anaheim-gazette 1964-02-19

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Opinions Virgil Pinkley, Editor & Publisher 4—The Anaheim Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Stand By for Red Cross Month: Coming in March March, by Presidential Proclamation, is Red Cross month. During this time Americans will be asked again to lend their support to this unique international organization which has done so much to alleviate human suffering throughout the world since its organization in 1863. The great strength of the Red Cross is in its national societies, organized in some 90 countries throughout the world with a total membership of more than 157 million people. The League of Red Cross Societies with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, represents the national organizations and coordinates mutual efforts for disaster relief, development of programs, and staff training. When a nation is stricken by flood, earthquake, storm, famine or some other form of catastrophe and needs outside help, it may appeal to the League, which then contacts the societies specifying the type of assistance necessary. Within hours, help is on the way, including food, medicines, clothing, and experienced relief personnel. Finally, the International Committee of the Red Cross can move where no others can. For it is recognized by most states as the neutral channel for negotiations between belligerents, and as a means by which organized relief can cross battle lines or enter an area of conflict, moving between countries to points of conflict and suffering. The committee's representatives act as humanity's sentries. In its 83rd year, the American Red Cross stands ready to help when the call comes, whether from one person or a million. It deserves the respect and support of all. Stop Unworkable Rules Represents the national organizations and coordinates mutual efforts for disaster relief, development of programs, and staff training. When a nation is stricken by flood, earthquake, storm, famine or some other form of catastrophe and needs outside help, it may appeal to the committee's representatives act as humanity's sentries. In its 83rd year, the American Red Cross stands ready to help when the call comes, whether from one person or a million. It deserves the respect and support of all. Stop Unworkable Rules Years after the demise of wood burning, coal burning and oil burning steam locomotives, the railroads of the United States are still having to hire thousands of firemen on diesel engines who, according to numerous fact finding reports, are no longer needed. Presidential commissions and courts have all upheld the right of the railroads to eliminate this useless expense. But the railroads are still being drained of over half a billion dollars a year, which the public must pay in rates, for work not performed. A Federal judge has just overruled a challenge by four operating union brotherhoods that the last arbitration panel went beyond its authority in authorizing the gradual elimination of unneeded firemen, under the law passed by Congress last summer to head off a nationwide strike. The decision of the panel was to be binding on the railroads and the unions for a two-year period and take effect January 25. Now an appeal to the Supreme Court is proposed which can further delay a settlement. While the railroads and the unions are seeking to reach an agreement on other issues in the dispute, a nationwide strike is again threatened by February 24. The unions would be well advised to not try to force unworkable demands on any industry because the patience of the public, the last arbiter, is being badly strained. STATE SENATOR'S COUNTY REPORT By JOHN A. MURDY Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post, fiscal watchdog for the legislature, has recommended a $16.6 million dollar reduction in the budget for fiscal year 1964-65. He also said there was room for review of budget items totaling $114 million dollars "from which additional reductions should be possible." The Irvine Campus of the University of California in Orange County was mentioned in Post's recommendation to the legislature that certain items be reviewed. He is concerned about costs to construct utilities and make site improvements ($3,-305,300), and another $390,000 item to construct and equip wherever possible. As of November 30, 1963, the state's bonded indebtedness totaled $2,756,284,000. But State bond obligations, sold and unsold, now total $5,284,481,000. You can readily see why the legislature is looking around for ways to find new revenue to meet the demands of increased state services, education, and rising costs. The total bond debt in California per capita has risen since 1956 from $90.55 to $153.02 in 1963. The service charges for these bonds is even more staggering. In 1956, the annual service charge or cost to the state was TRIBESMEN in a remote part of the Sudan hear better than people living in New York, Dusseldorf, Germany, or Cairo, Egypt, according to the Archives of Otolaryngology, a journal reporting on a study of ear, nose, larynx and chest. The isolated tribe of Mabaans, living in a relatively noise-free environment, have a striking superiority to city dwellers in hearing and other