anaheim-gazette 1962-07-12

EDITORIAL We're Swallowing a Camel There is nothing wring with gnats. There is nothing wrong with minorities. But the children in the public school classrooms of New York will no longer acknowledge their dependence upon God nor beg His blessing on their parents, their teachers, their country and themselves, because those in authority over them are protecting the rights of minorities. The Gazette does not stand in judgment of the Supreme Court. The Gazette does lament the passing of public prayer from the classrooms of New York just as it mourns the passing of Bible reading from the classrooms of California. That a simple nondenominational prayer "abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" is ridiculous. That the reading of the Bible in public schools is an attempt of the government to establish religion or to interfere in the religious beliefs of its people is equally ridiculous. We are straining at a gnat. We want to please everybody. We are really swallowing a camel. Our children are growing up to be Bible Illiterates. Few of them know how to pray. Few of them care to acknowledge their dependence upon God. Few care to beg His blessing. But this camel is not new camel. We have swallowed him before. Most modern adults are Bible illiterates. Few know how to pray. Few acknowledge dependence upon God. Few thank Him for His blessings. Our answer? An individual reaffirmation of our own belief in spiritual principles. Our own return as a family to Bible reading and prayer and mid-week preaching services and prayer meetings. Let us also take the New York Board of Regents' prayer for our own and for our children: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." R. W. B. SIDELIGHTS Only Good Worm Let's Go Fishing Albacore — Commercial getting longfins some 85 miles low Point Loma in San Diego a few brought back by fishers making day and a two day trips. Blue water San Clemente Island and the temperature may produce next few days. Remember on July 4th last year that the local albacore catch was Yellowtail — Catalina and Clemente Islands good bet The Barn and Box Canyon broke loose with some catches. Plenty of yellows in water, skippers report. White seabass — Catalina the best bet but unless you live squid on the boat the chase are pretty alim for connection Whites in smaller size caught along the coast. Barracuda — Huntington in action once again with half of the scooters "legal". Lima and The Barn also produce logs in great numbers. Bonito — These fighters dpeared for awhile, but are in force along the entire coast They are running big, up to Bass and Halibut — Exceed along the entire coast and offshore islands. Newport Bay — Excellent fishing for bass and halibut. Who know how to work the fers scoring on spotted bass up 7 lbs. Honors for catching the first bluefin tuna of the year from Newport Harbor deep sea fisher boat went Thursday to Chatham Drennan of Rialto, Californi Drennan boated an 11½ lbs. while fishing at Bay Gorge. "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." SIDELIGHTS Only Good Worm Is A Dead One By Doris Lee I dreamed of cutworms again last night. They were everywhere—outdoors, indoors, climbing up walls, slithering across the kitchen counters. I screamed through the whole dream and woke up in a cold sweat. I hate worms, all worms, and that takes in everything that crawls on its stomach, from a boa constrictor down to a moth larva. Anything without legs is a worm in my book. And that includes the creatures with the little suction cup feet. By legs I mean long unmistakable appendages complete with knee joints. (Certain humans generally classified as worms are discounted.) I even hate butterflies because they used to be worms. They look pretty in the air but I can't forget their low-grade beginnings. This column undoubtedly is a premonitory sign that we're about to be invaded again. Every time we plant a new dichondra lawn (which averages about every five years with our green thumb luck) every cutworm in town camps in our yard for months harvesting the succulent leaves and trying to trip me up on the sidewalk just for kicks. Come and Get It Our front lawn was replanted a few weeks ago and is just about ready for them now. "Did it have to be dichondra?" I asked Charlie. "They really go for that." "We won't have cutworms," he said with confidence. "It's the fertilizer that draws them, and I didn't use much." "In my dream it wasn't the fertilizer they were after but the plants. And me. In the end they were chasing me up the book-grass to obstruct the view. And the only work it required was a periodic sweeping to get it back up off the driveway. We also watered it once in a while to give it a chocolate brown hue that went well with the foundation plants. Best of all, it was the