The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 20, 1938, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ACTIVITIES SOCIAL (+ cm US SOCIAL CALENDAR.’ TUESDAY— Stone Church Service Club supper, open to winter visitors. 6:00) p. m. Church Annex. Luncheon honoring visiting golfers who will give exhibition at} Beachy Ri Key West Southernmost Links. the evening auspices Key West Golf Club. Cocktails at the! Ernest Hemingways. <THURSDAY— ae aa, ~ Meeting Key West Lions Club, Stone Church Annex, 6:30 P. M. Rotary Club meeting 12:15 p. m. St. Paul’s Annex. Banquet and reception in| s_ | Priests Visit Highway | AndiIsland City Rew R. T. Bryant, S.J., pastor | ing August, 1937, was the sharp- of St{-Ann’s church, West Palm B. Franckauser, ? Spring’ Hill College, Mo- pilé? Who recently celebrated his |Golden Jubilee there, and Rev. | F. P. LeBuffe, SJ., editor of! Thought, drove over to see the Social meeting of Junior Woman’s Club with Miss Juanita Mayg | Overseas Highway and places of and Solita Cobo entertaining. 5 p. m. Woman’s Clubhouse. | interest in Key West. “SUNDAY— “Christmas Party auspices Ladies’ Aid Ley Memorial Church, 7:30 p. m. Residence of Mrs. Mary Weatherford. a Concert, Key West Hospitality Band. 5 p. m. Art Center Park. alan MONDAY— Father LeBuffe is in Florida after attending the Florida Con- |vention of Marian Societies in | Jacksonville. The group stopped at St. Mary’s Rectory. Father | LeBuffe called for a copy of The Regular Camera Club meeting. 8 p. m. Key West Federal Art| Citizen immediately upon arrival. Center. ..Annual Christmas Tea Dance honoring college students, given by Junior Woman’s Club. 5 p. m. Habana Madrid Club. THE ISLAND CITY Along the Waterfront © Copperlips Baker has lived all his life aboard his boat and has ever been ill in his life. tates that the mysterious fisher- ‘men’s tonic used locally is partly the reason. Recipe follows: Heat out-of a shovel, heart out of a $naul; life of a yellow pine plank. | Put in quart of water and boil to a liquid. Take a_ teaspoonful three times a day. down anywhere in these waters ‘will never be left by the other fishermen. Though the market may be waiting for them, all will help the one in distress. Most of the boats in the present king- Zishing business have small two ‘tylinder Palmer engines and they lake a terrific beating in No Man’s Land where the Gulf and Gulf Stream meets and the water boils up. Roberts, Key West's Peter | champion fish dresser, came to his profession by a strange pro- cess. He was born here in 1873. Employed first in the cigar fac- tories-he found that he was aler- gic to the chemical in the tobac- 0 leaves and was forced to quit that work. He next went fishing with Ben Tink Demeritt, Key West's late famous fisherman, but he got into trouble again. He was continually seasick. “Son, you better stay ashore,” Ben Tink then told him. He stayed ashore and—has cleaned nearly all the fish_the Demeritt Brothers has caught-since then. This has been thrOuigh 40 years of fish dressing sinee-the Spanish-American War. ‘There was a time when he was a li er when he “cleaned” fisie-(that is cut open and re- mdyea entrails, faster than three men-could prepare the fish by them). Roberts doesn’t Waste-time cleaning the fish. move counts. He can talk joke with every one, will be precisely right. He has cleaned more fish than anyone in town. “One thing you've got to have a AA fishing boat which breaks; | sharp knife,” he says, “and an- jother is plenty of practice.” He} Leicester Hemingway, brother jof the novelist Ernest Heming- i way, has his beautiful Cuban | sloop, “Aguila de Oro,” Eagle of Gold, on Willie Wickers ways. The beautiful lines of the under- water part of the boat has been admired by many. Two thousand pounds of ballast in iron bars are at present out in the sun being painted with red lead. Leicester is at New York doing newspaper work. The coral reef that runs along the Florida Keys from Key Largo down is an interesting sight un- derwater. Wading around the rocks of Sand Key one can go out to the reef and find live, yellow coral polyps. There is a gelatin- ous secretiol” over the polys | Make Report On | Entertainment | | Results of the entertainment) + given by the Drama “Club last! |\Friday night in the Harris School ‘have proven better than “was an- ticipated and $23 haVe been add-} [ed to the fund whith is to be jused for the Community Christ- | mas Tree. Preparations for