The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 22, 1941, Page 2

TWO BOOKS, TWO FIGURES sess real estate at its full value, suit, has given the parison ever granted him. he heruindeth ely entitled ments, two officers. iG RATES Known on application. % “SPECIAL ‘NOTICE = trending cards Of thanks, resolutions of ” fe of 30 sents riche, Ste,, willbe charged tor a ertainment by churches from which is to be derived are & ente a line, i ‘igen is an open forum and invites discus- Sf public Issues and subjects of local or general * seta ‘will not publish anonymous communi- the city limits, at $8,726,060. Tax Alssessor Pinder (city) 198,470. “THE 'KEY WEST CITIZEN |, , 4 | without fear and \without favor; néver be safraid to’Attack wrong or to applaud right; Always fight for progress; never be the or- -8an or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, “faction or class; always do its utmost for the . sublic welfare; never tolerate corruption or snjustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, _ commend good done by individual or organ- _ i ion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and | opinions; print. only news that will elevate \ , and not contaminate the reader; never com- : promise with principle. 125,000, Pinder, if he | 500 less. tion. Some ofthe taxpayers on the city books, —- lait IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN . spelen sii as avoiding ineviable yesentment. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Amperts<Land and Sea. Consolidation 42’ Courty and City Gov- || ernments. | @ A*Modern’ City “Hospital. | Se eee except in clerical work. some cases too hot to handle. - 5 limited number of women mechanical | ~ Modern-industry has developed ma- | Workers in various plants, and these have ‘= chines to“Go all housework except make up | been entirely satisfactory. In certain as- | . beds, and it won't be Jong before this is at- tended to. } the smaller, nimbler fingers of women ree — make them especially efficient. Among | ™ | ‘Lloyds 6f London is willing to risk | the jobs suitable for women Mr. Neal men- tions the following: ddds of 1,000 to 1 that Washington will not Certain + if dyatth Certain types of riveting, he b.abed; the same odds. should apply | that we will not be invaded by Germany. Yet we are supposed to be frightened into the belief that-a national emergency exists = and the boyd be kept in camp for longer than | the-pmmised year: “Itwppears tox person | - also sorting and splicing wire. = up &-tree that this broken promise’ | “Haye you his addres you know Alw: i r v- beat * .. a8 . is? | LER S will s ig another to. joys across the seas, |!" et oe and metal sew be | wie ubtortunately, haven't. |help ‘out’ the family 4 a. nae Zz ‘ a 7a i j is wi i ‘ou see, he’s driving down more} ways—” <5 Maybe that's what's Behind todgytsmnews | Lott isht gontrols with strong, mercerize |,ox Jess leisurely stopping off in| | "Nes, 1 know,” said Marie. “But = sndavhat's ta be exp ad iitomorraw’s. as | ‘eotton fabric. soWorking in pairs, two wo- Charlotte, North ‘Carolina, Spar- | did you know Tommy was’ on the Z *S | men can over, two ailerons or.two elevators | tanburg. South Carolina, and At-| way to, Florida?” Newsweek ‘pi thought.’ k puts the thought ina day, or one rudder ina day. ~ + Representative Ludlow of Indiana fears that Speaker Rayburn. destroyed the initiative of the House when he ordered that the word “applause” no longer could | be noted in the Congressional Record. He = can’t see why a ‘member should spend his | - time thinking up witticisms to say on the:| ‘ae =, floor when the Record makes it appear his | : joke was a dud, Neither can we see why a | during the coming year member should spendehis time (at taxpay- | ag So chae i oae . ets’ expense) thinking up witticisms to say | SAVING OUR CHILDREN on the floor when he is'‘paid to think up Se something constructive for the benefit of the public. Congress is not a place to crack jokes, or is it? - | hood, President Roosevelt has approved thé | thefachievements ARR rence Seaway-in the 1942 omnibus flood control bill as a defense measure. This is his pet project. However, a provision will be ‘included in the bill, according to ‘the ~ committee chairman, that no funds woud © be appropriated for any projects which © could not be shown to have a:divect national > defense significance, Engineers have stated | structiveness. > that the seaway could not be finished with- The most impgrtant factor ‘in | linois. The number‘of deaths } causes of = Nobody but Senator ois: theeconsistency in saying the sea- | for national defense?