Sahara desert to worms. The idea of a stray venturing out on that bare expanse under the broiling sun and perishing before reaching the other side appealed to my sadistic nature. I put up a stiff fight when it came time to plant the new lawn. "What's the matter with leaving it like it is?" I wanted to know. "Because it's not a lawn without grass," he said. "How can you call it 'the front lawn' with nothing growing on it?" Or 'Front Turf' "Why can't we call it 'the front dirt?'" "That's ridiculous." "No, it isn't. It just falls on the ear a little strangely at first, that's all. Look, do you agree that it looks neat?" "Well, sure." "Easy to care for?" "We have to keep raking it. The kids use it for a shortcut, and I keep finding dead worms on it." "Dead worms, huh?" I said, grinning fiendishly, and then added, "Raking is easier than mowing." "I suppose so." "And its' a pretty color, isn't it?" "If you like brown, yes." "Then what rule of thumb (green thumb, if you'll pardon the pun) says you absolutely must offshore islands." Newport Bay — Excellent fishing for bass and halibut. Who know how to work the fins scoring on spotted bass up 7 lbs. Honors for catching the fish bluefin tuna of the year from Newport Harbor deep sea fisher boat went Thursday to Chad Drennan of Rialto, Californian Drennan boated an 11¼ lbs. while fishing at Box Canyon the Frontier out of Balboa Park. The Frontier also racked 17 yellowtail that day at Bonanza, out of Balboa Pavilion Barn to cop high boat honors the coast. Balboa Pavilion Sportfish moves into their new quartz this week as another step of giant remodeling program at peninsula landmark is completed. Already open is the new taurant, 24-hour coffee shop cocktail lounge. Here's a late fishing flash yellowtail have moved into reefs and kelp along Lagoon Beach, bringing them in range the half-day boat anglers. Bonanza, out of Balboa Pavilion was the first to score this year the short trip Friday with a 10-beauty. Our front lawn was replanted a few weeks ago and is just about ready for them now. "Did it have to be dichondra?" I asked Charlie. "They really go for that." "We won't have cutworms," he said with confidence. "It's the fertilizer that draws them, and I didn't use much." "In my dream it wasn't the fertilizer they were after but the plants. And me. In the end they were chasing me up the bookcase." It was wonderful after the old lawn died. We dug it up and raked the soil into a smooth brown plot. There wasn't a live thing in it except for an occasional weed which was easy to spot with no TOO HEAVY? 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If you want to make a personal contribution to better citizenship and a stronger America, this series by Jones affords such an opportunity. Virgil Pinkley Editor and Publisher July 9, 1962. This, ladies and gentlemen, is to be a jeremiad. I am about to inflict upon you an unrelieved, copper-bottomed, six-ply, all-wood, 25-minute howl of calamity of America. And I am going to talk about our responsibilities therefore as the temporary custodians of America's press. You may dismiss such fogeyism with a tolerant laugh. But the pathway of history is littered with the bones of dead states and fallen empires. Most of them rotted out before they were overwhelmed. And they were not, in most cases, promptly replaced by something better. Nearly 1,000 years elapsed between the fall of Western Rome and the rise of the Renaissance, and in between we had the Dark Ages in which nearly all of man's are morally superior is to You can't get very far inside before the naive queen your Intourist guide reveals she thinks she is talking to pop who is ripe for the and the guillotine. In the yards the children rush up you, not their yo-yos, but scholarship medals. And you offer them new Lincolnies as souvenirs, they their little Young Pioneers and hand them to you that they are not taking care making a fair exchance. The Russian stage is as as the Victorian state, literature may be corny, clean, and it glorifies the people and exudes optimism. Russian art is representational, but the arts and the sculpture depict beauty and heroism Russian beauty, of course Russian heroism. And what of us? Well, ladies and gentlemen let's take them one at a time. We are now at the end third decade of the nation known as "progressive tion." This is the education everybody passes, where port cards are non - costlest the failure be faced fact of his failure, whi Men in Service A local Navyman is now serving aboard the "Pride of Pacific Fleet Oilers," USS NAVASOTA (AO 106), with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Far Eastern waters. He is William C. Webb Jr., seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Webb Sr. of 917 N. Dickel St., Anaheim. Jack