The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 9, 1946, Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1946 en a a nti tatatrtndntrtnetedednbrdnbndrtndn intr trtntnd NAVY CIVILIAN NEWS By J. HARMAN BRODOWSKI NOB Civilian Publicity Director \Gourmet Wanted | Beautiful “Sole” AP Newsfeatures BALTIMORE, Md.—Arthur H. Deute is back in his well-ordered kitchen—and the diet depart- ment at Mercy hospital is back} to normalcy. Shortages of meat, fats and sugar have given the hospital dietitian many a headache. But nothing like Deute, who is Balti- more’s No, 1 gourmet. Miss Mary Reinhart, the hos- ra ital’: ietitian, said al CIVILIAN of the WEEK . . . Philip W. Kiefer, Master Machinist eerie Seming aii If asked, “What do you think, new clutch plate? Or when the} fancy food ideas was a complete of the Submarine Service?” P. W.| U.S.S. R-14 had a torpedo lodged| failure with Deute. The usual Kiefer, Master Machinist, Inside’ in her tube? Mr. Keifer and his} method, she explained, was to Mac nop, would lean back’ personnel demonstrated great in-| say: in hii , cup his hands behind | genuity and skill in accomplish-| “O.K. Can you tell me how to ie head, walle, bis's se ticklish jobs. cook this dish you're talking grow dresmy a that fe y y| P.W. Kiefer, a “diamond-in-the- | about?” jook of his when he thinks Of Wis (pn ‘The answer‘ was | usually._a ; | Old Hand In Submarine | sheepish “no, but Deute would i ‘ give the complete recipe right Service down to the last degree of oven temperature.” The kitchen bowed in defeat and produced, somehow, eggs with white wine sauce, tongue and horseradish mousse, molded salads with intricate garnishes, dry red wine for the meals and !a proper glass to drink it from. Deute thinks his ideas brought necessary improvements in the hospital diet. “Hospital cooking,” -he groan- ed, “is like a girl ‘with a beautiful soul, The soul is quite commend- able but it won’t get her very far with the guys.’, dg AAAAAAABAAAAAARAARRADDRR DDD he eee back in Febru apprentice p and trip tc 5. MARBL Attracted to submarine 1920, Mr. Kiefer first the L-7, then th S-3 shipped on the 1922. After five r CHEWINK, he returned to the S-32 where he remained until 1924. While making a geodetic survey of the Cuban Coast in 1925, he served on the S.S. Bannibal. Aboard th 5 became Chief M afterwards transferring s- r to the U LAND in 19: Completir honorable Navy career USS. BARRACU transferred to Reserve in more than 16 v of service Keeps ‘Em Sailing *When a crippled ship limping into the Yard with sible broken shaft or oth chanical defects, Mr. Kie his agile crew of men the breach and make th tc put the ship back into t shape. The Inside Mac vision is responsible tk ufacture of all machine. parts, tool and dies, casti patterns, and devising means for making all replacement ‘to his co-workers. Remember when the an | Fishing Hobby sub “DA PROCIDA” id a’ His principal hobby js, fishing d on id later VINK in s on the re in and around Key West arid éx» \|ploring the numerous fishing ;|nooks up on the Keys. In some parts of the yard he is known as “Detailed-Sketch Kiefer.” This *'|soubriquet has been pinned on “J |him by the draftsmen and blue- printers as an answer to his re- peated requests for “a more de- tailed sketch” on all his jobs. Even after a short acquaintance with the man you will repeatedly hear such colloquialisms as, “So what?” or his favorite, “Nothing comes Navy Photo PHILIP W. KIEFER t Master Machinist, NOB parts Sema ink Oak eS is well-known to his host friends throughout the Naval Station for his honest sincerity | and natural friendly manner. | Even his blustering, explosive “Navy English” has endeared him dollar.” He is presently building a summer house at Big Pine Key which he calls his “Sponge Shack” and is just itching to dash up there to refax)iduring the warm mo! ‘ TORR ALS. —- TELETHRIFT SHOPPING iF YOU CAN’T COME IN CALL 360 Sears Order. Office sales people will give you personal attention. They will take measurements for you .. answer your questions .. . help you make the right selections and write and mail your