The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1946, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN rrvevereereveree oe veseeersrreyc~*™*| YANKS TURN LUMBERMEN CORAL ROCKETS IN BATTERED | By L. P. ARTMAN, JR. PHONE 535 / sarany QUESTION shoals ran into millions of dol- | As rorecast in Monday’s Citizen| Jars. In the yard are many in- City Tax Collector Sam B. Pinder} teresting Key West trees with) "°C FOUR SOCIETY y By PATRICIA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1946 ‘MONTH OF BRIDES’ | WOO, FOR SUITS STILL HOLDS TRUE, GERMANY | June, the “month of brides,” | NOW PLENTIFUL {held true in the number of , monthly marriages in Key West ‘BURDENSOME’ DOMESTIC in 1945. In that month 75 couples } + said, “I do’, as compared to 66 | SUBEU eS CRED ANH) ee » i; i BY RICHARD KASISCHKE AP Newsfeatures Berlin—What probably is the BUYS SOUTHERNMOST | ; MISS DUN HOME ON NEW YEAR came in with a bang Monday night with bells ringing, horns tooting, noise- makers on the streets and gay- ety everywhere. al tal ies ECHOASIS had a buffet din-| ner served at 10 p.m. There was} dancing with music furnished by the Sound School Cavaliers. Ernie Dunlap, one of the orig- inal players in the orchestra, is back in Key West and all of his friends and acquaintances are glad to see him here. x kk THE OFFICERS Whitehead street scene of merriment. Wonderful dinners were served, and later there was dancing. A clever as- sortment of horns, hats, makers and confetti were vided for guests present. A jitterbug contest was won by Lt. and Mrs. Jack Laney There is a wonderful story there. Ten months ago when an] aircraft carrier was anchored in #@ harbor, Lt. Laney! was flying | dne of the ‘planes off it. February his plane burned, and Lt. Laney hi a in the Naval Hospital ever since February, and of all @hings, he won the jitterbug contest. He has haa several operations for his burns, and has four to go. kk * CAPT. AND MRS. Wales Ben- nam are in Key West. Mrs. Ben- mam is the former Alice Mal- oney. They are staying at the La Concha Hotel and will be here for ten more day: they will leave for Cl Ohio, where Capt. Bennam stationed. kkk LAST SATURDAY the month- Club was another} pro- is ly Army dance was held at the} Officers Club. Col. R. E. Turley is commanding officer of Army Forces here kkk RETURNING yesterday to Key West from New York, where she spent the Christmas holidays w\jh her mother, 1s Miss Christina Dunn. Miss Dunn will move into her recently purchased home, the Southernmost Home in the U. S. on South and Whitehead streets. xk * BESIDES IT BEING Year's Eve Dr. and Mrs. had another reason for brating. It was their, twelfth! wedding anniversary kk *& EVERY WEDNESDAY night > is a bridge held at 8:30 at! 1 Officers Club, White et. Last Wednesday | George Cain won; runner up was and Mrs. N. C.] booby prize went Mrs. Spenceg All donated by high score, Commander Johnson. The to Capt. and of the prizes the club Those of play should Brown e you who wish to call M Madaline at the Officer's Club. é * BEACH USO Club on Duval, DAYS GONE BY | FROM FILES OF THE CTTIZEN | OF JANUAR 1936 Dr. William R. a meeting held by the Rotary Club today, briefly viewed “The Rotarian book written by E. R. Lowe, justice of the} peace at Tavernier, is in Key West on official business today County Tax Collector Frank i today that of the! 1,200 owners of in M only 225 of them have yet purch- ased licenses for the current year. He also said that thus far he has issued 13 licenses for the | operation of Monroe county. slot machines in Miss Virginia Shine, who has been spending the Christmas and New Year's holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Shine, will leave tomorrow for Tallahassee to resume her stud- ies in the Florida State College for Women. Mrs. Charlotte Haskins left yesterday for Fort Lauderdale to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lunn. Mrs. Angela Caro, wife Municipal Judge Thomas Caro, left yesterday for Tampa of | evening. Junior | on} noise: | morrow at 7:30 p.m. in the school nusement of the 250} | | THE POSTPONED MEETING session. | Nischo, 86-1 Poinciana Place, and | Charles Young, "=; Young, 81-2 Poinciana Place. | the beginning of the second sem- nroe county | S.