‘ ~- ou - -~ laboratories, clinics and hospitals.” Florida’s first recorded attempt to as- coupled | with the announcement of City ‘Tax As-_ sessor Sam Pinder that he would follow Monroe ‘county-Key West taxpayer the simplest basis for com- Because the per cent of valuation has ‘known in the past, it, | xl ’ he'taxpayer to know lited in. this Pee atti r exactly what comparison to make’ between | whe ed the figures of the eity-and county depart- Now, however, with both departments | |.assessing the property at its 100 per cent | with her, And she had treated valuation, it would seem that the two sets | him shamefully. of books would vary only in so much as the : {natural difference of opinion between the | else—even Tommy's kindness, the | But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Tax Assessor Gandolfo (county) has | assesscd the entire real estate valuation of | Key West, excluding all property outside | high with his superi figured | cordings his firm was making. the same property on the same basis at $7,- “Phat is.a difference of opinion amount- | tecords to be. sold.or rented to ing to close to 18 per cent, which, in turn, means that-when Gandolfo’marks' down a | Europe, if they ever stop fighting flolisé At $10,000; Pinder has it down for | $8,200; when Gandolfo has one down for | might even make recordings of an| ‘They listed that one, | would have it down for $102,500, or $22,- | jokes, sketches, monologues. All Since almost all of the Monroe county taxpayers also pay taxes to Key. West, that | great a difference between the two books | . | provides a reasonable subject for specula- have spec- ulated, for instance, that pieces of Key West property listed by the county are not A’ joint committee of the council and commission probably could determine why there is so much difference—a procedure which could eliminate speculation as well WOMEN IN AIRPLANE WORK If the need arises, women could fill 25 | to 30 per cent of the jobs in airplane build- ing, according to Perry Neal, personnel di- rector of the Douglas company, although | up to the present time the aircraft industry | has been almost exclusively a man’s field, Experiments have been made with a | I wonder if you sembly work dealing with very small parts, | welding, | inspection and tube work, operating small | drill and punch presses, installing wiring in | radio equipment and making electrical sub- | thought perhaps you—" assemblies for switch boxes and. batteries, A few: women are already employed Mrs. Christina St. Clair, now head of | ‘uch with me on his way./ | in the sewing department of Douglas, is one of five women who have been with the | company since it began operations in 1920. 7 She has about 60 women under her charge, | - | and is the only woman ‘head of ‘a depart- | | ment in an airplane plant in the California But there are likely to be many more as aircraft production gets into its full stride Some of the most notable progress | made by the medical profession has been | in. reducing deaths and, illnesses in child- Dr, G, E. Wakerlin, recently described this ‘direction that have plan (naturally),.to include the St.\Lawe ’ heen-made in therepresentative state of Il- of Mlinois | children under ten is now one-tenth of what | | it was in 1910. Each of the eight major | childhood death—diarrhoea, | pneumonia, diphthria, tuberculosis, scarlet | | fever, whooping cough, measles:and menin- | | gitis—has been’robbed of much of its de- [ pro- in five years; otherssayitwilltaketenyears.| gurinz this fine result, Dr. Wakerlin , ‘Pepper believes “the | points out, “has'been the ‘application of | war will last longer than five years, 60. knowledge gained by prolonged and pains- | taking research and ~experimentation in \ UP. in New York Marie Mason was dressing. She had slept late, and she had awakened feel- ing horribly low. Henry .. . Tom- my... . She had quarreled with the one, and neglected the other. | She had been an awful little fool. thing had gone utterly . She felt completelydis- with the world and yery- in it. » | But she kept on thinking about Tommy, and the way she had treated him ‘since the arrival of Henry. and Luella Pell. Dear, dear Tommy. He had been good to her, so unselfish and so much in love THE KEY WEST CITIZEN JATKING &. Chapter 26 take her arian and give her @ | Observation taken at 7:30°a. m,, inches oinennnsky 16,60 Won aditiaan Gun - ‘ood talking-to. ; ; ; ; ears sea showers Surprise For Marie a Hehe". . Tommy’. 0. Hen | 75th ee ee office) Wind Direction and Velocity moderate: ‘south. Well, Henry was still in town, wasn't-he? Of course. Then why not get in touch with him, say she was sorry about the quarrel? Again she picked up her re- | ceiver. And when Henry Pell an- swered very promptly, she felt } better. sien “Henry,.this is, Marie,” she said. | “Yes?” said Henry—in a tone of voice that wasn't at all friendly. “Take me to lunch, Henry, will you?” Marie went on, “I'm ter- | tibly sorry about last night. I want'to tell you in person.” “Very. well,” Henry .said. “I’ve got some things I'd like to talk jover with you, Where shall we | eEYMOON THE WEATHER | | Highest last 24 hours FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 3) FORECAST : (Till. 7:30 p. m. Saturday} — Key West and Vicinity: SE— 8 miles per hour inds. : meet?” She had let her feeling for Hen- en-/in the sunken plaza,” she said. ry make her forget everything . “You can buy me a mutton chop, There are so few places where one ean get them.” “Okay. One o’clock all right?” “Splendid!” said Marie. “I'll be there on the dot—-wearing a gar- Why, Tommy McIntyre was/denia so you'll know me.” She going places in the world of} laughed lightly. “Don’t meet the radio! Of course, he was. He stood} wrong girl, Henry, dear.” rs, and he} “Nope!” d Henry, still not | was going to have a lot to say| very friendly-like, Marie thought. about who worked on those re-|“I must get back to some work now. See you later.” Marie was on the dot, and she as ing a