The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 9, 1946, Page 4

CORAL ROCKETS By L, P, ARTMAN, JR. PARBBAADAAAAADADAAAANAAEARAADEEEBRRS UNTRUE PICTURE of I think that one of the worst) things in this world is to tell an} untruth. In the Navy an offic can be discharged for this d fault. So out and out, then, has} Key West something to offer, rigt) mow or hasn’t it! A local) tour agency has listed fifty points | of interest. Ray Navarro, sight- seeing guide lists more than, those. How can anyone have the absolute cheek and effrontery to state that Key West has “noth- | ing to offer”, I cannot see. haga | ers Write reams about Key West’s uniqueness and its interest to} tourists. They won't write about you unless you have something. | I have just received a letter from Ben Gross, radio editor of the New York Daily News, in which he states that he has returned to his desk and that he still remem- bers his Key West trip as some magic carpet voyage. If theer “ain't nothin’ here, there couldn’t be that reaction”. . e SUMMER CLEANUP j It is well and mighty good to gmatk into the local citizenry dur- ing the summer time on the mat- fer of civic pride. The city is @oing that right now. They have 4 G@eanup campaign now about a month old, with residents coop- ating very well. The beach Validation is lagging again. What is your guess of how long + Bete be before we have this (2 . Two years! Brother, (re right on the ball! There- should we back track and, poe 9 tards and pass chips with! ther until that time, yawn Seepily and say, “Well, when is ready then we'lll "? It is this kind of short-minded thought which has ~ Key West back in the past. say away with that thought. Stop running in the same rut. aa WEST'S make the statement, out ana} out, that those who do not wish! to Igunch an advertising program! for Key West right now DO NOT HAVE THE INTEREST OF KEY AT HEART AND THINK: OF THEIR OWN PRIV.|°\Vic Moves are definite cash pos- ATE PROJECTS. I am not afraid to say that. It is utterly unthink- able that Key West, which has its nearing future so inextricably mixed with a tourist future should be so narrow-minded in its lead- ers that a man can get up at this point of the game and say, “Now, fellers, let's not advertise (yawn); Jet's wait a few years (yawn).” ° e NAVY FOLDS— SLEEPING KEY WEST others were advocating the Navy here in Key colunm was the first to against that shallow think it has come to pass. N. Program ordered folded up just Overnight. I say, Key West- ets, it is time that we woke up and helped ourselves. There is! mo one in the world-who will help; you over the big hurdle. That is something you have to do your- self. And the delay which you Fishing Guide in spite of the pa- per shortage. I say, we bask too much’in the shallow thinking of our leaders. other tourist centers. How can anyone have the shamé to sit back and advocate no advertis- ing for Key West in the face of the refutation of this opinion from other Florida cities going ahead at this time! ( e e MAKE CLEANUP THOROUGH r There is a cleanup campaign in this city right-now. One of the most important is getting some of the many bars off Duval Street. One of the most important is cleaning out the slot machines which have lately crept into the | city. One of the most important is a higher morality among our leaders—a morality which will make civic projects things for the advancement of the city»and not just playthings for those who would gain out of them: Too many years have been wasted in our past in which every import- ant civic project which went in| had a personal planned monetary gain for so-called civie leaders. I say, this is the time to shut out the narrow thinking of that type of leadership. The election just concluded once again démonstrat- ed strongly and suddenly the public’s contempt for those who would spend money. for political ends which grant them personal favors against the wishes of the; electorate, > e e STRONGEST EDITORIAL SUGGESTION _. A local civic leader whom I have found without selfish mo- tives in civic projects, told me two days ago that this column has become the’ strongest edi- torial expression in the city to- day. Why? Because there are no strings to it! ‘It is’ only so because it brings out facts