anaheim-gazette 1964-04-23

EDITORIALS--OPINIONS Virgil Pinkley, Editor & Publisher 4—The Gazette Thursday, April 28, 1964 Since 1870... In the midst of this thriving metropolitan area of Orange County and Anaheim, there has existed since 1870 the Anaheim Gazette. Representatives of this paper have come and gone; but the fact remains that the Gazette struggles ever onward. Its primary function has been to give the people of Anaheim news of all forms pertaining to the happenings within the boundaries of the city of Anaheim, to and about the people of Anaheim. The Gazette is primarily interested in the day-by-day, month-by-month events which make up Anaheim news. The Gazette is for the business and people in Anaheim. We hope the businesses and people of Anaheim are for their hometown weekly newspapers! We openly solicit your news items and your advertising as our means of support. In this way, we hope to be of even greater value as a newspaper to the citizens of Anaheim. Call 633-8401 and an advertising salesman will call on you. Phone 633-8400 to subscribe. Everyone Has To Pay In the magazine, Christian Economics, the following statistics about steel companies, their stockholders and workers, were presented. From 1950 to 1961, hourly wages of steel workers rose about 10 per cent. During the same period, net profits declined 10 per cent. Invested capital by stockholders, during this period almost doubled. (It was $5.5 billion in 1950; $10.7 billion in 1961.) Stockholders in the steel industry have received about $600 million per year in dividends in each of the past five years (about 6 per cent on their 1961 investment). Of the stockholders who receive these dividends, 53 per cent have a smaller income than the average steel worker. In each of the last five years, hourly labor costs of making steel have increased 18 per cent. And the per capita taxes have increased 21 per cent. Far too often, the average person unversed in economics, thinks a big corporation makes big profits. And it makes big profits, it can pay any wages it wants to. But when this is broken down into the stockholders of various sizes, the big company isn't really big any more. The income of the stockholder is frequently cut when the worker's wages are raised. Few people stop to think that continually rising wages mean rising costs of production, and in consequence, rising cost of living. And the latter, everyone, big and little, has to pay. Stockholders in the steel industry have received about $600 million per year in dividends in each of the past five years (about 6 per cent on their 1961 investment. Of the stockholders who receive these dividends, 53 per cent have a smaller income than the average steel worker. In each of the last five years, the industry has paid out $866 million in taxes (about $266 million more than it paid in dividends). Its aggregate payroll per year during these five years has been $4,687 million. In the last five years the price of steel has increased about one per cent. What doing? Maybe you read recently about that Coast Guard helicopter rescuing eleven people from the floundering Hattie D off Cape Mendocino. Well, if it hadn't been for a ship-to-shore telephone operator, the lucky eleven and the Coast Guard might not have gotten together. Seems that the stricken ship didn't use the regular emergency channel, and Operator Mrs. Evelyn Lubahn of Oakland picked up its "May Day" distress call over the Eureka Coastal Harbor radio-telephone channel. She promptly alerted the Coast Guard, who made the dramatic scoop from the sea. Just another case of a telephone operator giving help when it's needed. Like good music with your TV? Then look in on the award-winning Bell Telephone Hour every other Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. on the NBC network. "Money at work means men at work." is the slogan of Invest-in-America Week, April 26 to May 2. Investing in America may seem like a big order. But actually it's a matter of time. With The PTA Anaheim's new public library was the setting for the installation ceremonies for the new officers of the Adelaide Price PTA when the unit held its regular meeting in the library auditorium. Mrs. Felix LeMarinel heads the new slate of officers as president for the coming year. Other officers include Mrs. Clarence Heinrich as vice-president, Mrs. James Baker as secretary, Mrs. Jack Kahle as treasurer, Mr. Robert Padgett as auditor, Mrs. Dave Carey as Historian, and Mrs. Ray Rodgers, Jr., as Parliamentarian. The installation ceremonies were conducted by Mrs. Joe Brown, president of the Savannah High School PTA and char- "Money at work means men at work." is the slogan of Invest-in-America Week, April 26 to May 2. Investing in America may seem like a big order. But actually it's a matter of looking at it the way the Invest-in-America Council does. They say: "Our American system of free enterprise encourages saving and investment that helps to create new plants and jobs. As a result the average American has been able to produce more and live better." Sandy Ronnenberg and Dianna Zurbuchen, Service Representatives in Anaheim, recently displayed a group of historical telephone sets. You will find their display in the Business office of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in Anaheim. Drop in and see us. Your Telephone Manager NIONS usher 23, 1964 MY GOOD MAN, I DON'T CARE TO DISCUSS IT U.N. PEACEKEEPING ASSESSMENTS Pay osts of making steel 8 per cent. pita taxes have innt. the average person, omics, thinks a big big profits. And if fits, it can pay any is broken down into of various sizes, the really big any more. stockholder is frethe worker's wages to think that conages mean rising on, and in conseof living. And the g and little, has to State Senators County Repor It's now costing California Taxpayers $93 million a year to house and try to rehabilitate the to cope with the hard-core causes of delinquency and crime. If we must provide stiffer alities to discourage defende State Senators County Report It's now costing California Taxpayers $93 million a year to house and try to