The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1946, Page 4

Sete acetenenetatiatnenenane tatoos oneouie eee ee gee Managing Hditor, The Citizen * To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wolkoff on Simonton to at- tend a wiener roast in their back yard, and found a goodly crowd there all happy and chatting merrily about this-a and that-a. * And I did fall to with great gusto, devouring three hot dogs in a row and much potato salad, not to mention a quantity of €oca Cola juice. And mine host, seeing that I still looked hungry, as usual, did press another pup- py upon me and I did accept it, with grateful thanks. < "Then, full to my ears, I sat up- on a bench beside Criminal Court Judge Thomas F. Caro, and he _ did tell me many things about fishing that I did not know be- fore. . Among other things, the judge said he is convinced that there is just as good fishing three or four hundred yards off the shores of Key West as there is 15 and 18 miles out. That is, just as good for the, ordinary fisherman, not the commercial fishermen. The acme of the fisherman’s art in these waters, Judge Caro eclared emphatically, is to be to land a barricuda on a yuper hook. But, goodness me, I could say was “yes,. yes,” for I know not a barricuda from a‘ grouper, and have no knowl- edge whatever of hooks—except ok and or 4By and by we said goodbye to the charming Wolkoffs and some of us did go down to the Cuban Social Club on Duval, where Abelardo Boza had a Conga line in progress. And your old, de- erepit editor, feeling quite good for a change, did lay off his coat and get in the line, shaking a mean hip and throwing himself about in a most undignified man- nér. Then pretty Mrs. Van and pretty Miss Betty Fuller, seeing that the old editor did very well indeed, did become inspired and joined him in the line, and I de- clare, we stomped about with Such liveliness that we almost sliook the building down. " er ia ‘Walking along Soyth Duval street in the evening, a little blonde girl wearing big, gold- rimmed glasses came out of a and started talking to me with breathless animation. *“I have been in the house all ,” she said, “becayse of the rain. It has been too wet to play outside. Don’t you think it has, Mister? Yes, I have been in the house all day. All day I have been in the house. And I have been eating all day, I have. Just e&ting and eating. But I am still quite skinny, as you can see, Mother Says I am too skinny. Do you: think I am too skinny, Mis- ” - “No, My Dear,” I said, “I do ‘not think you are too skinny. I think that you are just right— that everything about you is just right—and that you are a very pretty little girl.” *<She stopped and looked up at me through her big, gold-rimmed “Now, do you asked. “Cross my heart,” I said, as I did so. ‘She smiled happily. It was not hard to see that my compliment had pleased Little Miss Talker more than somewhat. “Goodbye, Mister,” she said as she turned into a side street and went skipping merrily on her way. How nice it would be,.I thought, if we could all be as friendly as the little blonde girl wearing the big, gold-rimmed glasses. pad Speaking of blondes reminds me of a conversation I overheard between three sailors as they loafed the other noon-time near the P. & O. wharf. They were discussing, as sailcrs the world ever will, the various merits and demerits of blondes, redheads and brunettes. The discussion was quite learned. The men of the sea had the situation well in hand, all right. At last one of them concluded with this re- mark: : f “Blondes are all right,” he said, “but they soil so easily.” ay". S really?” she Little Bits: Robert Dopp’s dog, Spotty, has finally made friends with me after being aloof for so long. . . . When someone admon- ished Mayor Demeritt for plant- ing fruit trees he would never live to see bear, he replied: “I may not be here to enjoy the fruit, but someone else will be.” _. . Father Johnson, of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, reminds me of Will Hayes. . . . When I inter- viewed Senator Claude Pepper in the Book Cadiallac Hotel in Detroit, one week before Presi- ageana oe ot eanenkel & Credit For Holiday Publicity Goes To Key West Residen Oftentimes one