anaheim-gazette 1961-06-01

EDITORIAL A BETTER ANSWER In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy challenged his fellow citizens to "Ask not what America can do for you; ask rather what you can do for America." It was to many a stirring call to high-principled action. What happened next, however, was a rather less noble call to dip into the trough of high-interest handouts. The New Frontier domestic program, as the President's close associate, Senator Fubright, has pointed out, completely reversed the inaugural precept. The Los Angeles Times put it this way: "Mr. Kennedy tells us . . . that we must lead a willing free world against the enemy. But then he tells us in effect that we are in no position to lead until we have federalized education and our decaying cities, raised minimum wages, and the whole national wage pattern in consequence, nationalized the aging sick and paid the non-performing world of allies and neutrals additional billions of dollars for rejecting our leadership in advance." In the terrible stress of Russian triumphs in Cuba, Laos and space, Mr. Kennedy again returned to his theme of self-discipline. He made the grave charge that "Our greatest adversary is not the Russians. It is our own unwillingness to do what must be done." That is a serious indictment of the American people. But in spite of the fact that over and over again these days they are asking what he wanted them to ask: "What can I do for America?" the only answer seems to be "Accept the welfare state." There has to be a better reply than that. YOUR LEGISLATOR AT WORK SEN. JOHN A. MURDY, JR. State Senator With reapportionment out of the way now, the next big piece of legislation to cope with this session is the budget. From what can be learned, the budget, balanced or not, will be out in the open any time now. With less than four weeks to go, the legislature must get it out before June 17 or—barring a special session—close up the state capitol entirely. The last day for this 1961 session is June 16 and the way we have been going we'll probably meet right up to the magic hour of 12 midnight. What concerns most legislators now is talk of deficit spending due to an unbalanced budget. Gov. Brown wants it balanced but two factors are in conflict with this balance. First, there are a number of appropriation bills still to be debated which would, if approved, be amended into the budget. Second, revenues are not up to expectations. State Controller Alan Cranston just released figures to show that receipts for this fiscal year to date trail expenditures by $51 million. Expenditures are up 9.9 per cent this year while revenues have increased only 8.7 That is a serious indictment of the American people. But in spite of the fact that over and over again these days they are asking what he wanted them to ask: "What can I do for America?" the only answer seems to be "Accept the welfare state." There has to be a better reply than that. WAIVE THE ROLLS New proof that the British Empire is slowly chipping away came in the news that the manufacturers of the famous Rolls Royce automobile may be forced to cease production of that most symbolic of all cars because of taxes. It seems that the British equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service has decided to lower prohibitively the tax deductions allowed to firms that supply Rolls Royce to their executives. Since three-fourths of all British customers are in that category, the effect is obvious. Already the orders for the car have dropped 75 per cent. Far be it from us to weep for the benighted British executive. Or even the Rolls Royce company. But the Rolls is a shining symbol to the world . . . the metallic embodiment of every boy's dream of THE car. And our sentiment for symbols prompts us to call out to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "Couldn't Britannia, which once ruled the waves, just this once waive the rules . . . and save the Rolls?" Letters to the Editor Way of Life To the Editor: The American way of life, the four freedoms, the home of the free, equal opportunity for all, these are indeed the beliefs of Americans. What exactly is the American way o life; what do the four freedoms mean; to whom is this the home of the free; to whom does the "all" apply in the phrase equal opportunity for all? Many of the actions, deeds, words and phrases which we Americans believe are peculiar to the people of this country are but the characteristics of the human being the world over. It has been the good fortune of the people who occupy this small portion of the earth, called the United States, to instill in its populace certain meritorious traits which have majority for the oppression of the minority. Why should minority groups such as Negroes, Jews, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Orientals become the stepping stones and whipping boys for the vast majority of Americans who, through laziness or sheer inability, have been unable to surmount the social-economic caste system they both condone and support? Has the ladder of success placed human dignity on such a low rung that all who strive to maintain our "high standard of living" must first walk over his fellow man? If prejudice and segregation are the result of ignorance and superstition, then this nation cannot boast of having an intelligent, sophisticated populace, but rather a multitude of highly indoctrinated members of the animal kingdom. Second, revenues are not up to expectations. State Controller Alan Cranston just released figures to show that receipts for this fiscal year to date trail expenditures by $51 million. Expenditures are up 9.9 per cent this year while revenues have increased only 8.7 per cent. All this doesn't hold much encouragement for the 1961-62 fiscal year budget. The only other solution is to cut out some of the non-essential government services. Gov. Brown himself has threatened to do this by blue-pencil and he'll have my support all the way. On the whole, I think Orange County received fair treatment