anaheim-gazette 1963-11-27

The ANAHEIM GAZETTE Opinions Virgil Pinkley, Editor & Publisher 8—The Anaheim Gazette Wednesday, November 27, 1963 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Thanksgiving Day, 1963 It is a hard thing indeed to give thanks in the midst of grief. Our nation is quite properly in mourning for its lost leader, and the normal, all-too-casual shibboliths of gratitude for blessings received are just as properly impossible to repeat this year. Yet for all the loss, for all the horror, for all the grief, the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and its consequences cries out one truth for which we must be thankful. In this nation, as in few others, we have achieved a government in which —while one man's death can be felt for many years — no man's death is catastrophic. For in losing our President we have lost our leader, our paladin, our friend, but we have not lost a senseign. We are sovereign, we Americans. We have provided for this tragic contingency and in haste, to be sure but by orderly and predetermined processes, the task of leadership was transferred without question. Further, the task went to a man who has the same understanding of the President's role in our society as his predecessor, one who for his entire adult life has at periodic intervals exposed himself to the decision of the electors. So life goes on in America, even if it must for the grieving members of the Kennedy family. But while we can be thankful that our nation is secure in all other respects our grief must only second to theirs. A Rose by Any Name Urban renewal is a dirty word. At least so the city council was given to believe at a recent meeting fort of an urban area, a city, to renew itself, to bring back to an aging portion of its territory the qualities A Rose by Any Name Urban renewal is a dirty word. At least so the city council was given to believe at a recent meeting in which it was sitting as the city’s urban renewal agency. A charming lady of highly conservative persuasion read at length from two denunciations of urban renewal, adding that Anaheim should perhaps change the name of its project to "development" or something. What utter nonsense! Words are not things. Nobody ever was hit on the head by a word, nourished by a word, hurt by a word or helped by a word. Friends use words between themselves which would be mortal insults if uttered to a stranger, but we all accept such words according to what we know is meant by them. So it should be with urban renewal. Our city council has told us what it means by these two words. Essentially it has used the pure "dictionary" definition — urban renewal is an ef- Anaheim Prepares In the recent economic conference, the sudden burst of development activity and urban renewal planning, there is a promise of progress for our community which offers us a magnificent challenge. But we will fail to meet this challenge if we do not keep constantly in mind that the finest buildings, the most productive industries and the most enticing tourist attractions are as nothing without a citizenry to match. Those of us who have come as adults to Anaheim from other places will just have to stretch to be the kind of people this community needs, but by effective use of our school system we can help insure that the next generation will have built-in the qualities it needs to make the most of what we leave behind. The high achievement program our schools is a fine example of the kind of "insurance", and we will easier in our concern for the city welfare when this program’s product reach the age which will allow them to start assuming the functions of civic leadership. All Southland Schedules Christmas Spectaculars The Southland's outdoor Christmas spectacles will be more numerous and elaborate than ever this year, according to the tourist-luring All-year Club. The All-Year Club, which uses the spectacles as an attraction for the visitors, points out in a nation-wide press release that each community here takes advantage of some special feature of its locale. In Altadena, where the lighting tradition began in 1920, it's a lane of giant Himalayan deodar trees strung with 10,000 colored lights along Santa Rosa Ave. Santa Monica uses its palm-fringed Palisades seacliff park to enhance its tradition of the "City of the Christmas Story." On the evening of Dec. 2 a "Singing Cross" of 165 robed youngsters carrying candles will move down Wilshire Blvd. to the park where a film celebrity will read from the Bible. Churches will set up 14 life-sized lighted Nativity scenes along the park. Van Nuys enlists the help of the movie and TV studios in San Fernando Valley. Set designers fashioned the plans for the floats in the Bethlehem Star parade the afternoon of Dec. 1, and make-up experts help costume and make up Biblical characters riding the floats. At La Jolla, the giant Christmas tree is set up on the rocks above its famous La Jolla Cove where the lights can reflect on the ocean water. Water dominates the lives of residents in the canal community of Naples at Long Beach, so they parade in boats fashioned into lighted Christmas floats the evenings