The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1946, Page 6

PAGE SIX ty tn tn thn hp tin tn in tin tin tine tan hirtin n bon lovin tin tn tnt fn inn tn tn tn bn fn tn hp De) CORAL ROCKETS By L. P, ARTMAN, JR. RABAsARDALAAAASAAAEA ABABA AREABRERES | FISH KNOWLEDGE j fruits, to groups of these trees of| Continuing on the review of! | considerable Bes Barbour’s “That Vanish- , in which liberal and| CORAL GARDENS” g material on Key West| | Mr. Barbour states in his book esented | that the Florida Keys have a be Key Westers are members, beautiful underwater coral bot-| of an industrious and hardwork-; tom,and that a glass bottom trip community, hospitable. to a! would be fascinating . . . “The grec.: I know’ of no gr@upt of f what appear to besminia+! rmen anywhere with &more ture @&stellated mountains will be pletely detailed knowledge 6f| there. These little mountains are; nore different kinds of fish,” Mr.! 8urmounted by forests of stiff, s He points to the} branching structures, which are/ ium of Chicago send-| stony ,corals. Indeed, the moun- tor here each year. | tains, themselves will be built of, *. ° coral, too, with excrescances FRANGIPANI | which are sponges, tunicates and 1 species of flowering; Masses of Corallinaceae—stony.| better in Key enerusting marine algae, often of een them: bright and varied colors. Then,! . ise in the’ Waving and swaying back and| s no evidence that! forth in the currents of the sea,| > to the Keys, al- the long, fexible colonies of horny } abound in the Ba-| Corals er alcyonarians called sea} ild state. The plant! whips and sea fans appear at first} perhaps twenty feet! Sight to the born profesional ob-| closely clustered Server to be plants, not the ani-| thick, fleshy| als that they really are. The} 7 It you break one,! Teefs themselves are brightly col-} e sap pours forth. The trees| Ored; the- anemones, the Crus- brittle and do not stand the| tacea, and the mollusks associated ricanes at all well. Frangi-| with coral reefs are brilliant and leaves are large and rather | beautiful, too; but the prime jdec-| veined. The flowers! oration is added by the fish,” Mr. | heav THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —— --— and beat them to get oat sand! bird unharmed. are “deposited” and remains of the little mollusks. hither and yon by chance. Some | and crustacea which live in the’ seeds fall on branches néar the! cavities of the sponges, and they} trunks of other trees growing in’ are finally ready for the auction the forest. Its roots creep about which is an exciting | event,” Bar-| the host, danastomgse, thicken, bour concludés. | and gradually reach to the ground PECULIAR SMELL CLEVELAND. Today In Tn History 1 870—Telegraph countrywide strike. 1883—First dicitis operation on record per- away fleas and other’ insects. — Fleabane is} operators in the name of a plant which emits! ,a peculiar aromatic smell and is| successful appen- ‘said to be efficacious .in-driving a FRIDAY, JANUARY. 4, 1946! FRANKING PRIVILEGE «+ ‘Today’ Ss s Horoscope | MILWAUKEE.—The franking The aiynote’ ara of this day is| privilege, right of sending mail Aspiration. There is a disposi- | free of charge, was frst granted tion to adventure. Artistic in'in the United States to soldiers. CONTINENTAL SHELFNARROW Mr. Barbour states’ that the’ es. Florida has tilted from north to south, he says, so that large parts of it have been under water for very long periods of time. “He says he doubts that all of it has ever been under water at any time since 40 million years ago. Most | of the fossils were recovered at a farm about 40 miles from Gainesville, Florida, down to West Palm’ Beach and Melbourne and at Vero Beach. ° ° COON AND SKEETERS “Anyone who has seen the gray squirrels on Key Largo will be surprised at their tufted white ears. You can tell at once that they are different from those on the mainland but a few miles away. There is a skin of a young black panther from Matecumbe Key in the Charleston Museum .. . For some time to come the Keys will be, I imagine, a worth-while hunting ground for some gorous fellow who doesn’t mind mos- quitoes. I mind once seeing a while the branthes push upward as they seek the light. With the | passage of years the tree forms a basket of heavy, strong bands | continental shelf of Florida does around the tree. Finally, the host Society ‘incorporated. not exist too far offshore, usually, only ‘a few miles from.the beach-| so choked sickens and dies and it is not uncommon to see the fig remain as a column-like network of intermingled branches — sur-¢ rounded by a tall growth of” boughs with glistening, leathery,’ oval leaves. Stranglers often grow of walls, on“roofs of hoses? and on rocks. In the beginning the fig’is a true epiphyte, having no confection withthe ground. Im- mediately theroots being geo- tropic tend to grow downward.; The tree is beginning to “ban-| yan” as a localism has it. Its, strange behaviotr is explained by, a need for light. Ficus is a large | genus comprising mére than six hundred species. Some cousins are the edible fig and the Banyan; tree of India. e e BARBOUR CHARMED WITH KEY WEST Barbour writes, “Key West has; a spirit and a distinctive at- mosphere; more than that, it is one of those rare places in the United States which, like Charles- ton or New Orleans, has produced all its formed in Davenpori, Iowa. NET WES Se 1883—The’ Pendleton Act puts} Bolivia has a network ‘of 5,580 Civil Service on sure foundation. | | square miles, 1889—The American Historical j to Montreal deep inland water-! 1896—50 years ago—Utah ad- , way too costly to be untertaken. | mitted to statehood—45th~state.; 1939 — President Roosevelt's 1936—Attorney General Cum- message to Congress calling ae mings asks Congress for greater increased armaments. power to fight crime: | 1942—Japs make new dindings | 1938 International. Joint in North Borneo. Commission reports New York: 1943—American motor torpedo boats attack Jap. destroyers off tasted @ baked turtle as the dish Guadecanal. is served-at Key West? You be-! 1945—U. S. First Army. pushes gin witha young green turtle; Germans back 3 miles 1 nm the savory. meat is diced and mix- northern flank of the Bulge in, ed with cut-up “calipash” and Belgium in raging. blizzard. “calipee’, the fat and the lean,} eggs mixed in; the delicious mix- | | ture is put back in the animal's’ STRAND T TER | shell, covered with piecrust, and| j West has always been a half Cu-| “The Thin Man Goes Home” ban town, many of the savory) Coming: “Pillow ‘to Post” creole dishes handed down from table. The queer little unpainted! <7 —_ houses, many of them said to, i have been brought from the Ba-; MONROE- THEATER Indian” jalousy blinds; and the’ DENNIS MORGAN in fales of old wrecking days, make; “The Very Thought Of You’? preferably with plenty of turti¢ baked in’a hot oven. Since een WILLIAM POWELL in Old Spain add their spice to the; % = hamas, “with their typical West this town. to me a center of real/ News - Sports -. (Shorts _ aa —— Buy An Extra visloty: Bond, | taste, these natures sometimes! in the Revolutionary War. ‘ become | guarding against this they are dency well minded. There ‘is a ten-' easily ‘corrupted and/ and travel. Stop and Shop at WING LEE'S 3208 CENTER DUVAL and ANGELA STREETS PHONE 94 We Have Plenty of Quality. Food Products for. Everybody at Low Everyday. Prices that Save You, Money LEE'S. ORIENT toward Oriental. customs | Fancy. GROCERIES -along just back of n bunches on the end Barbour continues pointing ouf} coon wal yn, I think, eitherRam- e with traditions ', Who would not bless thé, oul who first introduced # Duval aud Apgeta’ Strecia , called a cyme? by#bétgn=e0n fishy Wes igs parrot fish, and The blooms are: waxypand sthe inp De ‘mertibeks; of i hez ists the th petals are tilted slightly so virassgor\poroid family. He tel at one border , of eac) ig 0 of the great brain “corals whicl ed under the édge~ {ts Provide “Shelter For ifiritumerable Some species are