The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 19, 1946, Page 5

MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1946 AP Newsteatures inn Indian school, dream - of San Xavier del Bac, historic Span- 7 cement mabe one thay ira clinic, the new building recalls (RNB MRR BORE ak SORE the Franciscan Combining a school and a story of San Xavier to spread | ! h | liers as barracks, sta- ; withstood earth- housed Jesuits and F i : I F Indians of the New rif within days of the anni- arrival of its Eusebio Fran- school building men who follow- fi fli Records show it was late in| August of 1692 when Father Kino reached Bac, nine miles south of fit iz i e 5 the Indians by unroll of the world and tel Fad ‘it i 28, 1700, he began the Hiding his mission, the ' e of the desert”. council with the Indians they could tell him ‘alifernia was an island Eleven years later died on a bed of i; > g ~ ; i i : h ! ry after work was Indians revolted, kill- | of the priests, chasing southward and plundering Sen Xavier and other missions. Again the priests returned. a He * £ 1967 when word came from Spain of the expulsion of the Jesuits. | As the priests departed, some | believe, they buried or hid tre- mendous wealth in gold collected from the Indians over many years. With the coming of civili- |: sation, mien spent tremendous ef- fort in digging for this “lost”! gold. It is still being} vt Ten years ~ later | Apaches down from the north, and indering and taking if ower San sa lookout. || Then, viong other abandon- ed missions, it was taken over by, Franciscans. | The foundation of the mission! © &@ bed of stone, six feet or more deep ! Te the Indian women was as-! wighed the task of bringing the feeks to the mission from moun-. teins many miles away. No Rests Countenanced Patiently the women trudged eerem the desert, where surface ; temperatures reach 155 degrees in the summertime, perched a boul- om their head, and walked These were sacred Which could not be al- te touch the ground from they left the mountains reached their destina-| When one was dropped, the believed the spell had broken, left it where it lay, ond returned to the mountains for another & J f ifif Ba H | knowledge of belting was confined to the con-! traction of rude abode huts, but the priests were artists and archi-; touts as well as builders. Under thelr guidance the structure took form | te order to build the huge! @eeme, legends recount, the priests fitted the bedy of the church with earth, rounded it into shape and covered ff with the present abode ; breech Goid Bait In Doubt Thep the Indians were told! many geld coins were to be found im the'dirt in the church. Seeking weatth, they labored to remove the earth, leaving the dome where i @ew stands, Avthvopelogicts point out that evem @ the dirt had been pure gett, the tndians wouldn't have token the trouble to remove it, stare gold had no value to them. (ime of the towers at the front of the miston will always remain enfiniched. Legend says all the charely wes fingshed with the ex- eopticdt of the dome over one tower. Chief arelftect Father Ig- nerke Geona climbed to the top to fxieh the building himself. Los- te te belenee, he Is supposed to hheewe crashed te his death. In his emery the tower has been left the way be lest saw It, accoXiing te tethhwe Another report says the King of Gpeln bed vuled that a tax wut te paid upon the compie- tem of each church. To avold this peeement, it ts claimed, the priests tett off ene tower dome so that it would never be finished, Tey belt well, and strongly. The ortignsl doors and pulpit, | Historic Desert Church Gets New Indian School By MURRAY SINCLAIR it days! who came to Chris-| i energetic Jesuit, cattle- | named the place | and preached his first | 1- | 1. | he great distance he | tell them of Chris-! He | te abandon the mission in! ‘plant physiologist, born in Rus- among other things, are still in | use. | | generations of (SSS 6 ff Ee | Job Of Painting City Hall Seats -Is Now Finished Janitor Walter~Monroe has completed the job of paint- ing the benches in the court room at City Hall, and they are now ready to take on more passengers and begin to weather more municipal storms. Whether or not the benches will be any softer, now that they have been painted, re- mains a mute, question, Just to be sure of a soft set, how- ever, citizens who attend future meetings at City Hall are advised to bring their own pillows. dhehedde as TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Bernard |M. Baruch, © elder statesman, Presidential adviser, atom bomb committee head, born at Camden, N. J., 76 years ago. U.S. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, born McLennan Co., Tex., 69 years ago. Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane, born in Dayton, Ohio, 75 years ago. Philo T. Earnsworth, television scientist, born at Beaver, Utah, 40 years ago. Alfred Lunt, actor, born in Mil- ai\see, 53 years ago. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, Fla. born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 74 years ago. Rev. Dr. William B. Lampe of St. Louis, eminent Presbyterian clergyman, born at Galesburg, lil, 61 years ago. --—-000— SATURDAY, AUISUST 17, 1946 (Know America) Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, di- rector of the atom bomb project, born at Albany, N."