from the Assembly reapportionment committee in drawing up the new Assembly and congressional districts. It favored the Democrats and we had hoped for a fourth assembly district but concessions had to be made somewhere, so we were told. Compared to what they did to some areas of Los Angeles, Orange County came out smelling like a rose. There's a bill still pending in the State Senate, authored by Senator Fred Parr, which is stirring up some interest in the college set, students, faculty and administrators, as well as the general public. Here's what it would do. S.B. 1489 would prohibit a student in any publicly supported college or university from joining or pledging any fraternity, sorority or other secret club during the first semester of his or her freshman year. It would also prohibit a publicly supported college or university from recognizing any fraternity, sorority or club that has a national or local charter restricting its membership or grounds of race, color, religion national origin or ancestry. Many of the actions, deeds, words and phrases which we Americans believe are peculiar to the people of this country are but the characteristics of the human being the world over. It has been the good fortune of the people who occupy this small portion of the earth, called the United States, to instill in its populace certain meritorious traits which have flourished into a national way of life. Success at all costs, popularity above human dignity and race supremacy are but a few of the ideologies which the American people have cultivated and propagated into a doctrine with the title: American Way of Life. "Give me freedom or give me death," so short lived were the words of this great American and so distorted the meaning of this simple phrase that it has become the bulwark of the ma- Knowland to Speak Here William F. Knowland, former United States Senator from California, will deliver the commencement address at Chapman College's 99th annual Commencement June 4. An honorary Doctor of Laws degree will be conferred upon Knowland, who has been editor and assistant publisher of the Oakland Tribune since his retirement from the Senate in January of 1959. Chapman's largest graduating class—133 students will receive degrees during the traditional commencement exercises to be held at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the Shady Quad on the college campus. Western Pioneer Awarded 1st Place The Western Pioneer Press, a bi-weekly student publication at Western High School, was recently awarded first place in its classification at the annual Santa Ana College journalism workshop. The paper was judged on news coverage, news writing, leads, features, editorial page, sports page, headlines, makeup, and copy reading. Shannon Davis and Susan Snyder are co-editors and Donald Kleinsmith is faculty adviser of the Western High newspaper. Pioneer Annuals The 1961 edition of the Pioneer annual will be distributed to the students of Western High School on June 8 and 9. The yearbook has improved little by little each year as the staff has become more experienced in the know-how of producing a good yearbook. MONORAIL PREVIEW—Disneyland put its new monorail into operation last week as preview for the coming summer season. The new system is expected to be ready for the throngs visiting the Anaheim amusement park this summer. POLITICAL PARADE HOPE SUNDAY DR. JUNE 4TH MONORAIL PREVIEW—Disneyland put its new monorail into operation last week as preview for the coming summer season. The new system is expected to be ready for the throngs visiting the Anaheim amusement park this summer. POLITICAL PARADE By Clem Whitaker Jr. Election promises like weather predictions frequently disappear with the morning dew. When John F. Kennedy was whirling around the country in contest with Vice President Nixon, many were the Kennedy promises made and many were the Kennedy charges levelled. But like the weather man predicting sunshine, Kennedy came up with rain. Kennedy campaign promise: The only place I want to go is Washington, D.C., the young man said, as he quarreled with President Eisenhower's goodwill trips to foreign lands. Kennedy action: The President has just announced that following his trip to France and Austria, he will continue on around the world, visiting countries from Europe to Asia. Kennedy campaign charge: We need more attention to business in the White House, he said, in criticism of President Eisenhower's golf games. Kennedy action: In the first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration, according to White House correspondents, the President has played more golf than did Eisenhower in his first 100 days. Kennedy charge: U.S. prestige is at an all-time low. The Eisenhower Administration, he charged, is deliberately suppressing the USIA polls it has taken aboard which would prove the charge. Kennedy action: Following the Cuban debacle, the Administration's back-pedaling action in Laos and its distressing awareness of an explosive Korean situation, the Kennedy Administration has even stopped taking the prestige polls in foreign lands and refuses to ALL SIGNS ON THE ORANGE COUNTY COURT HOUSE point to the "Hope Sunday Drive"—the June 4 door-to-door campaign here for the City of Hope, County co-cahirmen Superior Court Judge Franklin G. West, right, and producer George Colouris head the 8,000 Orange County marchers. In the past 15 months county residents received 1,891 days of free care at a cost equivalent to $95,000 at the free, non-sectarian Medical Center. El Toro Queen Event Scheduled for Anaheim The crowning of the Queen of El Toro Rodeo will take place during a coronation party at the Anaheim Bowl on Friday. Sixteen beautiful girls, finalists in the county-wide contest which began April 25, will be eagerly awaiting the decision of the judges amid all of the festivities scheduled for the gala affair. which began April 15. will be resentting their sponsoring center, are Pam Schultz, Barbara Cappus, Diane Carrick and Jill Montgomery, Barbara Park