| WHITEHEAD STREET ‘street had a midnight movie New Year’s Eve which was pre- | ceeded’ by a rép+yoaring song jfest. After the movic the guests were served coffee and dough- nuts. * x * LAST NIGHT the Beach USO had their New Year’s Eve dance with Charles Cunningham’s or- chestra furnishing the music. The dance was from 9 until i! o'clock. Punch, candy and nuts were served throughout the hostesses setv- ed under the direction of Mrs. Stanzack. kk * HARRIS SCHOOL Parent- acher Association will hold its irst meeting of the new year to- auditorium. A very interesting program has been planned and all parents are cordially invited to be present. At the conclusion of the meet- ing, Principal Fowler will show a film which is very outstanding and will be of interest to all par- enter ‘ uy ABD EGS \4 sociat hour will ld h refresh: rved. dake" ev retccamnO MEE SATURDAY EVENING a group of relatives held a:shower at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Ma- nile, 2614 Alta st., in honor of Miss Edith Sands, who will be married to F. Paul Pritchard in the near future. Miss Sands is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Sands of Key West. It was a surprise linen shower and a mock wedding furnished the chief entertainment. James Giovanazi took the part of the groom and Marie Christine Gio- vanazi the bride. Virginia Mae Pritchard, dressed in an evening suit, performed the ceremony. The wedding party marched to “Here Comes the Bride”, played ; by P. C. Manile on the mandolin and retired to “I Wish I Were Single Again”. F. Paul Pritchard, USNR; was unable to be present as he is sta- tioned at the Seattle naval sta- tion. Refreshments were served fol- lowing opening of gifts by the honoree. | Those present w Mr. and | Mrs. Wm. L. Dulion; Mrs. Ww. | Salmons, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice ! Giovana Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Pritchard and Mrs. Marie Manile and their families. Ko kek CHIEF AND MBS. Nelson Wil- son and two children, Sandra Lee and Steve,,of Vero Beach, Fla., were guests of M Wilson’s mother, Mrs. A. L. Garcia, of 1024 United street, over the holidays. Mrs. Wilson is the former Miss Yulee Bethel of this city. xk kk of the “United Council of Church Women” will be held Monday in St. Paul’s Church, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Women of all churches are in- vited to come for the day or for either the morning or afternoon Lunch will be served in the Parish Hall at 12:30. TWO CADETS COME HERE ON FURLOUGH Two Key West cadets of Flor- ida Military Academy, St. Peters- burg, are enjoying vacation fur- loughs in Key West. The boy: e Pacquale Nischo. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel son of m of Charles H. y will return to FMA on 6 when they will be join- yy 20 new students. More are expected to begin studies at the school in February, The St. Petersburg acad- rated among the three top military schools in the United) States. It is the only R.O.T.C. school in Florida. ester. emy Argentina is the world’s largest } } exporter of meat, corn and lin- seed. where she was célléd because: of the illness of her father. The Young Men’s Democratic | Club of Monroe County will hold | a Jackson Day ball in the Ha-| vana-Madrid on the night of | January 9. Miss Florrie Ketchings, of the clerical force of the Key West Electric Company, return-| ed yesterday from a vacation} spent in Georgia. _— | Today The Citizen says in an} editorial paragraph: | “Not every man who wears ' glasses is able to see straight.’ has resigned from his city job.| labels. It is at present under the! | tion of prostitution. Mr. Pinder has mailed his resig- nation to City Manager David! King. According:4o;,the .charter) Mr... Pinder would, jhaye. had to} take over the jobs-of both city; tax collector and treasurer. But what I think is one of the prin-| cipal objections is the salary cut.) Mr. Pinder at present receives two; percent of all;coHections made in} his office, somewhat around $450) a month, and a percentage basis! is not agreeable to City Manager! King. Mr. King stated that the job is a very responsible one andj would necessitate a proportionate’ asalary. Another very hard nut to crack is the question of tax as- salary. Another very hard nut interviewed for this job. What most would-be applicants fear in the tax assessor's job is that taxes will be raised, possibly, and most of the blame would fall on their shoulders. e ° MILLAGE UP TO KING AND COMMISSION City Manager King is working over budgets at present and has the budgets from the various de-' partments in his possession. These he will check:against the possible revenues of the city and then wiil trim the individual department budgets down to fit into the whole. He will not present a budget where there is not revenue to equalize the budget. He is non- committal over possible raising of taxes with an increased property valuation. He did point out that the millage is set by the city com-; mission at his suggestion and that the valuation of the property to, full value need not mean that higher taxes’ will result. Thus whatever criticism on. increased taxes would result would fall more on him than on the new tax assessor. ° BRIGHT LIGHTS | Very glad to see that Manager, King will repair the