The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 8, 1946, Page 4

YW ¥AGE FOUR Gladys Sands Is June Bride Weds Navy Ma Before an altar banked with ‘fern and baskets of pink gladioli and lilies, Gladys Mae Sands and Ralph Brown Wheat were married June 29, at 8:30 p.m., at First Congregational church with the Rey. Livingston Munro of- ficiating. Traditional wedding music was played on the organ by Mrs.’ John Archer and a solo, “I Love You Truly,” was sung by Mrs. Paul Archer. The bride, given in marriage by ‘her father, F. A. Sands, wore a gown of ivory. slipper satin with fitted bodice, sweetheart neckline and long sleeves that extended in points wrists. The lace veil held in .place by a tiara of pearl orange blossoms trailed over the long train. She carried a large bou- quet of white carnations and wore an heirloom gold necklace Which was a gift from her ma- ternal great grandmother. The maid of honor, Miss Annie E. Averette, the bride’s only at- tendant, wore a gown of light blue taffeta with full skirt, and off-the-shoulder ruffle. She car- ried a bouquet of pink carnations, The best man was Frank Sands, n At Church Rites was attired in white triple-sheer and wore a corsage of rose car- nations. Mrs. Emma L. Thomp- son, grandmother of the bride, LORS Salon pened . ; e By NINA LESLIE CALLEJA People are always’ doing queer, unpredictable things. I am not speaking of those people who wore a beige sheer with @ COr-| make a career of being complete- sage of white stephonotis and ly wacky, of which ilk there is a _ fern. : goodly number here and there A three-tier wedding cake,/and around and about, I mean which was cut by the bride and|specifically the ones who go bridegroom and served follow-|along for years in a.set pattern ‘ing the ceremony, at a reception/of things, and all at once some- given at the home of J. Frank|thing apparently snaps and things Roberts, grandfather of the bride}get into an uproar and end in a over the} with whom she lives, Mrs. Flor- ida Thompson, aunt of the bride, served the punch. The home was decorated with baskets of white lilies, gladiolis and fern. Many guests signed the bride’s regis- ter. Out of town guests were Mrs. R. B. Wallace, of Johnson City, Tenn., mother of the bride; Mr, and Mrs. F. A. Sands, Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Johnson and son, Vance, and Mrs. Florida -L. Thompson, all of Miami. The bride, whose family is among the pioneer residents of Monroe county, will make her home in Key West, and will live at 526 William street, after a; honeymoon trip through South Florida. bréther of the bride, who re- cently returned from the Euro- pean theater of war. *)Mrs..R. B.. Wallace of Johnson City, Tenn., mother of the bride, | Calhoun, Ga., and is, employed. The bridegroom is the son of | Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wheat of at the Naval submarine base here. em. _—_- TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY ‘Tm writing this column on Monday morning, July 1, 1946. It is a lovely morning. The sun me up as usual, the birds are Stating. bees are buzzing from fiower to flower and folks I've Ls all seem happy and content- ‘All this in spite of the fact that for more than 8 hours we have been nating along without the OPA, ‘After listening to all the dire predictions over the radio and reading the papers I Was trujy amazed, for I had been led to believe that if the OPA ceased to function for even’ one minute the world would come to an’ end or anyhow stop in. its trgeles. One speaker on the radio last night kept harping’’on’ “What med after the last war.” Ac- ling to him, everybody went @rouhd gouging each other’s eyes out and kicking everybody they met in the shins. Prices he said “skyrocketed” and‘ hell..was to pay in a big way. Then it occurred to me that I was here at the time and went, through that-particular period he was raving about. I tried to re- member the situation, At the time, I was working for $25.00 a weeks. and had just gotten mar- vied; I paid $16.00 a month rent for @ godd. five room house. Al- Ways had plenty to eat, wore Sey decent clothes including + didn’t worry about uurse I was on my own. ‘Sam hadn’t formed the of | ing after folks in , he does..now. ¥ to ™y own nose and comb-my- own ‘hair."The $25.00°a week was my monty. I could do what I pleased. with it. I didn’t have to pay any withholding tax, social security tax or union dues; and. assessments. Prices went up on a few things but I didn’t have to buy theni. I didn’t go without anything I really wanted. I shudder now when I think ofthe awful pre- dicament I was in. I was abso- lutely helpless, nobody protected me from my landlord or my gro- cer or milkman. The only black market operat- img in those days to my know- ledge was on liquor, It was dur- ing prohibition. All you had toj do to get a drink, or a case for, that matter, was know somebody that-knew somebody and pay the price, Prohibition worked just about as well as the OPA as far @§ protecting anybody was con- cerned. Of course a few racketeers an @peedy individuals attempted 4 stick the public for this and that. Some folks paid the inflated prices if they wanted the merch- andise bad enough, but most folks didn’t, not because Chester Bowles or some other bureau- erat