anaheim-gazette 1964-02-13

Anaheim Public Library Anaheim, Calif. COMMUNITY NEWS FOR YOUR OWN COMMUNITY Ana ESTABLISHED SINC Volume 91 No. 77 25¢ Per M MAGNOLIA'S THREE TRU Big Battle Looming Big Battle Looming On Annex Renewal of the battle over the "Gaza strip" annexation is expected at Anaheim City Hall, as a result of a new rush of inquiries from residents in the area. Now there is a difference, according to City Manager Keith Murdoch. The changes have been economic, the city manager explained. The area is served by the county library, a newly formed special fire protection district and receiving water from the city of Anaheim. Homeowners there pay more for these three services than comparable homes do in the city. For the average home in the district, in fact, the additional charges — non-residents pay more for water than city dwellers — would be more than the council should utilize powers of certain domain to assemble land for the project. City taxes the homeowner is not paying; at present. It is conceivable, Murdoch added, that within a few years, if the area is annexed and the residents are hooked up to the city's electric power system, the total saving on all four services would be more than the new tax bill. City officials are not going to take a chance on another 2-1 defeat such as was suffered the last time the annexation was on the ballot however, Murdoch stressed. At least 60 per cent of the district's voters must sign annexation petitions before the city will consider holding an election. The 476-acre fingerlike extension of county territory lies between Brookhurst and Gilbert streets, south of Lincoln. It has an estimated population of 6,000. Twice before this community has rejected annexation to the city of Anaheim, which surrounds it on three sides, but Urban Renewal – Again (See Sidebar Column, Page 4) Urban renewal for Anaheim became a live issue again this week as Mayor Rex Coons called for a meeting of the city council as an urban renewal commission at 10 a.m. Feb. 25 New Library ‘Preview’ Set For Today (See Photos, Page 3) Anaheim; city officials; civic leaders and the press will join Again (See Sidebar Column, Page 4) Urban renewal for Anaheim became a live issue again this week as Mayor Rex Coons called for a meeting of the city council as an urban renewal commission at 10 a.m. Feb. 25 in the city hall council chamber. Discussions on the project had been in abeyance for two months while the councilmen wrestled with monorail, Disneyland-area high rise and convention hall issues. A special citizens committee's report on the subject is under study by the council, along with an advisory report by City Attorney Joe Geisler on legal aspects of setting up an urban renewal commission. At stake is the future of "old Anaheim", the downtown district and its adjacent residential areas. The committee's report has called for comprehensive redevelopment of much of this area into high-rise apartment and office use and has called for retention of planner Victor Gruen to prepare a planning study. The committee also recommended the city council set up an independent urban renewal commission to pursue the project. On receiving the report late last year, councilmen indicated strong reservations on setting up the commission — they could conduct such a project while continuing to do double duty as a council and commission — and asked Geisler for his report, which is now complete. The other key question, as stated when the committee report came in, is whether or not New Library ‘Preview’ Set For Today (See Photos, Page 3) Anaheim city officials, civic leaders and the press will join in an invitational pre-dedication 'preview' tour this afternoon at the city’s new $1.1 million library at Broadway and Harbor Boulevard. Formal dedication ceremony monies have been set for 2 p.m., Feb. 23, climaxing two years of planning and construction, which included a lengthy hassle between the city and the builder over delays in completion of the structure. The massive building contains 67,000 square feet of floor space and is designed to house 300,000 books. While many shelves are still bare, new books are being added to the system at the rate of about 2,500 per month. Library Director William J. Griffith heads the library's staff of 50, 44 of whom work at the central library. Special features of the new building include basement meeting rooms, an elaborate department of technical services, and an IBM installation for keeping track of purchases, withdrawals and returns. New Contract Autonetics Division of North American Aviation, Inc., has been awarded an additional $480,000 contract by the United States Air Force. The contract is for production of guidance and control systems for the Minute Man missile, with the work to be done in Anaheim. The greatest rate of population growth recorded by the area contained within a Congressional District between census periods of 1950 and 1970 was credited by the reau of the Budget to California's 34th Congressional tract, with Anaheim as its center. The district embraces most of the western portion Orange County and is represented by Congressman Richard T. Hanna. In a statistical abstract invited to the Congress, the reau of the Budget revealed that the area now includes showed a growth rate of 3 percent for the 10 year period. Second highest in the nation was New York's second district represented by James Grose Jr. of Suffolk County with a growth rate of 228.5 percent. Third highest and second California, the figures show was the 22nd District of California, embracing the San Diego Valley and represented by James Corman. The national average population growth was 18.5 per cent and the state average 48.5 per cent. The figures showed. ANAHEIM PUBLIC LIBRARY naheim Gazette PUBLISHED SINCE 1870 • HOME CITY PAPER OF FABULOUS DISNEY 77 25¢ Per Month Anaheim, California, Thursday, Feb. 13, 1964 10 Pages Pho A'S PETITIONS TRUSTEES FACE PUBLIC HEARING — Benjamin Franklin Davis, (second from left of 20381 Amapola, Orange, takes