The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1939, Page 4

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Von Mietk-Liubas At Informal Tea On Thursday}. ° Admiral. and Margaret von Mietk-Liuba will entertain at an informal tea Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at their summer resi- dence, 1015 South street. The party will introduce Mrs. Maude Haynes Hollowell, of Tal- lahassee, poet and writer, to Key West. Mrs. Hollowell, better known under her professional. name of Maude Haynes, is very active in Tallahassee church, civic and so-! cial circles. She is chairman of the Methodist Missionary Circle, | a Past President of Leon County Tuberculosis and Health As- sociation, Secretary of Amaryllis Garden Circle, publicity chair- man and past historian of the American Legion. Auxiliary, and a member of the Tallahassee Wo-! man’s Club, of whose poetry and | drama division:.she has been chairman for several years... Her own poetry has been pub- lished in over seventy-five media. A member of the Talla- To Entertain hassee Little Theater and chair- man of the current Academy award committee, Maude Haynes Hollowell: wrote and directed radio plays for the . Tallahassee radio station. She is editor of the column “In Review” of the Tallahassee Daily Democrat and has been writing the weekly “Photoplay -Guide” in the same newspaper since 1934, For sev- eral years she has been the edi- tor of the poetry column in the Florida State News. Through her membership in the Pan- American Poetry Society she has linked’ herself to Key West where in the few days of her stay she has acquired a host of friends. The von Mietk-Liubas, it may be remembered, were residents of Key West from 1934 to 1936. All their friends and anyone wighing to meet Maude Haynes Hollowell are invited to attend the tea Thursday afternoon. on the beautiful grounds belonging to Miss Molly Parker. Two Leave On Extended Trip Ben Adams and daughter, Miss Betty Adams, were passengers on the early bus today going to Miami, where, after a brief stay, they will go to Portsmouth, Va., to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ever-/} ett Albury and family. They expect to be absent for one month and before returning will visit the World’s Fair in New York and spend a_ brief time in Washington, D. C. Florence Roberts Weds: Earl Mickler In'the presence of the imme- diate family last night in Flem- ing Street Church, Miss Florence H. Roberts, daughter of Cleve- Jand Roberts, became the bride of Earl R. Mickler, of Tallahas- see. Rev. J..P. Lilly officiated. The newly weds were escorted to the bus station this morning by the father and sisters Uf the bride and there took the bus for Tallahassee and their future home. Asnouncement Of Marriage Mrs. Jennie B. DeBoer, 202 Fieming street, announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Lou, to Robert H. Lindsey, of New York City, on February 22, 1939... Marriage was solemnized in that city. Mg; Lindsey is well-known here» having spent last winter in this city. Mrs. Lindsey is now spending a visitin Key West with her mother. PERSONAL MENTION SOSSeeeeeecscenacsseeces W.-W.. Demeritt, superinten- 4 SOCCCCcecevveeovessenocos THE WEATHER Seccdecedenedaccesscbeee Temperatures” a 88 16 2 81 Highest Lowest Mean ... Normal Mean Yesterday’s Precipitation .0 Ins. Normal Precipitation .... . .11 Ins. *'Thig record covers 24-hour period ending at & o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises - 5:36 a.m. Sun sets 7:15 p. m. Moon rises - 11:57 p. m. Moon sets - 11:11 a. m. Tomorrow's Tides AM. PM. 2:14 * 1:37 1:34 8:22 a. m., today High Low Barometer, Sea level, 30.02. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m. Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: \ Partly cloudy, scattered showers to- night or Thursday; gentle variable. winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, tered showers near extreme south coast. tonight*or Thursday and in extreme north portion Thurs- day. Jacksonville to. Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle, variable winds and partly overcast weath- er tonight'and Thursday, scat- tered showers in the Florida Straits. Today's Birthdays Dr, Herbert Feis, adviser on international economic’ affairs to the Department of State, born in New York, 46 years, ago. Carl B. Roden, chief librarian of the Chicago Public . Library, born at Kansas City, Mo. 68 years ago. dent of Seventh Lighthouse Dis- trict, and son Dr. W. W. De- meritt, Jr, who left yesterday morning for a business visit in Miami, returned yesterday after- noén. es L. R. Bristol, director of Dis- trict 10 State Welfare Board, who*was here for a regular visit with: Mrs. Gladys Roberts, local supétvisor, left over the high- way this morning accompanied by Mrs. Bristol. Mrs: Juan Salgado was a pas- senger on the Cuba yesterday afternoon going to Tampa for a visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Vil- lareal. Buddy Nunnery; was a pas- senger leaving on the early bus this morning going to Crawley, La, for a vacation visit of three months with his father’ Howard , and will return in time Dr, Herman B. Wells, presi- dent of Indiana University, born at Jamestown, Ind., 37 years ago. Dr. Paul Monroe, Columbia University’s retired. professor of education, born at North Madi- son, Ind, 70 years ago. Charles R: Arundell, chairman of the Federal Board of Tax Ap- 54 years ago. H. Stanley Todd of New York, noted portrait painter, «born in St. Louis, 68 years ago. NO WONDER! Towson, Md.