rehabilitate the growing numbers of adult and youthful criminal offenders. The corrections agency reports that there are some 200,000 criminal offenders in the state now, many in prisons or other institutions while others are on parole or probation and under supervisions. There are an estimated 12,000 to 20,000 heroin addicts in California. Many of the legislators are calling for new stiffer laws to cope with a rising crime rate but appear to be caught in a bind regarding programs of prevention versus punishment. Which does the most good in the long run? Prevention programs still have not been adequate enough World War II veterans have 2.7 million term and 2.2 million converted GI insurance policies in force with a total face value of more than $32 billion, the Veterans Administration reports. ter president of the Adelaide Price PTA. Mr. Earl Dahl, principal of Price School, assisted Mrs. Brown in presenting each new officer with a lighted candle and colored ribbon symbolic of the duties of each office. The historian's report, summarizing the present year's activities, was presented by Mrs. Louis Katz. The group concluded the meeting with a tour of the new library facilities conducted by Miss Phyllis Irshay, assistant library director. to cope with the hard-core causes of delinquency and crime. Publishment takes care of the offenders but the crime rate still rises. Quite frankly, I think it is safe to say criminals are made, not born, save the criminally insane who were born mentally incompetent with criminal behavioural traits. But the majority of our offenders come from unstable personal and family life, broken homes, neglect, and the like. Our criminals are being bred by families unable to cope with life themselves. Parents are usually immature, unstable, some are criminals themselves in some form, emotionally disturbed, and incapable of raising a family. Children are neglected, insecure, unhappy, resentful, and eventually get into trouble. I dare say that a lot of our crime problem would be solved if families took the rearing of children seriously. This is where prevention should start —in the home. Hopefully, as we provide broader educational opportunities, our younger generations will enter marriage fully prepared for parenthood. Any other government programs are mere stop-gap measures, quite costly, and really don't get to the root of the problem unless the government steps in and tells you what's required of you as a parent. And who would want that! As for the punishment aspects, certainly society must protect itself from these criminal offenders. They must be put away either forever or until they are able to fulfill their mature and responsible role in society. Our laws must be adequate enough to provide facilities and programs to meet this problem. If we must provide stiffer alternatives to discourage defended ready bred by incompetent ents of this and past generations, then we must do it — If we are to prevent our initial population from getting of hand in prison, we must them to work in the institute keep them busy while rehabilitation personnel attempt to pare them for responsible in society. By the same time we must be prepared to them that second chance. Lastly, our society needs a little soul-searching into prevention aspects of no home and family life we children will develop into nature, responsible citizens here that the real crime has been committed. Letter To "It has come to my attention that the California Teachers' association will make a last attempt to influence the outcome of the April 28th recall election in the Magnolia School District. We expect them to threaten mass resignation of teachers; the majority members of our school board are not recalled. This maneuver is calculated to frighten the parents with their spectre of empty classrooms next school year. We now have enough applications for teacher positions in the District offices; replace any number of teachers who desire to resign. Our main concern is to hire qualified teachers who are dedicated to their profession in every classroom next year. We will welcome the resignations those teachers who are more interested in agitating than coercing." W IN ACTION W IN ACTION BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE In early days women, only married ones, did the same rights as men. Particularly under county property laws, they have some legal which are greater than land's. She can own sue, make confidence. Her separate exlegally recognized. She can even sue her to protect her property. She is freed from land's control of her. She can sue her husrecovery of property租ed to her, sue for other abuses to her rights. The community laws owns one-half of county property. Years the laws did a wife to sue her or any personal innight have inflicted. Partly because of common law fiction of unity," she would herself, and partly family harmony, she was not given the right to sue her husband for personal injuries. She could get criminal prosecution by the state for intentional harm done to her by her husband. Or she could sue for a divorce. A year or so ago the courts did away with much of this interspousal immunity. In one case the Supreme Court ruled that a husband could be sued for intentionally beating his wife. In another case the court said that if a husband negligently let water accumulate in his pleasure boat so that she slipped and injured herself, he was responsible and had to pay for her injuries. Recoveries for personal injuries by a husband or wife are the separate property of each. The recovery is not community property and each can treat the recovery as his own. The WORLD OF MEDICINE IN SCOTLAND, 1891, AGNES SAMPSON WAS BURNED AS A WITCH, FOR GIVING PAIN RELIEFT TO A WOMAN IN CHILDBIRTH. QUEEN VIOIDRIA SURRENDER THE CRITICS WHEN SHE ACCOUPTED CHILDROMA DURING THE BURGESS OF NINE THIS AND EIGHT CHILDREN. A service of CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Today it is hard to believe that pain was ever considered "necessary for fostering maternal feelings" and that to ease the pain of childbirth was "contrary to the divine