The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR BS OCIETY By PATRICIA J. M. 3 Messi s Career Reviewed By Patricia; Owned Cigar Factories Mr. J: M. J. Navarro was born in Havana in 1832, and was educated in the University of Havana. When he was but little over fourten years old, he entered the Customs House service in Car- denas, Cuba, and remained in that service for fifteen years. In August, 1869 about the time of the breaking out of the revo- lution in Havana, Mr. Navarro, removed with his family to Key West, and soon after his arriv-, al here he engaged in the whole- sale and retail grocery business, in which he continued until 1877, grocery store, and entered into the manufacture of cigars, and in which business he steadily con- tiued, making but the finest Ha- vana cigars. when he disposed of his| FACTS and This column, which had been; published weekly for two years, | “ceased firing’ back in May, | 1942, shortly afler the “Presi-) dent’s Greeting” reached me. Since then it has been “not dead, | only sleeping.” Now that war’s alarms ae heard no more in the world and} I have returned to live again in re Navarro was establisled in this beloyed land I Jeft so long! 1877, on the corner of White-)28% I am going to try to rouse} head ‘and Greene streets, where! this column from its lingering he remained about one year,/ sleep and get it going once more. ; when he removed to Fitzpatrick! I'm doing business back at “the wtrect, and opened up with about,same old stand” where I worked twenty-five vcigar makers, and. before the war, that is, I am prac- remained there: until the big!ici8 law again and T hope to, fire of 1886, when he was burn-| Continue it for some time to} x PHONE 535 The first cigar factory of Raising Cain At Bridge Once. again the high, score ,of the Officers’ Club's Wednesday night bridge game went to Lt. and Mrs. George Cain. The Cains must have quite a collection of liquor on stock from awards for the prizes given by the Club. Runner-up to Lt. and Mrs. Cain were Lt. and Mrs. McCracken. Booby prize went to Captain and Mrs. Brenner. Center piece Is U nique Bougainvillaea, periwinkles and marigolds surrounded the center- piece of tiny airplanes at the buf- fet and dinner dance given Fri- day night for the night fighter pilots from the Boca Chica Base. Lt. Commander Pack was in charge. The affair was -held .at the ES Taylor Officers’ Club. — Officers’ cers’ Wives Hear Dr. Wassell Forty officers’ wives heard Dr. Wassel, known for -his* heroic Priz Neal Ayala’s Short. Story “Satidy” Starts. Ed Note: Following is the first of a series on the prize winning short story “Satidy” by Neal Ayala, Key West girl, which was published in’The Epaulet’, literary mag- @zine of Mary Washington’ Colleg of the University of Virginia at Fredericksburg, Virginia.) It was hot fronds of the motionless. vivid blue, The long slender palm trees were The sky was a deep, completely cloudless. é apeared the sun, a brilliant white hole in the blue. Dust rose and then slowly setled, as the heavy army trucks rumbled ponderously over the brick-paved stret. The men were shirtless; .now and then one would reach in a back pocket and draw out a handkerchief io wipe his face. In the early morn- ing the heavy drone. of ithe mo- tors and a dog’s sharp staccato bark were the only sounds. Fi- naly the last truck passed, noise of the engine gred dim- mr, and then was not heard at all. As the sun rose higher in the; sky( the sland people awoke. In the distance roared plane enignese. Pungent in the air were odors of breakfast. Down the street a woman called to her next door neighbor, Was industriously sweeping the dust off her front porch. “My deah, ing t’er be a scorcher, ay? I said yestidy that it couldn’t get any} hotter, but the steam’s isin’ from the sidewalks alreddy!” It did seem as if waves of heat were steaming from the pavement. With a clang-clang of its bell, the icewagon stopped near the entrance to the alley, and the see man disappeared down tke white sandy lande, with a cake of melting, dripping ice in his tongs. Still it grew hotter. silver were the roofto) and the glare hit and slid to the side- walk with an almost audible siz- zie. The colorful crotons that form a fence for the house next to the alley seemed to their brilliant heads. Earlier in the morning they had drunk the stant dew. Now their leaves were parched. Suddenly a young boy emerg- ed from the alley, and began hopping barefooted down the Dazzling deep} the} who} looks like it’s go-} droep} * THURSDAY Ladies Auxiliary Meeting. 