physical aspects, the report says. In the 70-to-79 age group, for example, $3 per cent of the Mabaans heard 12,000 cycles, whereas only 10 per cent of urbanites could. Mabaans do not die until they slowly wear out completely, the report said, whereas persons in modern civilizations die before the wearing-out process can be completed. SURGICAL STAPLER taling $114 million dollars "from which additional reductions should be possible." The Irvine Campus of the University of California in Orange County was mentioned in Post's recommendation to the legislature that certain items be reviewed. He is concerned about costs to construct utilities and make site improvements ($3,-305,300), and another $390,000 item to construct and equip a corporation yard. Post said $2.4 million has already been approved for site development and utility installations. We are currently reviewing the budget item by item. The Senate Finance Committee has broken up into four subcommittees, one of which I preside over as chairman. The new budget bill totals $3,662,436,261, including expenditures from bond funds totaling $398,837,562. This is 5 per cent higher than the budget for this fiscal year. Legislative Analyst Post estimates revenue to the state will total $3,129,916,586, up 3 per cent over this year. He said financing the proposed budget depends on a large surplus this year, if there is one, and a rise in revenue as a result of our booming economy. There has been an acceleration in revenue to the state due to tax reforms approved in 1963. But Post warns this acceleration in tax funds is declining rapidly and will be gone by the time fiscal year 1964-65 gets here July 1. "Yet," Post said, "the new expenditure program is geared to this higher level." It is for this reason that Post is recommending prudent reductions in the budget bill ways to find new revenue to meet the demands of increased state services, education, and rising costs. The total bond debt in California per capita has risen since 1956 from $90.55 to $153.02 in 1963. The service charges for these bonds is even more staggering. In 1956, the annual service charge or cost to the state was just over $11 million dollars. This year it will cost just under $74 million. Much of it goes for school bond funds. Before we leave this subject, the state was faced with another fiscal problem this month after the State Supreme Court ruled recently that a state law holding certain relatives financially responsible for state treatment of mental patients is unconstitutional. The state has asked for a rehearing. The ruling came after review of a case in which the State Department of Mental Hygiene attempted to recover cost of hospitalization from the estate of the patient's deceased daughter. Health and Welfare Agency Administrator Winslow Christian said he will ask that it be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court if the state court refuses a rehearing. He indicates the annual cost to the state, if claims can no longer be recovered from children for parent's care or from parents for care of adult children, will be about $2.5 million. It could cost three times as much but state officials are hoping the court ruling does not include the assumption that spouses, as well as parents of minor children, will still be responsible for costs. A SURGICAL STAPLER powered by batteries is being developed at the University of Chicago. Stapling is faster and simpler than suturing, and staples made of metal such as tantalum cause less reaction in body tissue than catgut, cotton or silk. Goal of the program is development of a stapler that can be held by the surgeon in one hand and can be used on a variety of tissues... RUBBER ROADS are being tested in Akron, Ohio. The special paving mixture contains silica sand aggregate and a rubber asphalt cement binder. WHAT will you do about 593 million times during your life, but think about it hardly at all? Breathe. Each breath, say medical equipment specialists of National Cylinder Gas, Chicago, ventilates your lungs, transferring oxygen from the air to your blood stream which carries it to cells throughout your body. Hospitals and doctors are placing greater emphasis than ever before on inhalation therapy since just a single failure in the breathing sequence described above causes death... THE BICENTENNIAL ARCH in St. Louis will be the nation's tallest monument -630 feet - when completed this year. The arch will be built almost entirely of steel and sheathed in gleaming stainless. There will be an observation platform on top. LOOKS LIKE YOU EITHER LET OUT THE PANTS OR REDUCE L.B.J. CUSTOM TAILOR HIGH PROFIT MARGIN WAGES BUSINESSES WITH SHARP PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE DETROIT NEWS BERMUDELL 1964 READING MATTER By Ralph & Erwin Pearlman Question: My daughter, in first step to help himself — by walking through the door of a Comment: Example is the best teacher. Read material READING MATTER By Ralph & Erwin Pearlman Question: My daughter, in seventh grade, spends much time on her homework, yet gets poor marks. How can she be helped? —Mrs. O.A. Comment: Her problem may be caused by an inability to read well enough to understand the material in her textbooks. The combination of inadequate