The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1945, Page 5

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945 la ba i i bn hb hi hn hi hh hb ha hh hhh hn) ] Mod | lern Menus CORAL ROCKETS By L. P. ARTMAN, JR. AAAAABAAABAAABESEEEISEAEEEAEEEEREEE | Jig raising havoc with the teeth | AP Newsfeatures SCENIC ROADWAY Friend of mine took the “scenic; nursery; the only star apple tree Mikkelson, roadway” trip along the shore- | er tropical fruits; a breadfruit! in the United states; a Euphorbia! For Igloos—Oueh! | (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON. — Store food of Eskimos in Alaska. Dr. Oscar dental supervisor line of the lower Keys on the! Crystalia worth $500; tallest night| Of the Office of Indian Affairs, old road. He went up to Sugar-| blooming cereus in the city; Ha-|says observations in Alaska loaf Key, which is about twenty} waiian pink shower, which tour-| prove that the diet of very prim- miles up the road on the new} highway and then cut off at just! about Pirates Cove and doubled | back on the old road, which is fast | becoming primitive country again. He reports that the wooden! bridges are in pretty good shape.| There are three short ones and! tHe Jong one between Sugarloaf! and Saddlebunches. "Some of t road has been- washed by the storm of two years ago but fish- ing is getting better on these | bridges. He cast a feather out! by a mangrove and brought in a nice black grouper, which he sub- sequently took to a -staurant and had p' pper last night. Boca Chica Bridge jammed as it is every Sund. and a large number of visitors kc advantage of the fishing. Chica bridge has a furrow the road at either end, which stops autos from going across this bridge. Noticed a small burned area on this bridge, al ° ° TAX ASSESSOR TROUBLE The little man with the cupped hand over his mouth reports that city tax collector Sam B. Pinder has been asked to*take. over the jobs of city~tax ,Mssessor and treasurer, in addition to his tax collector pogition.;; Don’t think that Sam will do’tHis’ unless he gets a great deal mofé Kelp) He is quite busy every day’ in’ just collections and last month was burning the midnight oil to get in all his receipts. Work is dif-| ferent for the rest of the r but! there is a constant flow of citi-! zens through his office. ° ° INCREASED SCAVENGING 4 One of these days I would like’ to see incre venger serv: ice through the residential se tion of the town. None of the scavenger truck ope ors work very long hours since they are so. ists make pilgrimages to see; blooming in tne spring in Ha-} wi a mammoth luxurious bou-) gainvillaea; a palm unknown in plant literature, and the largest and loveliest blue plumago in the country. ° SOUTHERN “CROSS Just received a note from Jo- seph J. Dillinger, who is quite interested in points of interest of Key West. He has a letter from} G. L. Clemence, director of the Nautical Almanac, Naval Obser-} vatory, concerning the Southern Cros seen in Key West. Letter fol- lows: “Your letter of November 21 has been received. At Key; West, beginning in the latter part; of December each year, the South-! ern Cross may be seen for a brief time just before dawn low in the southeastern sky. The time of rising advances about two hours per month, until by March 15 the Cross has just risen above the horizon about 11:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. It is visible for nearly four hours from rising to setting. Continuing to rise about! two hours earlier per month, it has already risen when darkness comes by May 15, and is then seén for a shorter and shorter interval ‘in the early evening until by late June it.is setting when darkness comes.” ° SPONGER MONEY One of the little known and very complete books about Flor- ida and Key West is “Palmetto Country”, by Stetson Kennedy. Kennedy is marries girl. He has an amazing amount of research. For instance, here’s “Sponger Money,” well known Key West sea chantey: Sponger money _ never done, sponger money, constellation which may be! d to a Key West, through about 11 o'clock of each Look at my hand—my hand look! day. They make only one collec-| oa tion a week in most residential Cause I don’t want no other districts, although the merchants} e eet! well handled, in some! c aily.- Then if,more than} thie 4 mt hours gf worked therefig Overtime pay due, which I understand amounis to $50 a week for, total wages: .Some of; VACANCY PROBLEMS Still see-a lot of vacancy signs; hanging out from hotel and apart- ment-hotel doors, Key West is re- ported only about 30"peretitt full! This year will} pppbpbly ber “not! the good tourist year most folks, expected and perhaps Tt is just as well for us since we are still, reconverting the various business- es back to tourist production. The Navy will take up the slack with their increased personnel surges along about February. But some; people are missing the best clim- ate in the country and the best fishing in the country, with reefs and fishing holes hardly fished, except commercially, throughout the war. the wears ars only ] a week. | e ° YACHTS TO CUBA There are some few boats which are ailable for yachting trips to Cuba. Some are about! forty feet long and I would not ad’ taking these across, except for people used to making rugged trips. There is at least one 45J, footer and one 55-fopter which are. available for these trips. The] charter fishermen should organize themselves’into their old Charter Boat. Association. This column} has“been ‘attempting to keep