which show the true picture, of the cheap chiseling graft in political campaigns, of the puppets who move to strings, of the low moral- ity which hides itself in civic linens, of the facts that in many sibilities and undertaken ONLY for that motive, in many cases. e e MAJORITY THOUGHT. Do you think we have the MA- JORITY opinion, not just'a small group’s opinion, when we take up subjects in this column? Test this fact with our political pre- diction of two columns ago. What Key West needs is HAPPY: CON- VICTION and the COURAGE to go ahead on it. Let’s-never.again go back to a selfish leadershi ership! ‘ 7 , r DOES KEY WEST. (Continued trem Page ing committee which spent $2,- 000 to $3,000 and which showed a result at, that tite. Then we stopped. I believe that there is a great need for advertising Key West in any form. We should start something for next fall and @iiow now will hold you back just those few years more, when} the rest of tourist Florida is get-} ting the jump on you. Are we' as slow as others we are?; There is a mild depres ory in Key West right now. Face the facts!| Why? Because old business( the Navy) is moving out and new business (tourists) are NOT com- | ang in. e . YAWN, YAWN! | You don't see the leaders of other tourist centers sitting back and yawning at this period of the game or playing tiddley winks o y allay. In Martin county, I notice that an advertising program to bring SUMMER tourists has already been planned. Also they are try-! ing to get out their 100-page | Uoet your oppetite? Feet drag. he gy? Whon due to simple or is autritional Hike @ billion fou Pint $].19 os ~ SS: GARDNER'S PHARMACY do the majority of.our advertising during the tourist season to draw down tourists from Miami. A similar program in WPA days re- sulted in 5,000 to 10,000 new per- sons in the city at one time.” J .Otto Kirchheiner, manager | real} firm: “Yes. I bélieve in} advertising all the way. We should also prepare ourselves to entertain the tourists. Last win- | NOW SHE SHOPS. _| “CASH AND CARRY” Without Painful Backache Many sufferers relieve nagging quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys. ‘The kidneys are Nature's chief wayof tak- Ing the excess acids and waste out of the fons ind help most people pass about 3 ints ‘a day, When disorder of kidney function permits Poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it maycausenagging! TI ‘pains, Eas pains, lees Of Dap and enican: wetting Up € headaches and diaziness, Frequent or scanty Passages with smarting ing some- your kidneys or bladder. Don’t wait! Ask your druggist for Doan’s Pills, a stimulant diuretic, used successfully x by millions for over 40 years. Doan’s give happy rellef and will help the 16 miles of Kidney tubes flush out poisonous your 's Pills, Something New I say, our leaders | \should compare Key West with i New Assistant Director At USO | IT STARTED IN FLORIDA—A little over two years ago, at a direc- tor’s meeting of the Florida Ice association, Horace Williams Jr.» Henry Sorenson, N. B. Jackson, Coleman Rogers, St, Petersburg; Emmett B. Stewart, Sam Ferlita, Tampa; Robert E. Cook, H. G McConnell, Howard J. S. Ostner and Mrs. Natio Association of Ice Industries to establish research and public relations departments. Recently they were. interested to learn that Mount Taylor, NAI! executive secretary, won the highest public relations award offered by the American Public Relations association. Taylor, known here, is shown, left above, receiving congratulations from Charles F. Warden, awards committee chair- man, at the Washington, D. C, banquet. Judges were nationally oe known business figures. | TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) Courthouse 1754 — Benjamin Franklin’s| Notes | historic “Join or Die” cartoon ap- | DIVORCE GRANTED | pears in his Pennsylvania Gazette | Final decree of divorce was A granted yesterday to Dulce Cartoon, : Maria Medina and. Jesus Medina; _1763—Indian Chief Pontiac be- in Circuit Court with Judge gins longest Indian siege on rec- Aquilino Lopez presiding. | ord—attacks Detroit, then an im- | portant trading post. CoT SALE APPROVED | 1067 — General countrywide | Authorization of the sale of a! strike of working men. lot from the estate of the late! 1901 — Historic Northern Paci- | Joseph Pinder, by executrix fic “corner” on Wall Street, with) Junie Pinder, to Reuben Seebert | stocks going to $1,000 a. share of 940 Seventh street, Miami and resultant panic. | Beach, was filed in probate judge 1926—Lieut.. Com. Byrd and} Lord’s court-this week. The lot’ pilot Floyd. Bennett the first to] is in Dade county. |fly over the North Pole. CLAIMS ORDERED * Claims on the estate of Albert flight at Dayton, Ohio—a land-| to be answered’ in defense with- | in 40 days, have been ordered jn Berlin. in Probate Judge Raymond) Lord’s court. | unconditionally to Gen. Omar N.