anaheim-gazette 1961-10-26

Thriftimart Celebrates Anniversary With Chain-Wide Sale Oct. 30-Nov. 12 Roger M. Laverty, Sr., president of Thriftimart, Inc., announced that during the period of Oct. 30 through Nov. 12, the entire 62-store Thriftimart Retail Chain will put on the biggest sale in the history of the company to celebrate its 31 successful years of operation. Thriftimart, Inc., was originally incorporated under the name of Fitzsimmons Stores, Ltd., in September, 1930. By the end of 1931 operating 17 small grocery departments in the Los Angeles area, its annual volume slightly over $3½ million. Today, besides its retail chain the Lee Meat Packing Plant, Jane Anderson Delicatessen Kitchen, two wholly-owned subsidiaries, namely the Corbin Development Company, a real estate corporation and the Customer Finance Company, which operates four more Membership Department Stores. In addition the company owns a partnership interest in the Jerseymaid Milk Products Company. This fiscal year Thriftimart and its subsidiaries will do a volume business in excess of $260 million. Thriftimart's expansion has carried it from the small beginning of 17 small grocery department stores to the larger metropolitan area of Los Angeles. Laverty feels the potential growth and financial future of Thriftimart is even greater than it was 31 years ago. The continuing Thriftimart growth will include the opening of at least four additional permarkets and one more department store within the next 12 months. Laverty states that the success of Thriftimart has been greatly due to the ready acceptance of the food-buying purchase of Thriftimart's long-established policy offering the h United Fund Drive Reaches Half-Way Mark The Anaheim-Western Communities United Fund drive has reached 51.1 per cent of its goal, Bernard W. Jordan, campaign chairman, announced following the third report meeting of the drive. Jordan said $153,400 has been raised toward the goal of $298,000. Contributions are running approximately 3 per cent of last year's drive at this time. "I'm delighted to observe that in the years I've been here, I've never witnessed a campaign with more enthusiasm than this one," O. G. Thomason, United Fund president, told division leaders at a report breakfast in YMCA headquarters. Thomason added that improvements this year in contributions from certain "weak" areas and record amounts being given by groups that always Sumner Speaks For Fair Housing Bruce Sumner will speak in the Little Theatre of Chapman College in Orange on Friday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. Sumner will discuss the civil rights bills which were presented to support the drive indicate the campaign will be a success. Jordan said the progress of the drive in the western communities is "very encouraging." Amounts raised thus far in these areas are: Cypress, $350; Dairyland, $500; Los Alamitos, $500; Rossmoor, $300; and Satton, $600. Special citations for achievement were presented at the meeting to Robert Shanks, chairman of the elementary schools division, and Dick Johnson, chairman of the visitors and recreation division. They reported two of the bright spots of the drive: elementary school employees have pledged $10,020 while their quota is $7,300; and employee contributions at Disneyland are up 50 per cent over last year. Fourth general report meeting will be at a breakfast in the YMCA headquarters at 7:30 a.m. today. Speech Therapy Nine children of pre-school and elementary school age currently receiving speech therapy from a new clinic set up Orange County State College under the guidance of speech professors Mrs. Verna A. Brusholt and Dr. E. Robert Harrison Jr., it was revealed by Seth A. Fessenden, speech department chairman. Dr. Harrington is helping four of the children, while M. Breinholt works with the remaining five. Among the programs they have encountered voice disorders, cleft palate lisping, poor articulation, deafness speech and partial deafness. A spectacular blast marked the start of Diversion Yumel No. 1 and formally inaugurated construction of the 735-foot high Oroville Dam on the Feather River Thursday. Governor Edmund G. Brown, left inset, displays a victory sign as he pushes the button to touch off the dynamite in ceremonies at the dam site. He praised members of the Legislature and others he described as "far-sighted water leaders" throughout the State for their support of the State Water Project in the Legislature in 1959 and in the 1½ billion dollar bond election in 1900." I'm going to translate into action what we did in the legislative halls two years ago," the governor declared to more than 500 spectators who participated in the historic event. The waters impounded in the Oroville Reservoir will control floods in northern California and provide supplemental water supplies as far as 700 miles south in San Diego County. Department of Watar Resources Photo, Anniversary 30-Nov. 12 Profit Share At Knott's Farm Told If you had visited Knott's Berry Farm today, you would have seen a lot of happy employees, all wearing gold badges stating, "I just received my 1961 Profit Share." The employees had reason to be happy, for the Knott family "sweetened" the profit sharing pot with a liberal sprinkling of greenbacks, in fact, over $625,-000 worth. Profit sharing at Knott's Berry Farm is nothing new, for it has been going on annually since 1948. In that time employees have shared over three million dollars. Knott's employees enjoy two profit sharing programs, the cash and the retirement plans. The cash plan received $282,-543.61 of this year's contribution and is divided amongst all 1,255 of the farm employees. $342,760.95 of this year's profits were deposited in the profit sharing retirement plan and is shared by the 482 participants. To participate in the retirement plan, an employee must complete three years of continuous service. Since its inception in 1956, the retirement plan has received over $1,300,000 from the profits of the firm. Hughes Go-Club Boosts Pledge To United Fund For the fourth consecutive year Hughes Aircraft Company's GO (Give Once) Club is increasing its pledge to Orange County charitable organizations. The pledge for the fiscal year 1961-62 is $91,296, C. Harper Brubaker, Hughes vice president and executive of the ground systems group here, announced today. Sixteen Orange County communities which receive GO Club contributions include Anaheim, Balboa, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, La Habra, Newport Beach, Orange, Placentia, Santa Ana-Tustin, Stanton, and Westminster. This new sum compares with $61,000 pledged and $67,000 actually given last year, $45,000 pledged and $49,000 given in 1959-60, and $20,000 pledged and $22,000 given in 1958-59. The increased pledge by the GO Club—an organization for united giving among Hughes employees through weekly payroll deduction—is the result of higher individual donations as well as larger working force at the ground systems plant, Brubaker said. New Shaker A radically new shaker do... Dyke Water Probe Opens. The California Public Utilities Commission announced it has reopened its investigation of the Dyke Water Company of Garden Grove "to determine the extent of compliance or noncompliance" with PUC orders requiring, among other things, formulation of a refund plan to customer and installation of meters. The company and its officers must appear at a public hearing in the reopened proceedings to "render full account of all measures taken or omitted to be taken." A 1960 Commission decision reducing the company's flat rates from $3.75 to $3 a month was upheld by the State Supreme Court. Last July the PUC ordered the firm to formulate ap lan by Aug. 4 for refunding approximately $250,000, representing the difference between revenues collected under the $3.75 rat pending appeal and the $3 rate. The decision also required Dyke to place meters on all new service connections installed on or after July 25, 1961, and in addition to start a metering program for the entire system. The company must show at the reopened proceedings what steps it has taken to maintain a special reserve account to take care of the refunds. Also, to what extent it has met the requirements of the Public Utilities Code, which provides that every public utility "shall obey and comply with every Commission order, decision, direction or rule." The company must show at the reopened proceedings what steps it has taken to maintain a special reserve account to take care of the refunds. Also, to what extent it has met the requirements of the Public Utilities Code, which provides that every public utility "shall obey and comply with every Commission order, decision, direction or rule." CHP Warning The earlier dusk of the fall season is a driving hazard which many motorists are inclined to overlook, pointed out California Highway Patrol Commissioner Bradford M. Crittenden. "Each day, darkness begins to set in a little earlier. The most dangerous period, the 'half-light' between the full sun and complete darkness, now comes just as many drivers are leaving work. Teacher Lists The Magnolia school board's new teacher application form will still ask applicants to list membership in all organizations despite protests on the matter this week by teachers. Paternity Leave Male teachers in Magnolia School District will have benefits of "paternity leave." Teachers who become fathers can get a one-day leave from their jobs. Anaheim Chamber Asks School Chief Probe The Chamber of Commerce here has asked for an investigation of charges leveled against State College Chancellor Buell Gallagher, and if the charges are proved true, for his removal from the key state-level educational post. The adoption of an amended resolution followed a full hour discussion of the charges and evidence placed before the chamber board of directors by two of its members who have state have been taking, or considering, similar action asking for either a review of Gallagher's qualifications, or his removal, from the $32,000 a year post to which he was appointed last April. Evidence placed before these groups by those who would see Gallagher unseated from the chancellor's chair alleges that his past record and affiliations with various "socialistic and communist front groups" leads Expectant Parent Classes Offered The Orange County Health Department announced today the beginning of a new series of classes for expectant parents. These educational classes conducted by public health nurses are held on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7 in the Orange County Health Department, Eighth and N. Ross Sts., Santa Ana. New members may enroll at any time during the series simply by attending on a Monday or Wednesday evening. The same course of instruction is repeated on both nights. The adoption of an amended resolution followed a full hour discussion of the charges and evidence placed before the chamber board of directors by two of its members who have been investigating Gallagher's background for two months. The chamber resolution, as adopted, also asks for a security check of Gallagher equivalent to the security check given all employees of defense plants. It does on to recommend similar security checks of any and all top educators working in the state's school system, or proposed for appointment or hiring in the future. Similar Action Various groups about the sidering, similar action asking for either a review of Gallagher her’s qualifications, or his moveal, from the $32,000 a year post to which he was appointed last April. Evidence placed before these groups by those who would see Gallagher unseated from the chancellor’s chair alleges that his past record and affiliations with various “socialistic and communist front groups” leads to the conclusion that he is “against free enterprise and the capitalistic system.” Gallagher denies that the evidence presented against him is wholly the truth, although in a letter to the American Legion answering the charges, he did not deny those specific charges in which he was labeled a socialist. The Orange Unified School District Board of Education two weeks ago adopted a similar resolution, asking a review of Gallagher’s qualifications by the state. The Tustin-board, on the other hand, refused to adopt such a resolution, stating that it would refuse to condemn, or to endorse, any man without absolute documented evidence. 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