the tree are) | steadily going ahead and Victor} | Larsen, supervsior of the WPA Recreational Division, said that ‘everything will be completed in | time for the distribution of toys {and other gifts Friday afternoon. | | One Marriage License Issued | Records at the office of Coun- ‘ty Judge Raymond R. Lord, show |that one marriage license was issued from the office yesterday afternoon. | This license permitted the mar- } riage of Mario Pena and La Goria | Palmer, and state that it was ex- pected that Notary Public Orlan- | ‘do Caraballo would perform the ‘ceremony. } } | over 30 percent in less | year, which resemble an anemone and | are about a half inch in diameter. | APPRECIATION I take this means to thank Mr. | These ‘polyps skeletons build up/{ coral reefs. When you wade! k around a coral rock use heavy! Berlin Sawyer, all my neighbors shoes and keep a sharp eye out and friends, the Fire Department, |for the needle-pointed sea ur-| Lighthouse Department, Lopez |chins, with sometimes foot long' Ambulance Service and every- | ispikes.. These spikes have body else in general for helping | barbed ridges which, when they | us save our lives and house fur- |enter the skin, will not come out nishings during the recent fire | by seizing them. But apply a that occured at 611 Fleming } little oil, then a little heat and_ street. | | pop, they spring out. |CAPT. & MRS. WM. C. BANKS. | Dec. 20-1tx | LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Business Raul Vasquez, owner of Raul's {Club, whose hobby is gathering; coral rock and shells uses a div-! ing helmet around the reef. When | he sees a big shark he waves his; and Theater District | ‘hands to frighten them away. | Many ugly-mouthed shark and’ Open The Year Around | barracuda investigate his activi-| G@tage——Elevator——Fireproof | ties, he says. He watches par-/ jticularly the snake-like, vicious moray lurking in the rocks, FIRST LESSON AT 81 POCATELLO, Idaho.—E. G. | House, 81, of this city, observed | his birthday anniversary by tak- jing his first piano lesson. BENJAMIN LOP! FUNERAL HOME ws ou as3s A gift of fur- HASSOCKS SCATTER RUGS WALNUT CEDAR CHESTS LAMPS TABLE CHESTS OF DRAW WERS BLANK! 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UNTIL CHRISTMA wa Phone 80 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Economic Highlights Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend | Checks and Tax Bills National and International Problems Inseparable From Local Welfare The decline in industrial activi- ty during the nine months follow- | est on record for any comparable} period, reports the United States! News. The recovery movement that set in six months ago, ac- cording to the same source, has no precedent in rapidity of im-} provement, with the exception of! the brief pre-NRA boom. Thése comparisons are based upon the Federal Reserve Board’s index of industrial production, which is a generally accepted barometer of industrial illness or ; health. This index uses the 1923-25 average as a “normal”,; with a rating of 100. In August, 1937, the reading was 117—almost as high as in 1929. In the subse- | quent May, it had dropped to the abysmal low of 76—a drop of than a Since May, 1938, the index has risen 24 points, which is close to half as much as it gained, on the} average, in the four preceding years. We thus have regained something more than half the ground we lost in the 1937 “reces- | sion”. Big question is, When can we! expect to regain the rest of the ground? In answering that, most’ economists are playing a wary; game. There is no lack of good! signs on the economic horizon.} At the same time, there are a number of puzzling unfavorable | |factors. The Annalist puts the} case accurately, when it says: “There would be more assurance | of a continuation of the present recovery if there were not sc many individual dictators that by | | Movement will go ahead, of Every Individual; \ | recovery movement, but thus far’ have done so either not at all or to a limited extent”. j Many experts think that in the | near futiire the rate of recovery may tend to slow—but that the even | though it is in second or low gear. It is an important fact that most business leaders are not greatly worried about w@at the | next Congress will do—they feel | that our lawmakers, after earnest analysis of the last election re- turns, will veer steadily to the right. i A few business briefs of inter- est follow: PRICES—Commodity