anaheim-gazette 1964-04-29

COMMUNITY NEWS FOR YOUR OWN COMMUNITY STADIUM City Manager Keith Murdoch touched on urban renewal, the Angel stadium and the convention center plans, during his weekly press conference. Murdoch said by urging approval of the appropriation of $59,000 to the Victor Gruen and Associates company for a renewal plan for the downtown area the property owners have a "moral commitment to proceed with urban renewal in the The Gruen study will take about one year to complete and at least 3 years before any work can be started, he said. The 100-block project may be an exception if it fits into the overall Gruen plan. The schedule for the Gruen study calls for preparation of physical and traffic plans, plan implementation, and precise plans for two 30-acre areas City Manager Keith Murdoch touched on urban renewal, the Angel stadium and the convention center plans, during his weekly press conference. Murdoch said by urging approval of the appropriation of $59,000 to the Victor Gruen and Associates company for a renewal plan for the downtown area the property owners have a "moral commitment to proceed with urban renewal in the downtown area." "If this plan is shelved, then we're spending more money than we should," and the owners "must seriously consider redevelopment, and this includes financial participation." he said. The city manager was hopeful of cooperation but added, "I don't believe the project can go ahead without condemnation; we have tried no less than four attempts before and it has never been possible to tie everything together to go ahead with private development. "The 100-block project," a plan to clear the back area of the buildings bounded by Anaheim Blvd., Charles, Lincoln and Lemon, may be the first phase of downtown redevelopment and has been approved by all but one of the property owners. The plan calls for transformation of stores into a shoppers mall. This project would cost the city $100,000 for improving parking, and placing telephone and utility lines underground. Export Trade Profit Export Trade, new profit opportunities for Orange County firms both large and small, will be the subject of a one-day conference, Saturday, May 16 at California State College at Fullerton. This event is being soon... Profit Export Trade, new profit opportunities for Orange County firms both large and small, will be the subject of a one-day conference, Saturday, May 16 at California State College at Fullerton. This event is being sponsored by the Orange County Associated Chambers of Commerce in cooperation with the Los Angeles Field Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Los Angeles Area Regional Export Expansion Council. The conference will be held in the new Science Hall Auditorium of the college and hours will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be of interest and participation is invited from Orange County's large and small industrial and business firms, investment firms, wholesalers and retailers. An outstanding program has been arranged by the committee from the Orange County Associated Chamber's Industrial Development Committee, headed by Louis Knobbe, from the law firm of Fowler, Knobbe and Gambrell, Santa Ana. The program will include consideration of the dispersion of world trade, why small manufacturers should consider exporting, where and how to get assistance and case histories of successful exporting companies in the area. A panel of distinguished speakers, specialists in their fields, will appear on the program. Further details and reservation information can be obtained from the Chamber Office at 2154 S. Harbor, telephone 834-2655. He said the Angels' poor attendance at their first three games in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles was solid evidence the move to Anaheim should be made. The Dodgers are making the baseball dollar in Los Angeles, he said. Schematics Finished Approval for preparation of preliminary plans for the municipal auditorium and convention center may be granted Tuesday by the City Council. The city manager said that Adrian Wilson has complete schematics and is prepared to present them to the councilmen. If the schematics are approved, work will start on the preliminary plans. The schematics will be reviewed by Don Jewell, manager of Portland's Coliseum, Bruce Sheffer, assistant manager of the Long Beach Auditorium, and city department heads. The two managers have been retained as consultants. Court action to acquire four acres of land will be initiated next week and complete the total site of 34 acres for the $7 million facility. The August 1966 completion deadline should be met, he said. Anaheim Police Chief Mark Stephenson will be auctioneer for 40 bicycles and other miscellaneous articles on Tuesday, May 5 at 10 a.m. at 425 S. Harbor. Engle Urges Air Mail Cost Reduction Senator Clair Engle announced that he has urged the Civil Aeronautics Board to bring about a reduction of air mail costs. His move was disclosed in a letter to Robert W. Prescott President of the Flying Tiger Lines, Burbank, California, in which he expressed the belief that lower air mail rates can save the Government some $750,000. Senator Engle commended the airline for its proposal to drop its own air mail rates. MILK FOR THE POLITICIAN Plans are being completed to serve milk and dairy products to delegates attending the Republican-National Convention in San Francisco this summer, reports the American Dairy Association. Early plans indicate that milk will be available to delegates in their lounging areas, via dispensers, courtesy of the dairy farmers of