2:00" p.m. Key West General Hos- pital. x * FRIDAY Eastern Star. 8:00 p.m. Scot- tish Rite Temple. x* MONDAY Key West Players. Barn Theater. ' 8:00 p.m. ed out, and lost about twenty °° thousand dollars, No mee I managed to eke out a lean| at all. [te a. and he [eres © oon the: eee a spa-| Sant think any man should lim- to move into f ee) thelit himself to serving only him-| cious ~ peeoaimende eae self. He ought to try to help poeta ol jother peo, le some. He should} - _...{render service to his community a bees tare ae SBOE ke town, his city, his state, hi (country. If everyone worked of fine Havana Were se eariclusively and solely for his own! large scale, with Mr. A. Zalasat) penefit, this world would be in| in charge. ja much worse fix than it is now ha and it’s in a pretty bad way . jas it is. The willingness of some | Social Calendar |i telp others is about all that! | has kept the worid from falling} TUESDAY poner Bvepeady, Siar Club Meeting, The war against,Germany and} & Reliatrac pte Mee. footing.) Japan has been won but the] Alcea 111 ‘Washington St. 3! battle of life” goes on. By crush-| Aan iu jing the most terrible assaults | Division * Street. ‘School. 20m | ever made upon civilization, the! Mathers, 8:00" p.m, 's¢hiool | ‘American people and their val- | brary |orous allies have not righted all . fae jthe wrongs in the world. We! WEDNESDAY lane at even pilates the ae] jof our form of government. In Officers’ Club Bridge Club. 8:00! defeating fascism we did no more p.m. Fort Taylor's Officers’) than prevent our democratic way! Club. of life from being destroyed. We| * simply secured for ourselves the! right to continue trying to make a success of our form of govern- brought more fredom, more kind- | ness, more security, more con-! tentment, more happiness, more hope to more people than any other governmental system since | people came out of caves and be- gan trying to live together a civilized human beings. Our twin triumphs over the {two most brutal nations that ever saddened the world with {deeds jin Java, as the guest speak- | mass slaughter have solved none er. at the Officers’ Wives Club| of our domestic problems. Our] last Friday. Dr. Wassel spoke on! double victories have given no the making of the movie, “The| mew sinews, no supplements of Story of Dr. Wassel.” | strength to our system During the meeting there was | ernment. On the contra an election of officers and Mrs.| years of furious and fatiguing Mary Ott was elected president. | fighting have placed stresse {strains upon our government such as it never has had to bear. t . e e-Winning Nineteen months of war be- o tween April 6, 1917, and Novem-; ber 11, 1918, dealt our govern- ment a body blow from which it had not fully recovered when . | Japan and Germany attacked sidewalk. He sprinted along on| America on December 7, 1941. his toes as if he found the ce-} The terrible times we suffered ment too hot to put his whole| through from 1929 to 1934 can fot down flatly. | be laid, in large measure, to the “Owie!” The name was drawn! weakened condition that World out, and it floated down ihe'War I left our country in. It | street from the alley from which' just did manage to survive that he had dashed. “’Oward Pinder,| awful ordeal. you come back-hete this minute! Four years of war, with 13,-! M ydeah, the minute I turn my ' 000,000 Americans actively par-| back .” The voice dropped io aj ticipating, is certain to have sap-| muble, then Howard knew his} ped the strength of our country mother was provoked because! far more severely than 19 months he’d escaped so uickly and noise-| of war, with only 4,000,000 citi- lesly. {zens in uniform. The disparity} “Hully gee, “He muttered, as he! of ae eae an ane show te Py | vas‘ erence between e| hitehed his _sunbarees ac Bittle damage that was done to our} higher. “A man's gotta ‘right toj government this time and_ last some even life, speshully, on time. We emerged from World Satidy,”, ..Quickly, he turned! War I with a national debt of| reached, en, dof the street.; approximately $25,000 , 000 , 000, where. there was a gravel road) while we have staggered out of| leading ‘to the dock, he had to, World War 11 with a national stop, completely out of breath.| debt of about $272,000,000,000— With his bohy shoulders hunched nearly eleven times’ as much as up, his tanned back gleaming jn 1918! Insolvency can ultimate- wetly, he droped to the curb-} }y wreck a government, just as ane. ! it can wreck a business—though “Woosh! I bet if I practiced not so rapidly nor so decisively. hard I could be a track runner! About — 55,000,000 Americans or something‘!” He scratched! were working at the peak of war his bare back slowly, his sandy; time employment. At least 20, brows almost meting above pale, 000,000—maybe more— of those’ green speculative eyes. A boat! 2 Purelest whistled over at Porter Dock.’ PLENAMINS. “Probly a ole. destroyer,” he Twe tiny capsules contain thought. t ALL VITAMINS Grabing a handful of rocks, he walked out on the raised edge | known to be essential to human nutrition, plus liver and iron. of the dock; by holding his arms! out, sea gull fashion, he kept! 72's $2.59 + exalt’ moovct 2388's $7.95 Ea F i | his balance. He made a rhythm! of his progréss: step left, throw! rock, ker:pluk, step right, throw rock, kerlpluck! It was exciting to him to watch the circle widen, widen, and then disappear as/ quickly as the splash had occurr- ed. (To Be Continued) Villa D'Este Hotel BISCAYNE BOULEVARD at EIGHTH ST., MIAMI, FLORIDA Overlooking Biscayne Bay Open Again to the Public Large Spacious Rooms Moderate Rates Se Habla Espanol ervations, PHONE MIAMI 9-2622 For Ri | help pr | should beat the Democr T | FIGURES | By FULLER WARREN jobs were available as a direct result of the war. There is no sound reason for believing that peacetime employment -can fur- nish jobs for those displaced mil-' lions of people. Twenty thousand’ idle citizens, willing to work,' wanting to work, needing to work will;constitute the. gravest; danger our nation has faced since the Civil “War. It must be plain to all people jthat we have a hard road ahead of us.I don’t believe we can make it his.or her personal busi- ness to see that our country, our government manages to pull thru the hard struggle which it has to go through during the next few years. I am going to do what little I can to help our state and our nation to pull through the cri- that is now upon all of us by iting this weekly column, and} { by doing anything else I can. In columns which are to follow I will specifically point out some of the things all of us can do to erve and perpetuate the em of’ government that giv to its people even half a | chance to be happy. It has meant jmuee to me to live my forty rs under our system of gov- nment. I never fully realized; what a blessing and a privilege it really is until I went to‘ ether count and saw the misery | and suffering. which was caused: largely by bad! gp YE poke : In this dina jem hi try to get across to Ue Bhat lit- i tle I have; learned about i | government in 25 years of study | tand 18 years. of active partici- pation in an eee though mi- nor, capacity. I am hopeful that T can tell you ae things which, will enable you to take a more | effective part in the affairs of our government. If I should fail; to touch on some governmental: question in which you are in-| terested, I should be glad to have you write me about it. If it is too difficult for me to handle, | I will pass it on to some expert who knows the answer. | I shall play a return engage- | iment here next week and Ij very much appreciate) your reading presence. | Y’gotta Get Up Early To Beat Them Dems (By Associated Press) OLYMPIA, Wash.—Hoping to | rats to the draw} in filing an initiative measure | for increased workmen’s com- pensation, Republican State Re- arch Director Frank N. Ros} at the door to the Secretary | of State’s office promptly at 9} a.m. on January 5, the date for! the filing. ij He dashed into the office when the door swung open, ‘only | to discover seated in a chair and filing a similar petition on behaif of the Democratic party, iDemocratic State Chairman ; Harry C. Huse. The Secretary Democrat. w. of State is a! Marine the-job tr. Corps to promote on-; ining for veterans. Amazing New Antiseptic etn Actually Checks. — ANNE KENNEDY Registered Nurse DOES NOT ROT CLOTHES . . . Because of Duratex, New Safety Ingredient Found Oaly in Veto eres 's cream deodorant—is differ- ent from any deodorant you've ever used an -ex- | clusive new safety ingredient—Veto does not rot clothes! Veto is safe for any normal skin! It spreads and rubs in easily, is easier to use! It | stays moist in jar. So use Veto regularly to odor, check perspiration — safely! 10¢ and larger sizes. Drug and cosmetic counters. before! Because it contains Colgate’s VETO Stays Moist In The Jarl ; Wednesday ‘ EMBARRASSED? | dents, | ment often lasts a life-time” , sadly reminds hig class. KEY WEST CITIZEN Remembers Labor Day, 1935 The Weather FORECAST Key West and vicinity: Partly cloudy and continued warm this afternoon and tonight; Wednes- day partly cloudy and cooler; moderate southeast to south winds this afternoon and to- night, becoming moderate to southeast to south winds this afternoon and tonight, becoming ; moderate to fresh northeast to ‘north Wednesday. Florida: Partly cloudy and continued warm in south, cloudy with otcasional rain in north, colder in. extreme north portion > today; partly cloudy and con- } tinued mild in south, cloudy and | colder in north portion tonight; partly cloudy and continued cold in north, cooler in south portion. Jacksonville through Florida | Navy Photo Straits and East Gulf: Moderate | i winds, southeast to southerly | ANTONIO ROQUE over south portion, and north- | (Above erly over north portion today} Repairs Bikes at N.O.B. and tonight; Wednesday moder-:, 5 ate to fresh north to northeast- Ask And Ye Receive On Africa Gold Coast \ erly winds; considerable cloudi- ness with a few showers in} south, occasional rain in north | portion today and tonight, be-| coming partly cloudy Wednes- day. Jacksonville to RALIEGH, N. C. (A.P.)