told them not to, but just be- cause old fashioned common- sens¢é told them so. is adjusted themselves pretty rapidly as I recall. Realiz-! ing That if they spent all their! earnings foolishly broke, they couldn’t go down to Mr, Sam's office and draw rock- ing chair money for not working. ' Most folks. stuck to their jobs, holocaust. Now you take Judith Black. You'd be very glad to take Jud- ith Black. She was our high- school glamour girl, and at a very early age it became evident that she was going to cause a lot of trouble to a lot of men. Some years ago a_ foreign scientist announced to a panting world that he had discovered how love comes about. Purely a matter of chemicals, he said, and went on to explain that we are made up of 60 per cent of this and eight percent of that, gener- ally, only sometimes its eight per cent of this and 60 per cent Of !a respectable woman ought to! that, which means that some of us are overstocked with magnes- ium, let us say, and have a grave deficiency of calcium, maybe. Assume that I am_ bubbling over with lime but my phosphor- us supply is practically non-exis- tent. Along comes a man. with plenty of phosphorus but no lime. Result: love at first sight. We simply need each other's chemi- cals to strike the happy balance. Between us we have just exactly the right amounts of all the chemicals. I’m saying the scient- ist wasn’t right. It is as tenable, a theory as any other yet pro- pounded on the subject. At any rate, whatever chemi- cal Judith Black had in her sys- tem was certainly lacking in a great many male systems, be- cause they went after Judy in droves. Before she was eighteen years old a young mathematics were reasonably careful about |professor in high school shot him- expenditures and the old Ameri- |self because Judy didn’t feel in- can system of free enterprise and |¢lined to share her iron with him, competition took care of the situ-/and two young college men slug- ation. ged each other half to death When a merchant hiked: his|causing a state-wide scandal. prices or offered inferior goods, Judy wasn’t particularly pretty. {wasn’t physically, strong enough to hold a job more strenuous than jclerking in a stationery store. But! jhe had that chemical Judy’s: sys- tem, needed, and she went ‘com- verve and abandon of a channel swimmer, ‘ » Paul was ‘comipletely’ unim- pressed by Judy. She was as busy as an energetic robin after the first worm.of the morning, and :Paul showed just. about as much inclination to be snaréd as: the worm. Judy bought the station- ery store and gave it to him for a birthday present. Paul thought it yery nice of her, She invited Paul to, her home, which, in honor of the occasion, she had decorated much in the manner of Oriental’ harem-quarters. Paul thought it was sort of close, and fanned himself repeatedly with his straw hat. Judy -trailed around in a revealing and very beautiful hostess-gown, doused in expensive perfume. Paul con- sidered the gown not quite what j wear while entertaining men vis- itors, and found the perfume highly objectionable. Judy tried to tempt him with cocktails, but Paul told her sternly that he didn’t drink, having taken the Pledge some years before, and didn’t smoke either, because he didn’t consider it healthy. Judy sidled up close to him and looked desirable’ and langorous; Paul wondered uneasily if the woman was quite right in her mind, act- ing peculiar like that. Things went from bad to worse Paul remained in his detached {state and Judy was rapidly ap- ‘proaching that point where the white-coated attendants are usal- jly sent for, unrolling the straight jacket as they come. And then the blow fell that killed Judy Black. One night Paul showed up with a vague fe- male clinging to his arm. Proud- ly he introduced her to Judy, and announced that they were going This Estelle looked like some- thing an absent-minded cat had dragged in, in an absent-minded to get married, he and Estelle. | WASHINGTON. — Katherine! sonnel of the 1 van F. Lenroot, chief of the Chil-| pital celebrated July ~ The, patients and ” dren’s Bureau, warns that wejparty in the Red Cross recrea-, bility of idleness among the na- tion’s youth... | group are neither in schoo! where most of them should be, nor regularly employed. Informa- , tion brought in from many parts of the country by the bureau’s staff indicates fewer employment opportunities are open to young workers today. Miss Lenroot says there is no evidence that we have made ap- preciable headway in regaining ground lost during the war, when high school enrollment dropped a million. She cites some trends in the youth employment _ situation, which she says “bears watching, for it has many dangerous po- tentalities.” Trends are; 1. Young veterans generally are given preference for the better jobs—jobs with a future. 