¥., 50 years 10. Justin, W.~ Dart, president-,ef United Drug, Boston, born at Evanston, IIL, 39 years ago. Gideon Seymour, editor of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, born at Arlington, S. D., 45 years ago. Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch, pfo- vost of, the University of Cali- fornia’ at Berkeley, born in San Francisco, 67 years ago. Dr. Charles B. Lipman of the | University of California, noted} wi 63 years ago. Quincy Howe of New York, au- thor and broadcaster, born in Bos- ton, 46 years ago. Dutch Waistline Widens In Peace AMSTERDAM. — (AP) — No official, statistics show the in- crease in the average Dutch} waistline, but there are other re- liable signs. ; 3 A year ago the “placeurs,” the functionaries charged with the distribution of the seats at the circus could pack 3,400 spectators on the unnumbered wooden benches. This year the placeurs can pack hardly 3,150 people on the same benches. The Glass Bookshop in Mexico City advertises books with four big electrical signs over ‘the store. The bell clappers, it is said, are made from a meteorite which flashed out of the skies and land- ed close to the mission. ' ‘The Franciscans were also driv- en from the church during Mexi- co's fight for independence from Spain. The Indians took many of the sacred articles of the altar the church, keeping them in they mud huts until the priests returned. Signs of Stable Usage The walls of the church stil! show the signs left behind by the twoops and animals housed in the buildings. When the Gadsen purchase brought the area into,the United States, the priests did return to San Xavier del Bac, the only mis- sion not completely in ruins. For years a section of one wing of the mission has been devoted to school rooms. Now the chil- dren, between 70 and 80 of them, will move into a $25,000 school and clinic. The priests will move into the old school rooms and the space they vacate towards the fray of the building will be given over to a museum and wait- ing rooms for visitors. Greyhound Lines May Launch New Miami Schedule Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc., is considering the possibility. of from here to Miami, with only one stop for a rest period, it was announced, today. This run, it was said, would be on a three and one-half hour basis, with seat reservations, The reservations would be taken over the telephone and each passen- ger would be assured a seat be- fore he boarded the bus, the an- nouncement asserted. If it is found that there is suf- ficient need for such a service from Key West to Miami efforts will be made to start it in the near future, according to Wm, A. Arnold, district passenger agent for the bus line. Veterans’ Office Carries Big Load Progress far beyond the ex- pectations of officials has been attained by the Veterans Admin- istration Regional Office at Miami since the office was estab- lished at Dinner Key June 15, 1946. : With Florida’s veteran popula- tion load growing daily through discharges from the various branches of the service and from migration to “Sunshine land”, veterans of South Florida were experiencing unavoidable delays on their claims under the Serv- icemen‘s Readjustment Act. The VA, seeing that this situa- tion could grow worse with the ever increasing veteran popula- tion, established a Regional Office at Miami to serve veterans of the 10-county area. Just two months ago Thursday the Regional Office. was activat- ed and, despite limited personnel, set about wiping out the backlog of claims of all sorts. Operations were set up on a 44-hour week basis in-an-effort to attain cur- reney and place the office ina position to then give the veteran the service he deserves. Today the office still finds a 44-hour week necessary and a large percentage of the personnel are working on the average of six hours overtime each week, making a work week of 50 hours with shortened weekends in or+ derito serve the veteran ~ Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) 1793—Samuel G. Goodrich, pro- lific author, editor and publisher of his generation, better known as “Peter Parley”, born at Ridge- field, Conn. +Died May 9, 1860. | 1798—Charles Beck, Harvard’s noted professor of Latin, who came here for more freedom, borp in Germany, Died March 19, 1866. 1835—Richard P. Bland, noted Missouri congressman of his day, advocate of free silver, born near Hartford, Ky. Died June 15, 1899. 1846—(100 years ago) Walter Clark, Confederate — lieutenant- colonel at 17, North Carolina chief justice, noted State legal editor-compiler, progressive jur- ist, born Halifax Co., N. C. Died May 19, 1924. 1856—John Cotton ark, N. J., librarian, museum head, author and fine printer, who made the Newark Public Li- brary nationally famed and in- fluenced American culture, born at Woodstock, Vt. ‘Died July 21, 1929. Dana, New- ——000—— SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946 (Know America) 1786-—-David Crockett, 'Tennes- } see’s historic pioneer-frontiers- man, born in Hawkins Co., Tenn. Died at the Alamo, Tex., March 6, 1836. 