The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 19, 1945, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCIAL CALENDAR WOMEN’S BIBLE Hl Classroom Christmas — ————— tor Public School Children.; All Public Schools. Morning. | MEETING HELD AT HOME OF Christmas Program. Rese MRS. SCHRIBNER AT of Mrs. Stark. H ee | POINCIANA PLACE GROUP WILL SING ! rate : CHRISTMAS CAROLS i The Women’s Bible Class of ithe [Ee _ »{ Poinciana Baptist Church met De- The Young Peoples’ Service; cember 11th in the home of the League of Saint Paul's Church | teacher, Mrs. Ben Scribner for its! and the Junior Choir will meet | monthly business meeting and Saturday evening in the Parish) Christmas party. Mrs. Charles Hall at 6:00 o’clock where tru ves, the class president, was! loaned through the courtesy of : ¢9-hostess. H Captain C. E. Reardon and Lieut.| The business session was opened | v4GE FOUR FVIII VII III V IIIS CORAL ROCKETS By L. P. ARTMAN, JR. RBABAAAAAAAAADAASASAAAEAABAAAAAAABES SALOON DAYS AGAIN nasty at this location for a bit} Key West years ago in rapes but when the wind shifts to the} was a wide open town. I under-| north why it is protected once stand that there were no city lim-} @gain. iting ordinances except that no © e saloons were in the Conch town! KEY WESTER PRAISE : section which began at North! N. D. Keye had a bit of praise Beach and spread west. \for apartment house and hotel; He said Thus sa-} loons spread over the waterfront! Owners the other day. near the main ship channel and| that he found Key Westers very) on ‘up as far as Elizabeth street.| Willing to cooperate in all things} One of the greatest mistakes I] nce everything was carefully ex-: think which can be made at pres-| plained to them. It is only as we ent is to return to such saloon| have always known. The sick- days. I am no prude and prob-| ening thing about the flash judg- ably if I had a stronger stomach! ments some “pseudo minds” make WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1945 ! ag [PAY INSURANCE KEY WEST IN | ON HEALTH UNIT DAYS GONE BY. < VY] Cece eceseseCesssseeeeSSSSESSOSOSSSSOOSSOOSSOOSOD SOCIETY :- COSTUME PARTY RIOT OF GOOD HUMOR AND BEAUTIFUL, QUAINT, COSTUMERY e 2 ee last night insurance Monroé with thé | | | to d n th FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | aes OF DECEMBER 13, 1935 | ee By PATRICIA | A COSTUME PARTY was the} nephew Earl Johnson, Mr. and charming method chosen by Mr.' Mrs. Ed. Knight, Mrs. Mary | 2 ; . Mary} Louise Spottswood - Johnson, and Mes ed nigh ee | Mrs. Hemingway and her two Louise Spotswood J ohneon and ' sons Patrick and Gregory, | Mr. Geo. Allen Warren for the | Comm. Hall Smith, Mrs. Mar- pleasure of about sixty friends! jory Stevens, William Warren, | last Monday night at the Club/ Mrs. Waldo Johnson, Mrs. Alice | Sugaloa on Stock Island. ‘Dudley, Capt. and Mrs. Marcus Four prizes were awarded,}and Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Artman, one for the prettiest woman’s/ Jr. costume, one for the handscm-} Thirty couples participated 1, t! night at the cai lk held in the armory. was won by Victor Larsen and Ruby Fabal A Ch $3,000 h. lic schools the state bo fund of more than alloted to the pub- Monroe county by rd of education. Mr. and h 730 Eaton s the birth of a s 1 would take much more than! When they come to Key West and just beer but more than just one! Call us a bunch of crooks, swind- whiskey drink knocks me out the| lers, immoral persons, murderers} next day. For substitution I just! and uneducated folk has always| stare at all the girls passing by, burned me up. Mr. Keye has been and glance over the beach once here four years. He has learned in awhile. I don’t smoke but: the Key West character well.) then I couldn't very well and play} Even Ernest Hemingway has a est man’s costume and a prize! for the woman and man with! the most unusual costume. Mrs. | Knight won the prettiest award, wearing a long brown skirt with a tight tucked shirt waist, an) ostrich stole around her should- ; x kk KEY WEST PLAYERS had} their weekly meeting Monday night at the Barn Theater on Duval