and Patsy Smales of Fullerton, Barbara Phillips, Sandy Pei Darlene Quintana, Sandy Iwards and Barbara Chaney Garden Grove; Jo Ann Messalrall and Joyce Helmstead Orange; Mary Ann Bregard Costa Mesa and Nancy Lawl of Westminster. Early dinner reservation from 5 to 8 p.m., are also being taken with the festivity scheduled to begin at 8:45. Actual coronation of the Queen Inning or pledging any duty, sorority or other club during the first session of his or her freshman charge, is deliberately suppressing the USIA polls it has taken aboard which would prove the charge. Kennedy action: Following the Cuban debacle, the Administration's back-pedaling action in Laos and its distressing awareness of an explosive Korean situation, the Kennedy Administration has even stopped taking the prestige polls in foreign lands and refuses to make public the April poll. Kennedy now has ordered the USIA to confine its polls to issues involving "interest of national security" and even these will be kept secret. Kennedy statement: Ask not what America can do for you. he said in calling for national sacrifice in the interest of international gain, but ask what you can do for America. Kennedy action: Requests for increases in federal grants and payments to a great variety of pressure groups. Perhaps the answer to political promises can be found in the fact that not many people pay too much attention to the weather man's predictions and not many should be expected to expect much from political promises. The problem, of course, is that one can come in out of the rain, if so inclined, even though election decisions can't be circumvented. NO MORE BATHTUB RING E. I. du Pone de Nemours & Co. recently disclosed the development of a push-button cleaner that can eliminate bathtub rings, clean other porcelain, enamel and metal 'surfaces, and clean white sidewall tires with a minimum of effort. It is one of the newest uses of the aerosol-type container. Sixteen beautiful girls, finalists in the county-wide contest which began April 25, will be eagerly awaiting the decision of the judges amid all of the festivities scheduled for the gala affair. which began April 15. will be resentting their sponsoring center. are Pam Schultz, Barbara Capps, Diane Carrick and Jill Wilson of Anaheim; Maria wards and Barbara Chaney Garden Grove; Jo Ann Messallrall and Joyce Helmstead Orange; Mary Ann Bregar Costa Mesa and Nancy Lawler Westminster. Early dinner reservations from 5 to 8 p.m., are also being taken with the festivities scheduled to begin at 8:45. The actual coronation of the Queen is set for 11:30 p.m. ANAHEIM COMMENT Continued from Page 1-A) operative type of program with the school district." Earlier the high school district told the council it objected to part of the La Palma contract limiting the schools to 20 football games. The district said it would not pay $40,474 for this year's recreation participation until the contract was finalized. Supt. Paul Cook explained the debate over the contract came after Anaheim and Western played 21 games last year. With new high schools coming up, it was explained, the district will need to play about 30 games at stadium. Shroeder qualified his remarks when asked by Supt. Cook, "Wouldn't you say that 'pressure' is more appropriate word than 'blackmail'?" "No, sir," said Shroeder. "In my opinion it is out and out blackmail. Our country is being blackmailed by our neighbors to the south and I don't like it. I dislike being blackmailed by our city." Even though Shroeder's attempt to stop the councilmen from exerting control over our schools was defeated, he still deserves praise for his stand. We didn't elect councilmen to oversee the city school system. That's what school trustees are elected for. And they should be permitted to make free decisions without any pushing around from another public agency. $250,000 Construction Starts On Medical Building Construction started last week on a new $250,000 cooperative medical building to be located in Anaheim on the north side of Broadway, just east of Euclid Ave. Scheduled for completion by September endow Medical Square with a dignity and a professional appearance which seem synonymous to us with the practice of medicine. We have, however, tried to counter-balance this formality with an aura of warmth and brightness." Construction started last week on a new $250,000 cooperative medical building to be located in Anaheim on the north side of Broadway, just east of Euclid Ave. Scheduled for completion by September of 1961, the one-story building will be known as Medical Square. The new building will be situated on one and one-quarter acres of land and will have 12,000 sq. ft. of office space with individual heating and air-conditioning for each office. David Termohlen, AIBD, designer of Medical Square, stated that the architecture of the new building represented an effort to depart from the "cubicle design" of most medical buildings. "We have attempted," said Termohlen, "to endow Medical Square with a dignity and a professional appearance which seem synonymous to us with the practice of medicine. We have, however, tried to counter-balance this formality with an aura of warmth and brightness." A small type design is utilized in the new building with the greater portion of the structure suspended off-the-ground to provide convenient below-building parking for doctors and nurses. Roofing and exterior walls are of porcelain and steel; concrete subdivisions between offices provide complete soundproofing of individual units. A color-compatible television system is being installed to make doctor training programs available on closed circuit TV. CORRECTION! IN THE Northgate Market ADVERTISEMENT IN SECTION B, PAGE 2 THE PRICE OF Folger's Coffee WAS PRICED IN ERROR THE PRICE SHOULD HAVE READ 59¢ lb HAVE READ 59¢ lb Southern California living is more fun in a BUICK IS A SPECIAL LIFT! ng 155 h.p. aluminum Fireball V-8 gives you twice the pow per pound of many y swept Class C of the Mobilgas Economy Run against America's top economy