B. Berry, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ulric C Berry of 10501 Ramblewood Dr, Anaheim, is serving aboard the radar picket destroyer USS Henry W Tucker, operating out of Yokosuka, Japan. Darwin E. Ammons, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Mrs. Donald Dominquez of 3151 West Tyler, Anaheim, is serving aboard the attack transport USS Magoffin, which participated in the five-day "Exercise Flying Disk" off the island of Oahu, Hawaii, June 19-23. The opening of the annual trial of Arts and Pageant of Masters in Laguna Beach Colton's diamond jubilee celebration top the list of things to be in the Southland this week. It is the schedule of activities in area for the period July 5 through 14 as compiled by the Automatic Club of Southern California. CLAREMONT: "Carnaval deracruz" is the Padua-Hills Ter attraction through July 28. The colorful three-act course includes a miniature version stage of "the gayest fiesta tropical Mexico", including querades with giant dancing ures interspersed between antic serenades beneath aical moon. COLTON: Colton's diamond le will be celebrated July through 15. Featured will be LOCAL NAVYMAN — William C. Webb Jr., seaman from Anaheim, splices a line in the tradition of the sea aboard the USS NAVASOTA while at sea with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East. ANAHEIM GAZETTE TELEPHONE: PR 2-1800 Published Thursday of each week at 259 East Center Street, Anaheim, California Legal Adjudication No. A 22441 VIRGIL PINKLEY, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter under the act of March 3, 1879. All rights herein are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 per year, payable in advance. Member, California Newspaper Publishers Association MIDSHIPMAN JAMES G. McWALTERS The colorful three-act combo includes a miniature version stage of "the gayest fiesta tropical Mexico", including querades with giant dancing ures interspersed between antic serenades beneath aical moon. COLTON: Colton's diamond le will be celebrated July through 15. Featured will be a play of trains and engines on years ago plus special exhibi facilities of the three rail now serving the city, Santa Union Pacific and Southern cific. CRESTLINE: The Crestline days Aquacade, celebrating days when the old Mormon T passed through the area, will celebrated July 7 and 8. Feat events will be held at Lake Ory. INGLEWOOD: Hollywood Park annual spring program of horse racing closes July 23. LAGUNA BEACH: The annual Festival of Arts and Pageant the Masters will be held f July 14 through Aug. 12. All ents will be held at the Ir Bowl. Featured will be disp of all types of art work and annual evening display of "ing Picture" reproductions of world's greatest artists' works. LA JOLLA: The La Jolla Te Championships with more than 600 players taking part in 36 events will be staged on the Community Center Tennis Court through July 8. The 15th annual La Jolla Ho Tour, sponsored by the La Jolla Soroptimist Club, will be from noon to 3 p.m. July 14. Featured will be five homes. are morally superior is there. You can't get very far into Russia before the naive questions of your Intourist guide reveal that she thinks she is talking to a soft pop who is ripe for the tumbrill and the guillotine. In the school-yards the children rush up to show you, not their yo-yos, but their scholarship medals. And when you offer them new Lincoln pennies as souvenirs, they rip off their little Young Pioneer buttons and hand them to you, proud that they are not taking gifts, but are making a fair exchange. The Russian stage is as austere as the Victorian state. Russian literature may be corny, but it's clean, and it glorifies the Russian people and exudes optimism and promise. Russian art is stiffly representational, but the paintings and the sculpture strive to depict beauty and heroism — Russian beauty, of course, and Russian heroism. And what of us? Well, ladies and gentlemen, let's take them one at a time: We are now at the end of the third decade of the national insanity known as "progressive education." This is the education where everybody passes, where the report cards are non-committal test the failure be faced with the fact of his failure, where all move at a snail pace like a trans Atlantic convoy so that the slowest need not be left behind, and all proceed toward adulthood in the lockstep of "togetherness." With what results? At an age when European kids are studying the human capillary system and discussing the binomial theorem our youngsters are raising polywogs on the classroom windowsill and pretending to keep store. This is what is known as "learning by doing." We have produced tens of thousands of high school graduates who move their lips as they read and cannot write a coherent paragraph. While our Russian contemporaries, who