street. They are still) selecting the cast for the play Virgil Shepard will be readied for} by the president and officers were the Carol Singers. Chaperones ejected for the ensuing year. Also will be in charge. peers | other Christmas plans formulated. Any one desiring a visit irom) For the social hour, clever con- the singers should phone Mrs.’ tests and other entertainment had Blithe Spirit which will be; produced sometime after the i Hugh Williams at 241 or Mrs.’ been planned. Delicious refresh- | Milton Sawyer at 337-W. nents were served to the follo Friends of the Service League} W. W. Wilson. the sports I used to love so well.! I don’t play cards (mostly because my wife says I am so dumb at them) although the fast moving bones might be an attraction if I were so inclined. So along these lines I just mentally whistle at all the girls. e ° COOPER DROPS BOMB Last night at the city commis- sion meeting it was proposed to allow restaurants with 100 seats or more in any area of the city; to serve liquor. Attorneys for! Luther Pinder’s restaurant and} the Gulf Stream restaurant led| the attack to allow relaxed liquor} laws regarding hotels and res- taurants. Rev. Howes and Rev. Doherty led the attack for the Ministerial and church groups. For awhile it looked as if the ordinance was going through as an “emergency” measure. Then Commissioner Cooper dropped} the atomic bomb in the assem blage. “According to this ordi nance it must be unanimous to be passed as an emergency meas-! ure,” he said. And so it had to be. Attorney Lester ruled that the ordinance was void and failed of passage. The vote had been Carbonell yes, Cooper no, Harden yes, Sweeting yes, Demeritt no. i e ° PUBLIC REFERENDUM Before Cooper made his asser-! tion, Rev. Howes had informed! the Commission that he would: start proceedings immediately for a petition to throw the question open to a public referendum. Thus came the first great opposi- tion to the present Commission.! ° e WAYLAY DISBURSEMENTS Incidentally, as the meeting dragged on and began to go into late hours again, passage of many important disbursing bills failed since there was no unanimous vote present. These disburse-| ments will now await the next, regular meeting. ° ° WILSON YACHT BASIN The Wilson project was up for consideration last night and ob-! tained permission for licenses t operate the Yacht Basin in Garri-} son Bight if he could secure title ‘and it has been no picnic. wrong impression in the back of his head. In his famous water- front character in “To Have and Have Not”, one got the impres- sion that the man was quite a criminal and a thug, but the more I read that book the more I became convinced that he had brought down preconceived no- tions of Chicago gunmen from his police reporter days in the Chi- cago area. No, the folks of Key West are far more “gentle” thanj those of most towns I have been in. . “BIG BILL” SLOWS DOWN One man who will be glad to give up the strenuous work of acting, city. manager will be “Big Bill” Demeritt. Mr. Demeritt, because of great ice - cream ' eating days, has quite a tummy out in front and usually solves a ticklish question with a reporter by stating that he’s mostly in- terested in obstetrics and pats the “basketball” he carries around in front. But, really, Mr. Demer- itt has worked awfully hard at! his job of acting city manager First of all, he comes down in the morn- ing and interviews the scores of persons coming into the mayor's office, first door to the right up the city hall steps. Then he com- mences studying out projects and matters which have been advanc- ed by city commissioners in their daily civic thought and Bill, by the way, is quite an engineer. He seizes upon plans with good knowledge and confidence. Fin- ally come around the reporters asking the dynamite-loaded ques- tions of politics and garnering the elusive facts and data about the city administration. No, Bill will be glad to slow the pace a bit and let David King take over. e ° | PERCY “PIES” ONE Well, Percy Curry, the foreman ‘and makeup man of The Citizen’s typography department, makes the Rockets