pure tubeworms which make a gay garr white, some white suffused’ with den of animated flowers. Many e, others lemon yellow, others starfish are on the "sand “but: thé nd one a purple, paler Myriad brittle stars will’ be’ less) 1 Sieats but with no Conspicuous. a. These folwers S ° ptionally fragrant, and as FOUR KINDS OF SPONGES es carry an enormous _ Talking ot sponges, Mr. Barbour of buds which keep open says there are four kinds fished n the t in bloom for for commercially. Two best high time,” Mr. Barbour grade and highly-priced forms be- long to the genus Hippospongia. ° e ; The coarse, relatively hard, and COLORFUL REEFS | more cheaply priced types repre; The frangipani belongs to the sént forms belonging to the same Plumeria, Mr. Barbour genus as that to which commercial ve are fifty species of Sponges of the Mediterranean’ re- ull found around the gion belong. The spongers’ abil- These flowers ity to see down to, the bottom where others can see only blue is| uncanny, us bour ays. ribbean Basin. reached the Ae ient from Mexico. LOWER KEYS ONCE ISLAND Mr. Barbour ‘praises ‘Charles BLACK TO ‘BROWN, rey Simpson’s In Lower Plof- \: “Sponges, :when: they ‘come: to da He disagrees’ with the-surface; are disgusting -black npson’s uplifting'of the land in objects. c and the Keys ‘and be- until'the animal matter: coating yre likely that it was the horny skeleton, which is the the surface of the sponge of commerce, dies; and I Barbour calls atten- may adds, stinks with a vile, re- nceé between the volting|'and utterly . nauseating Keys. In the stench: Then the sponges « are aré’' several thrown {into a crawl, a little; area ake! wee, to of. shoal. water. fenced with up; Th ‘Lower ys. Bivé rightc poles ppere;;the current very évidence 6f' beth, Asland washes away the “sponge gurry”, rable size,,Mr. Barbour After this.the:sponges.are strung points to the “water up-in strings hung in, the rigging Bahia Honda Channel to dry.» Skilled women then clip Matecumbe. He states + Keys have many ts of West Indian erable number of t found on the Upper e plants did not suf- storm of 1935, which é Upper Keys. “No left its impact on @| He praises the @| forests on these @ and si ys there is an @ tun ity to study all stages of on, from the first. lit- reen resulting from ination of one of: the weighted mangrove wer pper keys thére’ and from the the COMING SOON/ $ WATCH FOR IT! ry Bermuda Market JOHN COBO, Proprietor Sanitary Market — Complete Refrigeration Phone 52 An Up-to-Date White at Eliza Street We Have A Shipment of MEAT Almost Any Cut You Want Fresh-Killed VEAL "35a" irad “ ct BEEF RIB ROAST *Short RIBS of BEEF ¢Fresh-Ground HAMBURGER *Beef and Pork STEW MEAT *STEAKS—Club - T-Bone - Sirloin PICNIC Spiced HAM _ sausace All At CEILING PRICES OR BELOW Self Service Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables WE DELIVER GROCERY ORDERS TUNE IN WKWF — 1600 on Your Radio Dial at 7:30 P.M. Monday thru Saturday—Hear Our Program and Get Our Specials. PORK LOINS Breakfast BACON ach branch in a round, flat the’ butterfly fish, angelfish, surgg! the beach: d They are lefton deck] } reh Key, a anied Gy a moving'cluster of itoes 4 that only S¢easional- ®riough erst ney. to ‘in- dicate Be oe perarnbu- lating» jainous, pestil aac which are as bad at tifqes in the Keys as they ever are in Labrador in the summer. a perfectly prepared, “Hobiing John” dinner. This, if; you,don’t happen to: know, is richiy-flavored le, pre®) peice of vise eel or cow, peas, cooked up wit! ae and bits of white bacon, ge you ever Childs Colds “st” WICKS Rub on Time-Tested VAPoRus | iiss e e STRANGLER FIG Strangler fig has a traditional, cruelty, Barbour says. It is Ficus} Aurea, of which the fruit is eat- en by birds and the seeds press- ing through the intestines of the ec ne eg Two woTeLs wm |ViJ AMI rorutan prices POPULAR PRICES LOCATED IN HEART OF CITY 12 Rates wits, ROOMS watt, WITH BATH and ‘TELEPE 3, BLOCKS FROM. MON. 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