—In order. to se+ LEAVE FOR FAIR TALLAHASSEE UNIT EN- ROUTE TO NEW YORK GAINESVILLE, June 7 (FNS), —Thirty-six. members of the Glee Club of the University of Florida left here the first of the week to join the thirty-nine members of ihe, Florida State Women’s Col- | lege Glee Club at Tallahassee for la special trip to the New York | World's Fair. ‘The combined Glee Chibs will present a five-day pro- | gram of music and songs at the Florida Building in the Fair. The tour, arranged by Barton H. Smith, travel agent: of Tampa, willbe made in * Florida Motor Lines buses, and is planned to af- | ford.an additional attraction at Florida’s Fair buildings .as. well as further to advertise the state. Both Glee Clubs have made ap- pearances in other sections of the country, and are acknowldeged | to rank among the best college} groups in the nation. Their ap- pearances at the Florida’ building should prove an important and added advertisement for the en‘ tire state. Plans for the trip include aj one-day stopover at Washington, where the two Glee Clubs will} |make one appearance. EXPERIMENT TO PLAN ADOPTED DEALS WITH) ‘LATIN-AMERICAN VISITORS 4 JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 7} attract Latin-American. visitors | to Florida is being conducted by | the Seminole Hotel of this. city. serve the study of chambers of| commerce all over the state. The hotel has prepared a/ | three-color folder depicting the | attractions of Florida, with the | text entirely in Spanish. Some twenty-five thousand of the fold- ers have already been distributed in Cuba, South America and the Latin-American countries, This is thought to be the first| time any American ‘hotel has so-| licited: Latin-American business | through a folder written in Span- ish-and éspecially deSigned for the. purpose. Z With the World’s Fair at New York and the Golden Gate Expo- sition at San Francisco sure to attract thousands of Cubans and South, Americans to: this country, many_of them to enter by way of/ Florida, the Sgminole Hotel's| Spanish ‘folder meets @ definite situation -with cleverness and foresight which should result. in benefits to all sections of the state. : * NEW ARRIVAL IN ‘ALBURY’S FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Willard «Albury announce the birth of a daugh- } their home at 1122 Grinnell street. The young lady: weighed six pounds and will be hamed Mary Alice. Mother and baby are reported to be doing v — |OUR EXPANDING Motorists are the chief source of state tax revenue. They pay 38 per cent of all the tax revenue received annually by the 48 states. In addition, they pay nearly one-third of a billion dollars in automotive taxes annually to the federal government. eocce ° e By HAROLD L. ICKES, (Excerpt from address given by Secretary Ickes at a banquet hon-| E AND NATIONAL PARKS Secretary of the Interior oring ‘the dedication of Dr. Edward A. Babler Memorial State . Park at St, Louis, Misouri, October 10, 1938) ©00000000000050000 00000900 SCOCOO DOOD OOOOCOEOOO® “In the’ Fedéral-State Survey of parks, counts have been made of visitors in, park areas of , all kinds; now established. It- wag found that there are only two things that will pull people to a park more than fifty miles away —a good swimming beach, and beautiful scenerf. Of course, you may say that there is good scen- ery at a swimming beach. But there is’no reason for making a national park of a swimming beach, unless there is some other reason for it: However, if you combine a beautiful strip of ocean front with an area rich in wild- life, especially if that wildlife is threatened with extermination, then you have the materials for a national park. This is why an effort has-been made, year aft- er year for the past’ ten years, to establish the Everglades National Park in. southern Florida. . .If Florida were alert. to the oppor- jerate in the establishment of this park before law-breaking poach- ers—and I am told that,many of these poachers are visitars from the North—have shot and killed all the egrets and herons and cranes and bises and eagles which tin the past have made, the Ever- jglades a paradise of tropic wild- { life”, TOO LATE’TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY Well, the great Raspberry Fes- tival is over and while things didn’t exactly turn out the way some folks would have liked, to have it, nevertheless there was no great harm done. a The Legislature tried its .best to please everyone and if you it. One crowd wanted bigger and better appropriations and I mean they got °em. Some want- scat-| The idea and its possibilities de- | ed to be “let alone” so they were taken care of very nicely. » No- body wanted any miore , faxes, and so the TAXPAYER was con- sidered. All in all the boys didn’t do much but mill around and dope out a nice little financial cross- word puzzle and then hand it over to Governor Fred to solve. And right now Florida should be happy indeed that she has a governor who is. able ‘and courageous enough to, do just that. All along he has, insisted that we needed