The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 20, 1946, Page 2

; Newspaper in Key West wd Monroe Co! ie ‘pape and also the iocal néws Qublished here. y et) the people of the county. for entertainment by from which @ revenue is ved ate 5 cents a li ig an open forum and #ion of public issues ef local or. general it will not publish 7 as * BOSSING THE PEOPLE | * President Truman failed & make his OPA a logical strument of control. The tery of more than 13 ars shows that ‘the gov- mment boards, commis- ions, “brass hats” and ad- inistrators haven't helped.! All the spectaclar} hemes from the time’ of! ugh Johnson and his NRA down to the control of foods qnd he, sehold necessities— j} by Truman and _ Bowles, turned out to be flops. ~wevernors of the emocrats and Re- publicans alike, have been pleading for the return of Constitutional . state rights, | taken away from them in the yearg since 1933. Since} that year the National debt| has jumped from around 30; billiof. fo nearly 300 billion} dollarae Taxes have been} tore than “inflated”—they | have been actually “bal- loomed.” In short, thousands | of partfbulars could be add-! @d to show thatthe New Deal is still going strong, | though in disguise. ‘Tricky’ Litic iggy all.the way from} Kmerifth Communists *_ to | radieal Republicans are ‘to blame fer most of the ills end tragic failures a the Fr al political leaders. bettin “brites now go sky-| present prices will go high-! er, while the period of re-} adjustment balances em-! ploy ment, unemployment, : balances supplies with de-; mands, -balances prices oF food and manofactured ar- ‘ticles. + MERCER HITS A SNAG The hill for a@ merger, or reor-| sanigati of the defense! tore@’ of the United States, is yap ere progress in ress .where action will’ probably be postponed | for months. | Desp te . the. President's declaragen that he expected the full support of all the services for his program, there is every reason to ex- pect vigorous resistance from the Navy to two of, the pro- posals, that providing for a single department of de- fense and that putting land- based naval aviation under control of the Air Forces. It is true that the Presi- dent, after receiving reports from Army and Navy offi- cials, teok the responsibility for‘Settling matters at issue, but there ddes not seem to be any overwhelming senti- mentein:, Congress to rush the so-called. “merger” by prompt legislative action. President's revised ; Pity and need make all flesh kin} but the kinship ceases ag)ysoon as require- ments cease, There were only 57 deaths from traffic accidents re- ported on July 4. While this is not a smal! number, nev- ertheless it -is greatly re- duced from the deaths on the highway over the pre- war periods. Drivers of cars were careful and used com- mon sense, and, perhaps, intbibed Tess freely. _ “Poor old Key West; never knows what is go for it.” ‘ : That was the lament of a Citizen editor over the resig- nation of Dave King as-city manager. The editor expressed the hope that the city commis- sion will an cient Man to fill King’s place. But the editor could have extended his lamentation: He could have said that Monroe county has a surplus of $125;000, which, evident- ly, has filed some of the commissioners w it h ambi- tious plans designed to help Editor, The Citizen: Having been a resident here for the past five years, and hoping to spend the remainder of to write this’ article. “With malice toward none, ‘with Justice for all.” We who love Key West see dark ~clouds hovering ‘o'erhead, | for we are abput to lose the city's} greatest asset. This evening's; Citizen arinounced the resigna-| Frequently it turns out that when we think we are’ helping somebody we really tion of Mr. King, city manager. I are contributing to:his undo~| go not know Mr. King personally, ing. That has happened | bat I positively know he has giv-} thousands of times in cases, | en the city superlative leadership, without a second thought,, ea he has splendid ideas for iving motiey to every- | future improvement. ee ‘ats asks he for it. [f| Tt will be a mortal blow to this ® faded a8 enchanted I’sle if we do not get we investigated before we i s together and ask our leader to re- gave, we would restrict oUr| cin with us. handouts, as we would