The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO THR KEY WEST CITIZEN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1988 The Key West Citizen a Published Daily Except Sunday By THE NN PUBLE iG CO. INC, N, President and Publisher 'N, Assistant Business Manager Wrom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets | visions of the wage hour act are enforced against them, Howard P. McFariane, attorney for the Peninsular Telephone Co., told delegates to the annual meeting of the Florida Telephone Associa- LION MEMBERS | WOULD AFFECT START DRIVE | PHONE SERVICE | A HELP TO KEY WEST | | | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY The announcement yesterday by State , | Representative Bernie C. Papy that a con- | Happenings Here Just Years Ago Today As Ta | ference of state senators and representa- | From The Files Of The Citizen | Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe — County | if -ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | (a8 Ea det ital Ae ls ee i sco al a Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited In this paper and aiso | the local news published here. | ‘ne Year bix Mont! Three Months One Month Weekly ... $10.00 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES Made kuown on application. . SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents @ line, Notices for entertainments by churches trom which revenue is to be derived are 5 centa a line. | rhe Citizen is an open forum and invites discus | son of public issues and subjects of local or general terest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, — —_—— er IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. | Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. eer What used to be called the “silent vote” now appears to have a feminine voice. No mother-in-law thinks that the mother-in-law jokes were aimed at her kind of mother-in-laws., Many public speakers do not ‘know what to do with their hands. A lot of bridge players are like that, too. FT The Dies committee is doing a fine job, even if it has been handicapped by the higher-ups. It is uncovering spies and sending them to jail. Deaths from malaria fever in the United States have decreased 61 per cent since 1900, according to U. S. Census ‘Bureau reports. This is a pleasant news item, but it does not affect Key West, as malaria fever is foreign to this island. Women are becoming more masculine every day. First they emitted little coughs when they attempted to smoke a cigarette, now some of them smoke cigars without even a grimace. If this thing keeps up it | will eventually change our sex at will— like the oyster. A Key West woman informed her husband that a certain married man kissed his wife every day, and added that he idn’t. The negligent husband’s reply is ot known to this cglumn, but he might ave replied that hedidn't know the other | man well enough. | Articles for publication in The Citi- | zen must be signed by the author, If you | do not want your name published in con- nection, tell us so, and we will not print | it, but you must sign everything submit- | ted. This rule is strictly adhered to by | the editor. | as chairman of the tives of the Fourth Congressional District had approved of an allotment of $100,000 to Monroe county for extension of the right of way and viaducts between Big Pine and Ramrod keys is of immense im- portance to Key West. Completion of that stretch of new highway will eliminate three wooden bridges, thus substantially reducing the | fire hazard, cut five miles from the dis- | tance and do away with several danger- | ous curves and some rough road. Instead of curving around through Big Pine and Torch keys, the highway will proceed on a direct line from the toll gate at Big Pine to Ramrod where it will rejoin the old county roadway now in use. It will be a fine improvement and cut down the run- ning time between the mainland and Key West. : Another appropriation approved by the conference, Representative Papy and | B. M. Duncan, engineer and manager of Overseas Road and Toll Bridge district re- port, was one of $46,000 for resurfacing the highway between Tavernier and Snake | Creek, That stretch is notoriously rough and dangerous and has been in sore need of resurfacing for some time. This job further will reduce the distance, or the running time, between Key West and the mainland. These jobs are scheduled to get start- ed right after January 1 under the super- vision of the State