The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1942, Page 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1942 What It Takes To Defy The Jungle Luck, Prayer And Grit And L ive; ¥ LUCK—He did not know where he was or where he was going. somehow to take a route that cou! safety. Many an experienced explorer quail at entering the jungles fully equipped. But Haugland managed faith in God’s id lead him to would futile. “Only a hope of ever seeing another human being seemed he wrote. The miracle happened. THE KEY WEST OITIZEN EXPLAINS COFFEE RATIONING HERE LETTER IS RECEIVED BY| LOCAL AGENT COVER- ING MATTER | Coffee rationing as it will af- |fect Key West,..and. the, United | States generally is.explained in a letter received here ‘by’ Sam_ B. | Pinder, local agent of J. Aaron & |Co., New York City. It is sug- ' gested that users acquaint them- | selves with the provisions of the law which are outlined in the fol- lowing letter which is official and mes out of Washington: “Washington—Coffee rationing = | will begin at midnight November 28, allowing one pound each five | weeks for every person who was | 15 years old or over last May, Of- \fice of Price Administrator an- | nounces. | “Coffee rations will be obtained jby using coupons out of sugar } tation books. First coffee ration | will. be obtained on the last | coupon in the: sugar _ book and j succeeding: rations will be on } coupons taken’ in sequence from | the end of the book toward the }center. Sugar ration books whose holders are shown on the front of | the book‘to have been under 15 j years old last May when the books | were issued will not be acceptable how goodness sustained him when all miracle of God can help me now,” ‘ADOPTION’ FOLLOWS | IDENTITY OF SAILOR That this is a small world was} proved once again this past week by an interesting incident at the Jackson Square USO. Mrs. B. L. Higgs, one of the volunteer seam-| stresses, was approached by a per-} plexed young sailor with the sad/ plight of jumper too big andi : pants too long. While adjusting} Captain C. E. Reordan, the unifrom, Mrs. Higgs noticed; the namie “Springs”: stenciled on| COMDR. GIBBS | ASSIGNED TO STAFF OF COM-| MANDANT AT LOCAL | STATION | j Com-} mandant of the Key West'Navail Operating Base, today announced: the jumper ‘and immediately ask-| the return to active duty of Comdr. | ed the boy if he was from South! Tucker C. Gibbs, USN, a resident Carolina by any chance. He|of Key West, who has been as-, stated that he wes ne further | signed to the staff of the Com-| Conver sabe scien ivi mandant to assist in the coordi-| a nephew of James Pearl Springs, 4 : who had been stationed here at|nation of the various Supply, Ac-} the Naval Air Station during the) counting, D rsing and Com-| first World War. The senior Mr.jmissary activities in their relation Springs was one of several, to the other activities of the base. | “adopted sons” extended hos-| Commander Gibbs, a graduate} pitality by Key West families and of the Naval Academy in the Class} at that time a friendship with the! of 1912, has had more than thirty} Higgs family developed which has | years duty in the Navy before his lasted throughout the intervening | retirement a few years ago. His years. Needless to say, Lloyd G.! first sea duty was aboard the USS Springs, who is also stationed at Raleigh as senior supply corps of- the Naval Air Station, has been'ficer before World War I. In stay in Key West. {the Northern Bombing group as Too. much credit cannot be. Supply Officer in France, after given to the six women who SO; which he was on special duty with faithfully sew each week at the Hoover Relief Committee as Jackson Square USO, mending,;iiaison officer working with altering and sewing on chevroris! French and Belgium officials. and rating badges for the service; Returning to the United States men free of charge. This com-| in 1920, Commander Gibbs served mittee is composed of Mrs. Higgs,ias supply officer for the Navy de- Mrs. B. L. Rout, Mrs, Alfred Soar,‘ stroyer divifion and was later the Mrs. R. L. Williams, Mrs. George) officer in charge of activities in Archer and Mrs. James Pinder. connection with the commission- | corner “adopted” by Mrs. Higgs for his! March, 1918, he was assigned to} MUCH OPPOSED TO TAX EXEMPTIONS TAMPA, Oct. 30 tive secretary of the Florida Tax- Payers Association, said in ex- (FNS).