the nation. Other dairy products, including cheese, will also be furnished. naheim Gazette SHED SINCE 1870 • HOME CITY PAPER OF FABULOUS DISNEY 8 Pages Wednesday, April 29, 1964 25¢ Per Month Anahei M DIRECTORS BY JOHNSON SUPPORTS ANGELS Rhusiastic support for the Angeles Angels' move to Johnson, Democrat can for the 71st Assembly. Can think of no greater to this area since the establishment of Disneyland would do more for the and the property values heism and Orange County Johnson declares. County, which is becoming one of the most recreational areas of United States, is also growing sports stature. Adding Angels' American League team to our attractions only increase our importation in the national sports arena well as other sports and am wholeheartedly behind Sports of Supervisor Wil-Phillips and the city of Cam in their attempt to se the Angels and build a unity stadium for the ball well as other sports. Fullerton HS Students Rank Above Average Students in the five high schools of the Fullerton Union High School District rank well above the average students in the State of California in both ability and performance, according to a report presented to the Board of Trustees Monday night. Comparisons of the results of standardized tests made mandatory two years ago for all schools by the State of California served as the basis of comparison for the report. State law requires that at the high school level all eleventh graders be given approved standardized tests. However, the District also tested the ninth graders and the tenth graders in four schools to establish a basis of comparison from year to year within the District. Two sets of standardized tests were approved for use by the State Department of Education and by the Board of Trustees. These are the School and College Ability Test (SCAT) and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) in reading, writing, and mathematics. Eleventh graders tested under the required state program ranked above state averages in ability as well as in achievement in reading, writing and mathematics. Using the 1962 results of the California Testing Program as a basis for comparison, a total of 18 per cent more Fullerton Union High School District eleventh graders ranked in the upper half of those tested in the State in ability both last year and this year. In the 1962-63 school year 12 per cent more District eleventh graders rated over the state average in reading and this year the number increased to 20 per cent. In writing, 22 per cent more District juniors both last year and this year ranked in the upper half. Test results in mathematics for last year show 22 per cent more District eleventh graders in the upper half of those tested in the State and 20 per cent this year. Using standards established by the State Department of Ed. Badham Scores Brown The June 2 state ballot carry no controversial issue because Gov. Edmund Brown successfully dodged showdown at the polls. A blyman Robert E. Badham Newport Beach) said today. The time has passed forcluding propositions on the lot, and the controversial were delayed by the Dcrats, Badham said. On Feb. 3, in a budget sage to the Legislature, the error said, "For... local construction aid, I propose place a $260 million issue on June ballot." Badham said the gov't changed his mind because might be defeated. The governor also dodged a vote on repeal of the Rumford F Housing Act, and he sidestehe proposed state lottery, ham claimed. These are too controversies Badham declared, "and governor wanted none of it while he's a hopeful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Dan Smoot To Lecture In LA The Freedom Club of the First Congregational Church, Sixth and Commonwealth Streets, Los Angeles, will present Mr. Dan Smoot in a major address in the church sanctuary on Tuesday, May 5, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Smoot emphasizes: "Our international policy of world meddling has made America not a world leader, but the world's whipping boy. It has isolated us from our friends we used to have. Today, we stand alone, though our government saddles us with the burdens of the world ... we must scrap internationalism, and return to the traditional policy which we followed for 125 years. Otherwise, our Republic is doomed." Mr. Smoot was reared and educated in Texas. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 1941 and during the war he joined the FBI. He was an agent for nine and a half years of which three and one half years he worked exclusively on Communist investigations. His weekly radio and television commentaries and his weekly newsletter, "The Dan Smoot Report" have been rapidly increasing in popularity and his message is now reaching the entire country. The standardized tests show that instead of 2 per cent of the District ninth graders rating as mentally gifted (57 students), a total of 4.7 per cent (124 students) are classed as mentally gifted. At the tenth grade level 3.1 per cent (65 students) rate as mentally gifted instead of the expected 2 per cent (43 students). At the eleventh grade level 4.8 per cent (113 students) rate as mentally gifted instead of the expected 2 per cent (47 students). And at the twelfth grade level 3.8 per cent (87 students) rate as mentally gifted instead of the expected 2 per cent (46 students). "A total of 63,700 eleventh grade students in 83 California school districts made up the SCAT norm group and 58,000 students in 74 districts made up the STEP norm groups," Dr. Donald G. Hays, Director of Pupil Services, told the Board in explaining the breadth of sampling in California