anaheim-gazette 1963-01-09

Anaheim Public Library Anaheim, Calif. First Edition From Anaheim Established in 1870 ... Published Continuously Vol 91 — Number 22 8 Pages Anaheim Residents Flood A Anaheim Rotary Honors International President Rotary's International President, Nitish C. Laharry, Calcutt, India, was honored at a Rotary District 532 dinner meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m. at Gourmet Restaurant, Disneyland Hotel, it presidents and officers greeted Laharry at 6:30 p.m. prior to the dinner. Until his retirement in 1939, Laharry was managing director of Columbia Films of India and district supervisor for Columbia Pictures International Corp., India, Burma Pakistan, Ceylon Afghanistan and Nepal. He is by profession an advocate of the High Court of Calcutta, India. Laharry was elected to the Rotary post during Rotary's International President Rotary's International President, Nitish C. Laharry, Calcutt, India, was honored at a Rotary District 532 dinner meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m. at Gourmet Restaurant, Disneyland Hotel, it was announced today by Anaheim Rotary President Lee Luskey. Laharry's first visit to Southern California was attended by some 900 Rotary members and their wives from Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. His visit was co-hosted by the Anaheim Rotary Club and District Governor Jim Speers' Baldwin Park club. The program honoring the International President included a Flag Ceremony representing countries where Rotary Clubs are organized. Also on the evening's schedule was an address by President Laharry. Flag ceremonies were conducted by Troop, Pack, and Post 80, Boy Scouts of America, sponsored by Anaheim Rotary Club. Gov. Speer said a 250 reception committee composed of present and past District officials, club presidents and officers greeted Laharry at 6:30 p.m. prior to the dinner. Until his retirement in 1959, Laharry was managing director of Columbia Films of India and district supervisor for Columbia Pictures International Corp., India, Burma Pakistan, Ceylon Afghanistan and Nepal. He is by profession an advocate of the High Court of Calcutta, India. Laharry was elected to the Rotary post during Rotary's International Convention in July 1962 at Los Angeles. As International president 1962-63, Laharry heads a worldwide service organization comprising 11,300 Rotary Clubs in countries totaling a membership of 525,000 persons. A Rotarian since 1926, Lahari is a former member of the Rotary Club of Bombay, India, and is now a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Calcutta. He has served Rotary Internationally as vice president, director, trust governor and committee member. He served the Indian government as chairman of the East Indian Film Advisory Board and a member of the Publicity Advisory Committee. Laharry served four terms as president of the Kinematograph Society of India, Burma, Ceylon and Pakistan. Magnolia Girls Seal Lips for 'Hush Day' It may sound implausible and impossible but the girls at Magnolia High School are not going to talk to boys on January 17. At least they're going to try not to. The event, called "Hush Day," is sponsored by the school's Girls League, an association of all the girls on campus. NEW POSTAL RATES IN EFFECT NOV Letters ... 5c per ounce Airmail Letters ... 8c per ounce Post Cards ... 4c per ca Airmail Cards ... 6c per ca Unsealed Greeting Cards ... 4c each (The above rates also apply for mail to Canada & Mexico. There are also increases for newspapers, magazines, bulk mailing, educational and library materials and air parcel post. To obtain new rates on these items, call the Post Office. Marshall N. McFie Postmaster COLONY CRIER B·DICK BOHRER Now I don't want to appear disloyal to the Anaheim Department of Motor Vehicles, but I'm not going to get my automobile license plates from them this month. I want something distinctive. I can't think of anything unusual in their GEW to GHE series unless I'd happen to get GEZ000 at the University of California. "Delete this list of all possible three letter words which might cause offense or embarrassment to anyone," they ordered. The pedagogues went to work. They poured through every combination of three letter words pos- Now I don't want to appear disloyal to the Anaheim Department of Motor Vehicles, but I'm not going to get my automobile license plates from them this month. I want something distinctive. I can't think of anything unusual in their GEW to GHE series unless I'd happen to get GEZ000. I want something that will cause people to turn their heads and stare when my blue buggy buzzes by. I like to sport a clever word on my lower plates. This past decade I've had SAY. Pretty good for a journalism teacher-editor. For the next decade I'd like something more personal. I asked Edward O'Brien, local DMV office manager, where I would have to go to get my initias. RWB. You can ask him where any combination of letters is going to be issued. He'll tell you. "You're going to have a long time to wait," he said. "RWB hasn't been manufactured yet." The State of California has manufactured more than ten million plates so far, but it's not up to the RW's yet. I asked where I could get GAZ for GAZETTE, you know. "Culver City has those plates," O'Brien said. I think maybe I'll go up. The Anaheim office is giving out GFL right now. I want a