order for you, saving you letter post- age plus check, money order or C.O.D. fee. You pay Sears low catalog prices when you buy thru ‘the Order Office, Shipments are grouped from the Mail Order house and; the savings are passed on to you in the form, of lower, delivery rates. In addition to the Big General and ‘Mid- season catalogs, you'll find many special catalogs and circulars to choose from at the Order Office. Shop in person ... , our sales girls will give You courteous attention, Mrs. Alice Clarke Manager “Mrs. Nelbeth G. Reese Assistant Manager 9 tn tp bn tran tn tintin KEY WEST'S * * * Six Employed By VVVVV VTS ATIVE SONS PLAY * * * “s Latin American Division * * * mee te * * BIG PART IN@PAN AM’S FLIGHTS planes the international airline: to Rio de Janeiro and - Buenos Martinez speaks Portuguese, in addition to the fluent Spanish required of all stewards for Pan American. He once had Douglas Fairbanks as a passenger to Rio, and helped the actor prepare a speech: in Portuguese to say on his arrival. Met at the plane by Brazilian dignitaries, Fairbanks. spouted flawless Portuguese — until he came to the end of ‘the Spanish-speaking cities of #Mflor- ida, already has close to a f™bzen was, then. flying... His duty to- ward the passengers virtually eek Now a check steward, spending uch. of his time accompanying! PAGE THRE!’ Fleet Postoffice Established © At Navy Base June 13, 1942 —_—— “Neither rain nor snow nor ‘dark of night shall stay these ‘couriers from. their appointed rounds,” the Federal Post Office motto, hag also’ become~ the -by- word of the eight enlisted person- native sons employed bg the flight service departmd of PAA’s Latin American Di: of gum just before a_ take-off. hsion.| They brought their own lunches. Among those at present asfigned/ The steward often had to pitch to flight duty out of MiarRj are| in and help pump gas when the Joe Catala, Nestor S. Lounders,! seaplane landed beside a float- Ernesto Hernandez, Ruben Cab-} ing fuel barge in some tropical rera, Oswaldo Fraga and Henry | harbor while the local stevedores Kirchheiner.. Anthony Toledo,| were taking their siestas. He flew Serge Martinez, and Alfredo; on PAA’s later seaplanes, and Lucignani are check stewards. | then on the DC-8s and 4-engined The Island City is the cradle of} Boeing stratocruisers. Pan American, the world’s fore-; Carrero, who lives in Miami most international airline. It was} with his wife and seven children, from Key West, back in 1927, that, still gets a wistful look in~ his PAA flung its first 90-mile route eye when, from his office in the to Havana, Cuba. Now the globe-' airport terminal, he hears:a mod- haces when he handed out sticks ; m new stewards just graduated from. PAA’s. ground _ training school on their first flights, Mar- tinez looks forward to which he is confident is not far off, when} Pan American will be flying 200-passenger Clippers on non- stop express runs between the capitals of the western hemis- phere and the rest of the world. His Scotch-Irish wife, with whom he lives in Miami, is a for- mer vaudeville dancer and oper- etta soloist. Their’ eldest daugh- ter, Millicent, now 6, is already a veteran trouper, having enter- for nothing and darn little for al girdling airline has close to 100,-|ern Clipper warming up for a }aj f ivilians| 5 1 ‘ fi die: 000 miles of aerial trade routes; take-off out on the field. Not gr ney Roe linking 66 countries and colonies eyen two million miles’ of roam- hospitals during the war. around the world. ing have satisfied his wander-| Martinez’ brother, Mario, is In the first years of PAA’s, lust. now district sales manager for! operations in Key West and later} Another charter rnember of the Pan American in Brazil. { nel who operate the Fleet Post Office at NOB here, Under di- rection. of I.E. Daniels, MaM2c; Scottsbluff, Neb., these eight men, five of whom are former post of- ‘fice employes, daily distribute the ‘incoming and dispatch the out- ward-bound mail. ¥ The Fleet Post Office, estab- lished officially June 13, _ 1942, was formerly located: in Building 91, but as the volume of mail