| | Bradley in North Africa. ter less people stayed in town| than ever before.” Paul Sher, manager of Key Belgium. I dcareltets td ae “Yes, iets 1935—Russians take Prague— is a definité need for an adver-| ... x ly 7 must make known Key West an i its possibilities to the outside ae advance ‘through miles hei cently arrived assistant director | . ; at the Duval Street USO club was! Wahneta Burt, Marian Pickens, honored at a tea yesterday after- | Dorothy Leahan, Billie Snow, noon at the club building. | Miss Gertrude Laubscher presided | at the tea table, which was dec- | Pickens, Dwight Hunter, assistant | orated with native flowers. | Mesdames Murray McNeil, Jr., Lorena Whalton, Pauline Pinder, i Laubscher, Mr. Harold Laubscher, Betty Lange, Ruby Morgan, M. Chief Wayne Cushing. Key West Municipal Hospital elected at the season’s final meet- | ter. ing of the Women’s Auxiliary of | Kahler, John F. Causey, Miami; J. K. David, | |the Key West Municipal hospital | Mollie Heath, Jacksonville, called upon the llast night: Warren; first vice-president, Mrs.!ly invited to attend, between 3 Frank E. Bowser;.second vice-| president, Mrs. Dan L. Navarro; |hospital will be arranged, and} secretary, Mrs. E. A. Ramsey; |tea will be served by the aux- jtreasurer, Mrs. Ella R. Delgado |iliary. Sedwick, a leading Stockbridge, | Mass., congressman - Speaker, senator | pj. urgh, i ii |—first notable native American| Jurist, father of Catharine Maria, | rey years ag Hartford, Con. Died Jan. 24, 1813.) chaplain, made alcade and pu lisher of California’s first news- | 28°- paper, house and first to publicly an- nounce gold discovery to East, Canojaharie, N. Y., 64 years ago. born in Rutland Co., } Jan. 22, itionist, who aroused passions as | seldom before or since, born in secretary of the American Histor- Torrington, Conn. Died on scaf-; ical Asso., } 1932—Capt. Albert F. Hegen-| fold, Charleston, berger makes first “blind” solo| 1859. | J. Borneman, deceased which are’ mark in the progress of aviation. | Pacific Coast geodist, astrono- | 1933—Historic burning of.books | mer and U. S. Coast and Geodetic ago. | scientist for some 60 years, born ' STAYS FRESH 1943—25,000 Germans surrender| in England. Died Dec. 2, 1911. | / | delphia shipbuilder and fame 1 . ’ 1944—U. S. planes bomb rail! naval architect, who made his ‘ yards in enémy-held France and| one of the world’s biggest ship-' yards, born in Philadelphia. Died | June 6, 1913. | ey-General of the U. S., born in France, 60 years ago. Club Is Honored Guest At Tea Martinez, Florence Dulion, C. Tv.) Miss Cecelia Rogan, the re- z Howes, S. Jackson and the Misses* | Rose Curry, Florence Sawyer, Margaret Leahan, Benildes Re- Mrs. Stephen Doughlas and! mond and Mary F. Clancy. Wilson, Mrs. W. H. Laubscher; and her visiting nephew, Billie Among those _ rpesent were: : ‘Auxiliary Elects New Officers The following officers Were }|and auditor, Mrs. Bowman Cut- | Mrs. Pauline Hemingway was jelected a new director. | -Open House will be held Sun- . . (day, May 26, at the hospital, and President, Mrs. William R.jall interested ¢itizens are cordial- and 5 p.m. Inspection of the Todav’s Anniversaries TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) (Know America) 1846—(200 years ago) Theodore } Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, re- | tired chief of army service forces, lawyer. his day, *,now president of Koppers Co., patriot, Ark., 54 years ago. Cardinal Edward Mooney of naval! Detroit, Roman Catholic prelate, he born at Mt. Savage, Md., 64 years noted author, born at West} 1797—Walter Coiton, Henry J. Kaiser, famed ship- builder and auto maker, born