of Dec. 14 and 15. Calipatria in the Imperial Valley, 184 feet below sea level, has a flag pole exactly that high so its flag can wave at sea level. It's hung with mammoth strings of colored lights visible for 10 miles around. The desert around Joshua Tree is similar, geographically, to the Holy Land so the town creates the homes and shops of Bethlehem on lighted stages on a hillside. Residents, some wearing costumes costing $500, give nightly performances Dec. 18 to 24. Avalon takes advantage of the arc of hills sloping up from Avalon Bay, an especially beautiful setting for the colored lighting displays set up on the rooftops and reflected on waters of the bay. Ontario centers its celebration along beautiful, tree-shaded Euclid Ave. There will be church choirs and roving bands of youthful carolers. The avenue will be lined with elaborate life-like Christmas scenes designed by Rudolph Vargas. Huntington Park stages what is billed as the biggest Christmas parade in the West on Dec. 7, with over 100 movie, radio and TV stars, 36 bands, floats and riders. As the parade stalls at 7 p.m., over 100,000 overnight lights and 50 giant searchlight flicker on. For the 28th year, Huntington Beach will salute Santa Claus with a musical parade of 50 competing bands and 10 storybook floats on Dec. 6. "Miss Me Christmas" is crowned queen. Balloons 40 to 110 feet long manned by clowns, will depict Storybood characters in No Hollywood's parade on Dec. There will be bands, a Mac Carpet float and walkable characters such as the Chess Cat and Simple Simon. In Rialto's "Christmas Magic" parade on Dec. 14, part pants fashion their costumes and floats — New year's sweepstakes winner composed of thousands of handmade tissue paper flowers. Movie and TV personalities will participate, together with high school and college band in Lynwood's 1 hour parade on Dec. 6. "Christmas in California" the theme for the St. Nick parade staged on Dec. 8 by the St. Diego coastal communities Cardiff, Encinitas and Leucadia. Taft's parade theme on Dec. 9 will be "Christmas Joy". Thanks for J.F.K. 1917-1963 a Memory LAW IN ACTION No easy case ever gets to the U. S. Supreme Court. Of course, if a foreign ambassador is suing or being sued in this country, the Court takes over from the start. This is true also when one state sues another as in the case of the Arizona water controversy. Here the court assigned a referee. He in turn reported his findings and gave recommendations to the Court. But in nearly all cases a lower court must first hear a case. Only if there is something doubtful about these lower court hearings, will the U. S. Supreme Court review it on appeal. Even then, the case must be of great importance; and quite often many similar cases arising throughout the country, must come up before the Court takes over. With nine men dealing with hard problems you can expect disagreement at times. The members of the minority of the Court in any one case disagree with the majority and sometimes among themselves. Each justice in fact has a right to explain why he "concurs" or "dissents". For the reasoning itself has great importance in future similar cases. Since Supreme Court cases are hard, some dissenter of bygone days may turn out to have seen the law more clearly than the majority of his time. Sometimes he may win over later Courts to his views. If he does, the Court is said to have "reversed" itself. The Court chang- Your State Senator Reports Murdy in Warning About 'Hate' Mail State Sen. John Murdy (R-Santa Ana) this week devoted his regular weekly newsletter to an attack on "fright peddlers" and "paid patriots." "And for those who doubt this problem really exists, I wish you could see some of the mail that we received at our office here in Orange County as well as Sacramento," wrote Murdy. Added the senator: "What's amazing to me is how these mailers flourish. Some people take them for gospel truth without questioning the source or the truth of what they publish. CAUGHT IN SWITCH The tragic death of President Kennedy, coming as it did on Friday afternoon, caught many of the hate-mongers with their swill already in the mail. If any of our readers are sufficiently in possession of themselves to refrain from tearing any of this material into pieces on receipt, we would appreciate its transmission to us dated... explain why he "concurs" or "dissents". For the reasoning itself has great importance in future similar cases. Since Supreme Court cases are hard, some dissenter of by-gone days may turn out to have seen the law more clearly than the majority of his time. Sometimes he may win over later Courts to his views. If he does, the Court is said to have "reversed" itself. The Court changed its mind in the school integration case in 1954. In such cases yesterday's dissent becomes today's law. Note: California lawyers offer this column so you may know about our laws. The tragic death of President Kennedy, coming as it did on Friday afternoon, caught many of the hate-mongers with their swill already in the mail. If any of our readers are sufficiently in possession of themselves to refrain from tearing any of this