at last. Percy has worked at The Citizen for more years than anyone can remember. He has operated the linotype, typesetting machine; draws proofs, puts the type in the big forms, “lays it to bed” on the big press and runs the paper off. In- to the land. The county has en-| dorsed his proect. There is a lot of- work ahead to this project. There is not universal deep water, in the Bight. The which | was dug by the WPA was dug ir-! regularly and there are several “pumps” in the dredged area. Also the entrance through the road-} bed is rather narrow and finally; there is a low rocky area directly} in front of the cut in which a ship can pass only with diffi-; culty. This project will take great deal of dredging yet. It is hoped that the Intracoastal Wa-! terway project will come through: shortly and then a channel can be cut from it to the Bight. e . NEED TWO YACHT PROJECTS stinctively he knows just what articles will go just where, hardly without the editor marking the Well, in all these years ercy had never “pied” a galley of type. Pieing a galley means to drop it so that the linotype slugs or handset lines are scat- tered_évery which a where and} : Last} everyone’ pulls his hair out. week Percy was passed a galley and promptly he proceeded to pie it. Each line you see in The Citi- zen is a separate metal-cast slug. Thus in a galley, which is one column long, there are about 100 or more separate slugs. Well, as these slugs sailed through the air, Percy put his arm out carefully and the long line of separate slugs laid out on his arm in per- | | | ers and a small brown felt hat: first of the year. There was a perched jauntily upon her blond ; good turnout at this past meet- upswept hair. Geo. Allen War- | ing and the group is showing a est man’s prize. He came dressed;is a lot of promising talent as a Latin plantation owner. : which Key ‘West will see in the White linen suit, navy blue shirt | near future. * * with an orange tie, a Mexican scarf thrown over his shoulder | ROBERT EADES, recently re- and a huge Mexican hat. | leased from the Navy, is staying The funniest costume of the evening was worn by Wallace| Kirke. He came dressed as a! gypsie, and his huge padded chest, long skirt, immense gold earrings, red Bandana, and his | face rosily painted with rouge, lipstick and eyebrow pencil was the laugh of the evening. He won the prize for the most un-| usual costume for the men. ' Mrs. May Douglas was a hit in her Chinese costume. She won the prize for the most un- usual costume for the women. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Guy Carleton, Mrs. Canby Chambers and her nephew, Tom Wanning, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Garnett, Miss Gloria Silveira, Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Cutter, Mrs. Ruth Rose Welliver, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thompson, Geo.! Allen Warren, Mrs. Harriet Wil- son, Dr. Bowser and daughter Mrs. Barbara Schlick, Dr. and Mrs. Reed, Dr. and Mrs. Ander- son, Mrs. Martha Brennan, Mar- co Mesa, Lt. Comdr. Omar Fitch, Lt. and Mrs. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Kirke, Mr. and Mrs. Al Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Navarro, Mr. and Mrs. Sid- ney Mathews, Mrs. Douglas and * ant’ Mrs. Wallage Kirke. His mother, Mrs, D. Eades, came to Key West shortly before the fall term started at the Harris Ele- mehtary School and is now the misj¢, teacher of that school. They’. plan. to. remain in Key Wesf- k* FRIDAY IS the last day for submitting names of children from 6 to 10 years of age, who desire to attend the USO NCCS Club's Christmas Party for children to be held on Sunday. Dee. 23 from 2:30 to 4:30 at 303 Duval street. Names of service men’s child- ren may be telephoned in. Call 1083. kkk Lieutenant Commander J. B. Hayes, USNR, arrived in Key West last night from Adak, Al- aska and the west coast where he has been stationed as a naval dental officer. Mrs. Hayes went to Mami to meet Commander Hayes and spend a few days with him before returning to Key ‘West. Mr. Hayes will re- sume his dental profession shortly. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED THURSDAY AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH The following Christmas pro-; Piano Duet—Joy Stickney and gram by the Sunday School stu-{ Jill Bergstrom. dents will be rendered tomorrow “It Matters Not”—Gilbert Gates ee at 6 o'clock, ati and Albert Key. eta ‘ongregational Church: “A Christmas Prayer”—Dianne Processional Hymn, “Silent! SS Night, Holy Night,”; participants, | > members of each of the following] Mrs. Emma _ Thompson's class, classes: Miss Alma Rash, Geo. FI composed of Lillian Stewart, Ca- Archer, | mille Walterson, Clara May Hil- Mrs. Louise Thompson,! Emma Thompson, Ray Carter andj t» Margaret Sawyer, Joyce Gib- i] son, Dianne Dickens and Eliza- Rev. Samuel P. Reinke. “We Welcome You”—Vaughn beth Walterson. Mesa, Pauline Gibson, Mildred} Hart, Edward Connor, David } Reinke, John Reinke and Jimmy Toodhunter. Prayer—Rev. Reinke, pastor of; the First Congregational church.| “Greetings”—Charles Solph. | Trumpet Solo—Robert Stanley} Archer. Recitation — Judy Knowles. “Our Greatest Gift”—George| Stewart, Jack Harris, Betty Ann So! on and Bobby Mullins. “Just Try It”—Daffney ren. Piano and Trumpet Duet—Miss Florence Drudge and her broth- er, Jackney. “Do You Hear The Angels} characters: Mother—Miss Betty Rae Bra- day. Her Chiidren—Robert, Don- ald Key; Mable, Elizabeth Ann Russell; Jimmy, Ray Elwood. Sarah—-Myrna Lee Curry, _George—George Gibson. j ele abel tire ‘Primary Department, with special recitation in between first | and second verses of song, spoken by Helen Louise Whitehead, Rob- ert Rash, Leadorne Whitehead, Joyce Roberts, Leo Curry and Maynard Lowe. War- ren was awarded the handsom-| great deal of enthusiasm. There | in Key West at the home of M:./ “The Bells of Christmas Day”—} A Playlet, entitied “When the] Angels Sang”, with the following} Song, “Christmas Bells”—En-! Christmas Garlands — Joan) ed to join in | are cordially inv: the Carol {the merriment with | Singers. Bradley seeking release of teachers needed to train veterans. is on leave of absence to meet her marine hubby fresh from the South Pacific. Mrs. Mary | Collins, Cost Section has gone to Baltimore in anticipation of her! husband's arrival there. Welcome ' to: Mrs. “Flo Whiting, Indiana and Paul Rias, a Key Wester-awhe-has been away in Miami and:new work- ‘ing im the Bistaty Accounting | Dep't. ! | SUPPLY DEPT — A hearty |“hello!” to a newcomer in the | Correspondence Section, Gerald- |ine McDaniel of W. Va., also | Mrs. Ira Clawson, Recev. Div., ‘who was recently appointed as a member of the Cafeteria | Board. Anyone knowing the de- j tails on the decommissioning of ja certain PY pl contact Lydia Garcia and relieve her anxious hearg. We would also like to know if a certain girl in Supply is going west or will! {she decide to become a deep- | rooted ‘conch’? ;Mrs. W. G. Harvey spent her {bank roll and ‘daze’ in glamorous Havana with «her newly returned hub! ; Bullman was seen in ville, happily escorted This office extends its deepest sympathies to Art Meska whose wife is gravely ill, and hoping for a speedy recovery. ne Keltner and Miss Rose Del Pino. spent the week-end gift buying in Miami. . . W. W. Wii- son of the PW Labor Office left Tuesday to spend a holiday va- cation in north Florida and Georgia. . . Cecil Cates, is also enjoying a nice vacation and will return January 20th. | HARMACY Free Delivery GARDNER’S P! Phone 177 Brodowskiy » of 8: PERSONNEL RELATIONS — i; seven glorious | ing member: Mrs. Edwin C. Carter, Mrs. L. C. Miller, Mrs. F. C. M. Young, Mr H. L. Waters, M: MISSIONARY SOCIETY HAS PRAYER SERVICE The Woman's ef the Poinciana Baptist Chureh held an‘ail-day meeting Thursday, December 6 at the chutHTHe Hottie Moon program | and collection being for eign mission work. Ten members were present taking part in the program and enjoying Christian fellowship while partaking of a delicious cc ered dish luncheon which w served at noon. Telephones set up for home calls by U.'S. soldiers in Ger- many. was held. arrangements were made fora Christmas tree party. Today The Citizen says in