were supposed to be dedicated to the mass man, have been busy constructing an elite, we have been engaged in the wholesale production of mediocrity. What a switch! I wish you could have read all the letters I have in the past few months from disgusted teachers who have tried to reintroduce principles of hard work and integrity in their classrooms over the opposition of the school hierarchies. It is high time that these Ph.D! pooh-bahs of John Deweyism stepped forward and permitted themselves to be graded. But no. You recall that last fall the school board of the little township of Twin Lakes, Wis., dissatisfied with modern primers, announced that it was introducing reprints of 50-year-old McGuffey Readers. Maybe it was making a bad mistake. Maybe the new books and new teaching methods are far superior. Here was a fine chance to find out. But did the Wisconsin State Board of Education offer a sporting challenge — a one-year test, for example, to see which was the better approach, theirs or McGuffey's? Not a bit of it. The State Board merely moved to deprive Twin Lakes of state aid, to the thunderous applause, I'm sorry to say, of the so-called "liberals." When was the last time you, as editors, examined the curricula of your local schools? Are your students given the standardized Iowa and Stanford tests, and, if so, how did your schools rank compared to the national average? Do your kids bring home meaningful report cards, or are parents just getting a lot of gobbledegook about adjustments and attitudes? When was the last time you asked to look at any senior English themes? When have you given a fine picture spread to your town's best scholars? (To be continued) SEVENTH INNING STRETCH — Taking time out from one of the many games that are sponsored by the Anaheim Park and Recreation Department are youngsters Mark Seclert, 8, Del Rowe, 9, and John Wisby, 9. These little leaguers are enjoying their favorite summer refreshment—watermelon. THINGS TO SEE ON SOUTHLAND The opening of the annual Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach and LOS ANGELES: The Angels play Boston at 8 p.m., July 6 and 7 and 1:30 p.m., July 8 and New York at 8 p.m., July 12 and 13 and 1:30 p.m., July 14. Featured exhibitions at the County Museum include an exhibit of early California lithographs an exhibition of more than 200 works by Jean Dubuffet and a display of fine laces and embroideryes. Chamber music concerts are presented at 3 p.m. each Sunday at the Museum. 'A Trip to the Moon and Saturn' is the title of the program at Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium through Sept. 9. The facility is open daily except Monday. MT. BALDY: An estimated 25 girls will attend this event. COLTON: Colton's diamond jubilee will be celebrated July 11 through 15. Featured will be a display of trains and engines of 100 years ago plus special exhibits of cities of the three rail lines serving the city, Santa Fe, on Pacific and Southern Panhandle. ESTLINE: The Crestline Trail Aquacade, celebrating the when the old Mormon Trail used through the area, will be celebrated July 7 and 8. Featured events will be held at Lake Gregory. LEWOOD: Hollywood Park's annual spring program of horse-ing closes July 23. UNA BEACH: The annual festival of Arts and Pageant of Masters will be held from August 14 through Aug. 12. All events will be held at the Irvine location. Featured will be displays of types of art work and the final evening display of "Liv-Picture" reproductions of the year's greatest artists' works. MOLLA: The La Jolla Tennis championships with more than 36 players taking part in 36 events will be staged on the Comfy Center Tennis Courts throughout July 8. 15th annual La Jolla Home sponsored by the La Jolla Optimist Club, will be held noon to 3 p.m. July 14. Fea- will be five homes. ANAHEIM TRUCK & TRANSFER CO. Moving - Storage General Trucking ANAHEIM PHONE KE 5-2863 BRAKES R. LONDON RIVER CONE-O'CONNOR MORTUARY 251 NORTH LEMON STREET, ANAHEIM KB 5-3209 REDONDO BEACH: The 70th anniversary of Redondo Beach will be celebrated with a civic celebration scheduled through July 8. Featured will be water ski races, large and small boat races, life-guard races in rowing, swimming paddling and surf mat races, a two and one-half mile swimming race from Palos Verdes, a boat parade and an art show. Events will be held in City Park and King Harbor and on Horseshoe Pier. SAN DIEGO: The annual San Diego National Shakespearean Festival will be held in Balboa Park's Old Globe Theater through September 9. Elizabethan "Pageant on the Green" with dancing will precede each performance. Yellowtail Derby is current through October 7. Prizes are given every eight weeks. WHILE ON VACATION LET US CLEAN YOUR RUGS! "Serving Northern Orange County for 14 Years" CHILD'S RUG WORKS LA 5-5680