anaheim-gazette 1964-04-16

EDITORIALS--OPINIONS Virgil Pinkley, Editor & Publisher 4—The Gazette Thursday, April 16, 1964 Public Schools Week April 20-25 April 20-24 is Public Schools Week in California—an event observed with special programs in all local schools. This is the time each year when the school makes a special effort to tell its story to parents and the public in general. It is also the best time for the public to find out what is happening in the classroom. Revolutionary changes are now under way. Now is a good time to find out first-hand if there is real basis for criticism leveled at the schools in recent years. Visitors can observe and ask questions. And they can reach conclusions based on facts. First initiated and sponsored by the Grand Masonic Lodge of California in 1920 to call attention to the needs of schools following World War I, Public Schools Week has developed into a major event on the California school calendar. It is ironic that the issues listed by the Masons in 1920 are almost identical to those of today—shortage of good teachers, overcrowded classrooms—and even Federal aid to education! Certainly, because of the growing importance of education in a society both plagued and blessed by rapidly-expanding automation and because of attacks by extremists, this year's Public Schools Week deserves a special effort on the part of the schools and the public to know each other better. Theme is "The Public School—America's Future." Visit your schools. See for yourself the problems facing teachers and the schools. And see for yourself how the program is being improved. Law In Action TRESPASSERS The law "bounds every man's land" but it sometimes over- to send the trespasser packing, long before the five years are up. A "trespasser" who uses derground. In any event, by adverse use he may acquire a right over a period of time, that he lacked at the start. If some- Law In Action TRESPASSERS The law "bounds every man's land" but it sometimes overlooks slight encroachments. Where a building barely overhangs another's land, a court may just give the land-owner damages and not make the owner move his house. But if the encroachment is large, the court will then make the trespasser move the building or otherwise do away with the overhang. The law holds a trespasser to blame for any harm he does although he did not mean to do it. Trespass may consist in walking on another's place to hunt birds, to string overhanging wires, to pile dirt, or to flood the land. The landowner may well sue for trespass for slight damage, or what is more common, to stop the trespasser from gaining a permanent right through habitual utilization to use or even keep the land. Suppose you improve another man's land, say you build a house on his grounds by mistake. The law still calls you a trespasser and you lose your improvement to the real owner. But not if an owner stands by and lets you improve his land, knowing full well you are mistaken. Then as a "good Faith" trespasser, you may get paid for your mistaken work. Sometimes "adverse possession" applies: In certain circumstances, the trespasser may get the land if he holds it "adversely" to the true owner, and pays taxes on it for five years. This is hard to do these days, but it still happens every so often. As a rule, the true owner, learning about this occupancy, will get a court order to send the trespasser packing, long before the five years are up. A "trespasser" who uses some of your land for five years "adversely" to you, may be able to get an "easement" to keep on doing what he has been doing. He may win a right of way, a right to hang wire overhead, or to put a pipe underground. In any event, by adverse use he may acquire a right over a period of time that he lacked at the start. If something like this seems to be happening on your property, why not check it out with your lawyer before it is too late. Note: California lawyers offer this column so you may know about our laws. Men in Service MICHAEL ULRICH, dent technician second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Ulrich of 206 East Alberta St., returned to Norfolk, Va., aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Independence completing a tour of duty with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. MICHAEL T. MILLER, boilerman third class, USN, son of Mrs. Bernice I. Miller of 1116 West Broadway, is serving aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Hoel operating in the Far East as a unit of the Seventh Fleet. RONALD C. VOLTZ JR., radioman seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Voltz of 1137 Paradise St. is serving aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Hoel operating in the Far East as a unit of the Seventh Fleet. MICHAEL A. PORTER, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Porter of 1262 East Glenwood Ave., recently completed two weeks active duty training aboard the destroyer USS Shields, operating out of San Diego. BRUCE G. BAILEY, quarter master second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey of 