learn’) Key West is on the thresholtof that we were assisting Per- | knowing ‘its greatest prosperity, sons to lead an idle life. which T predict will last three or Sincerely, the county four years. The new ferry to commissioners have initiat- poe the ere: the ‘Miami! ed a‘program that entails People, who purchased the spending of thousands | Rest Beach, and¢numerous other! of dollars. Acquiring t he activities that shall benefit every! Municipal hospital, the Key West resident and visitor.) ice But, our atest need is a con- County clinic and the con- auction’ at She Gitalanil struction of a pier for yachts nd charter boats are all leadership Mr. King has alradey’ commendable undertakings, demonstrated he is capable of. | May God guide us, and help us) but their acquisition should be spread over several to make of this city, the garden| years, so far as financing spot of América. the projects are concerned. Monroe county school board, with $136,526.60 surplus in the treasury, steps forward and asks the. tax- payers to give the board $80,956.85 more this year than was given last year. In asking for that money," there was talk about the new school house at Mara- thon, the money to pay for amid such fine, friendly people, | and F personally am aereumneyy i grateful. WILLIAM MEYERS Box 973, ‘| Key West, Fla. | i A FINE RECORD ‘ Editor, The Citizen: | Concerning my resignation, the | them ‘down. I greatly appreciate | life here, I keenly feel it my duty} ’ It is a privilege to live here | o’dlock at Key West Municipal only fear I hold is the fact that |berta A. O'Brien: two brothers, | the people may think that I let'| Charl ‘Whe officers of Key West Lodge No. 163, Knights of Pythias Deputy Chancellor J. Winfield Russell, assisted by Past Chan- céllors F. O. Roberts and J. HR. De Land. The new officers are: chancellor;. Aaron’ H. Williams, | prelate; B. M, Forbes, niaster of} the work; O. L. Bossom, master at arms; Paul Ross Roberts, in- ner guard, and J. L. Adams, outer guard. Other officers: Keeper of records and seal, J. Winfield. Russell; master of fi- nance, J. Frazier Pinder; master of exchequer, Millard B, Gibson, andi trustees, J. F, Pinder, W. P. Archer and J. R. De Land. At the close of the meeting re-| freshments were ‘served. ‘O’Brien Services For Tomorrow Afternoon’! Funeral seryices for Vincent Pau! O’Brien, 39, who passed away Thursday afternoon at 1:40) Hospital after a short illness will} be held tomorrow afternoon at 6 o'clock from Lopez Funeral! Home chapel. Rev, J. H. Johnson, of St.|, Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic Church will officiate. Burial will be in the family lot, City Ceme- tery. Survivors are, wife, Mrs. Ro- ; les O'Brien and Robert O’- | Brien, both of New York; two, Sisters, Mrs. Catherine Murphy j Junie primary but that term will ‘not begin till next January. underwent 2 operation for ap- pass were installed last evening” by |e improving. ssi merly. of Key West, tonight will talk on the art exhibit, sent from Key West to Miami a few days Talmadge .Cuimer, chancellor | ago. ! commander; P. T. Rutrough, vice jured in the cemetery yesterday oe while placing flowers on the| 6:00 Schubert Reporis": ‘grave of hei husband. She said} 6:15 Lorenzo Fuller* that, While stooping'over, she was | Dance Orch.* seizéd*with dizziness and grabbed: Torn Slater* 5 tone to keep from fall-| 7:00 Hawaii Calls* . The stone toppled and struck ; 7:30 Arthur Hale* | son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and ‘10:00 4 rte -} the life. to forestry, or hor! tlicier was nominated in the|ture, or some — i a ANNOUNCED BY “ic WKWF Listen (*Designates Network , July 20th Bart ‘A.’ Riley, attorney, for-’ i Mrs. Euphemia Eddins was in- breaking “Spee I Was A Convict* ing Hier chest. Twenty Questions* Juvenile Jury* Leave It to the Girls* Jonathan Trumble, Esq.