The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1946, Page 6

By RUSSELL KAY A#A4244444444444446 _ Getting out of the office for the first time in quite awhile, I ac- cepted the invitation of Clarence Bitting to attend the celebration of Elorida’s greatest sugar har- vest at Clewiston a short time| ago. In the past, a trip from Tampa to Clewiston has always been more or less of an ordeal due to the inconvenieace of train sched- ules and the: time it takes on a bus. Of course if a fellow had a nice new car and could drive down, it wouldn’t be so bad, but | I'd hate to try it in mine right now. This time I left Tampa at 2 p. m. and arrived at Clewiston at 3:60 and it was by. far. the most interesting and enjoyable trip I ever made. Taking advantage of the new air service recently es- tablished by Plantation § Air Lines, I flew down via Arcadia and Ft. Myers. Their five pas- senger planes are cozy and com- fortable and I was. privileged to ride in the co-pilot’s seat. In spite of the fact that Ar- eadi@ was one of Florida’s out- standing air centers during the war, the~ municipal airport is hardly more than a cow-pasture. Ft. Myers, however, has a splen- did airport, taking over one de-| velopment by the Army, which! was close enough to be practical. I was delighted to find my old} friend, Claude Ansley, formerly | of the Ft. Myers News-Press managing the airport. It was a real thrill to view} Clewiston from the air. Few cities in the country offer such | an attractive air-picture. It is as| neat and clean as can be and! well laid out, a gem in the heart } of the ’Glades. | My companion on this trip was! Jehn Kawka, a friend from New Jersey, who happened to be} visiting with us and since I had| been bragging to him about bass | fishing in Lake Okeechobee, he decided to come along on this} trip and make me prove it. I got in touch with Bill Hooper | at Johnson’s fish camp, explain- ed the situation to him and asked if he thought he could stir up a lunker or two for us. He reckon- ed he could, so we unlimbered our rods and Bill took us on a trip up the canal. John had neyer had much ex- perience with bass. He’d been catehing catfish from the Bal- last Point pier in Tampa and now and then would snag a salt water trout. He began throwing his plug under lily pads and at cypress stumps in such a careless manner that I began to get alarmed. You see, I had fished those waters before and I knew what could happen to a guy. Well, before I could warn him it | did. One of them gosh awful! gtandpappys erupted under his} bait like a depth bomb. He didn’t get it but he knocked it three feet in the air. John turned | pale and then sat down because | he was weak in the knees. He} was trembling like a leaf. Bill} looked at me and grinned. Aj little fyrther on I set off aj} cholae | when I cast in} the La of a little stream that | entered the! canal. My luck was| with me and I pulled in a 6 pounder. Before our fishing was over we had the limit and our string included four beautie: that tipped the scales at from 6| to 8 pounds. Bill Hopper calls ‘em picture fish. He says you} don’t mount thing under 10 pounds, you just take their pic- ture so you got proof if you meet up with a skeptic. But getting back to the Sugar | Festival, Clewiston was »brat- | ing and with good re greatest sugar harvest in Flor- ida’s history had just been com- | pleted. It had been a gala week | with feasting and dancing on all | the company’s plantations, top- ped off with a dinner given by the Sugar Corporation to key employees and invited guests We Stopped at the Clewiston Inn, of course. It is a delightful | place, . affording accomodations that. equal the best any metro- politan center could .offer. The only thing’ I missed there was Mrs. Downes who served so long as its manager. Now she has her own establishment, the Cane Brake, exclusive night spot on Clewiston’s “Great White Way” —I've eaten some mighty fine meals in Clewiston but I never | ate a better one than was served by Mrs. Downes at the Cane Brake, the evening we returned frem our adventure on Lake Okeechobee. If you haven't been to Clewis- ton lately, you wouldn't know the place. It is growing like a weed. 1 Average pay (within $77 of the wartime high) Average pay $1593 my Employees 148,233 (within 15% of the wartime high) Employees 55,706 (—) = —} (—] =e 4°] = <—.\ @& =e Py wa IiZezztzetéititd SOCSHESEHSERHEH SOHNE EFFIE M. PAULS one SHLIER Pe mores : 3 : : 3 H APARTMENTS ; ; : ; : Me MD (bedbvebihadttihtitédbhdidd Privese Bathe Corne: of Cater and Eheabeta Stree. All Kings of Ddra peter ettonge Mimse ener a petting Te ping — Bemteret Notary Perbeter ee 912 AM 28m Evenings ' ¢ PHONE Ble * $1298 million sales with per dollar earnings of Ast (by volume production more was passed to the public, to employees, and to stockholders) $208 million sales with per dollar earnings of 13% Pons eceee MP FAA LALAL AS A dh dhedechudach d. Cchuabadiuhnde Sa ° 8 Due to cireumetsnnee beyond my comtrm | here Stockholders 242,176 (an all-time high) Stockholders . 185,744 How well did General Electric meet its objectives last year? HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 Wie Heve Fun @ KEY wrer oo = GENERAL ELECTRIC has a three-fold responsibility—to the public, to its Recccccccceceeeceseee employees, and to its owners. The 1945 annual report, just printed, gives some indication"of how well we met these objectives last year. (LiditAtdktAdkdAitAtAthtttAéedéss iY VOLUME OF BUSINESS Orders received .. . $ 844,500,000 : sales billed .. . $1,298,2 General Electric’s growth has come from new and better products for Net eaien bi #1,296,299,000 the public, continuously improved. - —- AND Net ingwent for the year. : 56,500,000 . nis . ’ 5 er share .......+ eee 1.96 Out of production efficiency have come higher wages, increased jobs, Tyiviauaaipeia te and the earnings needed to continue these gains. stockholde: . $ 44,600,000 This year General Electric did not get off to as good a start as in 1945. Per share .. $s 1.55 But the objectives and aims of General Electric are the same and will TAXES {Federal taxes on income $ 87,000,000 continue to be the same—to keep wages as high as possible, to keep prices Social security taxes .... $ 8,300,000 down as far as possible, and to earn a fair profit. Other taxes .... $ 23,000,000 For acopy of General Electric’s Annual Report and Yearbook for 1945, Total taxes .. $ 118,300,000 PAID TO EMPLOYEES. ... write Dept. 6-237, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y. GENERAL @ ELECTRIC eee eee eee ee i ee eee eeeeee or PRR BEBABAA,