in builder its first school- James: H. McGraw, Jr. of New 1851. | York, publisher, born in Madison, 1800—John Brown, famed abol- N. J., 53 years ago. Guy Stanton Ford, executive} Vt. Died Washington, D. C.,; Va, Dec. 2, born in Salem, Wis. 73 years 1825—George Davidson, famed} 828—Charles H. Cramp, Phila- Francis Biddle, iormer Attorn- world. We are in the position| that we have been hiding our; e light under a bushel too long.” | GROUPS PLAN WAR Ygnacio ..Carbonell, manager | EES Strand: Theater: “Sure. Because} (Continaéd trom Page One) tourists are getting the wrong in-| will again resort to the sword to formation in Miami. From my try to settle their differences. experience, even clerks in Mi-| The reactionary’ clique, the p: ami give the wrong information’ per explained, is working under about Key West.” {the guise of cries for freedom and Bob Pollock, manager Pollock’s equality, while their ulterior mo- Jewelry Store: “Yes. Key West tive is to plung nations into wa has got to be popularized now’ The immediate dire result of the for next season in the early propaganda, Izvestia asserted, is stages of its illness instead of the blocking of progress. waiting for its death and then | trying to revive it. If other | towns have popularized them- | selves by advertising Key West | SANCHEZ LUNCH . Palm Beach and Mi- | should, too. Palm Beach and Mi-! 900 Monthara; Bizet | ami have popularized themselves , WILL HAVE SOUSE | in this manner, At the same time} Saturday, May 11 | a movement to make the town) pr@seritable should’ be vanes | ed.” PILKINGTON STUDIO | WILL CLOSE MAY 25'H No Sittings Will Be Made | After May 15th 10:30 A.M. — 8 P.M. DAILY i | 10:30 A.M. — 1 P.M. THURS. | PILKINGTON STUDIO | 515 FLEMING STREET PHONE 99 | BANK BY MAIL | For the convenience of our custom- ers, we are inaugurating a new BANK BY MAIL system that should prove es- pecially popular during the summer Has Been Added! CORAL GIFT SHOP ———- ASHE STREET ——— Mother’s Day CARDS and | GIFTS Wide Assortment Beautifully Wrapped to Suit You : ALUMINUM § | RUST-PROOF | VENETIAN BLIND So Beautiful and Easy to: Keep Clean KEY WEST Venetian Blind Co. 120 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. | CALL 1042 for Estimates | months. Send in your deposits by mail,— pay your bills by check,—all without leaving home. What could be more convenient! For further details call Phone 498 and ask for Mr. Gardner or Mr. Pinder. HE FLORIDA NATIONAL BAN At Key West K Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SUUEALUUCTSEA AUDA Veto—Colgate’s cream deodorant—is differ- ent from any deodorant you've ever used before! Because it contains Duratex, 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 stopodor, check perspiration—safely!10¢and larger sizes. Drug and cosmetic counters. Stays Moist In The Jar! Never Gritty or Grainy! TMM <ILL or HAVE MORE with BLUE CAP DDT POT 0’ LUCK Stainless Pot 0” Luck Insecticides ALL STORES =z Hes HL DIXIECRYSTALS SUCAR IN THE CONVENIENT NEW RECLOSURE cartons ing New Antiseptic Deodorant Actually Checks Perspiration \et is Safe for Skin! 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Res- ervations will not be necessary, , it was announced. | 415 Amelia street, are the parents The Rey. and Mrs. John E.!o¢ 4 son, -born this morning at 2:40 o’clock at the Key West | Red Cross Field Service Direstor Municipal hospital. x A luncheon meeting of the on Ww ee Lang and BOY TO KOEHNS Mr: and Mrs. George Koehn, | Strand Theater GEORGE RAFT in “JOHNNIE ANGEL” eWeee Killer Monroe Theater “Roughly Speaking” Coming: Ocean View Restaurant | 520 UNITED STREET Management of Captain Luther Pinder Specializing in \ Full-Course DINNERS |; Served 12 Noon to 10 P.M. |! at POPULAR PRICES | mit SOUTHERN CHICKEN PRICES INCLUDE FEDERAL TAX Ice Cream, Tea or Coffee French Fried Potatoes | Home-Mad tne rie $45] Iced Tea or Coffee — | TURTLE STEAK French rriea rota- $ 25 toes, Pie or Ice Cream 1 Tea or Coffee - Full-Course TURKEY +]* DINNER..... 2 _ With All the Fixin’s coc FISH,DINNER : oice Ol egetables ees” $y FRANK We Cater to Parties, B ts |! te cues to Partin Banewets |” WOH NSON SUMMER RATE || Jeweler Now In Effect at OCEAN VIEW HOTEL | 604 Duval. 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