material into pieces we would appreciate its transmission to us, dated as to when received. We are in the process of finding a file cabinet for storing it, one which can be thrown out after we no longer need to keep the stuff. It is difficult enough for young boy to be raised in cally all-feminine surround and particularly so, if he father to fall back on. Such present situation confronts boy we shall call Arthur, one of the many names problems included in the case history files of Big Brother of Orange County. Arthur comes from a very usual home. He is the son of four children being reared their widowed mother. His sister is an exteremely remarkable person and has held the together in spite of the fact she must run her home for wheel chair. Fortunately, Arthur's left a sufficient amount of surance so the family could the home and for the child secure at least a high school education if the family come to live modestly. There is and understanding in this and respect on the part of children for the mother and other. The two oldest children, girls, 15 and 17, who contend to the family's support by sitting, rthur, 9, is the only and there is also an 11 year sister. Arthur is beginning to sent problems that frighten mother because, as she says, does not know anything boys. She has requested a Big brother for Arthur because concerned about Arthur reared in a home with... Mark Twain — Samuel L. Clemens — was a fighting Western newsman, long before he became America's best-loved humorist. A Riverside English professor doing research on a doctoral degree has unearthed a treasure trove of eight previously undiscovered works by Clemens, in which he lashes out at discrimination against the Negro, corruption in city hall and police station, and indiscriminate slander of the press. The items were discovered by Dr. Lawrence E. Mobley, LSC associate professor of English, in the Golden Era, a literary magazine published in San Francisco from 1852-90. Seven of the pieces, consisting of short stories, editorials, and articles, were originally published in the Territorial Enterprise, a Virginia City, Nev., newspaper for which Twain worked as a reporter between 1862-64. The one remaining item titled "Policemen's Presents," has no previous source listed other than the Golden Era. None of the eight pieces have been included in the so-called complete works of Mark Twain or in bibliographies of his works. The eight works will be reprinted for the first time in a 6,600-word article by Dr. Mobley enequality with the white man. While the Negro by force of habit still bows to the white man, he is proud to be allowed to march with the whites in the parade and shows his joy by his exhuberant countenance in Twain's account. "Grand Theatrical Barbecue," a 110-word satirical treatment of a local San Francisco quarrel in the form of a mock menu. "Our City Government," a 273-word article in which he charges the city government of San Francisco with corruption and attacks the newspapers because they did nothing to expose the corruption. "Mark Twain's Trial Trip," a 325-word description of a dinner and events that occurred in 1865 on an excursion by Mark Twain and numerous city and military officials to test the steam-ship Rescue in San Francisco Bay. "The New and Ghostly Crime of Gardner," a 448-word article in which Mark Twain reports a new crime that he calls Gardner sparked by the action of a man named Gardner who had charged an unnamed editor of a newspaper on Clay Street in San Francisco with buying forged stocks. The crime as Twain saw it was that Gardner had undermined the reputation of the press in general by not naming WARNING ATE' MAIL "What bothers me is the fact that many people will believe these fright peddlers instead of their own public or elected officials. Is this what patriotism has come to? Even more important, this type of activity, profiting on hate and fear, seriously damages attempts to constructively criticize and point out deficiencies in our governmental operations at home and abroad." Warning that legitimate complaints may be lost in the maze of crackpot charges, Sen. Murry wrote: "Look around your community. If you find this sickness, do something about it before it is too late. I say this with all sincerity. If we follow the twisted mind, so, too, will our nation become twisted and taintant." per for which Twain worked as a reporter between 1862-64. The one remaining item titled "Policemen's Presents," has no previous source listed other than the Golden Era. None of the eight pieces have been included in the so-called complete works of Mark Twain or in bibliographies of his works. The eight works will be reprinted for the first time in a 6,600-word article by Dr. Mobley entitled "Mark Twain and the Golden Era" to be published in the 1964 first quarter issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. The eight previously unlisted items were found in the following issues of the Era: one each in the July 23, 1865; November 12, 1865; and February 18, 1866 issues; two in the January 7, 1866 issue; and three in the November 19, 1865 issue. In addition to the eight items, Dr. Mobley