will." Now physicians may employ many agents in giving pain relief to women in childbirth. PHIL AULT'S California Cavalcade Flower Time Boss gentlemen, to the flower stalls! Being a discreet young lady, your secretary may not bring it to your attention, but the Society of American Florists thinks you should give her some flowers this week. A little thing like an orchid corsage. Or perhaps, if you want to be less personal, an azalea plant. This, you see, is National Secretaries Week. All over town secretaries secretly will be wondering what their employers are going to do to honor them. In lieu of flowers, I suppose most of them would accept raises. On the other hand, employers may be wondering, "Why have National Secretaries Week, anyway?" To honor secretaries for office tasks well done; that's what the publicity blurb says. Applying this same principle of recognizing good work, we soon may have National Bookkeepers Week, Office Boy Recognition Day and Janitors Week. To quote the Florists Association, "You can make your Girl Friday one of the happiest of 6,497,350 women engaged in office work — secretaries, stenographers, typists, etc. — with a gift of flowers or a beautifully Proprietors, if there is such a thing. The fellow who writes those florist promotion pieces is a good idea man, but I'm dubious about his psychology. He states, "A gift of flowers, or a gift given with flowers attached, lets a Girl Friday know her services are appreciated. And it gives her the opportunity — by wearing or displaying her floral gift — to show others that she is appreciated." Office Scene I've noticed over the years that there is a slight tendency among the women in some offices to be catty. Not here in my own office, I hasten to add. Visualize the scene in an office when one girl receives a corsage and parades herself among her feminine colleagues. They naturally ask her why she has received the flowers. She replies in her most modest, unassuming manner, "The boss wants to show that he appreciates me." At that point the boss has a major office morale problem on his hands and the office gossips have . . . well, I'd like to hear the buzzing that goes on around the coffee machine. His only solution is to buy corsages for every woman in the office. Because who among them doesn't want to... If we must provide stiffer penies to discourage defenders ally bred by incompetent paris of this and past genera ns, then we must do it—now. If we are to prevent our crim al population from getting out hand in prison, we must put them to work in the institution, stop them busy while rehabiliti on personnel attempt to pre- ce them for responsible roles society. By the same token must be prepared to give them that second chance. Lastly, our society needs to do little soul-searching into the invention aspects of normal life and family life where children will develop into ma- responsible citizens. It is that the real crime has been committed. Thinking Big Notice that the association has a broad outlook. It lumps "stenographers and typists etc." into National Secretaries Week, an approach not shared by the more lofty secretaries in larger offices, I'm sure. Why subtle transformation makes a stenographer into a secretary? Or a typist ect. into a stenographer? Also, notice that the association slips in the idea that a really appreciative boss might give his secretary a beautifully wrapped gift, topped off by flowers. Sounds like a tie-in deal with the Society of American Gift Shop Letter To The Editor It has come to my attention that the California Teachers As sion will make a last big imp ent to influence the outcome the April 28th recall election the Magnolia School District. Expect them to threaten a resignation of teachers if majority members of the school board are not recalled. His maneuver is calculated tighten the parents with the care of empty classrooms in school year. We now have high applications for teaching jobs in the District office to face any number of teachers desire to resign. Our main concern is to have fitted teachers who are dedi- ted to their profession in ev classroom next year. We welcome the resignations of teachers who are more im- inged in agitating than edu- request that they submit their resignations immediately so that dedicated teachers may be signed to replace them. A special meeting of the Board of Trustees will be called within 48 hours to consider resignations if any large number are received." James A. Allen President, Magnolia School District quotable He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. —William Penn We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. —C. N. Bower The safer, cheaper course for the boss is to ignore National Secretaries Week. The secreta ry in your office shouldn't expect special recognition, anyway, if she follows the advice of Emily Post, that fountainhead of social guidance to whom I turn occasionally for advice. Mrs. Post rules, "The perfect secretary should forget that she is a human being, and be the most completely efficient aid at all times and on all subjects. "She should respond to his requirements exactly as a machine responds to the touch of lever or accelerator. "If he says 'Good morning' she answers 'Good morning' with a smile and cheerfully. She does not volunteer a remark — unless she has messages of importance to give him." The implication is that if the boss comes in grumpy and sour, without speaking, the perfect secretary doesn't destroy this mood by the intrusion of a cheerful "Good morning." If your boss wants to be a sourpuss, girls, let him be. He's probably enjoying himself. On behalf of appreciative but cautious and economy-minded bosses, let me deliver this bouquet of printed posies to secretaries everywhere: "In appreciation of your He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. —William Penn We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. —C. N. Bovee Culture is one thing and vanish another. —Ralph Waldo Emerson AMAZING The NUMBER of SERVICE offered at SQR AMAZING The QUALITY of SERVICE offered at SQR BROOKLYN CENTER AT THE DOWNTOWN AMERICA