2. The high school diploma is regaining its’ prewar value as a job qualification. Employers once more can find high school grad- ‘uates for many jobs. 3. Many ‘employers of their own accord are raising the re- quirements. Those who took on 16 and 17-year-olds during the war seem now to prefer 18-year- olds. They say they are “stead- ier.” 4, Part-time employment pos- sibilities for in-school youth are | shrinking. Employers want full- | time workers and can get them. “The promise of the future must be kept open to this coun- try’s youth,” says Miss Lenroot, “and we must never again close doors to them as was done in the depression years. “If we do, they will look for a | solution elsewhere, and we can- not be reminded too often that both Hitler and Mussolini gath- ered their first strength from the his competitor got the business She had reddish hair and greenr and the dumb grasping ,merchant | ish eyes and a fine pair of legs. went broke. The chemicals ,that did all the Yes, it*was pretty tough after}damage were not visible, . but moment. Her wispy hair was the 4 4 general color of a well-used wet-| disillusioned and _ disinherited mop, and her eyes had all the youth of their respective coun- depth and beauty of a nearly tries, from those who saw no ac- dried-up , mud-puddle. She, had | ceptable future for themselves in and went} the last war. I used to buy milk and ‘the’ dirty so-and-so charged me eight cents a quart. I had a few hens who laid nice fresh eggs for my breakfast and only asked for a little water and table scraps in return: I paid 25¢ for a haircut ald got my suit cleaned and pressed ‘for 40c and thought the guy was holding me up. Fish and game weren’t “protected” in those days and I used to go down to the rivér after work and could snag out a couple of fat bass and to hell with the butcher .and his $1.00 steaks. Of course I didn’t know about OPA or realize how bad off I was or I would probably have written my congressman and screamed my head off, but on the other hand they say that “Wist a guy don’t know won’t hurt him” and now thinking back, I’m right glad = was so blamed igno- ‘rant for I was happy. ‘NAZI U-BOAT PENS DEFY DESTRUCTION IN BERGEN HARBOR AP. Newsfeatures : | BERGEN, Norway. — The Na- zis built a “monument” to Naz- ism-in- Bergen harbor that prob- ably will remain intact to vex | Norwegians for some ‘time to! | come. It’s the massivé U-boat shelter | {which neither allied bombing! nor sabotage could more than shake. Erected strategically near the entrance to one of the two hill-| bordered harbors, the massive pens were devised to provide maximum protection to subma- vines and crews. Six pens extending out into | deep water of the channels are covered with more than 20 feet} of reinforced concrete. The heavi- est bombs dropped directly on the top did little more than scuff | the surface. MONROE COUNTY (Continued on Page Four) ‘reported to be anxious to dis- pose of the property. As to the proposed pier, Mr. | Bentley said he thought it would {require a legislative enabling act before it could be constructed by the county. J. F. Brennan, representing the Federal Works agency, is ex- pected to be at the meeting to-! morrow night of the county commissioners to inform them ‘at what amounts the agency will | sell to the county the hospital and clinic. Citizenship was extended to all Indians in the United States by an act of Congress in 1924. they were there, brother, they from a neighbor who'kept a cow| Were there. Before she . was) and had more than he’ needed, twenty years old she ;had had} forty-one proposals, of marriage and it would be very interesting fo know just how many other proposals. Judy never said much....She just sat around, chemicals steam- ing like mad, and let the.lime- starved men fight it. out among themselves. Time went..on, and wherever Judy went,, there were men, men and men, always. She went to Europe, and a young Englishman she met on the ship, came very near marrying her, but Judy took one look at his Londry. home, with fog creeping in under the doorsills, and one look at his mother, with fog creeping out of her nostrils and ears, and the romance died of damp rot. Judy went to Paris, and be- came the toast of the boulevards practically overnight, for no one can appreciate a chemically at- tractive woman more _ than Frenchmen. As Paris goes, 80 goes the continent, they say, and so Judy galloped around in Rou- mania, Italy and Spain, causing about the same amount of dam- age a fairly thorough cyclone would have done over the same area. The Scandinavian countries had their sight of her too, and Judy could have told you that Swedes are not the stolid, phleg- matic, cold men they are popular- ly supposed to be. In fact, she ‘could have told you a lot of things, and exposed a good many popular fallacies about men. But tas I said, Judy was never a one to do much talking. She went about quietly, and in her quiet way, over a_ period of fitteen years abroad, collected a great deal of knowledge and exper- ience, a quarter of a millon dol- lars’ worth of fine jewelry and a very big sense of restlessness and discontent. Because of all the men she’d ever known, not one quite suited Judy. Matter of chemicals. When she came back to the home-town, a _ very _ striking woman of thirty-five, perfectly groomed, rich and charming, all ‘her old paramours began comb- ing their hair in such a way as to hide the incipient bald spots on} their domes and formulating plausible excuses to their wives for coming home late nights. Judy looked them over. and found them as uninspiring as they had always been. Then one day she went into a small stationery store to buy some note-paper and ran smack into the man she had been