reading vocabulary and lack of comprehension represents the classic ingredients for much time spent on homework with little results. This girl needs training in developmental reading so that she may begin to understand what she reads. Coupled with this is a need to learn how to organize her study materials properly so that when she undertakes the assigned homework she knows how to do it. Question: My husband is side-stepping a promotion on his job because of a life-long difficulty with reading. Can he be helped? —Mrs. K.H. Comment: He must take the first step to help himself — by walking through the door of a good reading clinic and discussing his problem with a trained expert. No amount of coaxing or cajoling on your part will do the trick. He may even resent what he believes is your interference. We have found that when an adult makes up his mind on his own, either with or without consultation, he'll learn to read. Also, most adults move faster than children in the art of learning to read. A grown person knows how important reading is in today's world of employment. The problem merits calm discussion and consideration by the two of you, but be sure the decision to seek help is his alone. Otherwise, his chances of succeeding are questionable. Question: We hear so much about how reading is a chore and bore for many children. What can we do now with our three-year-old which will encourage her to read more when she's older? —Mrs. V.Q. Comment: Example is the best teacher. Read material for your little girl which she understands. Take her to the public library. Have books in your own home. Read them — and let her see you reading. This way you start developing your child's interest in books early. Buy books for your child her very own. Teach her to spect a book as a wonderful friend, not to mistreat it. I sure the books you choose at her level of understanding and, later, her reading ability. Too often an over-eager patient will bring home books, even picture stories, far more advanced than the child can fathom. This is the beginning, many cases, for a youngster later disinterest in reading. The Pearlmans invite you questions about reading problems. Send them to READING MATTERS, 429 So. Western Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90000. For a personal reply, please enclose self-addressed stamp envelope. quotable Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. — James M. Barrie Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. — Lord Thomas Dewar The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. — Maria Edgeworth To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful Things To See In Southland Indio's annual Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival and the Southern California Boat Show in Los Angeles top the list of things to see in the Southland this week. Here is the schedule of some of the outstanding activities in the area as compiled by the Automobile Club of Southern California. ARCADIA: Santa Anita's annual winter racing meet will be held through March 10. CLAREMONT: "Las Canacas" a production featuring Feb. 22. INDIO: The Riverside County Fair runs through February 23. Featured during the festival will be camel and ostrich race daily at 3 p.m. and an Arabian Nights Pageant each evening. Exhibits of agriculture and livestock from the county will also be displayed. LOS ANGELES: The Southern California Boat Show will be held in Pan Pacific Auditorium starting Friday through Echoburn. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. — Lord Thomas Dewar The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. — Maria Edgeworth To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendall Holmes HIS GREATNESS WILL NEVER DIE FEBRUARY 22 SIDEBAR By Bob Perlman Managing Editor From all sides the changes keep coming at us. The telephone company wants to give us multiple telephone directories. The city council is considering renaming a street which has been on the map one way since 1872. And protests ranging from roar to whimper are heard throughout the county. This is nothing new for Southern California. I worked in the East San Gabriel Valley on two separate occasions during recent years, once in 1956, the next time in 1961. When I arrived the first time, the residents were just getting used to having exchanges on their telephones. Where previously they had just picked up the phone and dialed "8-1234" they had to get used to dialing "EDgewood 8-1234." Five years later, they found they had to forget all they had learned and go back to straight numbers again, but with five more digits to handle. Going back not too much farther, I remember when the city and much of the county of Los Angeles had just one phone book smaller than the combined white and yellow directory Orange County now uses, the one the phone company wishes to split five ways. Now the L.A. Extended Area has five phone books. You can go back in memory to a lot of other days and other ways, but that's the only way you can go back — in memory. This doesn't mean that change is always good, or even that all change is inevitable. The crucial thing is to view each proposed change with the dropouts. There is no question but that one of our most serious domestic problems is