wonders how | things are accomplished and why rtain towns are featured in lead- Mrs. Irvin Feted rian towns are featured i lad bel At Farewell Party jmagazines. Sometimes it is just !a coincident but other times it is A farewell party was given | downright, progressive _civic- last night at 7:30 o’clock at the mindedness. South Beach Casino for Mrs. St. Key West Featured Clair Irvin, who is assistant di-| 1, the October issue of Holiday, rector ot the Key West Housing, monthly magazine by the Curtis Authority. publications, Key West will be Those in attendance were fel-|featured with four or five multi- low employes nad close personal! colored pages devoted to the Is- friends. land City. To purchase this space The table was beautifully dec-! in a magazine of Holiday’s circu- orated and contained place cards ‘lation would cost approximately appropriate. for the occasion. Each: place card was of a small home with a large coconut tree poe Ac h ith th ‘local resident. Soalsbiee as been wi rs oe The person responsible for this Key est Housing Authority free advertising for Key West ig since 1941, from its infancy, and yyic¢ Gertrude Laubscher, of the Lt. Irvin was connected with the spiges : Fleet Sonar School throughout | ” praises Island City the war. The lieutenant is being! jyiss Laubscher had as her transferred to Washington, D. C.,' guests last winter, Dr. and Mrs. and they plan on making their Harold Riley. Dr. Riley is in ‘publicity will be given to the ‘city through the determined and continual Key West outlook of a home in nearby Alexandria, Va. $40,000 to $50,000 but all this free j A beautiful lapel pin was given to Mrs. St. Clair Irvin as a part- ing gift. Guests present last night were: Lt. and Mrs. St. Clair Irvin, Mr. J. L. Fort, Manager Poinciana Projects;;Mr. Geo. Mills White, Manager. Porter Place and Fort Village; Mrs. Geo. Mills White, Mr. and. Mrs. James Ingram, Mr, and Mrs. C. W. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Matcovitch, Mrs. Grace Cros- by, Mrs. Aloysia van Goidts- noven, Miss Vivian Kierstead, Mr. Eddie Stickney, Mr. Roy Dulion, Mrs. Wilson Jolly. Harris School } PTA To Meet On Oct. A large attendance is expect- ed at the first meeting the Harris School P.T.A., which will be held on Tuesday, October 1, in the new auditorium of the school. The time of the meeting will be, announced later. Committee chairmen for the year are as follows: Program, Mrs. Cliff Bailey; Room Mothers, Mrs. Glenwood Sweeting; Membership, Mrs. Mor- eno . Wallace; Publicity, Mis. Hunter Harden; Hospitality, Mrs. Luther Muse; Publications, Mrs. James Singleton; Study Groups, Mrs. Walter Clawson; ' Officers for the year are: President, Mrs. E. E. Hood; Vice President, Mrs, Tom Gibson; Secretary, Mrs. Earl | Pinder; Treasurer, Mrs. Walter Clawson; Historian, Miss Dorothy Dungan. Birtho Ga SSS a RE Daughter To Schrimshaws Mr. and Mrs. Schrimshaw of 164-B Poinciana Place, announce the birth of a daughter, Linda Bell, on Tues- day, September 10 at 11 a. m,, in the U. S. Naval Hospital. The baby weighed seven pounds. Mrs. Schrimshaw is the former Lois Norman, daughter of H. M. Motherwell of this city. Mr. Schrimshaw is, stationed with the local detachment of Marines and hails from Youngstown, Ohio. Daughters To Boscos First Sgt. and Mrs. Lou Bosco, 1216 White street, announce the birth of a baby girl weighing six and one-quarter pounds, as the U. S. Naval Hospital, Sunday morning at 1 a, m. The new ar- rival has been given the name of Mary. Mrs. Bosco was, before her marriage, Una Mae Brady, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Brady, of 1216 White street. Sergeant Bosco is from Lawrence, Mass., and has been stationed in Key West for three and a half years. He is now First Sergeant with the Headquarters Detachment, Coast Artillery, Fort Taylor. dent Roosevelt’s death, he told closely contested affair than the! me that the President was enjoy- ing excellent health. .. . O. J. S. Ellingson, the new city manager, thinks that by and large Key Westers are about the friendliest people he ever met. . . . Police Chief Bienvenido Perez always greets me in Spanish: “Buenos dias, senor.” . . . J. R. Marcellus, Key West High School Director of Music, knows how to operate a linotype machine. Gomez has a fascinating way of expressing himself... . “Ornery” is a good, old-fashioned word, says J. Lancelot Lester, city at- torney. .. . The “Becuna” of Mi- ami, the prittiest yacht I've seen in many a day, has been anchor- ed in the slip beside the P. & O. wharf... . That’s all for the pres- | ent, ... See you again soon, Harold G.