look- ing for, for lo the countless cen- turies. There was nothing nice about the man except his roman- tic first name, which was Paul. He was small, insignificant, pim- | , Ply-faced and necked, wore glasses with convex lenses and the vivacity and charm of.a broom-handle, But she had the chemicals that Paul needed, and he looked upon her with pride mn joy, and thought her, wonder- ul. Judy. didn’t ‘say anything. She was a lady, after all. Paul didn’t notice how strickén she was, jbe- cause he had. eyes only, for Estelle and Estelle ‘didn’t riotice anything {because Estelle. hadn’t the caj 5 jacity. to notice what’ time it was. off into. the obscurity. from whence they came, and Judith went into the bathroom and took ja double dose of poison. She was |dead before morning. People do some very funny things. TAMPA MAY GET FUNDS TAMPA, July 8—(FNS)— | Tampa has a possibility of get- ting $8,480,000 in federal funds! for payment of low-rent housing ! projects, as the result of a meas- | ure passed by the senate and} pending before the banking and currency committee of the house, Thomas A. Dyer, executive di- rector of the Tampa Housing au- thority, announced today. ure would provide construction’ of 2,000 dwellings of which 1,050 units would be for white families and the re- mainder for colored. MARGARET O'BRIEN in “OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES” See Your Program—2 Free Tick- Monroe Theater VAN JOHNSON in “Between Two Women” Tomorrow: “Spanish Picture” RO. training re information © W ia 9g, St. Petersburg. Floride. | The two love-birds wandered | \FOR HOUSING PROJECT! If enacted into law the meas- | “funds for , STRAND THEATER | ets if Your Program is No. 86 ica’s outstondi Cot, Walter 8. the existing order.” i The-United States Employment Service here is issuing: a six- sided pocket folder entitled “Your Jobology Check-Up” with j each job referral card handed a person seeking work through the local officed ye It’s a sort of: “Emily. Post” on the corre¢t) ‘behavior, ‘manner and appearance for “the: first im- portant interview with*'a pros- pective employer. Celebrating the completion of 25 years of operation, the Wash- ington School for Secretaries de- cided to ask its 2,500 former stu- dents how they were getting along in the world. It got. answers from 500 and found that the average annual salary of these alumni was $2,- 608.90. Sixty-five per cent of this group had married; 62 per cent 'had quit work and retired. About 26 per i | ' i | answering had advanced beyond | the secretarial level. Last charts showed that about 53 per cent went into government jobs; four cent diplomatic and congres- jsional; five per cent educational; seven per cent professional, and {31 per cent commercial and in- | dustrial. Make This Newest Addition to Your Home FLEXIBLE ALUMINUM VENETIAN BLIND eWill Withstand Salt Air and Extreme Humidity eBaked Enamel Finish to Harmonize With Any Color Scheme | per KEY WEST Venetian Blind Co. 120 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. CALL 1042 for Estimates schools, the only of the few schools in ing militory F Highest Bi TC. unit te $1,075. iment. Floride Militery Mendels, Prt » ce MMT * FLORIDA cent of those | pletely overboard with all: the| are’ confronted with the possi-|tion hall. The hall was decorated in a‘ red, white and blue motif. fea- She says thousands of youn8-| turing giant firecrackers, shields, sters in the 14-to-17-year-old ven flags on Bingo was the featured activ- ity with carnival booths of penny pitch, roulette and darts as a side attraction. Chocolate nut sundaes and sodas were served from the soda bar. The jitterbugs were active in another section with a juke box furnishing the jive. The party was planned and directed by the Red Cross staff of the hospital, welfare and re- creation officer, and hospital chaplain. The Elks Lodge sponsored the event under the auspices of the Key West American Red Cross Camp and Hospital Council com- mittee. ONE WAY TO FIND- LEAK GRANITE.FALLS, Minn.—De- tecting an odor of gas in his home, John Mertz put in a hurry, call. for i aie Peas re- pairman found the hurry—by sticking a mates ha resulting explosion and’ fire. re: sulted in only minor injury...) ;:; ang King Size { 4 “And what is the: baby’s name?” asked the chaplain softly. . The sailor smiled proudly as he hoisted the little fellow-up on his arm. “Chauncey William Robert Montgomery Sterling.” Up shot the chaplain’s eye- brows as he turned to his as- sistant, “More water, please.” a tn hth daddadadadndadatndedndall STRONG ARM BRAND COFFER TRIUMPH COFFEE MILL AT ALL GROCERS 044444444444444444. sy pees INCORPORATED seumetemesmmmasip. Phone! 46. | 421 DUVAL ST. | n picture version of | Hemingway's book of the séme* ‘name,''will‘be shown at? the Strand Theatre for three days,. The picture takes two hours and fifty minutes to show. The ‘Strand management announces | that for this picture doors will open at 3 o’clock for the matinee, |The picture will start o -4 Two night shows will be for the first showing doors will be open at 6 o'clock. Picture istarts at 6:15 o’clock. The sec- ond night showing starts at 9:15 o'clock. From . all reports, the critics praise the picture highly. 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