discovered two pieces which were not listed previously in bibliographies of Twain's work, but were reprinted in a book titled Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent, by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson published in 1957. These two works are "The Sportative Aquatic Panorama," reprinted as a part of "Extraordinary Delicacy" on pp. 52-3; and "The Fate of Armand Leonidas Fritz Smythe," reprinted as a part of "Facetious" on pp. 22-3 in the book by Smith and Anderson. The eight previously unnoticed works of Mark Twain include: "Mark Twain on the Colored Man," a 534-word description of a Negro procession in an 1865 Fourth of July parade in San Francisco. Twain's account of the parade reveals the beginning of the Negro struggle to achieve social of Gardnery," a 448-word article in which Mark Twain reports a new crime that he calls Gardnery sparked by the action of a man named Gardner who had charged an unnamed editor of a newspaper on Clay Street in San Francisco with buying forged stocks. The crime as Twain saw it was that Gardner had undermined the reputation of the press in general by not naming the specific newsman involved, since there were two newspapers on Clay Street at the time, The Bulletin and The Flag. "The Coming of Grant to California," a 250-word account of how a naive San Francisco reporter is told by three army privates that Grant is coming to California. The action occurs in a San Francisco market where the soldiers give the reporter their "facts" while they are pilfering the store. They leave the guillible reporter with a false story and a big bill to pay. "Policemen's Presents," a 221-word article in which Mark Twain raps the practice of giving policemen presents, which he says is a form of bribery rather genuine appreciation for the services of the police. "Dogberry's First Lecture Before the Dashways," a 91-word report of the favorable acceptance of a speech given by Dogberry, the open name for Prentice Mulford, popular humorous writer in early California and correspondent for the Golden Era from 1865-66, before a group called the Dashways. Dr. Mobley's discovery of the Mark Twain items was a byproduct of his research for his doctor's dissertation, which was a study of the Golden Era's contribution to California literature. Dr. Mobley received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Michigan State University in 1961. 'Arthur' Has to Learn How to Be a Real Boy It is difficult enough for a young boy to be raised in practically all-feminine surroundings, and particularly so, if he has no father to fall back on. Such is the present situation confronting a boy we shall call Arthur, who is one of the many names (and problems) included in the current case history files of Big Brothers of Orange County. Arthur comes from a very unusual home. He is the youngest of four children being reared by their widowed mother. His mother is an exteremely remarkable person and has held the family together in spite of the fact that she must run her home from a wheel chair. Fortunately, Arthur's father left a sufficient amount of insurance so the family could keep the home and for the children to secure at least a high school education if the family continued live modestly. There is love and understanding in this family and respect on the part of the children for the mother and each other. The two oldest children are girls, 15 and 17, who contribute to the family's support by baby-sitting; rthur, 9, is the only boy and there is also an 11 year old sister. Arthur is beginning to prevent problems that frighten the brother because, as she says, she does not know anything about boys. She has requested a Big Brother for Arthur because she is concerned about Arthur being raised in a home with entirely feminine surroundings. Arthur apparently likes to cook and does not mind housework but does not play much outdoors. His older sisters put a lot of pressure on him to stay clean and to not get his hands dirty. Although Arthur has woodworking tools which belonged to his father and likes to use them in working around the garage, he has succumbed to his sisters' wishes not to make a mess. Arthur's teacher described him as being pretty much alone at school with more of a tendency to play with the girls rather than the boys. Upon originally meeting the Big Brothers' social workers, Arthur's immediate response to having a Big Brother was a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm. Arthur has no self-esteem and considers himself a rather useless person. The right Big Brother for Arthur would experience a life time of satisfaction in a very short period of time while teaching Arthur how to be a boy. Big Brothers of Orange County is looking for the right man to serve as Arthur's Big Brother, because here, it will take so little to accomplish so much. The man who is willing to give this gift of a few hours a week to a boy can get information about being a Big Brother by calling Big Brothers of Orange County at KI 7-7788 or by writing to them at 515 North Main Street, Santa Ana. 'No man ever stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.'