| charge of a health clinic in Rocke- feller Center, New York City, ,and in a conversation he men- itioned that he was a good friend of Mrs. John Erskine, who writes under the name of Helen Worden for Holiday. She is a staff mem- ber and also does free-lance work. | Miss Laubscher was quick to ask her guest if he could prevail ‘upon Helen Worden to do a piece on Key West for Holiday. Miss Laubscher stressed Key West’s four great advantages: Overseas Highway, ‘fishing, history and climate. She told Dr. Riley she {believed that an article of this nature would be beneficial to Key West and to Holiday. Purchases Home Dr. Riley, who since then has purchased a home on Flagler | Avenue here, agreed to see what ihe could do about interesting Mrs. Erskine in the article. He succeeded in getting her to come here. She arrived in the city with her husband, who taught at Miami University last winter. They arrived the latter part of | February, staying from Thursday jnight to Saturday morning. Dur- | ing that time, with the aid of Miss Laubscher, Dr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Sanchez of the Star Coffee Mills, Mr. and Mrs.: Margaret Mitchell and many others, the Erskines were shown Key West’s finest points of attraction .and given meals featuring Key West dishes. g Shown City The Erskines were driven all over the ‘island. As.a result of the Key West hospitality show- ered on the visitors; the''city will |be featured in next month’s Hol- iday, which will reach local book- stands next week, Key West will get further pub- licity when the C. of C. secretary speaks over WGBS in Miami, an- swering questions of a Miami commentator about Key West and the Holiday pictures and articles fin particular. Please, No Publicity On This Jefferson B. Browne’s book, Key West the Old and New, was ‘given Mrs. Erskine for further data, including other hard-to-get articles and stories by her Key West sponsors. One item that has many fingers crossed in the hope Mrs. Erskine will not use it in her feature ar- story concerning Von Cosel that some well-intentioned Key West- er gave her for data. The spon- sors feel, and rightly so, that this type of publicity has no connec- tion with the attractions of the ‘city, its colorful history or its | bright prospects of the future and {is worse than no publicity at all. Mrs. Erskine has a young face | with premature grey hair. She is a very attractive lady, who \dresses with a china-doll effect that accentuates her petiteness. PLANS ARE NOW (Contunued trom Page One) Browns’ players. The Browns {figured that an intra-club game} | would be more pleasing to the | fans of Key West than an intra- | club game between the Browns ‘and a Key West club, as the \Browns’ management declared that the former would be a more latter. | Interpreter | A little Scotch boy, having be- come an uncle at the age of 4, was taken to see the new baby. ; “What's ‘she saying, Sandy?” ‘asked his sister, as the infant made the usual gurgling noises. Sandy cast a wary and inqui ing eye around the room and r . + + Rogelio plied: “It sounds like ‘Give Sandy | an apple.” it NOTICE I will not be responsible for debts contracted by my wife, Mrs. ; Claudia Walther, after this date, ! September 16th, 1946, she having left my bed and board. MALCOLM WALTHER. 