1940 East Sycamore St., is participating aboard the destroyer USS Uhlmann in a coordinated U.S.Nationalist Chinese amphibious exercise called "Operation Backpack" being conducted off the coast of Taiwan. PVT. WILLIAM C. LEUTBECKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Leutbecher, 2788 Lizbeth Ave., completed a military pay course at the Eighth U.S.Amry Adjutant General School in Seoul, Korea. ARMY SPECIALIST FOURTH RICHARD KASPER, son of Mrs Ann Brown, 8842 Brookhurst, is serving with Battery A of the 83d Artillery's 1st Howitzer Battalion in Germany. The 22-year-old soldier was graduated from Anaheim High School in 1961 and attended Kansas State College, Manhattan. MARINE CAPTAIN ROBERT H. NELSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo F. Nelson of 300 W.Katella Ave., participated in a In certain circumstances, the trespasser may get the land if he holds it "adversely" to the true owner, and pays taxes on it for five years. This is hard to do these days, but it still happens every so often. As a rule, the true owner, learning about this occu-pancy, will get a court order MICHAEL A. PORTER, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Porter of 1262 East Glenwood Ave., recently completed two weeks active duty training aboard the The WORLD of MEDICINE IN 400 BC QUALIFYING MEDICAL STUDENTS SHORE BY 'APOLLO THE PHYSICIAN...AND ALL THE BODS AND GODDESSES...WHAT SORRIER I SHALL SEE OR HEAR AND THE LIVES OF MEN, I WILL NOT DYVILDE, AS REDOING THAT ALL SUCH THINGS SHOULD BE NEPT SECRET..." THE SAME OATH OF HIPPOCRATES IS REPEATED BY ORADIUATING PHYSICIANS TODAY, AND IS THE BASIS OF MEDICAL ETHICS. PATIENTS CAN ALWAYS SPEAK FREELY TO THEIR DOCTORS KNOWING THEIR CONFIDENCES WILL BE RESPECTED. THIS PROVIDED COMMUNICATION IS UPheld in our Courts of Law The California Medical Association reports Hippocrates recognized a fact that is as true today at is was in 400 B.C.: To be most effective in helping them, physicians need the confidence of their patients. Intimate, even embarrassing details—facts the patient might tell the physician only if assured the information would go no further—often prove to be the very clues needed for accurate diagnosis. Today's medical ethics safeguard this privacy. Be frank with your doctor so he can be most helpful to you. IN CASE ANYONE'S FORGOTTEN DRIVE WITH CARE! WE'RE ONLY A HEART -BEAT AWAY FROM JOHN MC CORMACK STATE SENATOR'S COUNTY REPORT quotable STATE SENATOR'S COUNTY REPORT BY JOHN A. MURDY State Division of Highways reports that it will reopen studies on location of the Coast Freeway between Huntington Beach and Long Beach. I was informed by Ed Telford, metropolitan district engineer for the State, that the study will encompass considerable area from the coast inland a few miles and from Beach Blvd. at the intersection of Coast Highway northwest along the coast to Garden Grove Blvd. in the vicinity of Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. Public hearings are still as much as two years away while engineers study the most feasible routes. Running short of state school bond money until the voters approve a new bond issue, the State Allocation Board has set up a priority system to allocate what little funds are left to impoverished districts throughout California. The Board will allow approval of applications for bond money to build schools at the rate of $8 million a month from April through October. The hope is that voters will then approve a new state bond issue in the November election. The plan also apportions funds for actual construction of classroom facilities at the rate of $13 million a month. The new state bond issue planned for next November's general election will total $260 million and would become available for construction projects immediately. The priority system establishes a point system based on bill by Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, A. B. 46, is dead but a new one is gaining momentum—AB 145. It is quite different from the old bill but still has one objectiveable feature on unification. If approved, it would require unification of most school districts in the state by 1967 or the state would order it without ratification by the local district voters. There appears to be a battle shaping up regarding which house, Senate or Assembly, has the best education bill. The Senate leans at this point with Sen. George Miller's package plan while the Assembly appears set to approve Unruh's bill. Sometime in the near future, they may meet eyeball to eyeball in a showdown fight. The Senate Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare has scheduled a "moment of truth" hearing on the new welfare legislation passed in 1963 under the bill number AB 59. The hearings are set for May 26, 27 and 28 in San Luis Obispo at which time, both sides will have it out on such issues as tax increases, rising cost, responsibilities and coverage of welfare recipients. The California Taxpayers Association just compiled a report on the ratio of teachers and administrators in the public schools of California. It