The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 24, 1937, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Entertains With Birthday Party Mrs. Henry Gardner entertain-} ed with a birthday party Friday CONCLUSION OF - BRIDGE REPORT (Continued from Page One). ‘equipment in order to conform to, night in honor of her sister, Miss their own contracts. Vietoria Arnold. Bingo was play-! evening. Miss' Susan Cash won the prize for the girls and Joe: Farto won the: prize, Miss Victoria re- the contractors ed during the fer the boys. “Since we have taken office ;We have brought pressure behind ithe Chief Engineer and therefore have increased’ weived: many beautiful and useful | their men through the Re-Employ- | gifts. cious refreshments were éonsisting of ice cream, cake and, candy. Those who helped Miss Victoria) to. celebrate her birthday were: Misses. Susan. Cash, lev, Lois. Lord, Shirley Pierce, Ethel. Cruz, Kathryn Knowles, Elizabeth..Ann Gardner, Ednaj Jean Gardner. Hastings Adams, Joe Nick Fernandez, Louis Arnold, Henry Gardner, Jr., Alvin Gates, Robert. Bethel. iMiss Susie Gardner, Mr. Mrs. Henry A. Gardner. Janior Club To Meet On Friday There will be a social meeting an of the Junior Woman’s Club held’ on Friday. afternoon, beginning at 5 o'clock, at the “Grouper Ca- bana” on Rest Beach. The hostesses on the will be Mrs. Howard Wilson and Miss Rita Pinder. All members are requested to be im attendance. Seececccocceccccoccoases PERSONAL MENTION, e eek W. W. Demeritt of the lighthouse service, left’ over the highway this morning for Miami on a business trip and ex-! peets to return within the next few days. During the evening deli- served ¢d their equipment, and to this; Marian Tay-| Farto,! 'ment Service Office and. increas- Mr, Duncan advises there are 800 men oft the project, and} we understand 200 more men will be availate within the mext ‘ten days. Why wasn’t this done ibefore? Why wasn’t more force- *i ful action taken on the contractors to make them put on the neces-| sary men, to make them put up the necessary equipment, and the necessary facilities to equip the date | additional men? vious that it was humanly Wannamaker and {possible for tion Co., and Clarke Bros. Co! contracts on time with their pre: ent personnel. and equipment? | Was it not obvious that unless these contracts were pushed the! | first ferry gap would not be com- pleted within the time to take ad- vantage of the coming tourist season? Was it not obvious that completed in time for the tourist [funds to pay interest with, andj that the only means’ to pay, the! j interest. with would be the; tolls “The audit shows very clearly jthat there are around about 65 jemployed by the Bridge Com is} sion, and out of this group ap- | proximately one-half are cntegnree | State Road employes under Duncan, and only 23 of the st employed reside in Monrog Coun-: ty. Not one resident of Monroe } County employed receives) more than $110.60 per month. with. hardy an exception, while not; one of the others employed, par-: Was it not ob-; im-; | Wells. C, ¥. Thomason Construc: | struction Company, to: finish their j lurfess the first bridge gap was: occasion; season that we would have no, — the former State Road: Miss Mary Thompson left Sun-jemployes, teetives less than: day morning over the highway to. $110.00 per month with hardly an take up a course of study at the} exception. May we quote from a University of Pennsylvania, pre-| Certified Public Accountant audit, paring to take up the professionjmade as of July 19, 1937, of nursing. The name of Miss|time this new Commission took Phelan was inadvertently used in| over the busin f the District announcing this departure in the “‘An exammation of the issue of yesterday. past twelve months expense reveals that it has, cost $88,172.41 for engineering. Of this amount $21,673.47 ‘was paid to the State Road Department of the State of Florida to reimburse it for amounts expended for the District from July to Decem- ber, 1936. The remaining amount of $66,648.98 was ex- pended from December, 1933 to July, 1937, after construc- tion wag commenced. The average cost per month. aft- er construction was started has been approximately $9,- 500.00, ‘Sines it is estimated: from availabls information, that it will require abovt eight months to complete the proj- ect it is readily seen that the Engineering Fund will fall short of approximately $36.