* Theater of ‘Air* an arm and injur-{ 7:45 3 8:00 Gillespie, Il., are visiting their | Mrs. -Gerondo Roman, White and '11:00 Music Hall Varieties ee: Angela streets. |11:30. Sammy Kaye Orch. 7:00 ¥ ———- {11:45 King Cole Trio Ts News nee Frank i Spalding, apo 11:55 News* 720 ai n. visit rt parents, Mr.!12:00 Dance Music* :30 Norman and Mrs. Frank Brown, 891 Wad- i “Weather Fore dell avenue, left today for Wash- Sunday. July 21st 7:30 Sunrise y ington; accompanied by Mr. anc S A. M. to Noon 8:15 News ° Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Spalding’s hus-| 8:00 Weather Forecast | 9:00. Brazier Hunt, News band,.,Commander Spaiding, is 3 ta Concert | 9:15 Doe . stationed in Washington. : ows - j | 8:30 Read the Funnies penta ny er, Today The Citizen says in an} 8:45 John Betts, Evangelist | 288 éditorial paragraph: 9:00 Young People’s Church* wed i 9:30 10:00 10:30 Voice of Prophecy* Church in the Wildwood Tone Tapéstries* “New automobiles come while old- debts remain.” = i nat ia i > : 11:00 Bill Harrington Sings* | 12:00 ’ Today’s Birthdays 11:15 Paine Aipert* jis = Jesting With the Jesters |11°30 ‘Pake It Basy ‘Time®. rnest Hutcheson of New,1]:45 Men of Note 11:45 Vietor BH. Lindiater®, York; famed pianist, born in’ 11-50 Weather Forecas' Australia, 75 years ago. 111:55 Sse ; Musical Interlude hi. : in last | te confidence they had in elect-| ‘ Br os 2s ae Reine hag wget atta die ahs to the. office and while} and Miss Margaret O’Brien. lua Piro ing! a nf eT men Morton Downey, Sings the Harris school, for which be al pare agape dee — | Cloyéepert. Ky. 52 years Hig #*/ 12:00 Pilgrim ‘Hour* {12:30 [te aga Forecast 2 ei Malt 5 a. Bs Sr iauance compeny”has|22"Ac% pames one" The Weather | Saco tt Wino meg tacos Howe ROE paid $15,000, and 10 per) pest interests of the city. I have leased from Jap prison after be-; 5: He 1.06 ‘ i 5 i : eA 1:15 Hka“Chase’ 200 Listen to Leibert* cent increase in the salaries] fulfilled’ all of my promises. ex ing« taken in the Philippines,! 5: sag f A inackor promi - Forecast ‘faensiah vines, 2 ae | 1:30 Singing Sweethearts* 1:15. Luncheon with Lopés* o en she Bae og sept oot Lge fire pr “NPM Wed ahd’ Vicinity: Partly 1208 3 Y. Mass., years) 1:45 Burt Howell, Tenor* 1:45 th ty $4,133,673 more Hit City Manueer King informed, dowdy this - bitérnote, tonight! "Ds" wieebert “E: Bolton, famea! 259 Private Showing rie e county $4,133, mor City Manager King informed gnd Sunday with widely scatter- | yniversi - Bolton, fa ; 2:30 Bill Cunningham, News* 7 than -last syear,. the board }meé just three days ‘ago, that the éd erécs and shuaderstomnis, | © niversity of California histor-| 2:45 Veteran Wants to Know*| 2:30 can raise the teachers’ sal-| equipment was ready~ ‘to gccurrlog {mostly in. ithe after. | 20/“born” at Wilston, Wis, 76) 3:00 Open House* j 3:00 aries 20 per cent and re-| fansferred as soon asa -buildy) Aoahs kind evenings: °!""' years ae. ; A _ 3:30 Vera Holly Sings* | 31S duce its millage 1.8, instead | M& was granted to house it. 2) + Florida: Scattered showers and | Staley C. Allyn, president of} 4:00 Mysterious Traveler* 3:30 of increasing it 1.8, and still worked hand in hand with Chief} {nunderstorms through Sunday, ‘the, National Cash Register Co.,/ 4:30 True Detective Mysteries*| 4:00 have a surplus iin the treas- of Police Eisner on the radi | ing mostly in the after. | Dayton, -O., borh at Madison, | 5:00 Roger Ablen*iysiccaanita, #15 F t th 4 of th xt | 2nd otherwise, to create the PAU) noons and evenings. | Wis., 55 yaers ago. 5:30 Abbott. Mysteries* #30 ury at the end of the next) organization. It is a wonderful|? Jacksonville through the Flor-| Roy F. Coopedge, board chair= i 4:5 fiseal year. H « 5:00 W oa We Vnow tly a . | ida Straits and East Gulf of Mex- | man’ of McCrory Stores, born in! 6:00 ‘Those Websters" | 5:30 e don't know exactly; 1 produced the ordinance |{co: Gentle to moderate south- | Pike’Co., Georgia, 58 years ago. | 6:30 Cedric Foster, News* i 5:45 the amount of teachers’ sal-| which calls for a five dollar cost aries in Monroe county last | of court. I know this has helped year, but we do know that | to defray the city court expenses the school board received to a great degree. I worked faith- $47,500 from the race | fully and hard in securing park- tracks. As things financial-|ing meters, and I feel that they | easterly winds through Sunday. | Beattered thundershowers. \t Jacksonville to Apalachicola: | No small craft or storm warnings | have been issued. i ly have turned out, board could have increased salaries last year, instead of bickering about them, by 10 per cent, and still would have had a hefty surplus at the end of this fiscal year. What will the