the! public up to date on fishing fa-} cilities but the fishermen them- selves have done little to publicize! their locations with large signs and what kind of fishing is avail- able. | . FORT TAYLOR (Whitehead and United) Named in honor of Major Gen- eral Zachary Taylor, who fought] with distinction in the wars of 1812, Seminole and Indian W. Construction of the “old Fort” is of Pensacola brick brought here by schooner and the whole rests on granite and oak foundations. It was begun in 1845 and con- tinued until 1876. During the Civil Wer period, the armament consisted of columbiads, flanking howitzers, and field howitzers. Construction of the modern for- tification commenced in 1893. The fortifications of Key West and the Dry Tortugas were ‘designed ito control the passages of the Galf of Mexico. Federal troops took possession during the Civil War. . e MOLLIE PARKER GARDENS | (1015 South Street) The most remarkable tropical garden’ in the country. Miss’ Parker planted this garden orig-{ inally but does not live in Sey] West at this writing. In the gar-/ den is the limburger tree with the taste and odor of the famous cheese; the Monstrera Deliciosa, which combines the tastes of ba-/ nana, pineapple, soursop and oth-| (St. money But sponger ney Book in a ani and see what’s street: sponger money, One hundred dollars was sharé, sponger money, | I'm gonna take away your woes, sponger money, Tf gonna buy you fine new, clothes, sppnger money. | | ‘Then “when ywe ¢ T out on the You’ okthet 4 faa neat, spongermoney, — | Then all-she-boys,.will envy me, sponger money, | Then all the girls will fall for) me, sponger money. Money don’t make me, you know,| sponger money, Sponger money ever flow, spong-| er money, Tell ev'ry body in town, sponger| money, Me and my gal gonna dance ’em down, sponger money. Sponger money never done, |! sponger money, | Cigarmakers on the bum, sponger | money, But I'll treat them just the same, | sponger money, ' Keep’ them boys from feelin’ | se shame, sponger money. iy “ Book in the corner, see “what's there, sponger money, Champagne, whiskey, gin ‘and beer, sponger money, j Tell e@xrybody that you «sec, spOnger money, | We're gonna have a_ shivaree,| sponger money. | | | TEMPERATURES Temperature data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowest jitive Eskimos, almost completely Teut off from white communities, !was infinitely more conductive to keeping good teeth than the diets of Eskimos who have | adopted store food. THE WEATHER } FORECAST | Key West and vicinity: Con- | siderable cloudiness with scat- tered showers and _ thunder- storms this afternoon; fair and cooler tonight and Tuesday; moderate southwesterly winds this afternoon, shifting to mod- erate to fresh northwest to north tonight and Tuesday. Florida: Considerable cloudi- ness today, with scattered show- ers and thunderstorms in south and central portions; fair and colder tonight and Tuesday. Jacksonville through Florida Straits: Fresh to strong south-| | westerly winds shifting to mod- erate to fresh northwesterly +o- | day: moderate to occasionally fresh northwest winds tonight and Tuesday; considerable cloudiness. with showers and thunderstorms to- day, becoming partly cloudy to- | night and Tuesday. East Gulf: Moderate to fresh | northwesterly winds over ex- treme north portion, and fresh | to strong southwesterly winds} over south and central portions, | shifting to moderate to fresh! northerly today; moderate north- | west to northerly winds tonight and Tuesday; considerable |cloudiness with showers and} thunderstorms foday; fair to- | night and Tuesday. Jacksonville to Apalachicola: | Small craft warnings indicated south of Jacksonville |the Florida Straits REPORT Key West, Fla., Dec. 31, 1945 Observation taken at 7:30 am. Eastern Standard Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours __ | Lowest last ae | Mean’ Normal _ through | to Cedar | | Keys. j recipit Rainfall, 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m., inches Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches _ Deficiency since | inches | Tota) rainfall since Jan. 1, inches 2 | Excess since _Senuary inches Sunset - Moonrise & (ee = _ 4:27 p.m. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 9:33 a.m. 2:42 am. | were howling for meat and cig-} | arettes, | them worse than any year — | began battling in Manila and the: | Hitler and no more Germany. to northerly; --- DEAR 1846; Sorry I couldn't be around when you came in: It’s not that I! don’t care. Im just plain ex- hausted. "| South Beach Restaurant Opens Formally Tonight In a full-page advertisement) in today’s issue of The Citizen Cohen and Bonamy announce che! gala opening tonight of Hen’s Roost”, ‘of Key West's most beautiful ocean front restaurants. ° Situated at Simonton street and | REFUNDING OF | (Continued from Page One) | were made toll-free by legislative measures? Herman Fultz, member of the) the department, said they did not think so, and Mr. Papy replied: “How are we to deal with the Now don’t smirk, son, but take} South Beach, the location boasts} companies who will buy the re- an old man’s advice. Of course,} they'll sing and cheer the first} time they see you and make out like you're a great fellow. Don’t believe it! They acted that way, when I came along—then look: | what they did to me. | I no sooner got my first pair; of diapers adjusted before ihey saying I was treating; ever seen. H Then that MacArthur fellow} Marines jumped onto Iwo Jima: and Eisenhower blasted