—The Governor's Hospitality Commit- | tee (a postoffice address for the Apalachicola; | State Advertising Division) jmative of the eoast: “I am pleased to give you al few notes, that I want both of us to be friends. I am a_ boy attending Presbyterian Senior Day School at Accra im »Go, isi | Coast. I want you to be’ seht’ me founation pen and eyes wearing glass. I will be pleased \ if you would do so. I send you | very much love. Your friend, {Emmanuel Adotey.” The Division is trying to meet | the request. ,ings have been issued. African Gol REPORT ey, West, Fla‘, Jan, 22, 1946; ation taken at) 7:30 am. Eastern Standard Time + (City Office) ‘Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal a 76 i = = 70 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m., inches 2 Tota) rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Deficiency since Jan. 1, inches = Total rainfall since Jan. iy inches Deficiency since Jan. 1 inches) = Relative ‘Humidity 83% Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise 7:12 Sunset 6:06 | Moonrise - 11:55 Moonset = 11:22 Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 1:37 a.m. 7:41 am. 2:12 p.m. 8:19 p.m. ’ | Jewish group drills in New 0.64 | York to join militant Palestine ! movement. | IGHT Cousus : 0.67 | | due to colds... repr WIC VA 2KS rere: BY 2> GENERATIONS HEDY LAMARR in “Experiment Perilous” Coming: “Within These Walls” 0.67 . 0.64 \ | a.m. | p.n. p.m. a.m. 7 | WE CALL IT ‘BROKE’ re- | No small craft or storm warn-|ce:ved this note from a little} TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1946 { | Lagpipe instructor, reports that he taught 713 pipers from Brit- ish Dominions and other coun- | tries. The courses were sponsor jed by the Piobaireachd Society at Edinburgh Castle. Ninety- three Canadians learned to pipé. Sandy Polaski Learns To Biow The Bagpipe ! | | = (By Associated Press) EDINBURGH, _ Scotland. Even soldiers of the Polish army learned to skirl the bagpipes | SRE AAR E65, Se during the war. Pipe Major Will-| 78,323 war veterans are in col- iam Ross, M,B.E., noted Scottish! lege full time, a supvey shows. IIPS PITS SSSI SSS SS SOTTO KEY WEST---MIAMI Seats Now Available *D? ks 50 Minutes Flying Time Over the Magnificent Beauty of the Florida Keys NATIONAL The For Reservations, Call Phone 1040, $14 Southard Street te a A ha hh a fe he fa be he hn be be hn tn fn te a ln te tn a he tt ta tn fF ceaaaaeaabbeaabaaaabeaaaaaaanananed Datla didi alisitnd Sinai ndiinlaeland nd linttin loin adda bay ' LARA ARRAAARARAAD AD AADAAAABAAAAABAALAS f { COMING--2 NIGHTS--COMING $ Key West Jan. 23-24 WED. THURS. “HICH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by the Key West Basketball Team W. S. M. GRAND OLE OPRY Radio Stars in Person from Nashville, Tenn. Presenting Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys with Lester Flatt Big Howdy Foster Earl Scruggs josephus A. Mirth- y Associated Press) “Americans | at heart, bit | most of us are just ferapudarily. | embarrassed for funds,’ Ray mond K. Moran, business ad- ministration instructor at Kent State university, told hig stu- MONROE THEATER © ANN SHERIDAN in “THE DOUGH GIRLS” Coming: “In Old New Mexico” » ie stk quake of Fun BILL MONROE Little Sally Ann The Kentucky Song Bird and many other All Stars of WSM : DOORS OPEN 7 P.M. —SHOW 8:15 P.M. Adults $1.00 Tax Included Children Under 12 Years 50c Tax Included VIII II VIVO IVT TOT OOTY VIII IIIT TT nanan easae Deedee deAededeeeneacnnne aad Dra. oth. thnad dane 24244.4i4b ddd ddd bbb dd pbebrtetet bt bbb t bbb “This temporary embarrass- he e to Lhe Ciuzen. Subscri Og VV VV I TITY for C site RUTH OLDEN Registered Nurse 1 When you're all out WE'RE HERE TO SERVE THE-FAMILY his way to work, and Mother’s going to visit Friends; when the chil- dren are off for school—our lines serve the family, safely and courteously KEY WEST TRANSIT COMPANY, we. IVI V ITV IV IVI GIGI IIIS IIIS GIVI SSIS LIS SII SS IT SIC CSS SSS SSS The Next Time You Go Any Place RIDE THE BUS onvenience and Economy together shopping or having fun: when Dad’s on PHONE 1057 J. W. Sellers, Manager $i AA tI i i A i i ly SM iy i i i i Bi i i BD Bt i to