The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | THANK & — AMER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1939 "KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen ~: OD, WE'R ema ee ECONOMY ‘THE CIF¥ KEYNOTE PEOPLE'S | “WANTS KEY WEST DATA |The Key West Citizen: | Key West, Fla. | ; : : |" Enclosed please find dollar for | FIVE YEARS AGO entertained last evening by Mrs. | which I would like to receive} Eugene Demerit will be in; Mitchell White and Mrs. Sydney your newspaper for awhile. I command of the Florida Keys./ Mathews at the White residence | aids expecting to come to your | the ferry which has been desig-|or Seminary street. The dance { ity for.a year or two and fee] |nated to bring 200 of the men , Wad planned in honor of Mr, and yey paper is one way of getting who are employed on the bridge Mrs. George Manson and their ‘familiar with the life of Key |@tivities to Key West for |two children, Ida and George. | West and its citizens. | Thanksgiving Day and they are| SoS | I will be. glad to receive any | expected to reach the city this| FIFTEEN YEARS AGO j sort of circulars that may help |©Vening. A large and enthusiastic crowd ime in regard to schools, places | greeted the Rotarians’ minstrel ;to live, ctc. I have written to! Eleanor Ann, infant daughter | performance at the Garden Thea- ;ask the Chamber of Commerce of Mr, and Mrs. John Ogden, was ter last night. Many were the ito do Stig for me but have failed baptized in St. Paul's church | original and unique presentments pe ete ee ee [ane mening fe realterpdasion (a jokes and songs, and the aud- a cies Fint pray ot the! ience were kept in roars of Lands Sisgner. Aili. ond was ughter by the tales related by sponsored by Mr. erat Mrs. Emil the end men. The opinion was | Sweeting and Mrs. Sebastian Ca-|* 8Teat show. eet, i Word was received today of i he engagement of Miss Jessie | Members of the Eastern Star, \ | practically 400 of them, arrived | Louise Porter and Wallace Bry- on the Steamship Florida yester- | 2@* Kirke. Miss Porter is the Sir Cleyes. ‘ |day afternoon. “They — from | Gauehter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- | Good manners require us to’ every state in the union and Can-|#M R. Porter and Mr. Kirke is {give thanks for gifts. And so/ada, and were the guests of Fern | @" epgineer and assistant to the ‘we find pagans, even savages,|Chapter of Key West. They re-| £enerah manager of the Edison = }returning. thanks to some divinity | mained for a ride around the | Electric Company of New York. . — for abundant crops or some vic- | city and left on the boat for Tam-| 2"€Y Will be married in the itory in battle, The Greeks cele-| pa, Bronxville Episcopal Church, THE BLAND CRY feet abil ails ba’) anyone Feast and the sapiens Sanitary Department of the — hieda Rint hap = "thanked the gods at their Cerea- city is kept b catching dogs. KEY WEST AQUARIUM will)ed inboard and ‘small dinghey.|lia. The Hebrews gave thanks, Actual figure at aoe ire There are protected waters with to God ut their Feast of Taber-'showed there had been 132 good fishing for 40 miles up and! nacles, “Sukas”, in September,! caught by those assigned to this more. If you are big-shot enough but more especially at the Feast) work, and of this number 95 to want to enjoy all Florida Keys’ of Dedication, | “Chanukah”,| had been gassed. Owners of 39 fishing and boating. we would ‘about December 25th. For the! had paid the impounding fee and lintendent, John Sawyer and Suggest a 32-foot sloop, ketch or early Saxons in England it was| their dogs were returned. | John Peter Roberts. Another for- | yawl and a small inboard).13-foot the autumn festival, called the is |mer superintendent, who some | speedboat for inside, work. “Harvest Home”. TEN YEARS AGO years ago gave up his job at the: SEES In Italy Thanksgiving Day is} The Follies Dance given last | Aquarium to pursue higher bio- j THERE IS about $50,000 of | observed about the middle of No-| night in honor of the follies’ cast |logical studies at the University; work awaiting construction as vember, and in Canada the Gov-|is reported to have been the best | of Liverpool in England is Emory soon as some guarantee of zon-'ernor General proclaims the last of the season. The program was! Lowe Pierce. We would like to/ing protection is given. W. B.|Monday in October as the day!started by a grand march, led see him put in his application! Kirke has orders for two more to thank God. | by Mrs. Virgil Cordero, followed | also, Council is concerned with | houses—Thelma Strabel’ wants to} In Germany and Austria.’ by Capt. Hansen, U.S.N., and Miss | more, economies in the Aquarium’ build on southernmost: property, |Thanksgiving Day is celebrated Cuca Domenech and the entire |and will probably cut off an as-|an apartment house on Southard/on the first Sunday in October, | cast of the Follies. | ;Sistant. There are a number of/street—all are awaiting to go up|the morning being reserved for ed | | N.Y.A. boys who are assisting at|as soon as the zoning law is def- | religious services, while the aft-| The spirit of Thanksgiving} |the Aquarium and doing a good|inite enough. lernoon is used for speeches, folk| entered the Marine hospital yes- | ™’ job. i ;dances, ete., held in the country} terday and held full sway while ee | ISLAND CITY POPULATION: to make townspeople realize the 110 patients of the institution had COUNCIL at its last meeting | President Little of the . Rotary'hard work of the farmer. |spread before them and _ thor- planted several dynamite charges | Club. is’ reticent and quiet and} A people. whose determined|oughly enjoyed a dinner, which around various locations in city;friendly during personal chats; faith was like solid rock, per-:was a feast for kings. The dec- offices. Some of them went off' forceful, decisive and eloquent: in| secuted-for it in England; fled to|orations were furnished by the ; and some of them didn’t. Budget, public addresses. . Albert Peirce,' Holland, where, during their ten Woman's Club. jyears’ stay, they probably ab-| | A majority of the members of city | | council were elected on the promise they | | would reduce municipal expenses. This promise was in line with many other simi- ISHING CO., INC, | cept Sunday By lent and Publisher nt Business Manag. rc izen Building ‘Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County *lorida, as second class matter lar promises made by innumerable candi- | dates for council in the past. Therefore, H | many voters laughed when this new group | of candidates promised economy. How- | | ever, the voters took a chance and elected | these men. | That their confidence was justified is | evident from the terms of the tentative | budget adopted Monday night by city | council. The councilmen took the view | that since the voters wanted economy, they | had a clear mandate to cut the city’s fi- | Sincerely, nancial garment to fit the cloth of income | § , = ‘ = | MRS. ROME T, CALENDER. and the city’s ability to pay. m7 ‘ied: z Zs La eigen The result is a tentative budget which | ee : includes an elimination of a few city em- ; ployes, reductions in the salaries of some | city officials whose pay was considered | out of line with others doing comparable | work, reductions in maintenance costs for | various municipal departments, and finally a general cut of 10 per cent for all city em- | ployes whose pay amounts to $100 or | more a month. | It is explained by the economy bloc | of council that the city cannot hope to col- lect 100 per cent of taxes levied and as- | sessed; that the average over a period of | years is below 70 per cent annually. Yet | the tentative budget is set up on the basis of 100 per cent collections. Knowing it will be impossible to attain that goal, the | council adopted the 10 per cent salary cut and Smoke | proposed by the finance committee. Coun- cilmen seem convinced it will be possible to collect around 90 per cent of taxes due the city in the next fiscal year. In order to attain that desired result, the city council has directed the finance committee to consider a proposal for a par- tial payment system of tax collection. If this proposal is approved, property owners would be given opportunity to pay. in monthly installments. The theory is that many property owners with small salaries | and incomes can meet small monthly in- stallments, but are sometimes unable to | pay the entire tax bill in one payment. Without examination, it might appear Question: Is ._| that two salary cuts for some city officials Question: Is Robert Taylor, the movie A 2 : star, a man or a woman. Answer: He is| “°° was Sn gun Use: Howeren, epnnell- en eek Ga cman | men explain that these reductions will en- 5g 5 able the city to come close to meeting the monthly salary requirements in full in at Key West, the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to redited in this paper and also the local news published here. = » Late SUBSCRIPTION RATES known or PECIAL NOTIC ds of thanks, resolutions of s, etc., will be charged for at line. ment by churches from which F cents a line. and invites discus- : issues and subj of local or general t will not publish anoaymous communi- “ THANKSGIVING DAY | Editor, The Citizen: “But whether we have less or more, alway thank we God therefor”.—Fabliau of IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. Charles L. Knowles, who had been the U. S. Commissioner and Deputy U.