The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1946, Page 4

oi #AGE FOUR $7,003,447 Appo For State Road Program’ A total of $7,003,447 has been’ appropriated to Florida for fed- eral-aid highway construction during the year beginning July 1, R. J. Finley, manager, South Piorida Motor club. was advised today by A. A. A. headquarters in Washington. This is the second appor- tionment made to the state un- der the Federal-aid Highway act of 1944 which provides e@uthorization for expenditure of $1,500,000,000 of Federal funds, to be matched dollar- for-dollar by state and local governments in a three-year highway construction program. Of the total apportioned to Florida $3,236,081 is for federal- aid highway projects, $2,167,725 is for secondary or feeder roads, and $1,599,641 is for highway development in urban areas. “The huge road-building out- lays authorized by the 1944 ect.” Mr. Finley pointed out, “Are designed to make up for the lag in construction during the war years and to provide the nation with a 40,000-mile integrated system of high-type highways incorporating ad- vanced engineering standards. “The funds under the post- war highway construction pro- gram became available last Oc- tober through special action by Congress. Actual construction has been slow in getting under way, largely because of the high prices in bids submitted. How- ever, this situation is beginning to show improvement and there was an encouraging increase in the number of contracts let dur- ing April for federal-aid high- way projects.” KNIGHT TO ATTEND USES CONFERENCE Taking as its theme, “Full Steam Ahead Toward Full Em- ployment”, the first annual Unit- ed States Employment Service | rtioned TORRES RETURNS FROM VACATION IN N. CAROLINA Fire Chief Leroy Torres and his family returned Sunday from a ten-day vacation in the Caro- linas. Accompanied by his wife andj his _ sister-in-law, Mrs. Ruby Cerezo and her son Johnny and his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Baker, Mr. Tor- res visited Asheville, Chimney Rock and other points in North Carolina. On the way home, Mrs. Tor- res stopped off at Tampa to at- tend a Church of God conven- tion. Swim Course Is Postponed: J. W. Sellers, chairman of the Water Safety committee of the Key . West Chapter American Red Cross, announced today the postponement of the instructors’ swimming course to be held June 25 to July 6. This decision was made follow- ing a conference with Dr. J. B. Parramore, health commissioner, | who advised against such a train- ing program now due to the polio epidemic. Mr. Sellers says he hopes to obtain the services of Harry Kenning for this course at a later date. The committee, com- posed of J. C. Delaney, Dwight Hunter, W. J. Moehrke, and D. A. Tyus, have made plans for a swimming program for begin- ners: through life saving. This Instructor's ‘Course was the beginning of the summer swimming program. Anyone interested in taking this course when it is offered may register now at the Red Managers Conference to be hel/ Cross chapter office, phone 286. in the Southeast will begin a two-) The dates of the course will be THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Alicia Ramirez To Become Bride | Of Louis Bancells Mr, and Mrs. Rogelio Ramirez, {Sr., 506 Bahama street, announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Alicia, to Louis Ban- cells, Jr. The ceremony will take place Friday, Juné 21, at a nuptial mass at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Star of ‘the Sea Catholic churgh. | The regular meeting of , the Key West Temple. No. 20, Pyth- | ian Sisters to be held Monday at 8 p.m. in the Knights of, Pythias |hall, Fleming street, will be the last meeting held. before the Temple recesses for its, summer vacation of two months. ~ Mrs. Irene Adams, Most Excel- lent Chief, will preside during the meeting. Conferring of the degree and initiation are sched- uled. Mrs. Viola Higgs, captain of the degree team, urges all mem- bers to be present. | \Bryants Are Visiting Relatives In Maine Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, Bryant and daughter, Monteen, 710 Ashe Istreet, left Saturday for Ma- chias, Maine, to visit Mr, Bry- ant’s father and brother, Enroute ito Maine, the. Bryants .will visit friends in Wilkes Barre, Pa., New | York, city, and, Baston, Mass, Mr. Clarence bryant now retired was formerly an, officer of the P. &) Q. steamship line. ' {Moreno Girls End Vacation In East! Misses Beatrice and _ Elissa} | Moreno, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Laureano Moreno, 907 Di- {vision street, returned from a month’s vacation recently. They visited friends in New York city, Boston and Old Or- | chard Beach, Maine, following‘ Beatrice’s graduation from the} Juilliard School of Music in New York city May 17. UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER By NINA LESLIE CALLEJA A national magazine has long been featuring a monthly article on Unforgettable Characters. These characters are almost without exception firmly high-minded and noble, talkatively full of elevated thoughts and grimly addicted to the doing of mass-quantity good deeds. I am sure they must be a great trial to the just plain, muddling-along, frail and faulty human beings who have to live ‘do anything without thinking about it thoroughly