1807—Ashabel Grant, noted physician-missionary to the Nes- torians of Asia, born at Marshall, N. Y. Died April 21, 1844. 1838—Laura De Force Gordon, noted Stockton, Cal., nevspaper editor, st gette and lawyer, born in Erie Co., Pa. Died April 6, 1907. 1870—Richmond P. Hobson, hero of the Spanish-Americ War, narcotics evil lecturer, born at Greensboro, Ala. Died March 16, 1937. starting a through express run} NAVY NE Federal Employees Win -Many Gains Through NFFE When proposals affecting the crop up in Washington. the imical to the employee's interest and vigorously supporting those measures designed to promote the welfare of employees, For this reason the National Federa- tion of Federal Employees is frequently spoken of as “Your Voice in Washington.” During the long fight for the pay. increase, which came into effect July 1st, it spoke not only for its membership but for all Federal employees in the classi- fications affected. The Washing- ton headquarters of the organi- zation did more however, than is¢ its voice in favor of the raise; it led the fight for the much needed pay bogst and was backed up by the Navy and gov- ernment agencies. Locally, the affairs of NFFE are administered by Local 151 whose’ officers are Submarine Base employees. ‘President is David McCurdy; the first vice- president, George Graham; while the secretary-treasurer is Mrs, Rachel Hodnet, Presentation of the employees’ case at committee hearings in Washington involved extensive jresearch. First of all, NFFE had | to present facts and figures to yproye that the pay raise wa: ti@ied; that unless an inc were granted by Congress the federal service would lose thous- ands of key employees who could not afford to continue in the serv- ice at old pay rates. Months were spent in gathe! ing figures to support NFFE’ contention that wages and salar- ies of government employees were completely out of line ‘with the rise in living costs; witnesses, mostly federal employees, were produced who told of the actual hardships they and their families suffered as a result of a wage seale which was not keeping pace with increasing costs of living. It was with this formidable array of evidence that each at- tempt to kill the pay bill, post- pone its passage.or cut th ise ‘to a wholly inadequate. figure, was forestalled. And the fact that NFE studies and analyses were accepted without question by. legislators and. Government agenties i8"taken as an’ indication of the pect shown in official circles for the organization’ fact-finding activities. NFEE was organized in Sep- tember 1917 “of, by and for Fed- eral employees.” For half a cen- tury there had been no wage in- crease. Such benefits as_retire- ment, classification, a standard leave policy and other essentials to a sound program of personnel administration, were not even talked of 29-years ago. In the first year of its existence NFEE took a leading part in securing a bonus for World War I t- erans; fought for the first Retire- ment Law and the Classification Act. As the years rolled on, and NFEE gathered strength —.and members—the organization was in the forefront in the mov ments for a Saturday half holi- day, cumulative annual and sick leave; extension of the merit s tem, Sometimes years of effert were required to establish improve- ments, During 1917, for instance, the NFEE pioneered in propo: jing time and one half for ove ttime work for all employees {a permanent principle; night dif- lferential pay; the 40-hour work- } week; reduction of waiting per- iods for within-grade promotions and holiday overtime pay. But it was not until 1945 that these benefits were won. The fight for the new Federal Employees Pay Act, under which the per annuin pay raise was granted, was be- ! gun in 1945 and through persis- |tent effort on the part of NFEE | the bill was enacted into law in | May ihis year. | Now, with the raise in! effect, non-meinbers of the NFEE may \feel a pang of hurt pride that ithey were not members contrib- uting their support to a fight | which benefits them as well as |imembers. Be that it’ may, | NFEE has a broadminded policy ! { r | | | | | WS NOTES | interest of Federal ike hes ago, 27 million persons were|S, Parker, manager of. the is sure to be heard from, oppos- | ularly. ing the proposals if they are in-|veals, at least 15 million persons | jpounds of grass to produce 20 to! were able to nag_ effectively in i tpaced an average of four mile: 1890—Harry L. Hopkins, advis-| with respect to: membership—no er and intimate ‘of the late Presi- ' one is forced to join—yet its voice dent Roosevelt, “spearhead of the! speaks for all, Moreover, Sub- New Deal”, born in Sioux City, marine Base employees are wel- Iowa. Died in New York, Jan.| come to attend meeting of the 29, 1946. !Local 151. The regular meeting jis usually preceded, by ample an- CAKE-MAKER SHOOTS BEAR) jy yuncements for any interested acre p ee = | persons wishing io attend. noise in the mink pens outside, i 2 ! while she was baking a cake in| Five Out of Nine ae BD her kitchen, Mrs. Bill Osborne | Holding Savings Bonds got the shotgun and investigated.