last year. "The people of this community have a right to be proud of the accomplishments of our students, but we should not become complacent." WHEN YOU LOOK INSIDE EDITORIALS, FEATURES Page 4 WOMEN'S NEWS Page 5 ERS NAMED County Men Chosen To Head Non-Profit Corp. ANAHEIM — Formation of a non-profit corporation to construct a stadium was accomplished at a meeting this morning of 13 county leaders named to the board of directors and the councilmen of the city of Anaheim. Members of the board are Dr. Samuel Gendel, of Anaheim; Louis Nohl, Olive; Ronald Caspers, of Keystone Savings & Loan; Frank Vessels, of suit would be well over a million dollars to a taxpayer. Under the terms of the Angel lease, the city would receive 42½ cents per person attending each game. If attendance drops below 850,000 annually, the percentage would be increased proportionately. The Angels were said to be interested in Orange County and Anaheim because of the complex of Santa Ana, Orange. ANAHEIM — Formation of a non-profit corporation to construct a stadium was accomplished at a meeting this morning of 13 county leaders named to the board of directors and the councilmen of the city of Anaheim. Members of the board are Dr. Samuel Gendel, of Anaheim; Louis Nohl, Olive; Ronald Caspers, of Keystone Savings & Loan; Frank Vessels, of Los Alamitos; Harry Rinker of the Rinker Company; Richard Gay, Bank of America; Bernard Jordan, United California Bank; Ed Ettinger, of Disneyland; Leonard Smith, Anaheim; Ralph Kaiser, of Newport Beach; Lon Peek, of Westminster; and Stan Palowski of the Independent Bank of Anaheim. The non-profit corporation will act as a lease-back type firm for arranging the financing, borrowing of money and issuing of bonds. The exhibition lease will run the full length of the liability of the bonds. Questions were raised concerning the possibility of a "taxpayers' suit" delaying the project. Legal counsel from City Attorney Joe Geisler and Richard Salladin, of the firm of Orrick, Dahlquist, Herrington and Sucliffe of San Francisco, who have been retained to set up the corporation, assured the group that the cost of such a suit would be well over a million dollars to a taxpayer. Under the terms of the Angel lease, the city would receive 42½ cents per person attending each game. If attendance drops below 850,000 annually, the percentage would be increased proportionately. The Angels were said to be interested in Orange County and Anaheim because of the complex of Santa Ana, Orange, Garden Grove, Riverside and Newport Freeways, making the stadium easily accessible to a population of over 5,000,000. With the projected growth of Orange County in 1970 at an estimated 2 million persons, plus the population within a 30 minute driving distance, the area was felt to have the best potentiality for the ball club." Keith Murdoch, Anaheim city manager, told the corporation officers at today's meeting. The stadium, including the land, is estimated at a cost of $20 million on a 141-acre site between Kaleella, Orangewood State College Blvd., and the proposed Orange Freeway and Santa Ana River. The Del Webb Corporation has drawn schematic plans at their own cost which have been approved by the Angels and the City Council. Ground will be broken in August with a completion deadline of April, 1966. Man of the Year" For OC Press Club The top-flight lineup of entertainment stars will be on hand 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30, on the Orange County Press to present its annual "Man of the Year" and "Headliners" awards program in the Galaxy Restaurant, 10th St. and Broadway, Santa Ana. Among those present to give awards on behalf of the press club will be comedienne Dyly Warren, the subject of a recent story in Time Magazine; popular singer June Rudell, on the Disneyland Hotel; TV star and singer Harry Babbitt, professional football star Martin. A special guest for the event will be song writer Jimmy Mercer, one of the nation's top lyricists whose songs have annually nominated for almost annually win—ademy awards. Addition to the Man of the Year award for the person needed to have done the most in Orange County, the press this year will inaugurate headliner" awards for those various fields who have made major contributions to the county. PLANNING FOR BARRY — Walter Knott, left, finance chairman for the Orange County Goldwater for President Committee, looks over a portion of the 35,000 tickets being readied for the "Evening With Barry" rally to be held on Memorial Day in Orange County. Susan Heyworth of Fullerton is assisting Harry Johnson, right, county ticket chairman, in distributing tickets to all the Goldwater headquarters in the county. The May 30 rally is expected to be the largest and most elaborate event held for Goldwater in the state during the campaign. Goldwater Rally Tickets On Sale Thirty-five thousand tickets went on sale this week for the giant rally for Senator Barry Goldwater, to be held on Memorial Day, May 30, in Buena Park, Walter Knott, finance chairman for the Orange County Goldwater Committee, announced today. Knott, who is also honorary chairman for the county Goldwater campaign, said tickets for the "Evening With Barry" will be available for $1 at every Goldwater city headquarters in the county, as well as at the county Volunteer Headquarters, 339 N. Los Angeles St., Orange. The finance chairman said the rally, which will be the largest event in the state prior to the June 2 Primary election, will be televised throughout California. The Orange County Goldwater Committee will sponsor the statewide broadcast, Knott said.