beforehand. He died while he was still trying to figure out what ought to be jdone about Johanna. His wife, j who was generally admitted to be ; quite beautiful but also quite jbrainless, had never made a\de- jcision of her own in her life, and ified to cope with any problem more involved than the selection therefore was completely unqual- |; [ONDAY, She and The expired almost Aunt Johanna was what jan Unforgettable Character. with and around them. The human race being what it undeniably is, it is palpably ri- | diculous ‘to select as unforgettable only ‘the ‘very good ‘specimens. All of us have known classic nuts, charming’ scoundrels’ and people with just ‘one small quirk; who were completely unforgettable. My very favorite people are those who go along for years in a. fairly orderly;,fashion and then. all at once do some blithe, fey little thing that sets them. absolutely. apart from the rest of the world. A case in point was that of my Aunt Johanna, though I will ad- mit she got carried) away and overdid things a little. Just at the turn of the cen- tury Aunt Johanna was nine- teen, fairly pretty. red-haired, lively. good-tempered, and en- gaged to a young man named Virgil. The sum and substance of the character of Virgil may be judged by the fact that his engagement present to Jghanna was a very large and badly- . done charcoal drawing of him- self, executed by one of the . more prolific than gifted artists of the day. This portrait hung ina prom-} inent place; in',the front parlor because Johanna’s mother felt it would ,be vaguely indelicate for it to hang in Johanna’s room, afd there wasn’t really any other Place in’the house to put up such a bulky thing. —_— the would also like to have his portrait back. Aunt.Johanna replied that she would be. delighted .to give it to \him, and give it to him she did, ‘right over the head. Virgil left |the -house, and this history, fes- ‘tooned with bits of glass, scraps ‘of paper and fragments of gilt ‘moldirig: Johanna watched him go, picked up a tea saucer, re- jgarded it thoughtfully for a mo- {ment and then quietly bit a piece out of it. This famous saucer, with the piece bitten out, has liv- ‘ed for years in the china cabinet jof my Aunt Lola, and has been viewed and commented .upon by ;countless numbers of interested | persons. Johanna replaceg, the saucer carefully on the tea-table and walked out into the hall. On | she stopped and called the col- ored manservant. “Bring. a bot- tle of Papa’s bourbon to my room.” she told him. Halfway up the stairs she stopped again. “Bring two bottles,” she said, and continued on upstairs. alive or heard’ her speak after that. For twenty-two years, al- “most to'the day, she stayed in her ‘room, communicating with the! ‘outside world in a series of short ‘notes which usually read “Bring more bourbon.” : You'd think. Johanna’s father the bottom step of the stairs | Nobody. sdw.) Aunt Johanna | of a hat. So Johanna stayed in her room and drank bourbon. There was a threatened crisis when Prohibition qot under way and SBBBBeRr emanate Strand Theater VERONICA LAKE in “BRING ON THE GIRLS” Coming: Abbott and Costello in “HOLLYWOOD” te Bea e eee Monroe Theater ROBERT YOUNG in “THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS” Spanish Picture Available in the Best Materials and Workmanship WE SPECIALIZE IN THE COMPLETE SERVICE OF VENETIAN BLINDS Retaped, Recorded and Repainted KEY WEST Venetian Blind Co. : | 120 Duval. Jefferson Hotel Bldg. You say how much—we supply the cash _ on your SIGNATURE + FURNITURE » AUTO eee INCORPORATED 421 DUVALST. Phone: 49 Things were going along very | would have put a stop to that) nicely and smoothly and Johanna nonsense in short order, but the was sewing thousands of tiny (fact ofthe matter was that this, lace ruffles on scores of dainty; gentleman had been a young of-| underthings for her trousseau,{ficer in the Confederate Army when Virgil suddenly took a no-|and had one day made a slight tion he wanted to travel in a/ tactical error that had cost the westerly, direction unencumbered ‘Confederacy seventy mules and by a wife. One afternoon he two cannon. His superior officer came to tea and made known his had been extremely harsh, and decision to Johanna, begging in a gentlemanly if priggish way to be released from the engagement. advised him acidly to use his head ,in the future and not make faulty snap decisions. Johanna’s father day session on June 20 at 9:00 a.m. at Miami Beach. Harvey Enloe, Jr., regional di- rector of the United States Em- ployment service, Atlanta, will serve as chairman and make the welcoming address. Florida will be represented by approximately 60 representatives, headed by Fons A. Hathaway, state director, Tallahassee. Jeff H. Knight, manager of the USES in Key West, will represent the local office at the conference. IN SPRING, TRA-LA; IN SUMMER, BIFE-BANG OKLAHOMA CITY, — AP — Police Judge Mike Foster doesn’t have to consult the calendar to find out when it’s summer. “It’s summer now—unofficially anyway,” the veteran jurist an- nounced. “We had four neigh- borhood fusses over children in one session of .court.” Foster pointed out that in sum- mer, families sit on their porches, | watch the children play and fight. Neighborhood disturbances increase fivefold. “In the winter time families | stay inside, shut their doors and there is not much trouble,” he added. TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) 775—Historic battle of Bunker , Charlestown, Mass. 1798 — Ex-President George | Washington asked to head army by Congress, when war with France seemed inevitable. | 1856—The First Republican Na- tional Convention opens in Phil- | adelphia. | 1872—The monster World Peace Jubilee opens in Boston. 