board get the | have relieved the parking prob- |- lems that confronted us in the!; aside from the approximate nine |, thousand dollars it nets the city, | is invaluable for the protection of life and property. While I! claim credit for the above meas- | ures, I fully realize it was made |5 from the tracks this year? Nobody can definitely answer that question. So far as we know, the racing sea- son the coming winter prob- ably will beas good as it was last winter. But let us say that the board gets only $40,000 next year from the tracks. How much of thht still will be left after the teachers are given their! now wear were bought with the |” raise of 10 per cent? Fact is, it would be more than enough to take care of an increase of 20 per cent. Teachers here, there, and ing of my fellow commissioners. I am proud to have been able to {* do something for the town that I te love and hope for. I succeeded jg in getting the Jaycees to sponsor an annual Police Ball. Jack De-|* laney, Chief Eisner and myself »Sunnise - Sunset : {Moonrise — Moonset worked many a night in securing entertainment, contributions and perfecting plans for this évent. The new uniforms the police benefits from this performance. Every chance I got, I pestered the administration for a raise in}, police salaries, which they fimal-/ ly received. My chief ambition possible only through the beck a ainfa Revort i Key West, Fla, July 20, 1946 shopping district. I fathered the |4Observation taken at 8:30 a.m,} auto inspection ordinance, which | Bastern Daylight Saving Time. | City office.) ® Temperatures Highest yesterday aes — Fat | Lowést last night 80 ) | Pe eS oR ‘Normal -: 84 PRECIPITATION ll, 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m., inches a RELATIVE HUMIDITY 70% T@MORROW’S ALMANAC | (Daylight Savings Time) | ad 6:50 a.m. k | High Tide 3:42 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 10:01 a.m. 9:58 p.m. Today's Tall Story A parrot was mascot on one of } everywhere, except in large cities, are underpaid. Pay ty am sorry to see all of my hopes i. w ou so rene ponies | shattered, as this department will ieee abe ~ soon stink more than ever. It is was to give the city a better and}; more respected police force. I} the troop ships, so the story goes, } jand was at liberty to roam at} will. One of the G.I.’s was a pro- | {fessional magician and in order} to keep in practice and also to! that without any ury with a millage this year under the millage of last year. Elections in very low I. Q. No matter what station a man occupies in life, he has several plausible excuses to| explain his failure to rise | higher. T¥d@ you ever take time to! realize how good the aver-' age person is, and how anx-| ious most of them are to be helpful, especially in time appre- | ciable pressure on its tréas- | doctor we sent for, to go backwards at least a year in progress. We will never get the parrot, “but what did you do a good manager as long as the | With it? charter is interpreted as at pres- ent. At least he will not stay} with us for long. W. C. SWEETING. Rubies were the first gems toly ibe made synthetically on a com-| lmereial scale. India has the largest irrigation igystem in the world. ironical, when I think after all | entertain the boys, he gave daily | my efforts, that this department &xnibitions of his skill. The par-! has been directly responsible for/yot was always on hand, andl my resignation. Mr. King was the jafter éach performance would| and it’s aiscream, “Fake! Fake!” much to .,.,,} Shame that we couldn’t take the jannoyance of the magician. Phe | Mississippi |-medicine he prescribed. He has;ship was torpedoed and sank al-| recently: give that state a treated many a city with the same ‘most immediately. The magician } jailments as Key West has and came to the ‘surface, but saw no they fully recoverdd. It is morejone but the parrot sitting on a than a tragedy that Key West has |floating object. “You win, you win,” screamed eee i llow family; a miarten is a fur- (bearing animal of the weasel! "kind. A martin is a bird of the "a Sek Bi Racca RI ae aA PS a or’ A > : a Thursday at 1 o’Clock” _ Exclusively at HERMAN’S © Pia eer ib «Hip in the bak. (OF Taper. + fine pin wale | corduroy in réd, blue, mer. b drown, Siete 9 1015." e > Pl