anaheim-gazette 1964-05-06

COMMUNITY NEWS FOR YOUR OWN COMMUNITY Ike Tells Views On Politics By VIRGIL PINKLEY Editor and Publisher Copyright by the Anaheim Gazette INDIO — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower believes that most Americans should study, think, discuss and debate politics and government much more this election year. He does not feel basic Republican ideas, philosophies and ideals have been presented fully and properly, even well, by any aspirant for the GOP presidential nomination. General Eisenhower is not about, however, to announce his support for any Republican candidate and especially at this stage. In a frank and spirit-ed talk of 52 minutes granted me and this newspaper exclusive- He does not feel basic Republican ideas, philosophies and ideals have been presented fully and properly, even well, by any aspirant for the GOP presidential nomination. General Eisenhower is not about, however, to announce his support for any Republican candidate and especially at this stage. In a frank and spirit-ed talk of 52 minutes granted me and this newspaper exclusively, the 34th President said he wants the American public to spend more time and effort studying seriously issues, candidates and government and to participate in local, county and state government. Our discussion brought out much of Mr. Eisenhower's basic beliefs. One comes away with the strong impression that: "Anyone who seeks the Presidency for self-gains or glorification will not make a great President if elected. In time of crisis and stress such an individual would lack courage, rare judgement and he would hesitate to vacillate." "The biggest problems facing a President are international ones where decisions can lead to war. Domestic mistakes seldom are fatal and they usually can be corrected." "I am not interested in trying to 'stop' any candidate. On the contrary I am sorry there are not more highly qualified and talented candidates. I still rate as men eminently qualified to go to the White House Alfréd M. Gruenther (former NATO Supreme Commander and immediate past president of the Red Cross), Robert Anderson (a Texas Democrat originally and Ike's Secretary of the Treasury), Gen. Lucius Clay (a Georgia Democrat and one of General Eisenhower's top assistants in World War II, Military Governor of Berlin and West Germany and special assistant for our last two presidents), and Milton Eisenhower, Ike's younger brother and President of Johns Hopkins University and a government official in the past three administrations." Eisenhower thinks highly of Anderson's knowledge of government and finances and his abilities in statecraft. He feels Gruenther and Clay have unusual minds, and vast international experience, including the handling of many delicate missions and situations during the war and in the hectic post-war years. He feels that his brother Milton is handicapped by being the younger brother of a President, but that he would make an outstanding president, a view many others share. Eisenhower thinks highly of Anderson's knowledge of government and finances and his abilities in statecraft. He feels Gruenther and Clay have unusual minds, and vast international experience, including the handling of many delicate missions and situations during the war and in the hectic post-war years. He feels that his brother Milton is handicapped by being the younger brother of a President, but that he would make an outstanding president, a view many others share. At several points in our conversation, Mr. Eisenhower stressed the dangers of more centralized government in Washington, higher taxes and strong trends toward socialization. "There is a substantial group in the Democratic party who advocate and legislate for more socialism. They would be the first to deny and the last to confirm such charges, but they are true as proven by the record." Ike becomes almost livid when someone says American prestige sagged and we lacked world leadership during his two terms in the White House. "Those misguided and mistaken statements and charges were harmful to this nation. When I was in the White House our relations with Great Britain, France and Western Germany were at an all-time high. Our connections with most nations in the free world were exceedingly good. Not an inch of territory, except remote Tibet was lost to communism and NATO was much more tightly knit." In this regard he mentioned specifically Canada and Mexico. He said he invited two presidents of Mexico to come to Washington, that he went twice to Mexico and several more times he met Mexican chief executives on the American-Mexican border. He urged that we settle any differences with Canada privately. "It is silly, stupid and harmful to charge that Canada was not doing her share, as was done over missiles. Canada as a free, independent and proud nation is bound to have ideas and ways different than ours, but certainly we