1902—Congress enacts the na- tional irrigation law. 1918—Roast beef and beefsteak | limited to once a week. 1925—-32 nations at the Arms) Traffic Convention, Geneva, sign | protocol prohibiting the use of poison gas. 1940—Congress, by joint reso- | lution, declares U. S. would, re- | fuse recognition of any change of ownership of European land held | im Americas. Petain made pre- | mier of France and asks Germans | for an armistice. Russia takes | over Latvia, Estonia and Lithu-} ania | 1942—Italy freezes credits in Italy. 1943—Russia begins diplomatic relations with Mexico after a 13- year lapse. 1944—American invasion forces im hand-to-hand fighting with Germans near Cherbourg. Ger- man counter-invasion attack in its 4th day. | 1945—Marines advance under | fire on Okinawa. . Word Of Advice | Woman's Club Speaker: “And, | ladies, don’t turn away the wan- derer seeking food at your door. It's only then that wives will known what a relief it is to see a man eat a meal without finding | fault with the food.” 1 Hi American announced later. ———— Berthe Ss a ——— DAUGHTER TO RACKLEYS Mr. and Mrs. Spicer Rackley, 628 White street, are the parents of a daughter, born at 5:58 p.m. Saturday, at the municipal hos- pital, _. IT’S A GIRL . A daughter was born Satur- day at 8:11 p.m., at municipal hospital. to»Mrs.. James, Griffin, Jr., 1611 Von! -Phister street. OLEANDERS The lady, in her fragile pink With nose held to the sky, Bows softly. to the gentle winds That chance to pass her by. She is demure, a little shy But still is firm and strong To stand and wave to passing birds Who sing to her their song. Her sister, in her purest white Is not too proud or shy, She too is strong and fears no one, f Of those who pass her by, She cares not for the mighty wind Or for the gentle rain, She waits until they come and go And then she smiles again. But youngest sister, just a maid Is awed by worldly things, Her flaming blushes burn the sky As to the twig she clings. Someone should tell this charm- ing maid, Whose heart is full of fears | Her crimson beauty makes her | queen To rule throughout the years. ROY ROGERS, JR. No Quarter “I hear you have given up your job with the Income Tax people?” H said Mr. Smith, leaning over his neighbor's fence. “Certainly I have,” answered Mrs. Jones. “I got so tired of making allowances for husbands |morning, noon and night.” L >) > Ke _ Key Wester Leaves For Family Reunion Mrs. Grace Crosby, 1417 Ash- by street, left by plane Saturday enroute to Barbaboo, Wisc., to at- tend the annual reunion of the Thomas family. On the way; she will ‘stop off at Asheville, N. C., to visit her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Rice. Mrs. Crosby is a daughter of} the Thomas family, all the chil- dren of which still are living. The family is one of the pioneers of the Wisconsin dairy region. GAME COMMISSION TO MEET IN OCALA The Game and Fresh Water Fish, commission is scheduled to | meet July 11 at,Ocala, I. N. Ken- | ny, director of the group, an- nounced today. Rules and regulations for the forthcoming hunting season will | be made at the session. Mr. Kenny said the commission} would welcome suggestions from | groups, individuals and clubs. MOTORIST ARRESTED John J. Fritz was arrested yes- | terday on the Overseas Highway | by State Road Patrolman War- | ren S. Bateman on a charge of} drunken driving. Fritz | was brought to Key West and} re- leasedion his posting a bond of $150 for his appearance tomor-! yaw merning before Peace Jus: | | tice J. Y. Porter, IV. WEDDING RING STOLEN Mrs. Eva Jimenez, 1114 Pack- | er street, reported to police that her wedding ring . was stolen from a dresser in her home Sat- urday night WELLONS LEAVES NAVY William B. Wellons, Jr., |GM 3/c, 904 Washington street, | has been honorably discharged | from the Navy, the separation \center at Jacksonville reported| today. Pediatricians planning nation- wide survey of health service. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many | kind friends and neighbors for their many, acts of kindness shown us during the illness and after the death of our. beloved} one, Anthony B. Castellano. | junl7-1tx THE ADIES and GENTLEMEN Don’t Throw Your Old Hat Away As Long As It Can Be CLEANED and REMODELLED Up-to-Date . Tropical Hat Shop 221 N.E. 2nd Ave., Miami, Fla. His eye strayed to the life-size | took this incident very much to likeness of himself that adorned ; heart and made a solemn vow to the parlor wall and he added that | himself then and there never to AIR FORCES—GROU Get your friends an: and find out—at the ne: Station—what the Arm: F YOU'RE a young man just out of high school, and have the physical and mental qualifications for enlistment in the Regu- lar Army, no career in the world offers you a greater opportunity. You can have the finest technical training, and-be well paid while you learn! 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