in- creased, was moved to its present place in Building 66, During the greater, part of its operation, the {complement has consisted of 17 enlisted personnel and one officer ‘although: at present only eight en- listed men are attached to the ac- tivity. Before cessation .of hos- tilities, mail was- dispatched by this office by air. to many outly- Miami, four Key West citizens Million Mile Stewards Club is Fourth Key West native who! joined the youthful airline as, Ovilio Moreno, now a clearance has for years lived an inter- flight stewards, and chalked up supervisor ‘at “Pan American national life, visiting the more more: than five million miles of} Field. Moreno, whose parents, jnterestihig cities 6f Latin “Athert! flying over the skyways of Latin! Mr. and)Mrs. Ovilio Moreno, live ica and meeting? the gredt’ and America. ‘at,-919, Duval street, Key West,' near-great. of,.the, world, is Al Serge Martinez and Alfredo} joined Pan American’ in 1930. He fredo Lucignani, onetime man-! Lucignani, now check stewards,/léw’ for eight years before being ager ‘of thé Havana-Madrid Club’) tesponsible for accompanying] transferred to-his present giOund ~“Tcignani transferred in 1943 newly trained stewards on their job, serving on several types;jof from; PAA’s-Latin. American Di-j flights.. Joie Carrero and Ovilio | Pan American’s early seaplanesivision to its Africa-Orient Divi- Moreno have important positions | serving South and Central Amer-| sion, which operated during the in the ground operations staff of, ica and ‘the West Indies. He is war under contract to the Air PAA in Miami for which they} married to a‘girl from Cuba, and Transport Command. Lucignani are eminently fitted by their} his six-year-old son is already flew the famed Cannonball ex- long years of actual experience, a seasoned air traveler, veteran press route from Florida to In-! in the air. of 5 round trips to Havana. i dia, via the West Indies, Brazil Joie Carrero, veteran of the! Serge Martinez and Alfredo and Africa, carrying vital war quartet, joined PAA in 1929, andj Lucignani make up the quartet) supplies, men and mail to the flew the equivalent of 80 times| of Key West flight service pio-} Middle East and the Orient. | around the world, over the air-} neers. Lutignani, was one of seven line’s 50,000 miles of Latin} Martinez, son of Mr. and Mrs. | veterans from the Latin Ameri- American aerial trade routes,| Joseph Martinez of 1131 Eaton’ can Division to fly with Africa- before he was transferred to, street, played semi-professional, Orient, and helped ‘train many ground duty as a traffic super-| baseball after graduating from,new men to act, as steward- | pursers aboard the big Army ing bases; in the Caribbean area and by surface to was Zone. A ship department is maintain- ed where mail for‘all the ships: is sorted and distributed. “A ¢om- plete card file is Kept on all ships and units afloat and daily changes’ in) theix’ movements |are’ made in accordance, With.,.jinformation ,re- ceived frarn logal, sources. All ship mail ‘for the NOB ‘area’ js teeeiv- ed and dispatched"'through this department. Until recently:a hour watéh was ‘Yndintairied for this purpose. f 4 £3 A complete finance’ | section, where mohey orders, stamps, reg- istry, parcel post and other sery- vices are’ furnished ,to personnel and civiligns on the’ base,. and men. attached to’ ships, is ‘also op- visor at Pan American Field in! high school. He put in two years) Miami. at sea as a junior engineer on}.transport planes..He returned to Carrero likes to reminisce| Caribbean steamers and _ then| flying the Latin American routes about the early days when aj worked as assistant steward at) in the spring of 1944, He, like steward was ‘purser and genreal) the"’Harvard Clb. “He joined] Martinez, is: now a. ¢heck:'stew~ handyman aboard the S-38 seas!PAA in 1936, jand. began flying| ard in Miami. “ $2. EG i cae ; 6 A gg oll 66 Cautior HIGHEST PEAK BALTIMORE. — The highest mountain peak in South Amer- ica is at Aconcagua, Argentina, and ‘has an elevation of 22,834 feet. 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