street lights” which have fallen down and been destroyed over the city through vandalism. These lights were put in during the last boom in Florida and every so often merchants get together and have them lighted for the winter season by chipping in expense «money - themselves. | They light Daval street beauti- fully and make the main street appear gay and bright, as com- pared to the present shadowy ap- pearance, _ which is. somewhat helped by bright .store, windews. ° * DR. SUNSHINE Understand that in some Flor- ida cities health cards for food handlers are done away with.. I cannot see this because while it is not an absolute safeguard it is a help. A great deal of atten- tion to public health matters in the city can be done. While Key West is blessed with sunshine, which -doctors declare is the greatest doctor in Key West, still there is some disease present which needs attention. With mod- ern medical facilities giving such quick relief it is a wonder that anyone would want to carry a communicable disease around with them. i e CITY-WIDE "RED" ! Another matter which comes up through all the ages is the ques- When the; Navy first came in Key West's, “red-light district” was closed yup tightly. Of course, as has been the cities in Florida and throughqut the states near the big camps, this did not stop the ancient profes- sion. It still flourishes and through many of the barrooms there are the usual pickups and along the streets the same. There are plenty of places to go for these girls. Automotive transpar- tation being one of the principal means. This is the old question which has plagued the world. To allow prostitution under _ strict supervision or to forbid it entirely and see it crop up all over the city. This all works back to the question of supply and demand and even more so to the lawful expression of these desires, which in themselves are not bad. The lawful expression is, of course, in family life and it is encumbent upon peoples to make, the family an exciting, stable means of this expression. But man is ever lim- ited and probably will never solve this problem. We can only work toward a solution. e ° KEY WEST LIGHTHOUSE (Whitehead and Division) The Key West Lighthouse was originally constructed on White- head's spit in 1825. The present | lighthouse was built in 1846 to | replace the former structure. It has the distinction of being the farthest inland of any lighthouse in the United States. The build- ing is 91 feet high and the light is visible for at least 15 miles. | Some ships clearing Havana Har- bor have reported seeing its flash. Prior to the establishment of. this light losses . of vessels wrecked on the e e | OLD BAHAMA:HOUSES | of unique cut. vices’ experience in many, + jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard. (Eaton and William) Floated over on schooners in’ 1865 from Abaco, Bahamas, were | this home and the one in the) rear. They were sent over in sections and not as entire houses. | They were built of cypress by} ship carpenters. Original wooden! posts and-barrel-poured concrete} are the foundations. Notice the) old-style doors and windows, no, two alike. Railings and columns} are in solid pieces mortised and} joined as strongly as in a ship.j On the right side of the house may} be seen a style of different widths} of boarding, a quaint bay, an at-) tic window with 24 old-style! small panes. The cistern is the} original. Coping on the gable is} . ° i FIRE DEPARTMENT i Expenditures of the Fire De- partment for the period ending June, 1945, according to Finance Head Charles Roberts’ Audit Re- port, include current expenses for maintenance and -operation, $1,- 252.65; wepaixs. and. replacements, gasoline and oil; $1,428.45; person- | al services; salaries of officers and employes, $37,356.37; relief pay-) ments authorized by Ordinance| Number, 422, House Bill Number 430, $360; income taxes withheld are $2,394.95; miscellaneous ac- counts payable were $714.67. . e FIRST THINGS FIRST Obvious projects for the tour- ist betterment of the city are go- ing to be tackled by City Manager King. He will not try to do every- thing at once but will proceed to} the most necessary at first and then on down the line. ° e NOT SO TRICKY We got a laugh out of one of! King’s remarks. I asked him a tricky question and told him it was tricky and to watch out for the answer... “Well, that’s sim- ple,” he said. “I know little enough of that question at this time to give you even a tricky answer.” e e SUPERINTENDENT HARTELL I'd like to give a word of praise to Miss Marie Hartell, superinten-} dent of the Municipal Hospital;on Stock ‘Island. I have always found her very cooperative with the press and also very efficient insofar as I am the judge in med- ical matters. She is right on