- S. Clerk for the southern district of Florida in Key West, has been transferred to Miami to fill a position. C. Rodney Gwynn has been ap- |pointed as successor to Mr. Knowles. | probably continue to run under a! city-appointed supervisor. There are three who have given in their applications for the job: |John J. Romero, present super- All Quiet on the Western Front. : | Presenting: a Hole (W. Va.) Kleenkoal Several well-known realtors and large property owners in Dade county are expected to ar- rive this afternoon and most of them will come from Miami. It is understood that several of the keys, before the winter is over, will be appreciably affected by outside investors, Although not artists, most of us can draw our own conclusions. There is no pigeon to be found on Pigeon Key—not even a stool pigeon. Subscribe to The Citizen—20e There is something in a name after all—McNutt will never do for president. Modern children must be dumb. We must now employ experts to teach’ them how to play. Chairman Brinton suggested that! gas company manager, is work- peas two firemen be left off so that!ing right in with all civic things | sorbed the custom of Thanksgiv-| An old fashioned barn dance the greater economies would! in the city. . Hugh Williams is ing Day. which the Dutch during given last night by the local ;make it easier to meet regular) just about fool proofvin»business eighty years celebrated to thank| Woman's Club, was one of the | payments to the other firemen. | dealings. He has aisharp mind!God for victories of freedom | most elaborate and successful so |It was finally voted to leave the| with plenty. of experience tofagainst Spanish sovereignty.|cial events of the year. Robert |}* |firemen on. Councilman Sweet-|work with. . Ever: smiling is|When the Mayflower landed in|B. Austin, of the Chamber of \ing wanted to know if the city | Everett Russell, Chamber of Com- [reece ten in 1620 the first;Commerce, was the master of é . | bought the fire chief's car. Chief} merce president, and another Rus-| thought of the Pilgrims was to ceremonies, and saw that every cash. If that result obtaing, the average |reter said he fas bought shig| pals mmpentabiadentiehipublio in-| kneel by the greet Plymouth |one-had a good. thne. city employe, although on paper receiving last two cars himself. Rumblings | struction, Melvin Russell. . .Prin-|Rock and thank God. After many | a smaller salary, will actually receive a |in the distance might be inter- | cipal O'Bryant of the High esc ita a pete ane appeared in eg j]] | Preted' as a move toward getting|is soft spoken with the true re-|their clouded skies. Autumn! larger seats cash each month. That will a city-county hospital. Couneil- | serve of the educated gentleman | brought bumper crops, and they | enable him to meet his current expenses man Ramsey said the County|. . .Another business man of remembered it was God, who| ware i without borrowing or disposing of war- | Clinic would shortly be faced trye tradition is Maitland Adams. “had made the sun to shine and| rants at heavy discount. The city gains by | With a shutdown and suggested | Hard as a rock on his opinion, | the rain to fall, and the grain, from common i : y : be | some action on the matter. Presi-| friends say. Maitland looks ato grow”. So Governor Bradford | cutting down the number of warrants— ;dent Freeman said that the city whole lot tougher than he really proclaimed a public Thanksgiv- thus reducing the floating debt. 2 relieves cause tf goes Hight 16 : trouble to loosen germ laden} An economist declares that no good business man is ever out of debt. We are — grateful for this cheering information. The La La Paloosa Club was were ie We are equipped to do all kinds of print- ing — quickly, eco- nomically, and with the best of workman- ship. Call 51 for an estimate. RAPID SERVICE REASONABLE PRICES FREE ESTIMATES THE ARTMAN PRESS PHONE 51 The Citizen Building When the British war secretary visit- | ed the front recently it was so quiet that a sham battle was arranged for his enter- tainment. | paid the light bill at the Clinic. is. . Friendly Charles Thompson ,ing of three days, during which Kuhn, the bund leader, has always | Members of the council state that the | —— jhas a kind word and bit of chat’ the rigid Puritans, joined by Mas- : . ‘i 5 AROUND TOWN: Those yel- for all visitors to his hardware ,sasoit and his braves, feasted and phlegm, | been a bungler, but the present trial may | budget is the first serious attempt to bal- | jowtail ND TONY: really eae emporium. He gives them plenty frolicked. This is the es of ; prove him to be,a bundling expert as well. | ance the budget in some years, that it pro- | seereuen. and aie derful pieces of art. The twojof experience in fishing, having |our national Thanksgivng Day. | oe pe snd be el say Serine, < | Appropriately a bund-ler should be anj| vides for retirement of a substantial | Bas tell i filets of yeilowtail are placed on held many a fishing rod alongside | ore Americans will attend) A i a plat ith the “yellow tail” it-! Ernest Hemingway. church