Highway Department. It is to be hoped that by the time this work is completed the County Commission will have come to some agreement with R. C. Perky to acquire some 30,000 feet of old railroad right of way he controls between Ramrod Key and Key West. Failure to get this right of way is blocking the effort to get appropriations from the state and the U. S. Bureau of Roads to complete the Overseas Highway all the way to this city. The commission should renew its effort to settle this matter with Perky or else bring action in the courts to acquire the required property. . Representative Papy and Road Man- ager Duncan are to be congratulated for their successful effort to get appropria- tions from the state for the highway. Since the state appropriations are matched by similar allotments by the U. S. Bureau of Roads it means that some $292,000 will be available for this vital work. STATE ISSUES ANNUAL GUIDE (The Lakeland News) With the weather as it was Saturday and Sunday wwe were thinking of that job listed Comptroller Jim Lee’s new book: “Frozen Des- sert inspector, $300 per month.” There is another: in | “Cold Storage Egg auditor, $150 per month.” Cold | facts, these. There are others about which tax payers will hear with more or less chilled interest: Fumiga- tion specialist, $200; crab meat inspector, $166.66; and others. Some of the others? Well, there are key punch operators, kennel masters and proc- tors; visitors and professors of military science; | research fellows and an oil analyst; range riders | and a vocational rehabilitation supervisor; agri- cultural economists and an extension nutritionist. A couple of times one man gets two jobs: F. C. Elliott draws $400 a month as engineer and secretary for the internal improvement fund trustees, and $500 a year as assistant to the bud- get commission. Wendell Heaton gets $250 month- industrial commission and . | ditto as head of the unemployment compensation ‘ The United States should ask the be- | bureau. nighted Filipinos to come over here and | The book makes interesting reading. If you show us how to run our country eeo-| want totals, add them yourself. The Fort Myers At a regular meeting of the, | American Legion last night it was {decided to authorize the pur-|! chase by Dr. Lombard of a radio | | Overseas Highway over the old railroad |set to be installed at the Marine the world over, but was very en- hospital tor the benefit of the; |patients of the institution. The legion has been working on the! {proposition for some time and enough money has been raised |for the purchase of the instru-; ;ment. There have been a num-! |ber of contributors to the fund! jand the funds now total $225.21.! Everything is in readiness for | the presentation of the Kid Snow minstrels tonight at the Garden, Theater under the auspices of the} Key West Fire Department. Cli- maxing two hours of enterta’ | ment the same colored cast will} | present that great afterpiece “$10,- 000 Reward”. A laugh every |minute is the guarantee given and as the admission is but 35, jcents no one should miss this} | show. Tourist travel through Florida! this year will be the greatest in! the history of the railroad, said! H. N. Rodenbaugh, vice-presi-! dent of the Florida East Coast! Railway, who visited the city |yesterday with a group of offi- | |cials of the road. The effect of| | the recent storms has been more| ‘than discounted and tourists are! already turning to the Sunshine |State, earlier and in greater numbers than ever before, hej | said. Key West will profit greatly | | by the flow of traffic that is cer-| |tain to come to this city, is the | opinion of this high railway offi-| cial who predicts that Key West | | will be thronged with visitors as| |mever before. He anticipates) great travel. | Editorial comment: A street of | | well-kept homes is defaced by a/ blot of ugliness if one house on} that street is allowed to run down | and look badly. That one place | | stands out like a sore thumb. People are always conscious of it.! | A slovenly-looking home or busi-| |ness building on a pretty street | | is as much out of place as a tramp | |in the society of ladies and gen-! tlemen, |_ The third game of the Little |Worlds Series between the; Pirates and the Sluggers, which will be played Sunday to determ-! ine the city championship, will bring out a large crowd of fans, jit is said. The grounds at Fort | Taylor are said to be in excellent |shape for the contest. i | Christmas Carnival and speed | writing contest, which started |yesterday afternoon, is reported | to have been a success so far and is still in progress this afternoon | at the La Concha Hotel, expect- | ing to end late tonight with a gala |program. The event is being | Sponsored by the Commercial De- {partment of the Junior-Senior | High School. U. S. S. Hannibal and two sub- chasers of the survey expedition left this morning for Guanacab- ibe, Cuba. The Nokomis will soon follow with other units of the survey group. The subchas- jers had been stationed here since the activities of the survey were closed last season. The bridge party planned for Tuesday night, December 20,' | which has been arranged by the Red Cross Chapter, has been postponed indefinitely due to the various events which are sched- juled to take place before Christ- mas. Announcement of the par- ty will be formally made before the close of the year. Being a member of a fishing Party yesterday which landed 16 fine kingfish and 40 moonfish and hundreds of others included 20 distinct varieties of the finny fellows, State Accountant E. G. OCALA, Dec. 16 (FNS).—Many | tion here. ' George Parks, Herman Albury, , ‘son, for the first time, travellers were brought in yesterday by FOR CLUBHOUSE! Garnault Agassiz, widely known | ree oe Seana ene elenane: ety SITE FOR CLUB PROJECT) changes will have to be closed, exchanges should be exempt from wee Me "Agnsil Sas oalel | and residents of the areas depriv- | the wage hour provisions, because . : HAS BEEN SELECTED: wid Go Gi giteliphemelservinSdt peo: | the | law would increase costs | $569 more than total revenue oi WILL ALSO BENEFIT; XMAS | Thursday at the regular meeting, | the exchanges to meet the opera- TREE DISCUSSION | with members presenting novel-| tors salaries alone, Carl Brorein, |ty gifts to designated members; Tampa, was named president of as drawn by lots at the meeting! the association for.:the coming | year. He maintained that the small thusiastic over the success met in these waters. He has happily joined, he says, that great num- ber of sportsmen who claim the, finest fishing to be found is in the waters adjacent to Key West, which he found to be the great- est producers of fish to be found anywhere. With the visitors on the trip were Lewis Pierce, Machinery was set in motion} Jost evening: last evening at the regular supper | ee present was meeting of Key West Lions Club | e to raise funds for the purchase; ee r eer 53 of a suitable site and erection of | Walter and Jack Maloney. They a Community Clubhouse in this! had two boats, the Dot and the city. The meeting was held at! Baker Boy. Stone Church Annex at 6:30 Busia See a o'clock, Lion H. E. Day presiding. Editorial comment: The project calls for the lot pur- chase and erection of a modestly- sized building at first, to house club rooms, kitchen facilities and | small auditorium. Additions to the building are planned as time advances—the whole project to serve as not only Lions Club headquarters but for the benefit of civic organizations and other groups interested in regular meet-; ing places and suitable facilities: for social affairs. A special eom- mittee is working already on a shareholder plan to raise funds, following incorporation moves to be made immediately. i Balance of the meeting was! taken up with plans for coopera- | tion with other agencies in suc-' cessfully handling the Communi-' ty Christmas Tree to be staged! December 23. The club will hold; its own Christmas Party next; Me, Subscribe to The Citizen. Jack De- OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving All Points on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST, This sea- will run up against Cuba’s $3 tax. This tax is on tickets. They cannot leave without paying it. At Key West it’s entirely differ- ent. Tourists are welcomed and not unjustly taxed on their de- parture. Troop Four Girl Scouts have announced a change in their meeting time and will assemble tomorrow in their headquarters at the Scottish Rite Hall. The, meeting is being held at that time because of the basketball game to be played on their regu- lar Thursday meeting night. TWO ROUND TRIPS DAILY ¢*' (Except Sunday) Direct Between Miami and Key West. DIRECT EXPRESS: Leaves Miami 2:00 o’clock A. M., arriving Key West 7:00 o’clock A, M. Leaves Key West 9:00 o'clock A. M., arriving Miami 2:00 o’clock P. M, LOCAL: (serving all intermediate points) Leaves Miami 9:00 o'clock A. M., arriving Key West 4:00 o’clock P. M. Leaves Key West 8:00 o’clock A. M., arriving Miami 3:00 o’clock P, M. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Full Cargo Insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 Warehouse—Corner Eaton and Francis Streets Mrs. Grace Phillips announces that efforts are being made to provide all patients in local hos- pitals with Christmas boxes. As executive of the local Red Cross chapter, Mrs. Phillips each year makes this provision and this year will be no exception, if pos-| How to Ease sible, she said. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ismael| cH Calleja, 406 Southard street, on Sunday, December 16, a daughter | weighing nine pounds. Mother FirST—massage throat, and baby are doing nicely. with Vicks chest, and back pa EER | Ladies of the First . Methodist church will serve supper tomor- row night from 4 until 10 o’clock. The supper will be served on the church lawn and Santa Claus is sure to visit the supper and par- take of the refreshments. | | | | lears si panesse saan coughing—relieves beens si ican lero. Another deer was bagged yes- Sue of yicks H terday by the Tertulino hunting | ¥ H party, which is. composed of more than a dozen members, and, ~~ has been hunting on the Keys for the past several days. Some time | ago the group got a deer weigh- ing 90 pounds. The one bagged yesterday weighed 70 pounds. Something To Worry About And now we hear the people say That winters gone and lost it’s way. If so, I hope that lost twill stay And not come raging round in May. A Tongue-Tangler Wife—Did the doctor tell you that you had some pronounced disease? Hub—Yes, but I’m hanged if I can pronounce it. relieves COLDS first day, Headaches and Fever due to Colds, the coming holidays You and al me seasons festivi- Celebrate new 1939 Philco. | will thcroughly enjoy the ties all the more. Liquid, Tablets Salve, Nose D: Try “Rub-My Allowance for Your Old Radio EASY Farmers! for your information and pleasure, listen to FIRESTONE’S nomically. We have a_ deficit of almost | $40,000,000,000, while the Philippine commonwealth had a surplus so great that all-theisland’s outstanding bonds were | retired. After paying all expenses to run | the government last year, $49,295,727 re- mained in the tiller. Even the greatest can err at times, es- pecially when defining anything. “Man.” said Plato, addressing his scholars, “is a two-legged thing without feathers.” “Be- hold,” interrupted Diogenes, holding up a fow! which he had plucked clean, “behold Plato’s man.” Once the French Academy was asked to give a definition of a crab. It replied that it was a red fish that ran backwards, erring three times in its re- ply. A crab is not a fish but a crustacean, it is not red until cooked, and it does not run backwards but sideways, i News-Press says a WPA project might be set up for that. There’s a good gain in job totals, too, judging by the number of pages in the new list of em- ployees, 204 from last year’s 151. The News-Press calls it the “jobseeker’s guide.” An interesting relic of early Spaniards in Florida was found sticking out of the ground near his home by Wilbur Smith of Daytona Beach. It was a sword, declared by the Smithsonian Institution to be of a type used by Spanish officers in the 16th century, and was fairly well preserved. On a gravestone in a cemetery in Bur- lington, Vt., is the following ambiguous tribute to a woman of that city who died in 1888: “She lived with her husband 50 years, and died in the confident hope of a better life.” Hauselt is today happily and en- thusiastically proclaiming the trip one of the most delightful and thrilling experiences of his entire existence. The visitor’s prize catch was a kingfish three feet long. This and a few of the moonfish which fell prey to his hook were packed in ice and sent to his home by express. From a most successful period of deep sea fishing in the Gulf, the party came to Spanish Key Har- bar and from there sought a nearer anchorage where many of the smaller fish including many grunts were taken. The trip was made on Solicitor J. F. Busto’s boat, Lois Marie. The party be- ing composed of J. F. Busto, Hauselt, Sheriff Niles, Nathan Niles Charlie Elwood, John Niel Sawyer, Joe Johnson, Raymond Lerd and Clayton Johnson. Forty-five giant barracudas, some of them six feet long and weighing more than 45 pounds leach, and hundreds of other fish “Voice of the Farm” Wednesday and Friday 12:45 P. M. WOAM 560 KC MIAME BROADCASTING COMPANY Fleming at Elizabeth St.