real word! Worried about getting an embarrassing word on your new license plates? Never fear! The Department of Motor Vehicles has taken care of that. When the State of California first decided to go in for the three-letter-three-numeral series, officials of the Department submitted the alphabet to professors at the University of California. "Delete this list of all possible three letter words which might cause offense or embarrassment to anyone," they ordered. The pedagogues went to work. They poured through every combination of three letter words possible. They went from AAA to ZZZ, canceling out the purple prose and words which might embarrass races, religions, even visiting foreigners. XZQ might mean something naughty in Swaziland. It must have thrown the Cal modern language department into a frenzy to analyze all the combinations for questionable words. The students of spelling, students of words who compile word dictionaries, students of word origins and word development, and those who study literary texts in order to discover their meaning and authenticity must have had a field day. On an assignment like this, they would have to leave their respective titles (orthographers, lexicographers, etymologists and philologists) at the door. None of those big words in here! Just three letter words, boys. The word wizards had to go through every combination backwards and forwards lest some florid word slip through and be imbedded in steel and impaled on someone's rear bumper. Think of the chaos that florid word might have caused during rush hour. Even motorists on the freeway can be stricken with the double-take! When eyes which should be glued on the road are glued on a neighboring license plate, someone always gets pasted! From Our New Hea eim Gazette published Continuously in Orange County's "Number One" City For 92 Years Anaheim, California, Wednesday, January 9, 1963 Good Anaheim DMV for International Corp. for Burma Pakistan, Ceylon, Pakistan and Nepal. is by profession an advocate of the High Court of Calcutta. Laharry was elected to the top post during Rotary's International Convention in July at Los Angeles. International president, 133, Laharry heads a world-service organization comprising 11,300 Rotary Clubs in 128 countries totaling a membership of 55,000 persons. Rotarian since 1926, Laharry former member of the Rotary of Bombay, India, and is now member and past president of Rotary Club of Calcutta. He served Rotary International vice president, director, governor and committee leader. NEW PLATES — This scene is being depicted all over California this week as “early birds” begin putting on their new 1963 license plates. Luther Bittle of 121½ So. Glassell St., attaches the new plate which is black with yellow numerals. Deadline for obtaining new plates is Monday, February 4. Penalties will be assessed after that date. Journalism Students Will Compete Bank of America Manager to V Journalism students in Anaheim’s five high school will be notified shortly of Orange County’s second annual “On the Spot” writing tournament to be held Saturday, February 16, at Lowell High School. The Orange County chapter of the National Association of Journalism Advisors is sponsoring the event. Betty Coxson, journalism advisor at Lowell High School, is handling all the arrangements. The tourney offers valuable experience to journalism students in writing under the pressure of immediate deadlines. Fact sheets and real-life situations, set up specifically for them, provide materials. The student journalists will compete in four writing categories: news writing, features, editorials and sports. All students will write a news story and also choose one of the other three categories for their second assignment. Every contestant will be given a limited time to write his stories. Judges from many Orange County newspapers will read the papers. Winners will be announced during the afternoon session. County high school advisors who have had their students compete in the past have reported the assignment proved stimulating and highly motivating for their students. Anaheim resident Harold A. Beisswenger has been elected to an assistant vice-presidency in the Los Angeles Headquarters staff development department of the Bank of America, it was announced by Board Chairman Jesse W. Tapp. Beisswenger has been manager of the bank’s West Anaheim branch for the past two years. A veteran of a decade’s service with the bank, Beisswenger began as a teller at Burbank and moved up to officer rank in 1955 shortly after completing a special training program for outstanding officer prospects. He managed the Construction Begins on New Wing Of Santa Ana Community Hospital As construction begins on the new $600,000 wing of the Santa Ana Community Hospital Construction Begins on New Wing of Santa Ana Community Hospital SANTA ANA HOSPITAL GROWS — Shown breaking into the surface of the old parking area of the Santa Ana Community Hospital are Santa Ana citizens most interested in the new $600,000 Laboratory Wing which will be constructed on this site. It will house approx. 