyd E. Boyer. Unofficial results, but apparent winners in the high school district, were Ray Terry, Bea Schroeder, Royal Marten and Don R. Langson, incumbents. VOTE TOTALS ELEMENTARY DISTRICT *Charles Bush ... 3339 Leslie Jones ... 641 *Floyd E. Boyer ... 2388 Dr. B. Marcus ... 1091 *G. C. Easton ... 3270 Glen W. Yerdon ... 594 Harold Baum ... 568 R. E. Carlberg ... 1076 McCay Mitchell ... 535 *David Snow ... 3016 Thomas E. Ward ... 326 HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT *Ray Terry ... 4942 Thomas E. Ward ... 645 A. S. Hecht Jr. ... 1550 *Ben Schroeder ... 4810 Dr. C. Ross Dean ... 2775 Andrew Walliga Jr. ... 807 Mrs. J. Brooks ... 3092 *Don R. Langson ... 4821 *Royal Marten ... 4602 Bob Wetzler ... 1300 Harold Stroch ... 1546 Scouts Open Drive With School TV Show Tonight Two former editors of SAC's All-American weekly, El Don, will receive alumni awards. They are Vic Rowland, '38, Los Angeles public relations executive, and Thomas Murphine, '49, Newport Beach newspaperman. The students will attend nine workshops, with high school editors as moderators and professionals as speakers. More than 100 awards will be presented to high school journalists. Feature awards are for best newspaper, Orange County publishers; best yearbook, International Printing House Craftsmen; best journalist and two $50 scholarships, Orange County Press Club; traffic safety promotion, State Farm Mutual Insurance, and a new award for sweepstakes to recognize the school with the most winners, El Don. One of the largest captive closed circuit TV audiences will be glued to television sets tonight to receive one of the most direct sales presentations in the history of Northern Orange County, it was announced by William W. Wright, chairman of the Northern Orange County Council of Boy Scouts Scout-O-Rama to be presented in Anaheim's La Palma Stadium June 2 and 3. The 30-minute show beginning at 7:30 p.m., produced by Charles Callacci, supervisor of educational programs for the Anaheim City Schools, originating from the Anaheim School Television Center, will be the kick-off to the 1961 Scout-O-Rama ticket sales campaign, beginning April 21. Some 3,200 scouts and cubs will be seated in 14 Anaheim grade school auditoriums and resource rooms to receive the message of how to effectively sell Scout-O-Rama tickets to this forthcoming second annual display of scouting in action, Wright said. Skipper Frank, children's KTLA television personality, will be the principal instructor aided by George Gray, manager of the Broadway-Anaheim and activities chairman for the Northern Orange County Council, an Margaret Irvine, who plays the part of Aunt Gus on "The People's Choice" TV program. Wright, vice-president of Beckman Instruments, said this TV time was being devoted to teach the youngsters how to sell correctly because the council of scouts believes that these youngsters must learn how to meet people since most of them will be in some form of selling all of their lives. Tickets will be sold for $1 door-to-door, by scouts and cubs in uniform under the supervision of an adult in each selling group.