up to the Rhine and hopped across it. I had to watch Germany. Then Okin-} awa. Then Germany. Then all the Pacific. All of a sudden there was no more Mussolini, no more; Maybe I should have quit then. But they wouldn't let me. Those! Superfortresses over Japan and that Halsey chap kept ied Sd | me 168 hours a week. Then they pulled that tient business. You can imagine what that did to my’ arteries. Another declaration of war by Russia... . another atom bemb another surrénder .. . UNO and labor strikes.and all kinds of trouble popping all over the world and that Pearl Harbor story and putting war criminals on trial—I guess I've seen ust, About every- thing. O.K., son, it’s yours. You're young and probably feeling pret- ty chipper. But before you start feeling sorry for an old codger , like me, let me say this: I'll bet} you won't get as much done as I} did! Creakingly yours, 1945. RUN LENGTHWISE Detroit, Warp threads are those} that run lengthwise of the fab-! rics; weft threads run transverse- ly. 1241 feet of beach frontage. It 1s: constructed of concrete biock and exterior painting is in a pink col- or. There are quite a large num- ber of tables inside and there is also a cncrete patio directly. on the water where dinners may be served under the stars. A bas- ket with potatoes and buns, a most toothsome meal. There is also being served seafoods of all} kinds, chops and steak dinners. ADOPTION OF WORD Cincinnatti,—_The word vegetar- ianism came into use about 1847 when the practice of abstaining from flesh, fish, and fowl became fashionable. Industrial development in Boli- | via has been limited by the lack | of cheap fuel. New products to aid ithe hostess include sandwich humidor. Attorney-General asks names for a national youth-aid board. funding bonds as we are able to deal with the Reconstruction Fi-} nance Corporation that now own the bonds? The legislature in 1943 passed an enabling act which! resulted in removing the toll on the Gandy Bridge, the Davis Causeway and the Pensacola Bridge, and at the session of the} legislature this year I introduced a bill designed to make our | bridges toll-free. The bill passed the house but was killed in the senate, and I am_ determined, when I go back to the legislature, to introduce a similar measure and fight for its adoption, pro- viding refunding bonds does not kill the procedure that was fol- lowed in freeing from tolls the two bridges at Tampa and the one at Pensacola. f we stand today, Monroe county's bridges are the only ma- jor ones in the state on which ; tolls are still collected, and why! ; should we | against in that regard? Further. | I have been told that, in the event the bonds are refunded, the tolls, To All Our Clients and Friends The Age Old Greeting: A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR With all the blessings of Peace and the American Way of Life and with sin- cere thanks for your patronage and cooperation through these last few trying years. | both Germany and Japan. 8:28 p.m. 1:51 p.m, In 1943 there were 30,888,134 motor vehicles of all types in the United States. W_THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH J 7 ceed NEWBY LA VERNE vs. JAMES SAMUEL G Ks ORDER OF PU Station last 24 hours last night| ©: 39 35, 51 53 24 24 53 55 24 75 74 Atlanta Boston Brownsville Charleston - Chicago Detroit Galveston Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST K. W. Airport Memphis — Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Norfolk - = Oklahoma City Pensacola —__ Pittsburgh Louis Tampa — BURN SLOWER IN AIR CHICAGO. — Cigarettes burn; more slowly at 8,000 feet in the air than on the ground. Reported food riot in Japan| found fake, General Swing says. | DIVORCE woop, the 28th day of 1946, otherwise the ed therein will be ed at Key We A.D. } ecire Deputy Clerk. ENRIQUE NALDO, JR Attorney for Plaintiff. dec31,1945 ;jan6-13-20,1946 Churchmen urge relief now to AT ——— THE ———_ FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK KEY WEST Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation E. GONZALEZ, M.D. KEY WEST. FLA. TO MY PATIENTS: Dee. 31, 1945 I will stop practicing medicine on Jan. 1, 1946 in obedience to the order contained in the photostatic copy of letter as follows: E. GONZALEZ Harry C. Galey, M.D. John B. Maloney Memorial Hosnital Key West, Florida Dr. Edward Gonzalez, Key West, Florida Dear Doctor: As you know the privilege of practicing in Key West, in Monroe County, has been contingent upon the immediate war emer- gency, and subject to the support of Dr. Warren and myself, and Doctor Warren's death left me solely responsible. I the emergency is over. feel that Since the state board is checking upon the unlicensed phy- sicians, I am notifying you I am no longer offering you my support, and advising you of same. January, 1946, so after that date This is to take effect the first of you are not to practice until such time as you acquire your Florida state license. I am so notifying the authoriti Sincerely yours, (Signed) H. C. 2 es. GALEY BY HUMAN EYES New York,—Heliu ered by human ey the study of its jit was found on Was discor- un by “The: State Road Department for this Will not be re: which will be one} district, and Attorney Irving, of S#¥inés im the pay est Interest on | 000 of whic’ the rate of f refunding the that the rate w two and three p: er the two percent mark i refunded at two present interest be cut to $63,000 an + se Har? COMING SOON! WATCH FOR IT! 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