| According to a survey recently There was a big brown bear try- | completed by the U. S. Savings ing to get into the pens. She shot | Bonds Division of the Treasury it and didn’t get nervous until | Department, five out of every it was skinned and she saw how | nine Americans who bought War really big the bear was (Bonds on the payroll savings are today’ buying Savings! in Florida will in the same way. At the | percent under new peak of war production two years signed by President Trun buying War Savings Bonds reg-| erans Administration Today, the survey re-| Office at Miami, ani Nearly 169,000 veterans and on payrolls are investing in the } 33,000 dependents residing: in the peacetime successor to that War) five southeastern states Savings Bond—the same bond} cluded ‘under the new ; with the word “war” left off. This} law which applies to nearly 2,-} is a big jump from December, ! 000,000 veterans and 400,000 de- 1941, when only 700,000 bonds! pendents in the nation, J. M. Sla- were being purchased on the pay-| ton, Jr., deputy administrator, roll plan. Branch 5, VA, informed Parker. Of all the firms in America} The Act also’ authorizes th which employ. more than 100; payment of full pensions ar com- persons, eight out of ten are now | pensations. to veterans who are making the plan available to’ hospitalized or domiciled: in’ VA their employees, a plan which, | institutions. Heretofore they were according to the. survey, has en-! limited to $20 of their full month- abled the savers to invest more, ly payments and in certain cases than $500,000,000 in “E” Bonds to $8. during the first quarter of this}; Parker said that 713 veterans year. in VA hospitals in Florida are re- “Like millions of others,” says! ¢siving reduced amounts. A total the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, | of 2,161 veterans in VA hospitals “you too will probably want to'in Florida, Alabama, | Georgia, continue buying regularly and South Carolina’ and Tennessee systematically so that you will are affected by the reduced pay- have a substantial fund for the ments. ; security of yourself and your | family in the years to come.” Silence and Violence ~ Se pA ae asta | ADELAIDE, Australia. — (AP) Gold was first discovered in, —A deaf-mute wife nagged her Alaska by a Russian settler in, deaf-mute husband until he as- 1850. saulted her, ,according to court testimony here. A court interpre- ter explained that deaf mutes j | eeeseveoes FLL Leedéetékhdaaédétitdéardé A cow must eat 100 or more | ‘the sign languege. 25 pounds of Ik. Super Toll-Free Highway. For Speed-----And Safety COWBOY | “& SON. By TONI ADAMS 5 © Landscaping AP Newsfeatures 20th Century counterpart of the Lot Cleaning - ; ALBANY, N. Y. — Five years , trade-promoting Erie Barge Canal eT, R val. and : from now, New York State ex-' system, will connect: the Empire ree Remo : pe to have completed “the |State’s two chief ports. New Surgery ; greatest highway in, the world” | York City and Buffalo, and will ®Roofing stretching 486 miles from, the touch the borders of four states ®@Roof Painti: state’s utheastern tip through! and Canada. The administration e ; ng the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, | is counting on the road to attract Top Soil 3 fo the Pennsylvania border at! industries-and spur farm produc- @ Sand Rock Lake Erie. ition. The $202,000,000 toll-free Thruws now under eenstruction, is designed to ser 90 percent, of the Empire State's 13,500,000 residents. Six lanes, three on each side of a mall, will span the state, with no traffic lights, no grade inter- sections and no urban hindrances. Speedup Lanes Planned Arterial routes will link cities speed-up and slow-down merging with the Thruway, will be open to both com- mercial and passenger vehicles. The exits and entrances will be WRITE or CALL 771 FREE ESTIMATE John R. Watson 1217 Knowles Lane ° | Big Payrolls Foreseen Meanwhile, it will provide | work. One contvactor foresees a total payroll of $60,000,000 for work directly connected with the project, which will be financed | t high - speed from a state surplus accumulated during the war. ‘There will be seven Thruway sections: ney ] The Catskill will start’ at’ the! flockland’ County --New Jersey line a point above the George Vashington Bridge and swing long the Hudson River to a point just west of Albany, where it will nieet’ the Berkshire and Mohawk} pctions, rhe Berkshire willextend easi- rl from the Catskill to fhe ssachusetts border, near the We Will CALL FOR LAUNDRY We Also DO FINISHED WORK PHONE 1099 POINCIANA SELF-SERVICE LAUNDRY apart, to accomodate local, 'short- hayl-traffic. i You will be able to see at least 1,9A0 feet ahead at all time minimum curve radius ot niet of state line. feet and a maximum grade of, The Mohawk will cover the three percent are planned. ‘westward region to a point north Compared With Others of Liverpool and Syracuse, where State Public Wor Depart. it will join the Ontario section. ment officials, supporting Gover The Ontario will run through nor Thomas E. 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