- 000.00. . . “This is an extremely conserva- tive estimate, inasmuch as the Mrs. Earl Baumgardt,and chil- dren Betty Ann and George, who were spending a while in Key West visiting relatives and friends, left over the highway this morn- ing for Miami en route to their home in Ft. Lauderdale. Mrs, James Chapman and niece Miss Arlene Bristow, who were visiting for a week in Key West, left over the highway this morn- ing for Jacksonville. bus for the home at Plantation Key, after a pleasant visit with relatives. Thomas Whitmarsh, custodian|’ of the Monroe County courthouse, who was spending a vacation of several weeks in Jacksonville and! Miami, has returned to the city and resumed his duties. a year before the road will completely open for travel unless forceful action is taken. “A statement from the audit showing the contracts, amount! paid, and per cent work compkt- STUCK BY NEEDLE Hastings, Neb. — Spending a sleepless night betausé of the per- sistent yelping of his dog, R. ‘0. ,< attorney, investigated the reason and found the point of a needle sticking out of the animal’, neck, In the dog’s throat he found a length of thread and. pu®ing on the thread, he removed the needle, ‘gress of the projects as of, June 30, 1937: “Contract A, Wannamaker & Wells. Amount, $159,993.82. Amount paid, $19,338.93. piration date, March 29, 1937. Percentage work compkted,. 63.5. “Contract B, C. Y_ Thomason Co, Amornt, $365,489.98.) Amount paid, $80,077.29. Ex- piration date, June 27, 1937. Per- teentage work completed, 24.34. “Contract €, Clarke Bros. Con- struction Co. renga $12%,- Amount $20,- Mrs, Richard Knowles and chil- dren Gloria and Sylvia, left this morning on Florida Motor Lines 20 DAYS AT: 130 DEGREES Houston, Texas.—Mrs. Esther Horman, 28-year-old English-| woman, endured 20 days of 130- degree heat in the hold of a ship im order to come to this country to find her missing husband. Fire im the ship’s hold foreed her and another stowaway to abandon their place of hiding. She will be deported, Percentage work pleted, 18.80. “ Contract D, S. J. Groves and| Sons. Amount, $422,810.57. Amount paid, $14,321.16. Expira-! tion date, January 4. 1985. Per- centage work compieted, 3.60. ast “Contract E, S. J. Groves and FRANKLIN D. ROSSEVELT “I am deing everything in my power to discourage the use of gases. and other chemicals in any war between nations.” ‘And Edna Smith—is she still as snippy as ever?” “Oh, Edna married since you saw her-—and divorced!’ “Really! And who's the} Board believes it wil be at least) be} ed, ig self-explanatory of the pro- | Ex-} ny \oday’ s Hiorescope| PSS OSSSHSSHSSHESTOSSSEEE Today’s native will be a prom- ising experimentalist and an ac- hcomplished critic, but there will tbe a tendency to a complaining \nature, probably dissatisfied with jits achievements. Much. of this) jmay be avodied by schooling the mind to contentment, since there | will’ always be a fair measure of j sucess. | EAT MUCH CANDY | Washington.. — Candy produc! ‘tion in the United States during 1936 was set at 2,054,000,000 pounds and valued at. $309,291,- 000 by the Commerce Department, which estimates that consumption fof candy last year averaged 16 pounds for every person in the country, .a new’ high. The former irecord high was 15.7 pounds in; 11929. Sons. Amount, $453,910.95. Amount paid, $1,392.28 Expira-| tion date. January 4, 1938. Per- | centage: work completed, .14. “Contract F, S. J. Groves and Sons. Amount, $376,832.37. . Amount paid, $13,248.17. Expi- ration date, January 4, 1938. Percentage work completed, 3.60. “ ‘Contract G, Thomas F. Ken- ney Co. Amount. $430,154.34. Amount paid, $13,248.17. Ex- piration date, January 4, ily Percentage work completed, 14.50. “‘The American Bridge Com- | DanyyiWRO- Aiea cfu tpyishedic steel, "have gapptic ythecemmoprydn ac- icordance with their contract, and are prac ry Tron and Amount, , Se Re we ing. E: nm ~ | 22, 1938.’ | “This Board feels that unless isome forceful action is taken and that unless our hands are not tied, the first ferry gap may not be completed in time to take ad- {vantage of the best part of the coming tourist season; and that the road: will not be completed for| {probably a year. “When this Board came into of- fice, the contractors blamed the lack of personnel on the Re-Em- ;Ployment Service office, and the Re-Employment Service office {blamed it om the contractors. ''This Board took it upon itself to get to the root of the trouble, and the present personnel has been in-} creased 60% in little more than la month. | “We have done everything in our power, and so has our Attor- ney, to cooperate with the Public Works, Administration, and to se- eure the bridges as soon as pos- ‘sible and. as safely as. possible. jdo not know where the fault lies } for the delay om the project, but our hands tied, and will do. every- thing in our power to see that the bridges are built as soon as pos- sible. To that end the Board has taken the position that they will not enter into any contracts with its personnel. We are dealing in all good faith, and the Board be- lieves that the building of the bridges is something sacred and unless it has the courage to carry out its convictions it would have violated a public trust.” QUICK! STOP CHILLS AND FEVER!’ | } ah ie ‘ Wd pligt When you've got chills and fever, rou want real and ready relief. You what you ‘This is i Grove’s T: | start taking it at | onic, Soe and ae ee <a > Se ee eee news snd well-rounded editorial Tee clean, wnbresed testures, including the Weakly Section, make the Mosrvon the idml newspeper Franchot Tone and Katherine Hepbarn in QUALITY STREET —also— LADY FROM NOWHERE Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25 SSS following loestion for the home. idee sedge ya on red door, and a the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM * 327 ELIZABETH STREET E Pelping upon his personal prestige to . their chosen: representatives in Con- Lae “We are not engineers and we j twe do know that we do not want . not to be tampered with, and. that} ‘You and Your Nation’s Affairs e. Victory for Principle By ERIK McKINLEY ERIKSSON Professor of History, Eniversity of Southern. —. popular ever polled in this: country by a presic ential candidate, the Chief Execu- tive apparenily interpreted the result as @ man- date to dc what he pleased. Without con- sulting his party leaders in Congress he se- cretly drafted: his plan for packing both the Su- preme: Court. and the: lower courts, vote force the adoption of the measure. * That the President misjudged the temper of the American people and gress was quickly made. clear. ‘Through newspaper editorials, radio addresses, and letters and telegrams which poured into Wash. .gton, the People voiced, their empkat! Proval of the Ca men, whose. loyalty ¥ the, American | government transcended ir to .he mar. who is their leader, hastened to organize themselves for the purpose of defeat- the proposal. What was it that caused thi. amaz- ing: opposition to the plan of a leader whose popularity was so concretely demonstrated in the-elections of last November? Simply stated, it was be- suse of the revelation. that. the Pres- ident’s plan, presented as a reform “measure, was, when: stripped of. its camouflage, nothing more or less than a scheme to: give the Executive com- plete control of the judiciary: pid Hi| tion that ape, Conon b, sales peed ightly brushed aside as» lg that was required to secure the . shaet- ment of far reaching’ \for some New Deal his colleagu-s. that it was the Presi- dent’s measure. In view of this situation the ite even probable, could. have ‘nhsoad. | such staunch Democrats ar Senators. Wheeler, Burke, McCarran and of their associates. im the bitter struggle was most heartening. It augurs well for the future of democracy. The action cf the Senate Judiciary ‘Committe: in reporting the original court bill unfavorably spelled doom: for that measure. Chagrined but not. dismayed by. this setback, the neo- New Dealers produced a nev which proved to: be @ plan for what Senator*Wheele: appropri: called. “slow pactioa packing” of the Court. Tnsteal measure the anti-packing forces bilized for a finish fight against The best administration. lobb; companying the congressi gation to attend: Senator Robinson’s the sentiment against the bill, Ap- peals on the Senate floor to stand by ‘the President, “on whose coat tails” many of. the Senators had ridden into office, had no effect. Even the public insistence of the President that the bill must pass proved of no avail, The Senate vote of 70 to % to re- commit the bill to the Judiciary Com-. mittee has disposed of the « irt pack- ing plan at least for this session of. Through four sessions of Congress the President has been able to dic- Congress. (Address questions to the author care of thisnewspaper} EWOULD SCREAM But being put in printer's yow to read, and, I say knowledge IF | COULD TALK ink, L am only a corpse for is greater than wealth. Money can only earn eight per cent, and can buy what- ever you want, But knowledge and its unlimited ea is something money can’t buy, ing power. Still all my customers get it free nd you only pay for the works I do, for value received, and in. goods. F would not trade my happiness in the work I amigoing for alf the money Mr. Porter has in tke bank. W5th my ex- and work, I makefriends and get paid for it; with money you not only make enemies, but lose friends. The olif saying is certainly true, if you w: friend and make an enemy, lend him money. to lose = bam being poor serving everyone, than the rich with their money. Money is the root of ail evil,.so you see why I love my work. Money is not everything in life. } will take for my part in life friendship, good will, and the fine feeling between myself and customers, that 1 have been. working for so hard. ,, Well the weeks roll into months, and the months will soon roll inte years, and we keep going ahead, striving for the future that not one of us knows what wil] happen to Key West, and how fart we will grow. But I do know my business is greater than since | started here, and my old customers keep and it feels great to sce the new anes coming in too, I want the world to know my customers, and I am sure Won't you 522 Duval Street EASY TERMS—10 me a trial? You can’t lose, 1 need your 1 am pleased if you are one of I can please you. DAYS FREE TRIAL ——On Display At— eaecak. could do nothing to change _| TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937, CARD Bo te THANKS “VICTIMS” APPEAR of two supposed victims, were ‘astounded when the “fire vic- tims” appeared. 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