services in the mornin; | ae Oz #dept at bundling. amount of floating. debts, takes care of colt nicely curled up or - | | youa | bond refunding interest and _ retirement oryonens te , self nicely curled up artistically | on Thanksgiving Day, and later! provisions and virtually assures that Key | giving the dish its character... THIS COLUMN is told by take part in moderate good cheer, | Someone pointed out that all the; members.of council there will healthy sports and innocent | - 7. pe ; if | Florida Keys are called keys ex- | be no opposition to signing \of the amusements: West during this administration will op- cept when you. get to Stock Is-/lease for South Beach. ’ This| A RESEARCHER. erate well within the municipal income. land and that is-knewn ;as anjcolumn has been hammering at Key West, Fla, The budget appears to be a business- island and not A@ .Key.. .Sport the fact that if structures are Nov. 29, 1939. ; : ishii ide Ollie “Russell ’ io | ceecoe tin dhe beach it will. be! like document. It will inspire confidence Shing, tulde a ha : | in the municipal government. It will help |counts the rumor that he was zoned contrary. to owners’ wishes.| Frau Stella Kornerup of Den- | recently stricken with paralysis. But there will be no buildings | mark has had the cooperation | SS | restore the city’s credit. It does these The Key West Citizen remarks that| things without apparently increasing In future, now that the first step has been taken towards political decency, can- didates for office should be required to give their platform so the electorate | may know WHAT they are voting for in- stead of WHO. Overseas Transportation formd. ' It was a cold, hq said. Ollie this) erected there, ghly thatch’ shel-|of women of Sweden and Fin- yean is all set to repeat his prize | ters and mainteriance, we are in-|land in staging a Scandinavian more than 650 species of fish ink abit | waters in that sector. And we’re “suckers” | for good fishing!—Times-Union. That is | on appropriate appellation for fishing fans | and they are always welcome here. | The former kaiser of Germany; now living in Holland, cccupies quite a_ dif- ferent position from the exalted state that | was his during the World War. News om Holland tells us that he has recently | turned the cellars of his estate at Doorn | into air-raid shelters. Surely, the ex-| kaiser does not believe that his German} people would drop bombs upon his home, | in neutral Holland, or doesn’t he trust Hit- | ler, either? Medical experts are divided as to| whether it is safer to kiss or shake hands. | Disregarding the controversial question zbout the kissing of hands, kissing on the | mouth is often the cause of disease. A statement recently made by a_ physician | says that the mouth of the human animal had more germs than that of any other animal with the exception of a certain | taxes. City council. deserves the heartfelt gratitude of the community for this very constructive action, THE WORLD GROWS HOTTER The temperature of the world has been steadily rising since the turn of the century, says J. B. Kincer, of the United States Weather Bureau. He says this has been such a persistent trend as to suggest | that the idea of stability of climate needs | some revision. | This is an important observation if it | represents the beginning of a gradual ing! crease in the heat of the world. It is pos- sible that the world is in the beginning of a heat wave that will reach new highs and, possibly, vitally affect climate all over the globe? Mr. Kincer says that the changes to which he refers have been world-wide in scope, with records showing that there has been abnormal warmth in the last two de- eades. Thus, he lends weight to the ape. Perhaps the rouge now used 50 promiseuously is powerful enough to kill the lurking germs. theory, often heard, that the winters are | growing milder and that the climate of the | earth is actually different from what it | was a generation ago. ‘have bene digging up wonderful, hibition. catch of a 140-pound tarpon made | Jast season. . Steamer “North-)} land” is expected to arrive short- | ly to ply between Key West and Havana this winter, the | from official sources . -High ‘School students | rare old objects for their exhibi- tions. Present one.is a coin | ALONG THE WATERFRONT: Winter Fishing, which, for ang- lers who like sporty trolling as the best, seems definitely to be here. The barracuda are in good shape and so are nearly all the fish caught. They are fat and hefty and put up real fights, their mati season having passed} during the summer. As yet the| mackerel and kingfish have not j jart exhibition at Charlottenborg. | | New Designs of Personal Engraved ALL POINTS ON MIAMI and Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service MIAMI AND KEY WEST ALSO SERVING FLORIDA KEYS KEY WEST