4 sept16-17-18-19-20x ticle on Key West is the morbid | tat we HE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Engagement Anno Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Acevedo, 15-F Porter Place, announce the engagement of their daughter, Gloria Marie, to George B. Top- pino, 725 Caroline street. No date has yet been set for the wedding. Gloria Acevedo was winner of the Sponge Festival Queen con- test, which was held under the direction of the Key West Mu- nicipal Stadium Committee. Miss Acevedo is also very active in USO work. George Toppino is employed in the construction firm of George Toppino and Son of this city, and during the past war was a mem- ber of the U.S. Army Air Corps. H x USO Spanish ~ Classes To Start A large enrollment is expected when the first Spanish class of the season starts at Jackson Square Club on Wednesday, at 7:30 p. m. Service men and their wives have registered in large numbers. Miss Benildes Remond will en- ter upon her: fourth year of teaching Spanish conversation, rapid method, at_the USO. Miss Remond is principal of the San Carlos School. Her high qualifi- cations and personal charm have endeared her to _ successive classes of service men and their families, and many are eagerly looking forward to the early re- sumption of classes, Probably nothing cements does the understanding of the language and customs of other peoples. Additional classes will be scheduled, if necessary, to keep the groups small. Mrs. Knapp Will Reside In Tampa Mrs. Isabelle Knapp, who sold her home at 526 Simonton street to Paul P. Lumley Saturday morning for $12,500, left late Saturday afternoon for Tampa, where she will reside with rela- tives at 5605 Seminole avenue. Mrs. Knapp plans to make her fu- ture home in the west coast me- tropolis. Mrs. Isabelle Knapp is ithe widow of Mr. Fred W. Knapp, who passed away a few years ago. Mrs. Knapp. was,, prior to her husband’s death, very active in Key West Woman’s Club af- fairs. Sawyers Returned Mr. and Mrs. Millard Fillmore Sawyer and baby, Marsha Fran- cine, returned Saturday from Salt Lake City, Utah, where they went to visit Mr. Sawyer’s grand- mother and other relatives. They report a very enjoyable trip. Salt Lake City is a great place, they say. Mrs. Sawyer’s nephew, Mario Vidal, accom- panied them. They made the trip by automobile both ways. “The Weather Forecast Key West and Vicinity: Mostly }cloudy with scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms to- day through Tuesday. Gertile to moderate east and southeast winds. Florida: Numerous showers and thunderstorms in north portion and mostly cloudy with scattered afternoon showers and thunder- storms over south portion through Tuesday: ’ Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mex- ico: Gentle to moderate southeast to east winds today, tonight and Tuesday. Mostly cloudy and showers north portion, partly cloudy with widely scattered showers over south portion. Jacksonville to Apalachicola: No small craft or storm warnings | | have been issued. | Report | Key West, Fla., Sept. 16, 1946 | (Observation taken at 8:30 a.m., | Eastern Daylight Saving Time, City Office) 4 Temperatures Highest yesterday = J) Lowest last night 81 | i Mean 84 {Normal 82 ‘ PRECIPITATION | Rainfall, 24 hours ending ; 8:30 a.m., inches 0 | RELATIVE HUMIDITY 13% TOMORROW'S ALMANAC (Daylight Saving Time) | Sunrise - 7:14 a.m. | Sunset eS oe pan, | Moonrise __----- | Moonset 1:31) pan: | | TOMORROW'S TIDES | Naval Base High Tide Low Tide 2:17 a.m, 9:30 a.m. 8:27 p.m friendships more completely than | From Trip To West | sncoa|{¢lephone Service In k Shows Steady, Constant G Key West has at the present: time, 2,817 telephones, an in-| crease of 209, over the number in service ten years ago, while 72! persons are now waiting for service, Howard Overlin, local manager of the Southern Bell. Telephone company announced today. Long distance calls originating ; here during February, Overlin! said, totaled 2,365, or four per cent over February,, 1945, and 265 per cent over February, 1940. ° Demand Is Growing The demand for telephones in the South, as related to the per cent now in service, is about twice that of any other region of the country, President Hal S. Dumas said. In a_ statement reviewing 'Southern Bell operations during the first 12 months of peace, Mr. Dumas revealed that new com-' pany records have been set dur- | ing 1946 both in volume of. local ; and long distance calls handled and in telephones .added. Long distance calls made over’ Southern Bell telephones during} a recent month totaled 9,486,000 or about 11 per cent greater; than in 1945, and 139 per cent: greater than in 1940. | 260,000 New Phones Local calls made in Southern Bell territory are averaging; about 16,582,000 daily, 39 per) cent greater