gardenia; on purposes, ‘but be- ardenia went well with the silver-fox trimming of her | broadcasting stations throughout} new and :expensive ensemble. | the world, even Canada—maybe| “Here, by.,the window,” said Henry. “We ean. watch the sun- shine play on the silent fountain.” “Shunk you, Henry,”’said Marie. down. “Now, let me say nent of | in person! and-in all humility that -dancing, | I'm-terribly sorry I was such an wful female last evening. I must ave sounded like something out > gutter.” way he had helped her get estab- | lished. And that, she told herself | with emphasis, was where she had | been even more of a fool. “We'll be to the radio world,” Tommy ‘had once said, “what Edi- son was to the phonograph world. . You know, Marie—making | over there.” He had then explained that they | entire evening's enter vaudeville — sdngs ta | that, and_she had been so busy ; adoring Henry Pell and helping | of ' him get the negro songs ready she | had completely and utterly over-| looked all the opportunities Tom- ‘Let's forget it,” said Henry. “And go on from there?” Marie d, eyeing him. Too from there,” said “Only, I'm going away 2 ” First Tommy—now Henry “gave he went on. ng me_ south. in timber as, now that making industry up in our country; you aper from wood-pulp.” I know about it,” said I read an article about it zine.” ll informed lady!” Henry smiling for the first time. arie didn’t smile, however. A len thought came to her. y taking a trip south ... Lu- already there darned she thought, this decision din that direction, ‘Did it that he was going down ta eak to Mr, Thon i the voice. “But | s 2 isn’t in. when he wi .” she said, trying to lly, “that you'll stop “Yes.” “But, I—that is. sr hometown, and say herzelf. “This to Luella.” sp ing I Y Hy anzio not-there,” said Henry. to get in touch with Mr. M¢Inty s she?” n tell me where by now. .. . She was TI can reach him?” “No, -Miss Mason,” said” the} voice, “Just a moment... . I'll con- nect you with Mr. ‘ood,” “Thank you,” said WV this morning.” “Blorida!” “Yes. ... A special delivery this morning. It was posted in a town somewhere in South Carolina.” No Luck | “You age aera | mean she’s on her wa’ ME. GREENWOOD was on the | Florida to get one of those niiety +Y4 wire almost at once. Marie ex-| day divorces we've been hearing plained who she was. about.” “Oh, Miss Mason!” said Mr. | “But, Henry ... did you know Greenwood. “Of course! Many’s| she—” | the time I've heard you sing. What} Henry went right on, “And, be- ean I do for you?” jlieve it or not, Tommy McIntyre “I wanted to talk to Mr. McIn-|has turned over his cottage to tyre,” said Marie. “But I was told | her,” he said. “He told her to live he had just left for Florida. I)in it while she was establishing her residence, and to— say, what's Tommy?” said Mr. Greenwood. | the matter?” “Yes, he took a sudden notion that} “You say Tommy let her have | he needed a vacation, and off he| his cottage?” Marie asked, in an j-went. I persuaded -him_ to mix | odd sort of voice. business with pleasure. He’s—” “Yes, Good old family friend, | lanta, Georgia—to look into the | radio. situation’ He’s ;to get in “Well, he is. He left this morn- “I. see,” you.” “Shall I get in touch with you/a when I hear from Tommy?” “Tf it’s not too much trouble,” | said Marie. “No trouble at all,” said M: Greenwood. Must be nice to this Southern girl with the moving voice—her records ought to sell like hot-cakes. “Always glad to be of service to the Singer of Songs from way.down South.” He chuckled, “By the way, that new | program you're on a honey, | Miss Mason.” same place. What, may I ask, “Thank you,” said Marie.| it all add up to?” ‘3 we “You're very kind.” “An infernal A moment later she hung up| Henry, her. receiver, Tommy going to| “But where do I come in?” Florida without saying goodbye.| “You make it an infernal com- Tt was cruel of hgm. The least he | plidation.” could have done was telephone her before Jeaving. She frowned, and began ; to Well, Pll be—” B. uf rawing room comedy or some- thing,” she said. “First, Luella | walks ot on you, and—” ‘No,” Henry contradicted. “First, ou fly to Chicago and Luella finds out. She—” “She jumps at silly conclusions,” said Marie. Then she went on with 4 | | then Tommy gives her his cottage |—then she goes to Florida, and triangle,” said you: going to do about it?” “T don’t know,” said Henry, con- “In the British Restaurant, down | _Enjoy the finer flavor of seed- less hops—plus not for | | Air Free | Process | GOOD BEER! nrugged. “It sounds like j what she had started out to say. i “First, Luella walks out on you— | now Tommy’s on his way to the | “Oh, I do, do-I2- Well, what are | 91 Relative Humidit rise ole | Lowest last night 81 16% oy couse | Mean 86 Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Normal - +. 83 Sea Level 29.98 (1015.2 millibars) { Precipitation i Tomorrow s Almanac Mo Rainfau, v4 hours ‘ending fSunrise 6:04 a. mM. pact a dont Sir | inches _. : é T Sunset 6:55 p. m. portion and mod Total rainfall since Aug. 1, | Moonrise GS! as Mm. |S akweat winds inches —..._ 1. 1,87 Moonset 7:37 p. m. aK: paztly aoe : | Deficiency -since August. 1, Tomorrow’s Tides waht: gud | Saticd, inches _4 1.20 (Naval Base) at de a |Total rainfall since Jan. 1 AM! 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