— “There is too much exemption ©: now,” Robert L. Newman, execu- |", PAGE THREE jplaining strong opposition to the constitutional amend- edditional tax Property owned fraternal and char- zations. oposed amendme t ed on proposed ment providing ion for be v He also was on special duty at the) . Naval Academy at Annapolis. Commander Gibbs is a native of St: Augustine, Fla., and attended Georgia Tech at Atlanta before entering the Academy. While on duty in ‘China, he met and mar- ried Estelle Warlich of Childress. Texas, who was visiting her brother, Capt. Wal Warlick now on duty as a staff officer for Admiral Ernest J. King in Wash- ington. Commander and Mrs. Gibbs have lived in Key West for nearly two years. Their home is at the of White. and Johnson streets. Commander Gibbs’ of- fice is opposite that of Captain Reordan on the first floor of the Administration Building in | Navy Yard here. the! | for coffee rations. | “No provision for rationing No job has so far proven too large | nor any task too small to be given ing of battleships and destroyers at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In China, Commander Gibbs FOOD—Grass, weeds and occasional berries were all he had. For more than two and a half Another foodless for several days. he, found dozens of edible bramble berries. an “answer to prayers.” weeks he had nothing to eat. Wide World Features ON AUGUST ‘7 A Press Correspondént Ve Jand boarded a bomb« tralia for New Guinea. En route the plane, fighting a. storm, ,.ran{ out of gas. With the rest of the} crew, '‘Haugland and’! ‘Co-pilot} James A. Michael” of Temple,} Okla., bailed out. ‘These two| »ciated time, landed jin..the jungle: of New Guinea—wildest, most terrifying -' jungle in'the world: ‘For six weeks Hauglarid fought his ‘way to civil- ivation--alone, after he and Michael chose different Haugland, had no ¢cémpass, little food, no knowledge of -jungles or tropics—nothing) but. luck, prayer and grit. But he climbed a moun- >? LOCAL SCOUTS LOSE | ANOTHER SCOUTER The Boy Scouts of America, Key West District have announced the loss; of another Scouter from Key West Scouting. Scoutmaster Ernest H. Cohen of Troop 5: moved to another city Mr. Cohen ha of Troop 59 ever ization in November. was one of the first veloped among the co of the city. Mr. Cohen's was outstanding and it helped the community The aster will f act as Scoutmaster till a successor ; is appointed. | This is the third Scouter loss to has leader since its org: 1940. This} troops de-} section work | whole. stant Scout- master of Troop 52 were both lost recently by their mov x to dif- ferent towns. Scouting is now at CITY COUNCIL (Continued from Page One) Woman's Club adopted as 1942-43 Slogan, “Key West—A| Cleaner City.” | Among those in attendance at its the meeting. all of whom ex-| pressed themselves as being~ in} hearty accord with the movement | fo bring about an improved con- | dition in handling garbage and trash and otherwise improving the sanitation of the citv, were: | Lieut. Morrow, _ USN: Ensign | Dan Harrison; Lieut. S. E. Shileds, U.S. Army: Dr. J. B.! Parramore, Monroe County Health | Depatment: Clem C. Price. presi- | dent. Chamber of Commerce: | Frank H. Ladd, member. . Board | of Public Works: B, Curry Mo- | Teno, city engineer, and Carl SOCIETY --: SAN CARLOS ROLL OF HONOR Honor Roll of students at the San Carlos School for the first six weeks’ period of the new follows: 6th Grade—Rosa Watson, Spencer, Aleida semester Dora Spencer, Rosa ade—Blanca Leon, Rodriguez. 4th Grade—Gloria Robert Valde: 3rd Grade—Sylvia Hernandez, Jose ‘Rodriguez. 2nd Grade—Otilia’ Valdes, Orn- aldo Lope: Ist Grade—Diego Torres. The Perfect Attendatiee record Alba Watson, _|of pupils follows: Orquidea de Armas, Caridad de Armas, Mario Diego Torres, Ornaldo Lopez, Martin Leon, Charles Ingraham, Norberto Pons, Rene Rodriguez, Gloria Watson, Eloisa Chavez, so, Sylvia Hernandez, % Castillo, Alba Rodrigue Banca Leon, Rosa Watson Aleida Spencer. rs Miss Benildes Remond is prin- cipal of the school. MARRIAGE MART License to marry was issued Judge Raymond R. Lord to the following couple: Alson McKay Shantz of Roche ter, N. Y., to Miss Barbara ‘Solo- mon of N, u, Bahamas. NEW HOUSING - ‘Continued from Page Conall, tor of the Key West Housing Au- thority, it is expected that with- in a few days an announcement will be forthcoming from John | Broome, Regional Director. of the Authority's part in the new housing program and when act- ual construction will begin. Bervaldi, chairman, Board of County Commissioners. GRIT—The entire story of Haugland’s strug- gle is one of courage that would not die. was drenched by tropical rains. weak from hun- ger, exposed night and day to mosquitoes. as long as his body lasted, his will drove him on. routes. | - |black bear that seemingly had! inside and out. Then he painted Rodriguez, | |commercial consumers of coffee} an-} n | and have done untold good for the! staff of Rear Admiral W. C. G. 