an | editorial paragraph: | “There are some men who are too old to run but young enough to stand and fight”. —————<—<$<$<—<—<= town by her handsome husband. | to relieve stuffiness, invite = Tonight It's wonderful how a little Va-tro-nol up each nostril relieves stuffy transient congestion. Also. relieves distress of head colds! Follow directions in older. _VIEKS VA-TRO-NOL STRAND THEATER WILLIAM BENDIX in |“DON JUAN QUILLIGAN” | Coming: “National Barn Dance” PUBLIC WORKS—Mrs. Jean-! | MONROE THEATER LAIRD CREGAR in “THE LODGER” | | "ito the y Missionary Soci-} Coming: “The Purple Heart” ; Another very important point.’ fect order. William Russell, the I was waterfront reporter during linotype operator, rushed to Per-| my first reportorial years on The cy's assistance and soon removed| Citizen starting in 1937 and be-' 21) the lines safely back into the Singing?”—Joann Mullins, Sylvia! Knowles, Beverly Gibson and Bet- | ty Key. (“Silent Night” will be; played softly by Elizabeth Ann|/ Knowles, Joyce Henson, Harry Lee Roberts, Gloria Knowles, Eu. nice Camus and Robert Read. “Why I'm Happy”—Christina lieve me the Bight itself will not doek half the yachts which come| here during the winter season.’ Such large yachts as Commodore ur Curtis James’ beauty, the; da, and Vanderbilt's yacht,| among the big ones, and scores of ler craft filled the old sub-' ne basin in the Navy Yard n it was thrown open to ci- vilian use. So Garrison Bight alone will not hold all these yachts unless there is widespread dredg- ing. e e TRUMBO YACHT BASIN Just as an expanding thought. The Royal Palm Yacht Club at the foot of the Boulevard in Mi- the Angler’s Club in New a are I with five to eight piers go- ing out to a T head at the end. I Was thinking of the old Charter; Beat pier at Trumbo roadway, | where a number of slips were con-| structed before the war for the charter boats. If, say, three or five piers were built out from | galley pan. INJURED BOY SOME IMPROVED John Craig Smith, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Smith, 910 North Beach, who was crit- ically mjured dt 9:45 o'clock Monday afternoon, when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a truck, passed a quiet night last night and has slightly im- proved, it was reported today at the Key West General Hospital. The information said further that he is still unconscious. Beathe Sa DAUGHTER BORN pile construction! — Demeritt. “We Grow By Giving”—Matilda Thompson. “Good Night”—Barbara Walter: Russell during this recitation.) “A Question” — Barbara Ra- mirez, { Piano Selection—Billy Roberts. { “Just Right’—Nolan Drudge. “When Christmas Comes”—] son and Barbara Dickens. Jayne Lou Archer. Presentation of gifts. REPORTER BEWILDERED AT PRETTY FACES By J. Harmon Brodowdki, Civilian Publicity Director, NOB Choosing Mr. Delaney’s Ac- back Mrs. A. Christianson who counting Office as a likely sub-) has been on leave since her ; i husband’s arrival in the state: pees ne Cones became ! hus who just recently returned | very thirsty watching the office = ks‘ ‘visit to ‘that | staff inhaling cokes. . . and ee gees str most deafened by the clamour |" Asli a clang of a huge battery of} SHEETMETAL SHOP — ‘Th business machines. . . charmed | clerical force in the Hull Divi- by “Liz’ Cherney’s prim, dainty | sion and shops 11, 26 and 74 wish ; stature. . | qnd vastly pleased | to congratulate Mr. Geo. Weth- | by Francis Delaney’s calm, cool! erbee and his new bride, Alic> | method operation. . . bewildered | Bobe. A very pretty wedding lat the maze of file cabinets. The | ceremony was solemnized, Nov. 30th at the Methodist Stone son, Faye Gates, Shirley Walter-| | MAZE OF FILE CABINETS AT NAVY YARD} EHR BE Famous Robert ETS tra ER for Fine Flavor Since 1866 Knobel Mr. and Mrs. Leo Thompson’ Candid Cad is pleased to note “WHOLESALE BEER and WINE” The newcom S one-half pounds and has named James Edwin 111 WPA employees will hold meting tonight to discuss labor conditions in Key West. all thos¢ ind during death of father, Special offeringsS Johnson} doctc W. 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