19,000 square feet devoted to clinical pathology and additional hospital beds. Pictured, from left, are Walter L. West, president of the hospital board; Santa Ana Mayor Allen Hall; Dr. Edward Lee Russell, Orange County Health Officer; W. B. Hellis, chairman of the hospital board; and Carl Thornton, Santa Ana City Manager and member of the hospital's building committee. As construction begins on the new $600,000 wing of the Santa Ana Community Hospital the building represents 62 years of medical care and scientific advancement in the community. Designed to match the architecture of the existing building, the 19,000 square foot laboratory wing will house departments devoted to clinical pathology. It will add 31 beds, bringing the hospital bed count to 200. According to Charles J. Malinowski, hospital administrator, the new laboratory will feature the latest in x-ray development as well as motion picture x-rays, fluoroscopic radiographic units, therapy section and a nuclear medicine section. The x-ray department's dark room will utilize an automatic film processor which will allow exposed x-ray film to be completely processed, dried and ready for reading in seven minutes. New motion picture x-rays will study the movement of radio opaque dyes through heart and arteries and be used for motion studies in dynamic processes in the body. Two new fluoroscopic radiographic units will use image analysis; this will allow a decrease in the dosage of radiation to patients being examined and enable the fluoroscopist to see more detail in his studies. Headquarters ette Years Entertainment Guide For America's 'HUB OF HAPPINESS' Home City Of DISNEYLAND Pay your Newaboy only 25¢ Per Month—Phone PR 2-1800 V for New Tags Dateless License Plates Designed to Last a Decade Approximately 2,500 people every day are pouring into the Anaheim office of the Department of Motor Vehicles on West La Palma Avenue to claim one of 60,000 license plates being issued there. According to Edward T. O'Brien, office manager, the local branch is distributing plates "in sequence" from GEW 000 to GHE 082,000 plates. Under the present arrangement of three letters followed by three numerals, more than 12.5 million licenses can be turned out. A mixing of the letters and numbers could raise the total to 25 million. O'Brien has found that some people want a certain license plate Approximately 2,500 people every day are pouring into the Anaheim office of the Department of Motor Vehicles on West La Palma Avenue to claim one of 60,000 license plates being issued there. According to Edward T. O'Brien, office manager, the local branch is distributing plates "in sequence" from GEW 000 to GHE 900. "I anticipate that we will have to have more," O'Brien said, "before the end of the month rush." The dateless plates have been designed to last a decade. Made of a heavy gauge steel, the plates are colored with weather resistant paint. In order to meet the demand of 9,600,000 requests for renewals, the State has manufactured 10. Bank of America Promotes Manager to Vice President Harold A. Beisswenger has been elected to instant vice-presidency in Los Angeles Headquarters development department of Bank of America, it was announced by Board Chairman Jesapp. Beisswenger has been named the bank's West Ana-branch for the past two years of a decade's service. La Crescenta branch before coming to this area. The Minnesota-born banker was educated at the University of Minnesota and UCLA and also has studied at the American Institute of Banking, educational wing of the American Bankers Association. Beckman Sponsors Writing Contest Beckman Instruments, Inc., today announced the start of the second annual Beckman Technical Paper Competition expanded this year to include students attending nine colleges in Orange and Los Angeles counties. The program, designed to recbined effort of industry, education technical and scientific writing among college students, is a combined effort of industry, education and local professional associations. For the second year, judging and writing consultants will be provided by the Orange County Medical Association, and local sections of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Institute of Radio Engineers and the Instrument Society of America. ANAHEIM at a Glance Anaheim Population Hits 132,000 Anaheim’s Assistant City Manager Robert Davis today revealed the “guessimated” population of the city is now 132,000. The statistics were arrived at by computing the increase in city dwellings since the State population estimate of March, 1962. “This represents an 8200 person increase in Anaheim’s population,” said Davis. Magnolia Trustees Reaffirm Position Magnolia School Trustees who voted Nov. 10 to oust the districts two top administrators have renewed their firm stand in the matter and refuse to reconsider their decision. Center of controversy are Superintendent Kenneth Nielson and Dr. William Stocks, his assistant. Board has ruled that their contracts will not be renewed in June. Board has also refused to cite the reasons for rendering their decision. Interested parents have inquired into the possibility of authorizing a special study of the district by professional educators in order to solve the problems of curriculum, personnel and organization. City Council Chooses Charter Committee Anaheim City Council yesterday appointed 20 members to a citizens committee to study the feasibility of adopting a charter form of government for the Colony City. The committee’s 15 voting members and 15 alternates were selected from a field of more than 100 applicants. Council also directed that the first organizational meeting be held on Wednesday, Jan. 23.