stand during hearing Pacific Telephone Co.’s application to split the Orange County Phone book into five volumes. Davis, representing himself and the Orange County Chapter of the California Employment Agencies, spoke out against the separation as a “great convenience to my business and users of my business.” PROTESTS ABOUND Plan To Split Phone Book Opposed At Hearings hearings on Pacific Telephone’s application to split the Orange County phone book into volumes in Santa Ana this week brought strong opposition to the plan. A parade of witnesses appeared before Public Utilities Commission examiners to protest split. Under Pacific Telephone’s proposal, the new volumes would include Fullerton - Brea - Plainia; Anaheim - Buena Park - Den Grove; Santa Ana -ANGE; Newport Beach-Costa Rica; and San Juan Capistrano - Clemente. Opposition from businessmen at the added expense for citywide advertising coverage over Yellow Pages under the volume. Businessman Robert Wilson, a Mesa vice mayor, said the phone company created its own problems by selling Yellow Page space too zealously. He suggested dividing the book into two separate volumes — one for alphabetical listings and one for Yellow Pages. In his case, Wilson said, rates would increase 378 per cent for the same amount of advertising. Dr. Hugh Plumb, president of the Orange County Medical Association, said many doctors have patients outside their immediate areas, and a single directory is important to them. Telephone company representatives said a poll of local telephone users determined that 82 per cent were in favor of the split. Six out of 10 busi-nessmen wanted it, they said. Yellow Page advert rates will remain the same those who want coverage in the local area. But wide advertising would cost times as much. PUC Examiner Leonard terson said the PUC will make a decision in a few weeks. Also Assails School Chief Geier’s Equal Time Bid to FCC Robert Geier, 34th Congressional District Republican candidate, has appealed to the Federal Communications Commission for a decision on his request for equal time on the Columbia Broadcasting System’s station KNXT. The Republican candidate has also charged County Superintendent of Schools Frank Grunenfelder with inviting Rep. Richard T. Harne, whose program naming the House mittee on Un-American ties. Geier’s request for time to answer what he labeled a “liberally slanted” episode of “the Defenders” on Jan. 18 has already been turned down by station officials. Geier, an Orange publicist, said Knxt attorney William Whitsell maintained to pro- Robert Geier, 34th Congressional District Republican candidate, has appealed to the Federal Communications Commission for a decision on his request for equal time on the Columbia Broadcasting System's station KNXT. The Republican candidate has also charged County Superintendent of Schools Frank Grunenfelder with inviting Rep. Richard T. Hanna, whom Geier seeks to oppose next November, to a conference on educational TV and failing to invite the county's other congressman, Republican Rep. James B. Utt. This, Geier charged in a letter to Grunenfelder, constituted "using (Grunenfelder's) public office in promoting Hanna." Rep. Utt has been quoted as saying he was not bothered by not being invited and could not have attended anyway. Geier's request for time to answer what he labeled a "liberally slanted" episode of "the Defenders" on Jan. 18 has already been turned down by station officials. Geier, an Orange publicist, saidKNXT attorney William Whitsell maintained te program did not name or attack any real person, group of persons, organization or congressional committee. Geier told the FCC in a written request for equal time he feels a program doesn't have to name a person or committee to establish identity if it uses enough descriptive phrases which are unique to that person or committee. Geier said he did recall the ANAHEIM at a Glance City councilmen, hit by a rash of protests, have deferred renaming Los Angeles Street to Anaheim Boulevard. The matter comes up again at the city council meeting Feb. 25. Plans for the city's $3.9 million, 900 million gallon reservoir are near completion, and bids will probably be sought on the project in early May. The earth rolled dam will be located in Walnut Canyon 5½ miles east of Olive. HOTEL PLANS STILL UNSURE Promoters of the Sheraton Anaheim hotel are still "sweating out" revisions of their plans as a result of city council action last week putting a 14-story height limit on the structure. "It is unlikely there will be any decision made this week," hotel group spokesman Robert Ellis told The Gazette. "They are going to have to come up with some different patterns of land use to compensate for the reduction in maximum height." program naming the House committee on Un-American ties. Ralph For City Ralph B. Clark, a station owner, has announced his candidacy for the Anaheim City Council. Upon announcing his candidacy for the April 14 election Clark, who operates a station at La Palma and Nolia, stated that his choice to run was partly motivated by the recent statement by Rector L. Coons not to seek another term. "In my many appearances before the City Council half of the service station operators of Anaheim proved to me that he truly represented the local business and property owners," said Rex's absence felt in this city as an irrelevant loss." He added that he felt one that stood for Coons'ciples should fill his vacancy. "However," he explained, don't mean to imply that begin to fill Rex's share completely, but I can you, the voters, that I am in his philosophy and my utmost to representness and the Anaheim in Mayor Coons' fine trait. Clark is best known in heim as the chairman of Service Station Dealers and Kiwanian. He has owned and owned his own service station in heim since 1959 and is ccu president of the Kivai Breakfast Club of Anabo. WHEN YOU LOOK INSIDE EDITORIALS, FEATURES Page 4 WOMEN'S NEWS Pages 6, 7 SPORTS Page 10 NS GET OK; ACE RECALL County School Chief Expects