than the daily vol- ume in 1940. Since. August 31, 1945, South-} ern Bell has added nearly 260,-' 000 telephones, and in July of this year broke all company rec- | ords by increasing the telephones | in service by more than 37,000. | The average monthly gain in Southern Bell telephones, accord- | ing to Mr. Dumas, now is more! than four times the average for 1945 and for the pre-war period of 1936-1939. “Today there are more than 2,060,000 Southern Bell tele- phones, approximately 780,000 more than we had on Septem-: ber 1, 1940,” Mr. Dumas said. “We expect to gain more than LEGALS | IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEV iH JUDIC CIRCUIT OF F N AND FOR MON- ROL COUNTY. IN CHANCERY. 10-890 MARY C. BR aintiff, DIVORCE vs. GORDON C. <1 Defendant. { "TO; GORDON C. SD, | 124 Riv Bank, 1 ver! Burling’ New J You are notified to file your appe or answer sin the above, styled ‘cause’ for divorce on befure the 16th, day! of n County, 13th day of Ross As Clerk of said (sd) FLORED ft; DIVORCE eudant NKNOWN. quired to ap- r Divorce filed above styled 9th day of ise the al- in will be taken as confessed. and Ordered at. Key West, this 7th day of September, PPAG we rrique ntif’ will be held in Monroe County, State of Florida, on ‘Tue: ding the Monday in 1 the said Tuesde e H DAY OF NOVEMBER United States Senate ive of the Fourth of the State htieth Con- Twenty District of the 1 Member of the House of ntatives of the State of two County Commissioners. Two and Four. two Members of the County of Public. Instruction. Dis- One and Three. } Justice of the Peace in and for the following Justice Districts, | onstable in and for the fol- lowing Justice Districts, viz In Testimony Wh Have hereunto set my d and affixed — the Gs. eal of the State da, at Ta the Capital, thi day of September, 1946, Hon. Berlin 3 | provide telephones | ing added as fast as possible to 350,000 telephones this year, an all-time record. “ A Constant Growth ; “More than 45,000 Southern Bell men and women, 11,500 more than at the end'of the war, ‘ and nearly twice as many as there were in 1940, are working to achieve our main objective: to for those! waiting, on the farm and in the! ‘city; and to expand our long dis-; tance facilities. “More. equipment, more peo- ple, more of ‘everything is be- furnish more and_ better tele- phone _ service. Approximately $400,000,000 4n expenditures for! additional facilities will be re-' quired during the next five or six years in the nine states served by Southern Bell. The company will spend about $84,- 000,000 to enlarge its facilities } this year and the rate of expendi- ture will accelerate as materials become available in increasing} quantities. This represents by far , the biggest expansion program} in the company’s history. People Finance Growth “Financing this program will require that large sums of new money be brought into the busi- ness. This is complicated by the fact that tremendous increases in the demand for service have been accompanied by great in- creases in the costs of all the elements that go into the pro- vision of telephone service, with sponsored state sports football meeting at Bowl Stadium tonight, and then, with Mrs. Aguilar, will lea a ten-day vacation trip vana, Cuba, part. of England 10 4 than 100 miles from the sea. Strand Theater JENNIFER JONES in “LOVE LETTERS” Coming: “First Yank In Tokyo” Musi¢ Box Hits On Records! ‘Kilroy Was Here’ ‘The House of Blue Lights’ ‘I’ve Got the Blue Lights On’ ‘Jalou = 8 ° ' ' ‘Five Minutes More’ | THE MUSIC BOX 726 DUVAL STREET EO CUSTOM TAILORED VENETIAN BLINDS the result that the company’s *Awnings earnings are the lowest in over | °*Window Shades 20 years. | “New money for telephone ex-, Ayqilable in the pansion must come as it has in Best Materials and the past, from the savings of; Workmanship many thousands of thrifty peo- | ple. Unless telephone earnings | WE SPECIALIZE IN are sufficient to give them con- fidence in the safety of their in- vestment and a feeling of assur- ance of a reasonable return on that investment, new funds for further expansion will not be forthcoming:” ; Venus, when closest to the earth, is 26,000,000 miles dis- tant. 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