have, or should possess, the intelligence to resolve such matters quietly and fairly and not engage in name calling, or public cat and dog fights. Canada has contributed greatly to freedom and our common cause." He said we need Canada and Mexico just as they need us and we should do no more than our share. (Continued on Page 4) Anaheim Public Library Anaheim Gazette BLISHED SINCE 1870 · HOME CITY PAPER OF FABULOUS DISC No. 89 Anaheim, California, Wednesday, May 6, 1964 8 Pages PROGRESS SILHOUETTES AND STRUCTURES — Building construction in Anaheim is setting a record pace. Shown in the process of construction are the Presbyterian Church; an industrial office building at Midway Drive and Manchester; the location of the United California Bank and an automobile dealership on Anaheim Blvd. City Limits Extended by D-Land Employees The world is getting smaller the time and Disneyland employees have proved it by exiting the Anaheim City Limits all the way to the New York World's Fair. Least 30 Disney workers in Orange County have been New York for the past few years helping prepare and open exhibits produced by Walt Disney for Pepsi-Cola, Ford Motor General Electric and the state of Illinois. Disneyland organization operating the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion entitled "It's a Small World." To prove the title, the boardians posted an "Anaheim City Limits" sign at the entrance to the unique exhibit which features animated figures toys and settings all around the world. The local group also took with it a resolution from the Annapolis City Council making Bart S. Dorfman an honorary member of Anaheim. Dorfman is station manager for Walt Disney Productions in New York. Pete Crimmings of Disneyland's operations division will manage the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion during the coming summer. Other Disneyland officials from Anaheim who aided in preparations for the opening include Ed Ettinger, Dick Johnson, Tommy Walker, Pete Clark, Ted Crowell, Jack Lindquist, Bill Hoelsher, Len Jones and Frank Stanek. Among other Disneylanders from Orange County at the Fair were vice-president Joe Fowler, Jack Sayers, Dick Nunis, Chuck Corson, Ben Harris, Tony Virginia, George Mills, Chuck Boyajan, Carl Friberg, Van France, Bob Penfield, Lella Easton and Joe Bowman. Several other Disneyland workers have been sent to New York to help in training other employees in operating the exhibit this summer. They include Genevieve Barrios, Diane Maxwell, Mary Mondry, Veronica Rosner, Kathy Ruoff, Carol Shoeder and Anita Williams. Convention Hall Plans Released City officials got their first look at the schematic drawings of the proposed multi-million convention center which now will cost at least $7.5 million. The schematic drawings presented by architect Adrian Wilson showed a modernistic facility divided into an arena, exhibit hall and meeting rooms. The arena would have varying attendance capacities, depending upon what was going on: 1,600 at banquets; 7,800 for basketball; 9,150 boxing; and 6,500 for circuses and ice shows. There will be 26 meeting rooms of various sizes with a total capacity of 4,000. The exhibit area will encompass 100,000 square feet. The site is approximately 35 acres and is currently under condemnation. It is located on the south side of Katella across the street from the Kate trance to Disneyland. The convention center financed by the 4 per cent tax begun last June 15. Already $239,000 has beenlected as of March. City ager Keith Murdoch said year's receipts will reach $30,000. As the convention center put into use, the Angel site is built and The Orient Disneyland as a major attraction, the city is expected to a motel and hotel boom will help increase the amusement money coming from the bldg. The 14-story Hotel Shore or whatever height it is has already given al and its developers ha dicated that construction begin. Several other Disneyland workers have been sent to New York to help in training other employees in operating the exhibit this summer. They include Genevieve Barrios, Diane Maxwell, Mary Mondry, Veronica Rosner, Kathy Ruoff, Carol Shoeder and Anita Williams. There will be 26 meeting rooms of various sizes with a total capacity of 4,000. The exhibit area will encompass 100,000 square feet. The site is approximately 35 acres and is currently under condemnation. It is located on the south side of Katella across a motel and hotel boom that will help increase the ample money coming from the business. WALT DISNEY'S it's a small world ANAHEIM CITY LIMITS GETTING SMALLER ALL THE TIME — Disneyland employees from Anaheim, in New York to open Walt Disc- "It's A Small World" at the New York World's Fair, are to extend their home town's city limits. Shown erecting the necessary signs are Frank Stanek and Bill Hoelsher of Anaheim, both employees of the Disneyland operations division. WHEN YOU LOOK INSIDE EDITORIALS, FEATURES Page 4 WOMEN'S NEWS Page 5 School Board Delves Into New Budget Trustees of Anaheim Union High School District will plunge into the proposed 1964-65 budget tonight in the first of many workshop sessions to slice and pare, distribute and redistribute, approve and disapprove tax expenditures. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the district office. At this point delving into the budget will largely be crystallizing since the county assessed valuation figures revealing the expected tax income figures will not be available legislature will do in providing or not providing needed school funds for the coming year. Trustees will be working with a budget expected to exceed $16 million to accommodate an estimated 25,600 students. Two new junior high schools, La Palma and South, will be opened along with the new John F. Kennedy High School. At the same time, teachers and classified personnel are asking for salary increases. Budget for the fiscal year end- et tonight in the first of many workshop sessions to slice and pare, distribute and redistribute, approve and disapprove tax expenditures. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the district office. At this point delving into the budget will largely be crystallizing since the county assessed valuation figures revealing the expected tax income figures will not be available. Adding to the problem is uncertainty over what the state Trustees will be working with a budget expected to exceed $16 million to accommodate an estimated 25,600 students. Two new junior high schools, La Palma and South, will be opened along with the new John F. Kennedy High School. At the same time, teachers and classified personnel are asking for salary increases. Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30 was $15,214,226 on a tax rate of $1.66 plus a bond rate of 41 cents. ROCKY BOOSTER — Mrs. James F. (Joan) Borst, a Rockefeller For President Committee volunteer who operates a "neighborhood headquarters" at her home, 850 E. Standish Ave., Anaheim, takes a close look at the film, "The Rockefeller Story," which is available for screenings in Orange County. The movie can be booked by calling Rockefeller headquarters at 776-8920, Anaheim. Walter Knott Named Manager Of The Year Robert O. Reynolds, president of the Los Angeles Awards will The Orange County Manager Walter Knott Named Manager Of The Year Robert O. Reynolds, president of the Los Angeles Angels, will be the featured speaker at a dinner on May 18 at Disneyland Hotel honoring Walter Knott, founder of Knott's Berry Farm and Ghost Town, as Orange County Manager of the Year, the committee in charge has announced. The announcement that Reynolds has accepted the invitation to address the meeting honoring Mr. Knott as Orange County's first Manager of the Year, was made by E. H. "Pete" Ward of Autonetics, Anaheim, chairman of the Manager of the Year committee. Reynolds, in addition to being president of the baseball club for which a huge stadium is being planned in Anaheim, is also president of Golden West Broadcasting Co., operator of KMPC and three other radio stations, is vice president of hte Los Angeles Rams, professional football team, and is associated with Gene Autry in the operation of four major hotel properties. Reynolds will speak on "Management Problems in the Soaring Sixties," according to Ward, who has also announced that County Supervisor Alton Allen will be master of ceremonies at the dinner and that Worth Bernard, publisher of Orange County Newsmagazine, will review Mr. Knott's business accomplishments here since he first started planting berry bushes in Buena Park in 1920. The Orange County Manager of the Year award dinner is jointly sponsored by 4 county-wide business organizations: the Orange Coast Chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management, of which Ward is president, the Sales and Marketing Executives Club of Orange County, the Purchasing Agents' Ass'n of Orange County, and the Orange County Associated Chambers of Commerce. Planned as an annual event, the Manager of the Year award goes to Walter Knott this year, the committee explains: "because of his unique contributions to the economic life of Orange County through his enterprise, hard work, constant solving of pressing problems with sound business action, and his alertness to widening opportunities to be of service to his fellow citizens. In accepting the invitation to address the award dinner, Reynolds said: "It is not only a great honor and privilege to address the members of your many associated clubs, but also my own personal pleasure to participate in any program honoring Walter Knott." The public is invited to the award dinner and reservation can be secured through members of any of the 4 organizations or through Orange County Associated Chambers of Commerce, 2184 So. Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, phone: JE 4-2653.