no more taxes. He pointed out that if things were left as they were we'd come out all right. Thinking to force a “sales tax”, } an effort was;made to appropri- ate so much that, there would be} no other way out, but it. didn’t work and now all Fred has to do to put things in order ‘is simply veto « three ‘little « bills . and--we'lb sail along in nice shape. The handwriting ‘on ‘the wall at this time indicates that Goy- ernor Fred will exercise his veto power on the measures in question: «the bill repealing the one-half of one percent gross re- ceipts tax, and the two. on gas tax’ allocation—better known as “801” and “802”. OF course, such action. on his part might make a few folks terribly unhappy, but it will please the bulk of the tax- | ° 3. ‘ peals, born in Washington, D. C.,| ter yesterday at 12:45 o'clck in| payers and permit-us to carry on/ just wastin’ your time and you just like we were doing. The schools and the old folks his pencil sharpened he may. de- cide ‘to veto a lot of other appro- priations for this and that, which he considers unnecessary:* But you can depend ‘on :it, Fred said when he told us not to. wor- (ENS).—A. unique experiment to|ask me they did a swell job, of|ry as things would turn’ out all} right. For the first time a lot of folks are findin’ out that Fred is a “right smart” governor. Pa- pers that have ridiculed and laughed at him on other occa- sions are now singing his praise. The-lobby lizards are happy, of jcourse, for they were very suc- jcessful in getting appropriation bills passed. and earned the |money they got from the special }interests they represent. At thy same time, the fact that there is their fault, so when Fred gets through with his little veto job they can all count on going back !to Tallahassee in d@hother two years and try again. = : The “Tragic Situation” pointed ‘to in such alarm by certain ‘leg- islators and ‘private interests has turned out to be». just another |bugaboo. No one ‘has been hurt. We escaped the “sales tax” and jare going)to find in. the’ end .of | the day that we are pretty .well jotf, If economizin’ here and there it | won’t hurt us, and we'll find that | business will go on aS usual; the old folks will be cared for, the ‘schools will stay open; and, with Governor Fred lookin’ “after us we'll continue to get by and ai the same time keep on eatin’ “a little higher up on the hog”, And if any of you folks are sit- tin’ around waitin’ for Fred to call an extra session on account of the “emergency”—well, you're might as. well forget it:and get back to your knittin’. tunity that it has it would coop-} was sincere and meant what he) {no money to meet ¢m with is not} we have ,t6 do a pit, of SAYS EDUCATION... OVERCOME MUCH OF : PROPAGANDA : WEST pcg June 7 (FNS).—The “best and most ef: fective manner. _-of ‘combating subversive propaganda now. be- ing spread through . the -United States, is: by the education of the American people to the benefits and privileges of our democratic government, “Attorney George Couper Gibbs asserted in his Me- moriat address here, which was broadcast over Station WJNO, “In this country”, he said, “we cannot curb such activity by passing laws or fighting — with dictators’ tools. Qur strongest weapon is ‘truth and knowledge of the truth. We must educate | the. American people, who take their liberty and privileges as a matterof ‘course, to. the full real- ization of their blessings in being citizens of a democracy, and they will fight to keep “from losing any of them”. JULY FIRST IN VICIN- | ITY OF LAKE CITY 1 LAKE-CITY, June 7 (FNS).—} Large-scale drilling _ operations for gas and oil will be started in this vicinity about July 1, ac- cording ‘to Kenneth. Nix, secre- tary and treasurer of the Swift Creek Oil Corporation. Nix has been here for several weeks rep-} | resenting his firm, and has com-| pleted all preparations for the undertaking. The Swift Creek Oil Corpora- tion has leased 57,000 acres in| the neighborhood: of Lake . City, | Olustee and Lake Butler, and is/| bringing in rotary drills and ex- pert oilmen from Texas to han- | dle its operations. The corpora: | | tion is spending large’ sums of | money ‘on the ~ project ' and,| although officials made no state- ments regarding the. success / of thie. work, it is fett here that the oil firm holds ‘high’ hopés that the drilling will prove justified. “If we find oi}* or gas, ‘of course”, said Nix, “it does‘not re- | quire anyone to tell us what this will mean to this section of Flor- | ida as a whole”. | | | PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW | peeecacereecoesccncecooe Honor Roll of San Carlos Grammar School follows, show- jing pupils who have distinguish- ed themselves during the whole jeourse of the ‘1938-'39.. school year: | -Bugene Zaldivar, Ivan Watson, | Evelio Baso, William Hernandez, Geraldo Alfonso, Onelia Fernan- | dez, Evelio Fones, Aleida Spen- | cer, Rose Watson, Blanca Leon, Hector Machin, Gloria Watson, NelidaSanchez, Rose Alfariso, Delfo Alfonso. ‘Aurora m, Grace Sanchez, | Dora Spencer, Alba Rodziguez, | Carlos Fernandez, Eddie ¥ernan- |dez, Margot Torres, Juan Avila, Arcadio Zaldivar, shares fe Frank zen, Dalia * Soto, Gh TeSnches Maihae, Marrero, Gerard Diaz, Lorenzo. 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