Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-26
FRUIT GROWERS
DEMAND VOICE
WISH TO BE CONSULTED AS TO
COMMISSION
inmates of Detention Home Hence
forth Will Be Allowed to Wear
Clothing of Their Own
Selection

A committee claiming to represent
So per cent of the citrus fruit indus
try of Los Angeles county appeared
before the board of supervisors yes
terday to protest against any change
in the personnel of the horticultural
commission unless the fruit growers,
whose interests are uppermost, shall
be consulted. Fred J. Smith Of Pomo-
ma was spokesman for the committee,
which included fruit growers from Co
vina, Lordsburg, Pomona, Claremont,
San Dimas, Monrovia, AZuSa, Duarte
and Glendora.
"All we ask" said Mr.. Smith, sis an
opportunity to investigate the qualifi-
cations and fitness of the members OF
the commission and to give the board
Of supervisors the same chance. We
represent an Investment Of about $780,
O0O 900, and our interests, we believe,
should be considered above politics.
Mr. Smith declared the committee
was not lobbying for any person or
number of persons, and asked only that
the fruit men be consulted when d
change in the commission was con-
templated.
A motion in line with the committee's s
suggestions was adopted. The men,
bers of the present commission are E.
E. Bemis, Edwin Dingle and A. r.
Meserve. These members are said to
be satisfactory to the fruit growers.
Uniforms Abolished
In order to eliminate the Institutional
elements and manage the new detention
home so as to carry out the plan of CIV
ing the inmates home life, as far as
is possible, the supervisors authorized
the juvenile court committee to aban-
don the use of uniforms of any char
acter. The inmates will be dressed in
inexpensive suits, the cut and texture
to be chosen by the wearers. Hereto
fore the khaki uniform has been used,
and the committee felt it had an unde-
Sirable effect on the boys, it being d
common phrase among them that they
had been "in the browns" as expressive
of the fact of their having been in the
detention home.
A large number of persons appeared
before the board to work in favor of
the petition for the vacation of an
alley in the Semi-Tropic Spiritualistic
tract. A larger number, however, op-
posed the abandonment of the alley and
the petition was denied.
A letter inclosing a check for $40
was received by the supervisors from
the Native Sons of the Golden West.
The money is refund to the county
from an appropriation on account of
the White memorial exercises, and was
ordered returned to the immigration
fund.
WIFI Consult CattIemen
To give Supervisor Pridham an op-
portunity to meet and discuss with
committees Of cattlemen the question
of advancing pound fees, the matter
was continued one week.
The annexation of a portion of Farm
dale school district to Los Angeles
for school purposes only was ordered.
The proposition to build a concrete
culvert on East Mission street at the
eastern boundary of South Pasadena
was referred to the bridge committee.
Application of the Burbank Rural
Telephone company for permission to
build a mile of poles for a line to con-
meet with Glendale was denied and the
company will ask for a franchise.
L. r. Paxton, a clerk of the super
visorial board, was reappointed yes
terday. Mr.. Paxton began his work
for the county twenty years ago, and
has filled many responsible positions.
Other appointments were as follows:
M. D. Smith, fireman; S. E. Atwater,
t. H. Wiseman, D. A. Hodges. HI. G.
Beatty and ]. Y. Bernard janitors.
The highway commissions selection
of Harry E. Waite, H. E. Bentely. Ned
Marsh, p. M. Holton, Heber Jones and
oliver G. Allen as rodmen was an
proved, and the commission was an
thorized to expend not to exceed $1,000
for additional instruments for survey
work