found statewide that there are 139,133 teachers, kindergarten through 12th grade, and 19,. THE PALMS "IN THE JUNGL" IN ANAHEIM 5¢ DINNER SALE THIS SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY APRIL 19-20-21 THE PALMS FAMOUS 4.75 NEW YORK STEAK DINNER FOR THE FIRST DINNER YOU PAY $4.75 FOR YOUR GUEST'S IDENTICAL DINNER You Pay 5¢ NEXT WEEK GREEN PEPPER BEEF STEAK DINNER For the first dinner you pay $3.85 For your guest's identical dinner 5¢ THE PALMS 1010 E. ORANGETHORPE - ANAHEIM NEAR EAST AND RAYMOND STREETS HOURS: SUNDAY 12 TIL 10 — MON. TUES. 5 TO 10 No Reservations Needed PHIL AULT'S California Cavalcade Big Winners So they won the $140,000, and then what happened? Problems, that's what. However, life for a couple we know has begun to calm down a little, now that three weeks have passed since they won the pot of gold in the Irish Sweepstakes. She is back at her check stand in a nearby market and is going to stay there except for the trip to Ireland about May 1 to collect their winnings. "I love my job and my customers," she said the other day during a momentary break in the market line. "I'd feel lost if I quit." As it does to all big Irish Sweepstakes winners, luck has brought a load of headaches as well as a fortune. Free advice, for example. In the days immediately after the news of their success came out, they were besieged with telephone calls and visitors. Many were friends congratulating them, but there were others from people full of tips about how to spend the money and how to beat the government's tax collectors to determine just how much of the $140,000 the winning couple will have left after Uncle Sam and the State of California get through taking their shares. 75 Per Cent Present word is that the federal government will take 75 per cent of the $140,000. That is $105,000, as I figure it. There will be about $5000 state income tax on top of that. It's fairly easy to see who REALLY won the Irish Sweepstakes. Naturally the couple explored all the tax angles suggested to them by well-wishers, to see if there was a legitimate way to avoid paying such an extremely harsh levy. "The only way we could avoid it was to give up our American citizenship, which of course we wouldn't dream of doing," they explained. Something the couple has cherished out of this experience, almost as much as the money itself, has been the outburst of good wishes from friends and strangers alike. Sweepstakes winners, luck has brought a load of headaches as well as a fortune. Free advice, for example. In the days immediately after the news of their success came out, they were besieged with telephone calls and visitors. Many were friends congratulating them, but there were others from people full of tips about how to spend the money and how to beat the government on the taxes. To Las Vegas "Finally we decided to blow town for a couple of days and go to Las Vegas, just to get away from the phone," she said. On the way over there her husband in expansive mood said, "I feel like I'm going to win $25,000." "Just what we need!" retorted his wife. "Don't we have enough problems already?" Their mailbox has been jammed, too, with advertisements for big cars from Los Angeles dealers and similar alluring suggestions on ways to spend their money, all of which they are ignoring. There was a letter from the federal tax collector, too. In fact, there have been con- Go On, Smoke! A lady I know in Orange was buying her usual two packages of cigarettes at a local market checkstand this week when the elderly woman behind her, whom she didn't know, said, "That's right, go ahead and smoke those cigarettes." The woman continued, "My husband died of lung cancer." Surprised, the Orange lady braced herself for a lecture on the perils of smoking. "And he had never smoked a cigarette in his life," the widow added. "Go ahead and enjoy yourself." who loaned the $144,000,000... that paid the wages.... of 23,500 workers last year? CALIFORNIA FEDERAL DID. Our business is the betterment of people. The usual "share the wealth" schemes turn out to be miserable failures. But there's one plan that works. Our plan. It helps create prosperity—and some of it rubs off on everyone. Last year, for example, the equivalent of a small city of new homes and apartments was built with $144,000,000 in financing provided by California Federal Savings Association. (That was only the amount loaned for new construction. Our 1963 mortgage lending total exceeded $335,818,000!) These funds gave full-time work and paychecks to 11,000 building and allied industry workers, and to 12,500 other people in businesses and services where construction wages were spent. In addition, this prosperity was shared by 412,000 savers who received $37,000,000 in dividends from their California Federal savings accounts. Directly or indirectly, you shared the good times California Federal helped generate, too. That's why we say the betterment of people is our business. And it's a billion-dollar business. ANAHEIM OFFICE 600 N. 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