the job when most sheeded. and has, brought a’ great deal of relief to those who go to: the Hospital in pain. One of these days, after all the war upsets are over, I hope Miss Hartell gets a chance to staff the Hospital with nurses and tech- nicians as she would desire to do so. It certainly has been a hard| time getting a quota of nurses at the City Hospital. GHOST TOWNS AID HOUSING SHORTAGE | HOMELESS PURCHASE AND) MOVE HOUSES TO OTHER SITES (Ry ‘Associated Press) GALLUP, N. M., Jan. 2— Found: A practical use for the ghost towns which dot the West by worthless scores. Two such villages, the aban- doned coal mining camps of Na- vajo and Gibson, are helping re- lieve a housing shortage in Gal- lup. Movers simply hoisted the buildings onto truck trailers and towed them four or five miles in- to town. Since early spring 140 houses have been sold, netting around $300 apiece for the Gal- lup-Gamerco Coal Co., owner of the property. Homeless purchas- ers paid an additional $185 to get them moved. SOCIAL CALENDAR | i THURSDAY i | Harris School P.-T. A. Meeting. | 7:30 p.m. Harris Auditorium. | Monroe Coutity Public Schools open over county. | METHOD OF ATTACK NEW YORK.—Wolves attack- | ing a deer manage so that one | distracts its attention by slash- | ing at its rear while another | fiets an openifig at its throat. qurrounding | since then the world has had its | SPIRITUAL FOOD By J. W. R. | logs first are inspected with mine 4: detectors for shell fragments is op- ‘ erating in Gruenwald forest in the Some time ago this column in-| Americén settor of BeiTin. formed its readers it had received| ‘Parts of this forest, once Ho- a number of spiritual tracts and! henzollerns’ hunting grounds, are that there was one among them it hoped to reprint in part. in a fu-} 4 4 ati ee % issues ‘Hire itisn i he me preiay Lina and for The tract in ‘question was writ-/ ie cosy ort ve. ten primarily for the Christmas; Saas Pi iS ages—kids in sweaters to women Hapa Coals fourhesic 1! in fur coats—from Zehlendorf and Line i ea Sea Tn ae ee this! Other suburbs tramp daily into Py y year. cust now tals the woods with axes and hand- subject is of the utmost import-| —... 5 # Fe R ance to all in all lands the world; SWS, t0 cut fagots and haul them I ; S wor'¢| home ies 1 PEACE. We, you and) They swarm over trees felled by I, keep asking and seeking an! German logers supervised by GIs. answer to the question: “Canj a P' bet there be peace in our time?” This | Civilians are allowed only to tract supplies the answer to that| trim off branches. The trunks are question. Because it does, thi: | trucked away to a roadside saw- column hereby reproduces in part! He te te Qa GRE NSIS oe Oe for your consideration, “The! the American Army to use in Christmas Message Has -Not| Puilding barracks and for other Failed”: | purposes. | More than 200 logs a day are aA nie aaxent into the, processed in the mill. But before yo angels heralded, say 1n&,| each runs through, a POW blank- peace on earth and good wl ets its surface with a mine detect- Be eneeeie Sat the word or to search for shell splinters, re- wars and rum-) }ics of the battle for’ Berlin. Bee pica eae a Powersaws fell the trees and ie of e age. nd a is: wher ‘th®-GI i arg i h Christmas season the world knows} Lae poate as ie ae the grim reality of His prophetic) fallen’ th¥e’ to hack away..lstv Rs utterance. What then? Was pranches. there some mistake in the an-| 2GAN THERE, BE REACE . > St ‘ n-| Whole families turn out, for ihe! ERICAN nunciation of the angels? Or did; daily woods chore. Some bring) and CUBAN | the Christ discover that He could} their lunches. A mother and old- not usher in peace and therefore) er sister will push handsaws and uttered His prophecy of pessim- ism? load the wood into wagons. “No—between the angels’ iene “Td like to yell ‘timber’ like lamation of peace and the Divine! the dyo in the movies every time} ¥ pronouncement of war came the} a tree falls,” said Pfc. Israel Bid- human choice, ‘Crucify Him . . .! der of (308 Gladstone St.) Phila- we have no king but Caesar.’ And} delphia. “But these people would ; not understand that, so I just yell | ‘seram heraus weg outta here. “But God took the clenched jist’ That does it.” of man raised against His Son i RA and wrought through it a greater,! The United States bought the more needful work of grace for Virein Islands from Denmark in man. It was in the heart of man 1916. to crucify the Son of God. But it had been eternally in the heart’ Argentina is the second largest of God to offer up His Son to die’ South American country in both as a sacrifice for our sin: ‘Him, area and population, being delivered by the determin-' ate counsel and foreknowledge of Beware Co f , God, ye have taken, and with Creom' ree ha cause it ignito the of the trouble and expel and aid uacure Caesars—and wars. (Acts 2:23). Man meant it for evil, but God meant it for good... ' “Conseauently, the Lord Jesus’ Christ aid not come to be King over a sinful and dying race—to be Prince of peace wnere there is no peace—but He came rather to establish a kingdom of redeemed souls—freed from the penalty and bondage of sin. He came to be a Saviour . . “And so there IS a Christmas message. True that world peace awaits His coming again—and He is coming, but RIGHT NOW He offers INDIVIDUAL PEACE OF ] HEART to each one who will trust Him as Saviour .. . ““Therefore, being justified by faith, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD through our Lord Jesus Christ . . . Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, see- ing He ever liveth’ (Romans 5:1, Hebrews 7:25).” wicked hands crucified and slain’ lad STRANGE ANIMAL Trapped by a Fisherman Near Marathon, Fla. It has ears of a fox, tail of a raccoon, claws of a badger, | snout of an anteater and fur of a beaver. WHAT IS IT? Three-fifths of Bolivia is tropi- cal lowlands. An eseape of blood from a blood} vessel is called a hemorrhage. | i | 1 COMING SOON! WATCH FOR JIT Among tke 200 Animals, Birds and Reptiles at the Believe It or Not ANIMAL ODDITIES Now Showing ; TROPICAL AMUSEMENT PARK 713 Duval Street NOON UNTIL 11:00 P. M, STRAND THEATER JACK BENNY ir The Horn Blows At Midnight foming: | “The ‘Thin Man Goes Home” | | { | | | i TE MONROE THEATER | { | JANE WYMAN in ' “CRIME BY NIGHT”. | Coming: | “The Very Thought Of You” | = =a MIA Misa ents ROOMS Seine Reasonable for Reservations WITH BATH and TELEPHONE FORD HOTEL PERSHING HOTEL 60 NE. 3rd Street 226 NE. Ist Avenue 80 Rooms - Elevator 100 Rooms - Elevator Solarium 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION. BUS STATION |in February, the second highest | UWGA SECRETARY SAYS j only sawmill in the world where} | being thinned out to provide lum-| Hundreds of: Germans of all) in hand-drawn wagons.; wield small axes while children} month. | The lowest total was in Octo- { ber, when merriages fell to 18, jand -thes<renSoh for that low ni wes because October | was= the first month when the | blood-test, law went. into effect | Marriages exceeded divorces’ scarcity of men’s suits. iby more than one-third during Hooper said “there is a burden- last year. The total of marriages some supply of domestic wool in was 638, and divorces during storage inthe United States and |that period numbered 404. more than $5 worth of wool { =e is used in the manufacture of any |NO LEG TO STAND suit, even if it costs $100 to make 1 at.” | ON IN THIS DISPUTE | | { (My Associated Pres) SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 2— nes A. Hooper, secretary of the Utah Wool Growers Association, says lack of wool and high wool prices are not contributing to the see Buy | (By Associated Press) DUBLIN.—Because he lost a leg in 1918 a County Wexford flour miller has been asked to! pay excess fare on a trip home| | from England. | He was stopped at the barrier \in Dublin and told he must pay ‘extra on the artificial leg he jhad brought back with him — | because a spare leg wasn’t classi {fied as personal luggage. He says he won't pay the ex- cess demanded on the new leg he bought. | — COMING SOON! WATCH FOR IT! S000 EBERT EET EEE I You Grates SELLS That GOOD} ~ STAR BRAND Try A Pound Today! WY SPEEDY, SURE RELIEF FOR ACIDN. 'NDIGESTION TAMPA 2 Hours 35 Minutes @For information and reservations, call 514 Southard | -, Street, Phone 1040 GARDNER’S PHARMACY, Phone 17% Free Delivery he Buc Raute ' | | 31D y fede CLINTON P. ANDERSONE . Lye ‘Secretary of Agriculture — , is just as important now as whert fats and oils were rationed to save afid turn in every bit of used kitchen fat. Used fats continue to be one of our most important sources of supply for the manufacture of soap and for other industrial uses. It may be many months before we can obtain adequate supplies of imported fats and oils for these uses. Meanwhile, housewives can help prevent soap shortages by. turning in used fats, and dealers can help by continuing collections.” | SAVING USED FATS ~ ' EVERY DROP of used fats you save helps the soap supply . «. helps bring back more soap to your dealer’s shelves sooner. So kéep on yout fat-salvage job—help yourself get more soaps. And remember, you get 4c a pound when you turn in used fat to your butcher. | WE'RE STILL far below the mini- | mum requirements in our supply | of industrial fats. Any letup in | saving used fats will lower this ! supply...may mean less soap, for | your used fats are needed to help make soap. Here’s what you as a housewife can do! Where there’s fat, there’s soap ' Keep Tuming In Used Fats To Help Make More Soap