Vote April 21 Magnolia School District voters go to the polls—probably April 21—for their third recall election in as many years. Targets for the recall are the board chairman and two trustees who came under fire most Magnolia School District voters go to the polls — probably April 21—for their third recall election in as many years. Targets for the recall are the board chairman and two trustees who came under fire most recently when seven out of the district's eight principals resigned in protest against the district's Supt. Charles Wilson. An eighth principal is leaving for what he described as a better opportunity. Key issue dividing the board and the community, as well as the central factor in the feud between Wilson and his principals, is district adoption of the controversial American Institute of Reading, all-phonics program of reading instruction. Recall backers submitted more than 2,500 valid signatures of registered voters on their petitions, which were accepted as sufficient Tuesday. Only 2,081 signatures were required from the 10,425 registered voters in the district. The three trustees under attack are Chairman James A. Allen, Harry Milligan and Dr. Charles Downs. All three voted to fire the previous superintendent, Kenneth Nielsen and hire Wilson, the action which provoked the previous recall attempt — which failed by 50 votes. Dr. Downs came into office in the 1961 recall, in which the voters put Joel Dvorman out of office. Final determination of the election date will be made Thursday, County School Supt. Frank Grunenfelder said, and filing for candidates then will be open. Educator Morton Levi explains American Institute of Reading phonics at Dr. Jonas Salk School at 8 p.m. today. Phonics, which is the bone of contention in the Magnolia School District, has been the peg upon which a group in the district has begun the third recall movement in the past four years, McKay explained. Levi, a junior college teacher in Los Angeles, is the chairman of Crusade for Literacy, and has been invited by the Magnolia Parents for Phonics to explain phonics and how it has been used to teach illiterates and school drop-outs to read. "Invitations to Mr. Levi's talk have been extended to the Magnolia Board of Trustee members, and to the committee recommending the recall because of the phonics program which has been instituted in the Magnolia School District," said Don McKay chairman of the parents phonics committee. "The meeting is open to the public, and especially to parents with children in the lower grades, and who are interested in the well being of their children," he added. A fiery speaker in the fight to improve reading ability and eliminate illiteracy, Mr. Levi has stated that the tool that needs to be used is phonics, and reading is not the attaining of an age, but a skill. The Magnolia Parents for Phonics is a group founded in the Magnolia district to enlighten all sides to the value of the phonics program. Ralph B. Clark To Run For City Council Seat Ralph B. Clark, a service station owner, has announced his candidacy for the Anaheim City Council. Upon announcing his candidacy for the April 14 elections, Clark, who operates a service station at La Palma and Magolia, stated that his decision to run was partly motivated by the recent statement by Mayorector L. Coons not to seek another term. "In my many appearances before the City Council in behalf of the service station operators of Anaheim Coons proved to me that he truly represented the local businessmen and property owners," Clark said. "Rex's absence will be felt in this city as an irreplaceable loss." He added that he felt someone that stood for Coons' principles should fill his vacancy. However," he explained, "I don't mean to imply that I can begin to fill Rex's shoes or completely, but I can assure you, the voters, that I believe in his philosophy and will do my utmost to represent business and the Anaheim citizen on Mayor Coons' fine tradition." Clark is best known in Anaheim as the chairman of the Service Station Dealers Assn. Kiwianian He has owned and operated his own service station in Anaheim since 1959 and is currently president of the Kiwanians Breakfast Club of Anaheim. He is past president of the Southern California Service Station Association, past president of the International Service Station Association, past treasurer of the California Federation of Service Stations and a past director of the Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. His interest in sports and youth has continued through today as testified by his sponsorship of the Larks in the Northwest Anaheim Little League. He is married, recently celebrating a wedding anniversary, and has three children, Ralph Jr., a senior at Servite, Pamela, a sophomore at Cornelea Connolly High School in Anaheim and Daniel, a fourth grader at St. Colomban's. In summing up his feelings Clark said, "I feel that I have something to offer Anaheim and I pledge to you, the people of Anaheim, that I will represent the small businessman, industry and the Anaheim taxpayer always to their best interests." The Citizens Committee to Elect John S. Wright to Anaheim City Council today announced the appointment of Anaheim attorney Arthur W. Gray as campaign chairman. Gray, 35, a member of the Anaheim Library Commission and a director of the Anaheim-Western Communities United Fund, undertook direction of a citywide volunteer committee which is working to Elect John S. Wright in the April 14th municipal election. In accepting the appointment, Gray noted that he first met Wright when they worked together as members of the citizens bond issue committee for the City of Anaheim. Wright served as chairman of the finance and legal sub-committee and Gray as chairman of the public buildings sub-committee. Other candidates announced thus far are Wayne B. Reedstrum, 517 Falcon Ave., Lloyd E. Mount, 1709 W. Colonial Ave., Walton F. Tate, 1636 W. Buena Vista, Arthur M. Cossid, 1312 W. Lincoln Ave., and incumbent Councilman Odra Chandler.