how to keep our young men and women in school long enough for them to be fitted for keeping up vocationally with our galloping technological progress. But how much basic rethinking is being done, I wonder, on the underlying problem. This, as I see it is the contradiction between the ever-growing gap between the intelligence needed to perform the "new" jobs our technological revolution is producing and the average intelligence of our population. Sure, it doesn't take any more brains to dig a ditch today than it did when my grandfather was not quite supporting his family in this useful, if undistinguished occupation. But when a new technological breakthrough is made, creating a multitude of new jobs, these new jobs are not for ditchdiggers. More likely, almost a majority of the new jobs call for some sort of college degree and the rest demand at least a year or two of technical training beyond the high school level. Now if my late lamented Grandpa had been caught young enough and forced to stay in MENT: Example is the teacher. Read material to little girl which she unands. Take her to the pub-rary. Have books in your home. Read them — and see you reading. That you start developing your interest in books early, books for your child as very own. Teach her to rea book as a wonderful not to mistreat it. Be the books you chose are level of understanding later, her reading ability, often an over-eager pariill bring home books, even stories, far more ad-d than the child can fath-This is the beginning, in cases, for a youngster's disinterest in reading. Pearlmans invite your sons about reading prob-Send them to READING EERS, 429 So. Western Los Angeles, Calif. 90005. a personal reply, please self-addressed, stamped pe. See land IO: The Riverside Coun-ur and National Date Fest runs through February featured during the festival camel and ostrich races at 3 p.m. and an Arabian Pageant each evening of agriculture and live-from the county will also played. ANGELES: The Southernonia Boat Show will be Pan Pacific Auditorium Friday through Feb. 31. ONEWALK IN ACTION CAR-OWNER'S LIABILITY FOR ANOTHER'S USE Pete Johnson was in charge of the buses and other school vehicles for the school district. He wasn't supposed to use them except on school business. One day Johnson planned to go hunting, but his car broke down. He thought he could use the school jeep without anyone's knowing it. Driving it without due care, Pete ran one the phone company wishes to split five ways. Now the L.A. Extended Area has five phone books. You can go back in memory to a lot of other days and other ways, but that's the only way you can go back — in memory. This doesn't mean that change is always good, or even that all change is inevitable. The crucial thing is to view each proposed change with the mind as well as the heart — to consider necessity as well as convenience. When a phone book becomes so large that it's hard to hold and dangerous to drop, then it's time to start thinking about changing its size. Maybe the five-way split proposed by the phone company is not the best way, but you have to start with the assumption that a business firm knows best how to run its own business. Maybe it will be a terrible thing to rename Los Angeles Street. I must confess, however, that the first half-dozen times I came to Anaheim the confusion produced by the freeway off-ramp situation was considerable. Also, I think it reasonable that when a town has both a downtown and a street named for it, the street should lead to the downtown. So maybe in these two respects the changes are in order. At least I think so. Let's look at the others as they come. Both Orange County and UCLA are starting new programs dealing with high school Such permission need not be given in so many words. The court might infer it from the fact that Johnson had free access to the cars, or had used them before without express permission—but still with the school people's knowledge. Such things would imply permission, hence liability. Lack of any permission where there is no tie between user and owner, as when a thief takes your car, could well mean no owner-liability. Courts often find implied permission among family members. ANGELES: The Southern California Boat Show will be held Pan Pacific Auditorium Friday through Feb. 23. Now will feature exhibits of models of inboard and hard boats, motors and accesories. Masterworks of Mexican art covering over 3-4 years and containing over 10 projects. For the last 2 years exhibition has toured most major capitals of Europe. Exhibit of Southern Calif prints and drawings from selection of Robert B. Honwill be featured at the Angeles County Museum February. Chamber is provided each Sunday in the Museum. Exhibit of winning advertisement editorial art will be fea on the California Museum once and Industry in Ex Park through March 1. ONA: Arabian Horse will be held at 2 and 3:30 every Sunday at the Kellet of Cal Poly. DENA: "Member of the g", starring Ethel Waill be featured at the Pas-Playhouse through March BARBARA: Polo are scheduled for 2:30 every Sunday at the Santa Polo Club. ANAHEIM GAZETTE TELEPHONE: PR 2-1800 Published Thursday of each week at 421 East Cerritos Ave. 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.