'was announced. O. P. A. j;nounced its plans for rationing {household consumers because feared news of its plan would leak any through forthcoming con- versations with coffee distribu- tions. “Retail sales of coffee will be | prohibited from midnight Novem- | ber 21 to midnight November 28, |in order to permit retailers to | stock their shelves in preparation for rationing. O. P. A. Chief Hen- jderson asked consumers not to rush their grocers in advance of rationing in an attempt to hoard He But |tain, forded rivers, battled starva- tion, despair and delirium. . .and | kept a diary. On September 19] coffee.” missionaries, discovered him, de- ilirious, in a native village. All the| HOW TO SAVE TIRES— rest of the crew but Michael had; already reached safety. These| AND YOUR MARRIAGE | Sketches explain how, against all jodds, Haugland returned to civil-! ization—and to life. | (By Associated Press) MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Oct. {5 —Marriages and automobile tires, opines T. G. Bond, both must be managed carefully to make them last. The 87-year-old storekeeper speaks with authority. His mar- riage has lasted nearly sixty-eight years and his 1913 M-Model is still serviceable with its 18-year-old tires. “[ve been over some grocky roads, but I never drove over eighteen miles an hour,” he said. |_ The honey, in his case, was the|He had his own method of pre- indirect cause of his sudden as-'serving tires. When he had to cent. The direct cause was the| buy a relining he washed the tire | Being Called ‘Honey’ Is | More Than He Can Bear | By Associated Press) | | ISSAQUAH, Wash., Oct. 30—! | Harris H. Hall, elderly Issaquah! | rancher, was surprised at how! n can climb a tree with | ‘honey on his shoes. ; | fast a ma | taken a liking to the sweet stuff.! the inside and that of the lining | Hall said he got the honey on’ with glue to form a stronger wall |his shoes while attending his|of protection for the tube. The car |apiary the previous day. As hejis in the garage now for the dura- ‘told the story, the first he sus-!tion. No sense in wasting four ‘pected of the bear’s presence was | good tires, he says. - | when it started licking at his heels Success of his marriage? That’s as he was walking uphill to thejsimple: “Keep out of bad habits iary. He had thought it was his} and stay home with your wife.” !dog coming up. behind him. The honeyed shoes left the ; scene pronto—with Hall in them. He said he sta¥ed up a maple tree for more than two hours be- {fore the bear finally got tired of | waiting for the shoes to come {down, and ambled away. ‘ LONGEST ROUTE WASHINGTON. — The 6,000- mile tun from the United States ito Australia’ is the world’s long- est bomber ferry route. ; Subscribe to The Citizen, 20c Subscribe to The Citizen. it| consideration. They have given| largely of their time and energy! was on duty as a member of the service men in Key West by pro-! Bullard, also serving as senior viding them with a service which| supply officer for the Yangtze has met with their whole-hearted: Patrol Force. Returning again to approval judging by the volume of ' America, he was assigned to duty the work being turned out each! as disbursing officer at the Naval week. Training Station at Newport, R. L, followed by duty as supply of- CUBS TO HOLD FIRST * | ficex for the Naval Station at New MEETING TONIGHT | | Orleans. Commander Gibbs served as isupply officer aboard the USS The Cubs Scouts of Key West’ Mississippi and then as executive will hold the first monthly meet- | officer at the Naval Air Station at ing since their organization to-! Pensacola, Fla., before being as- night at the Lions Den. The meét- signed as senior supply officer for ing will start at 7:30 o'clock. \ the aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. Registration cards have arrived | ————————___ allowing the boys to purchase’ Allen Hampton as Cubmaster. Cub uniforms. 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RAYMOND MOLEY, an authority on national and inter- national business, in Newsweek, describes “an experi- ment of World War No. 1, in which seventeen major businesses ceased or materially reduced their advertising for the duration.” These were the results --- One ended with only two custom- ers. Three completely lost their leader- ship in their fields. One was operated by the banks for five years. Two found their competitors had grown at their expense. So long as the habit of economic freedom in America lasts, concludes Mr. Moley, cessation of adver- tising will do serious, often fatal, injury to individual business. Protect your future business and advertising investment by continuing to advertise in— The Key West Citizen ” hdedadhdadadadadadadnde edad aaa eaeeeeeeer Lettie iit ieee r ee i rer rerereeccecreceeticrretttrrtrtrrr ts.