prices re- | cently took a fairly sharp drop, | though they were well supported | and there was no danger ‘of a) crash in values. The whole price situation is confused and rather} chaotic, and is one of the least, | bright spots in the business pic- | ture. } CREDIT—Bank deposits are at! almost an all-time high — which means there is an abundant cred- it basis for business expansion. It will remain to be seen whether business loans will increase ac-} | cordingly. So far, they haven't. STEEL—Index of production is | at only a fair level. The trend is upward, but no great betterment | is expected for the next month or two. LIFE INSURANCE—This | in- | dustry’s sales are often a good index of purchasing power. Re- cently they have shown substan- tial improvement. But this im-| provement is; most think, duc) largely to the fact that the com- panies, because of investment conditions, have been forced to) {the golfer getting IN KEY WEST Tuesday Craig Wood, 1938 Augusta Open Champ, and Billy Burke, ex-U. S. Open Champ, will team up in a best ball golf matcn against Dick Metz, 1938 runner-up in the U. S. Open and U,SsFour- ball Champ, and Eddie Bush, Key West pro, im an exhibi- tion sponsored by the Key’ West Golf Club and Jayeee-Recreation Department . Winter. Program Committee. 2 p.m, Southern- most Golf Course. Wednesday Country’s top notch golfers fish the Key West reef in Raul Vas- quez’ charter boat for a prize of a Pfleuger rod and reel to go to the biggest fish, Fishing tournament is sponsored by ihe Key West Golf Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce. Friday Annual Community Christmas Tree, sponsored by Lions Club, WPA Recreation Department, NYA group, Girl and Boy Scout troops, First place tied Seafood “Grill and Eions Club basketball ms meetin a city league gamé ¥for league leadership. High Sehool and DeMolays in nightcap. 7:30 p.m. High School Gym. dends”. Prospective buyers have rushed to purchase policies under the old, more favorable terms. MOTORS—Is booming along in fine shape. The American pub- | lic’s appetite for cars is apparent- ly insatiable—and it also appears that many families will sacrifice almost anything else in order to obtain a new model. CONSTRUCTION—Is | steadily improving, especially in the resi dential field, when adjustment for seasonal trends is made. This is one of the best phases of the en- this time should be reflecting the| reduce their guaranteed" “divi- | tire recovery movement. | PERSONAL MENTION L. P. Artman, publisher of The! Citizen, left on the early bus this: morning on a business trip to Mi- ami and will meet his son, Nor- ‘ man Artman, business manager‘ of the Ocean County Leader, newspaper at Point Pleasant, N. J., who is coming to spend the holidays with his parents and the family. Misses Della May Pierce and sister, Miss Dorothy Pierce, left over the highway on bus of the} Florida Motor Lines yesterday to spend the Christmas season with their aunt, Mrs. Ida L. Larche,} and other relatives, ! = | City Councilman William Free- | man, who has been visiting in! Miami and at points along the Florida Keys, has returned to the city. Mr. and Mrs. Nickey Avalo and two daughters Solita and Lucy, arrived yesterday from Miami and will spend the Christ- | mas holiday with family and) friends. Absence Accounted F' Slow Walter (in London restau- rant)—Your cofee, sit; it’s spe- cial from South America, sir, Diner (sarcastically)}—Oh, so that’s where you’ve been? Ralph Richardson—Edna Best SOUTH RIDING Also—Comedy PRIZE NIGHT TONIGHT Ask Your Grocer For Strong Arm BRAND COFFEE Serving the Key West trade for TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1938 ANSWERS TO TEN TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to test questions printed on Page 2 — Flerida. Dr. Ross T. McIntire. An apparatus for testing the quality of musical strings. Antiquaries. Chicago, Ill. A metallic element. Master. 8,000. Soviet Russia. It is a seaport of Eeuador. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. 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Bake on top shelf of 400° P. oven for 15 minutes, of to de- sired crispsess. Star Bacon bas approx imately 18-20 slices per pound. Open both ends of two 16-07. cans of Armour’s Stat Corames! Mush and Bacoo ‘and remove contents whole. Slice each isto 6 thin slices. Brown slices slowly on both sides in bacon fat or Cloverbloom Butter. Serve 2 of 3 slices to each. Preparation